I thought I'd pop along to Cowboys Stadium before the game this afternoon, do the stadium tour and then return to the Rangers Ballpark for tonight's game. However, I should have taken a cab, because I never made it to the stadium - it was just too hot. I made it to the park halfway between the two stadia, which aren't far apart, but I couldn't make the final few hundred metres in the heat in time for the last tour. So instead, I took some photos of it and then sat in the park for an hour in the shade, recovering, and then returned to the Rangers Ballpark. I know it looks close, but I'd have had to backtrack a way and then crossed the bridge to get to the stadium, because I didn't realise I couldn't get over the river except on the road bridge. As I was over an hour early and my seat wasn't yet in shade, I waited at the top of my section and I spent a while talking to one of the ushers out in my section until it got busy, as he had to check everybody's tickets. He was very friendly and he pointed out to me that my ticket allows me access to the Cuervo Club .... which is the inside, air-conned restaurant/bar behind the plate that I thought they didn't have when I went to the game yesterday! The entrance is well-disguised - an unsignposted elevator - so unless you knew it was there, you'd never find it. Since the game was already in progress, I just had a quick salad for dinner and then returned to my outdoor seat, as it wasn't too hot outside and the views were better - there were outdoor seats at the club, but it was very busy there and you had to be eating things.
The middle game of this series saw recently-acquired Ryan Dempster take on the Indians' Gomez. Dempster has been off and on a bit recently, and he demonstrated it tonight as although the scoreline looked convincing enough, the Indians had plenty of baserunners against him, including a bases-loaded 0 out in one inning which Dempster escaped from giving up just one run (and if a double play had been handled properly, there wouldn't have been any runs scored). Adrian Beltre hit another home run in the first inning to give Texas its first two runs, and Josh Hamilton hit another one into the upper deck in right field later in the game to extend the lead further - this is his picture - he hit the home run on the next pitch!
By the looks of it, we only need 32,000 people to turn up tomorrow for us to get the free T-shirts, so it looks like a second T-shirt for me to go with the Nationals one.
I thought I'd pop along to Cowboys Stadium before the game this afternoon, do the stadium tour and then return to the Rangers Ballpark for tonight's game. However, I should have taken a cab, because I never made it to the stadium - it was just too hot. I made it to the park halfway between the two stadia, which aren't far apart, but I couldn't make the final few hundred metres in the heat in time for the last tour. So instead, I took some photos of it and then sat in the park for an hour in the shade, recovering, and then returned to the Rangers Ballpark. I know it looks close, but I'd have had to backtrack a way and then crossed the bridge to get to the stadium, because I didn't realise I couldn't get over the river except on the road bridge. As I was over an hour early and my seat wasn't yet in shade, I waited at the top of my section and I spent a while talking to one of the ushers out in my section until it got busy, as he had to check everybody's tickets. He was very friendly and he pointed out to me that my ticket allows me access to the Cuervo Club .... which is the inside, air-conned restaurant/bar behind the plate that I thought they didn't have when I went to the game yesterday! The entrance is well-disguised - an unsignposted elevator - so unless you knew it was there, you'd never find it. Since the game was already in progress, I just had a quick salad for dinner and then returned to my outdoor seat, as it wasn't too hot outside and the views were better - there were outdoor seats at the club, but it was very busy there and you had to be eating things.
The middle game of this series saw recently-acquired Ryan Dempster take on the Indians' Gomez. Dempster has been off and on a bit recently, and he demonstrated it tonight as although the scoreline looked convincing enough, the Indians had plenty of baserunners against him, including a bases-loaded 0 out in one inning which Dempster escaped from giving up just one run (and if a double play had been handled properly, there wouldn't have been any runs scored). Adrian Beltre hit another home run in the first inning to give Texas its first two runs, and Josh Hamilton hit another one into the upper deck in right field later in the game to extend the lead further - this is his picture - he hit the home run on the next pitch!
By the looks of it, we only need 32,000 people to turn up tomorrow for us to get the free T-shirts, so it looks like a second T-shirt for me to go with the Nationals one.
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