This Monday, April 6, we’re going to the Diamondback (boo)
vs the Giants (yay!) opener at Chase Field in PHX (y’all are going to have to
get used to airline shortcuts, it’s just the way I think; PHX is Phoenix. But
you knew that, didn’t you?). We have great seats, behind the Giants’ dugout.
Steve Grech, they are very close to where we sat.
We are staying overnight at the Marriott Renaissance, about
five blocks from Chase Field. Neither of us wanted to drive two hours after the
game! We’ll read the Ultimate Baseball Road Trip for suggestions on where to
eat and if we eat at the ballpark, what the best food is. We know from
experience that there are some pretty good hotdogs (right, Steve?) there but we
could easily be tempted by other fare in restaurants nearby, especially since
we’ll walk back to the hotel.
Finally got our TicketMonster tickets (for the above game,
any wonder I was worried? They only came yesterday!). I’ve also bought tickets
for the Texas Rangers and the Houston Astros. For the Rangers I tried StubHub
and a few other places which shall remain nameless until I get more information
affirming that they are indeed, terrible. For the Astros, the best place seemed
to be, wait for it—the Astros! We got really good seats behind homeplate on the
first base side. Now maybe—MAYBE—I could have gotten tickets below market but I
really don’t have the time or inclination to spend a lot of time looking!
We also have tickets much later in the season for the
Diamondbacks (July, against the Giants) that our daughter and son-in-law are
joining us for (they, too, are Giants fans, no surprise!). It will be bloody
hot but I’m angling for (translation: I’ve put in a request for a timeshare,
probably won’t happen, but hope springs eternal as somebody said) a Westin
timeshare that has one of those A-River-Runs-Through-It pool complexes.
So, as soon as I finish my newsletter we will start packing
the motorhome and planning meals and stocking the freezer and refrigerator and
and and. And we’ll still forget stuff and have to go to Costco or Walmart or
Safeway—or all three.
Play ball!
