In today’s post, I continue “reviewing” my recent trip to the Windy City.

As Sue and I were preparing for our trip to Chicago, we saw on MLB TV that MLB has just partnered with women’s softball to create a new league called the AUSL (Athletes United Softball League). Since they were going to be playing in Chicagoland while we were there, we of course purchased tickets.

All I can say is it was a BIG mistake. On arriving at the ballpark in Rosemont, it was quickly clear that they had sold more tickets than there were actual seats in the very small (temporary?) stadium, . The result was our family of 6 splitting up and trying to find somewhere where we could try and watch the game.

During that process Sue and I missed the introductions and pre-game stuff that would have helped two really-want-to-be-fans-of-this-new-venture to ground themselves in such essentials as who the two teams were, who the players were, their positions, etc. It was like finally getting to your seat at a movie theater 20-25 minutes into a film.

The whole experience was unsatisfying to say the least. And in the end, we stayed for only one of the two games (it was double-header). We all agreed that we had seen enough and made our long way back to Wicker Park.

Here are two pictures from a very disappointing evening with AUSL in Rosemont.