Amerikanski Beisbul du Jour

Haven't been to RFK to see the Nationals yet this year. Rained out, haven't traded in the tickets yet.

This weekend get to add a new ballpark notch to my umbrella handle. Scenic Safeco in Downtown Skedaddle next to Uncle Pete's Railroad Yards. (That's the Union Pacific to you, pardner.) Got tickets to two separate Mariners games. Gonna use my Ichiro Starbucks card too.

Have now been in six separate major league ballyards i.e. viz. and to wit: Colt 45s Stadium, the Astrodome, Enron Field (now Minute Maid Park) all in Houston TX; Memorial Stadium and Orioles Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore MD; and RFK, Washington DC. Seattle'll make seven.

Only three minor league parks on my record: Frederick MD, Sioux Falls SD and Durham NC. Good spread though. Not sure I ever got to go to Buffs Stadium (short for Buffalos, just down South Main Street from its intersection with Buffalo Speedway) in Houston when we were a St. Louis farm team before the Colt 45s/Astros were a gleam in Judge Roy Hofeinz' scheming taxpayer-bilking eye.

Bet you didn't know Judge Hofeinz committed two public rapes. Not only did he secure the first taxpayer-supported bond-funded baseball stadium (wait! what about DC Stadium, now RFK, and Fulton County Stadium, later home of the Braves before Turner, both built 1961? Gonna hafta Google and Wikipedia this one...) he also caused that evil shit Astroturf/Tartanturf and all its despicable descendents to be invented and used.

(Someday, oh, please, someday, let there be a baseball field in Korea named Chan Ho Park.)