"The Best Seats in All of Professional Sports"

Breaking news every day.

Stuart has secured the Cubs tickets. And they are sweet. Section 226 in rows 14 and 15 in a block - six and six behind (the most favored Moundball formation). Here's the view from that section:

Even bigger news!

Cronin is tying the knot - and we're not talking about a bowline. Congrats to Mike and Amy!

See how it happened:

The Urban Gravel Bar

Enormous news.

Agents for the RRCC have just secured the ultimate Chicago campsite.
















For less than the price of hotel rooms ($75 per person per night), we'll be staying right on the Chicago River in this luxury 3,000 sq.ft. townhome.

There are decks overlooking the river on both the second and fourth floors for guitar picking and Ready-rolls.

Here are the views:
























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This is the kitchen where Rob will stay up all night staring at the gas burners.

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Here's a link with more info: http://www.vrbo.com/183938

Notice "Parking for RV/Boat/Trailer" under amenities.

















And it sleeps 8-10 including a King Size bed for Roy. Because "Roy" means "King".

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Spring Training

We will open the 2009 RRCC season with an organizational meeting at Greer Stadium next (Thirsty) Thursday, April 9 - which is Opening Day for the Sounds, too. There's just no better way to prepare for a river baseball trip - unless it's a game of riverball.




So in two consecutive months we'll see two of the best scoreboards in sports.





It's just too bad we can't paddle up to either one of them. We could drop a dutch oven anchor and catch some homerun splashdowns.

However, we'll still need to meet at Brown's before the game. We have to do some real planning for Chicago, plus Mullowney's welder is going to meet us there to take the trailer and complete some unfinished business. It needs to be perfect before we drive it down the Miracle Mile.

The remaining improvements include:

Move trailer jack to tongue
Weld diamond-pattern steel platform onto frame
Attach water cooler mount
Get locks for cargo boxes
New tie-downs
Touch up auto paint after modifications
Also we'll probably want to remove the 10-place racks for this trip.


Try go get to Brown's between 6:00 and 6:30 on the 9th.
Should have some news about Cubs tickets from O.M.I.C. very soon.

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It looks like we're going to have 10 going to Chicago which is more than Rob's Suburban can comfortably take. But Roy has a conversion van he takes up to UT games in the fall he says we can use.



He may even donate it to the Club as a tax write-off. Belle Meade has been giving him hell about it anyway.

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Cubs

We're going to need to have a special, emergency pre-trip meeting at Brown's next week to decide how we're going to get our Cubs tickets. We got shut out trying to buy tickets the honest way, even with several RRCC members manning the phone lines and MLB.com

Who set this thing up anyway?