Peoria Part 2 (7th Inning)

We decided to take an alternate route back up to the Peoria Sports complex today, basically for the reason to find the same Fry's grocery store that had 99 cent Cracker Jacks we got the previous day (the Fry's in Buckeye only had boxes, and we wanted bags!). Anyway, we found the loot but paid for it in another way - getting stuck in gridlock traffic heading east towards the stadium. We had been lucky so far to avoid any major congestion, but on this Friday our luck ran out. There was an overhead highway traffic sign that said to expect delays due to Spring Training games. We could not believe that all of the traffic was caused by a game, on a Friday afternoon. We were wrong. By the time we finally were able to ditch the car in a Target parking lot and walk over to the stadium, we saw that it was Packed! Even fuller than Scottsdale on Sunday. The lawn was so full that we found a place to sit in the shade to where you could only see the scoreboard and the left fielder. So using our baseball knowledge, the scoreboard, roar of the crowd (and cell phone sports scores as a backup), we tried to guess what plays were happening. We did pretty good really. It added a new angle to "watch" a game, that's for sure. Rox got battered around, and lost 9-4, so we did not miss too much as Rox fans. After the game we hit the Red Robin across the street, killed some time moving the car, then headed back for the night game. By then the crowd had thinned out some and it was a nice evening. We left 7th Inning stretch, so we could avoid the crush leaving the game. There was a LOT more people there Friday as opposed to when we came here first on Monday. Next Up: heading east to Tempe to see the Angels and DBacks, the only team we have not seen so far. Tiny split on Friday, is down 4-5 and cannot afford a loss today if he wants to reach the Biggs. Going with the DBacks to win with the expected large support from their home state fans. Angels fans have been all over too, so it should be another large crowd. We better get going...