Sox Game Recap Photos have arrived, people! The date? Saturday, April 22. The photographers? Tim Emerick and yours truly. Let’s get this party started.
Not even a trip to Chicago could bring together this radically divided school… the Jets stayed on their side of the street, tailgating in the parking lot, while the Sharks enjoyed their cold beverages on the school-side of the street. (Yeah, fine, so there were no rival gangs. Whatever. Artistic license.)
Katie Peterson and M show how very, very naughty they’re being–drinking Hard Lemonade on school grounds!! My goodness–the next thing you know, they’ll be staying out past midnight and referring to their professors by their first names. For shame.
After fitting three busloads of people onto only two buses, we got the show on the road.
Nathan: “Dude, the people on the back of the bus have already played this many games of ‘Would You Rather’!”
M: “If I have to hear one more person do a ‘would you rather’ that focuses on sleeping with one of the librarians, I swear, I’m going to cry.”
Katie: “I’ve got my low-carb-low-cal hard lemonade, a handsome date, and a great friend… who needs a seat?!”
Tim: “Dude, check me out in this gorgeous-girl sandwich. This must be how it feels to be big pimpin’.”
Mary: “It scares me a little bit that the people sitting around me are only a few weeks away from being attorneys…”
See Renee, our very patient busdriver.
See Renee attempt to find a radio station that will quash the beginnings of a drunken student uprising in the back of the bus.
See Desiree DeSalle charge to the front of the bus and exclaim in response to an unsatisfactory radio station selection, “Dammit, you look like you fuckin’ know good music, dammit!”
See students around her bust out laughing.
Standing room only in the back of the bus! Fortunately, most folks were already so many sheets-to-the-wind that they didn’t care. (Favorite part of this photo? Check out Regina Reynolds’ boyfriend, Ruben, in the lower left corner–he’s so completely nonplussed by this drunken debacle occurring behind him. Love it!)
The lovely law review ladies, Katie Peterson and Mary Caskey, enjoy some fresh-baked chocolate chip peanut butter cookies. Yes, folks, when the rest of the crowd brings beer? You can count on Katie to bring those world-famous cookies. And that’s just one of the reasons why we love her!
A rare moment of relative peace falls upon the rowdy crowd…
…but it doesn’t last long! Leticia Perez (left) gets her grind on with Desiree DeSalle (right) while Meghan Bass (lower left) goes to her happy place and tries to ignore this salacious behavior.
Our fearless leader Jeromy Cannon leads us to the ballpark after the buses missed their turn.
At “The Patio” (which apparently is ballpark speak for “the name we gave the space under the bleachers and pipes”), Katie Peterson and Tim Emerick pause for one of their trademark-adorable photo ops.
Tonya Ortega shows camerman Tim some love. Pucker up!
The group of law students waits in the darkened, shut-down “Patio” for the promised private party… that never actually happened, while Tim Norris helpfully points to… um, a wall. (He’d had a lot to drink.)
“We ain’t just cute indoors, ya’ll!”
Katie and Tim = couple whose cuteness factor almost surely would’ve landed them on the Jumbotron “Kiss Me” Cam, but, sadly, were already galavanting about Chicago when that happened.
A shot of the VUSL student section. A smart man down front hurriedly tries to escape, while Leticia Perez directs her classmates’ attentions to the nearest Beer Seller.
What’s a baseball game without a jumbotron, baby?!
The evening was beautiful as the game got underway.
I didn’t even realize it, but look how clever I was with this photo… I managed to get the name of the field and the name of the team showing along with a shot of the field. Seriously, how has National Geographic or Time not come calling for my photographic genius?
Who’s kickin’ some butt at the game tonight? … SOX!
M and Nathan say “Cheese” in front of a beautiful evening sky and a winning home team.
Hi, Nate!
Hi, M!
Hi, ballplayers!
Meanwhile, out and about Chicago…
Jeromy Cannon, Jason Smith, Katie Peterson, and Tim Emerick clearly didn’t learn from their elementary school field trips–you should always stay with the group! The foursome wandered away from the law student section at the game to go for some nachos and beer… and wound up across Chicago in a bar! Oh no! They’re being forced at camera-point to imbibe cold beverages! What will happen? Stay tuned…
… the escaped foursome aren’t the only ones in peril… Lauren Schafer attempts to abscond with the bus!
“Wee! Look out, Chicago, Lauren’s at the wheel!”
See Lauren wrestle the bus’s microphone away from Mahrya Fulfer, who had just moments ago enchanted the crowd with her rendition of Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.”
See Lauren act as the Bus Bouncer and refuse to allow any 2Ls to board, declaring, “I don’t like 2Ls. Seriously. They’re not allowed here.”
See Marissa be so happy she’s sober so as to fully enjoy the drunken antics of her hilarious classmates… and capture them on camera.
“Testing, testing…
… will the party responsible for encouraging the back of the bus to drunkenly sing cheesy 80′s songs please remove yourself from this vehicle?
Thank you.”
…Let’s check in with our Lost Foursome!…
Jeromy ponders what he’ll do now that he’s lost in the big, big city. He doesn’t get too worried, though, because he knows that his GPA is actually high enough that he could stay lost throughout finals, and still wind up kicking everyone’s butts in the rankings.
Jason clearly likes being lost. He was never a fan of the “stick with group” thing anyway.
Phew! Our Lost Foursome seems to have found their way to a magical train that will whisk them from their lostness back to Valpo, where… well, where people would have started to miss them by now, were it not for the fact that everyone in Valpo was too drunk to take note of their absence.
Jeromy and Jason enjoy their magical ride back to the Vale of Paradise.
“I’m awfully tired from all of that getting lost, Tim!” Katie says moments before drifting off to sleep…
“That’s okay, Katie,” Tim reassures her, “I’ll make sure you make it home safely.”
[And they did.]
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