We made it through the week and to the final weekend, which is good and bad. Good in that we successfully navigated to the weekday games and made it this far, bad in that we were looking at a pair of games on the weekend - which means expect large, perhaps huge crowds. And guess what - huge is exactly what we got at Tempe Diablo. We made it into the park a full 1/2 hour before first pitch, and noticed right away that the outfield bleachers were already about 1/2 full. Then, considering this is an Angels game with many California fans, we knew we were in trouble, as the Cali fans have a tendency to arrive to games late. Adding it all up equaled true Standing Room only by first pitch. To add to our trouble, we had Lawn (grass) seats, which was an immediate forget about it, the lawn was so full you could not see hardly any grass. Tempe Diablo is a nice setting, with the Hills on the left and I-10 on the right. With less of a crowd, it would be a nice place to take in a game. But with as many people that were here today, it was kind of bogus - there was no place to hardly watch the game! The concourses here were built too narrow, an extra 10 feet would have gone a long way. Those of you who know Coors Field can appreciate the wide concourse. Imagine only about a 1/3 of that in width. Then consider that this is not a true "wrap-around" park (meaning you can't walk all the way around the field - the parking lot and I-10 blocks you off) you get cross-currents of people walking back in forth in a wall-to-wall crush of people. Anyway, it was a great game, tied into the 9th 4-4, but the Angels won it in the 10th. How we still do not know - we got the heck out of there early and were already on I-10! Next up, time to close it out with the same Angels at the Cubs. Tiny goes Cubs - they have not won since Sunday, and are due to win.
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