D-Backs at the Rangers
I’ll never understand, and I wasn’t around for any of the negotiations, so I don’t know anything about it. But there’s two baseball stadiums, purpose-built, one covered and one open-air. Right next to each other. Shared parking. Matter of fact, hot tip, park in the Choctaw Resort and Casino Stadium parking, as it has much easier exit strategies. Longer walk, but worth the extra 100 yards or so. “Arlington Stadium,” to some.
As far as stadiums go, I prefer, so far, the Oakland A’s spring training facility in Mesa, AZ (Phoenix area), the Dodgers and White Sox training arena in Peoria (Phoenix again), and Wrigley Field. Go Cubbies?
The Rangers’ new stadium, while quite nice, air-conditioned, and all, it’s kind of bland. Even Houston has that Minute-Maid train. Reminds me of the Orange Blossom special, and that reminds of Arizona, being in school and driving on Indian School Road, middle of the early spring, top down, the orange groves blooming. That heady, sweet orange blossom aroma is powerful, rather intoxicating.
It was a lopsided game, what makes baseball fun. I wanted to see at least one Arizona home run. Got it. D-Backs led most of the game, Rangers tying it up at the bottom of the ninth inning, and then a walk-off hit in the tenth.
What makes baseball exciting, even dramatic.
D-Backs at the Rangers
Hotdog at the ballgame
the Portable Mercury Retrograde
