Sunday Funday

not wanting to clutter up my facebook with too much but sometimes I just have things I need to say....or vent about...so this will be the place!  And feel free to join in or ignore as you see fit...

• baseball game at the brand new stadium yesterday [Sunday June 10]
   - my very first impression was "weird lighting" 1 o'clock sunny hot day outside in Miami but the game was technically indoors. You could see the blue sky out the glass end wall that faces the ocean. Very Odd.
• Marlins Park - brand spankin new, opened in April. Natural grass field in S Florida, the sunshine state, at the beginning of its rainy season which makes us lush and tropical. What horrible grass! you can see big areas where they have had to re-sod it. Really? Immediately after the game the roof was retracted, our customer satisfaction person said "so the grass can breathe"  LOL [sure I will fall for that, NOT!] Rumor has it they will switch to a more northern grass type that will do better with less light. At least the A/C kept us very comfortable compared to them playing in the Dolphins football stadium. There you felt like you were on a grill.
• Our group of tickets ended up being $30 each even though the "list price" was $90. We were 4 rows from the field surface - awesome - on the third base side. A hot dog was $6, a heineken was $9, bottomless soda [pop] was $8, crackerjack [in a bag? just wrong!] was $4. Nachos in a batting helmet $15. And they wonder why the place was maybe half filled and of that, 50% were fans who came to root for the Tampa Rays?  And can I mention parking....$15 So...per person - a $130 day [list]. Gulp
• The Marlins....they needed some of the softball women to hop on the field with their bats....the way they played it was not worth the $$$. At least seeing the place and spending the time with pals made it fun!