Game in Arlington this Tuesday
I'm going to the Astros vs Rangers Tuesday night. Looks like Jordan Lyles and CJ Wilson will be the starters. It would figure the Astros would run in to Wilson when Pence gets hurt. I have seen two games at the Ballpark at Arlington, both Roy Oswalt pitched, both losses and I would have to look, but the score I think was the same or close to it. The Astros of course, won the game the night before in a high scoring game that I only got on the radio (and with the Rangers' announcers, blah) and another year won the game the day after. I hope Lyles has it going and the limp offense has a good night, they'll probably need a little of both against the hitters with Wilson on the mound. Sitting Brett Wallace against so many lefties when Carlos Lee was struggling and other players producing relegated to bench duty hopefully has not dulled Wallace's blade.
I have been there to the park before like I said but have not really explored it much. Does anyone have any suggestions about things to see or food/drinks to eat or stay away from? I had some really bad hot dogs there one time, and I can definitely not recommend the all you can eat sections, food was horrible, the hot dogs must have been cooked and packed for hours before they were served. Was not worth the money, the section we sat in had less expensive seats. The lines were long lines to boot. If you want water, soda and popcorn then maybe they'd be worth it, but only if you take one of your kids that likes to play his PSP and drink lots of pop to go stand in line for you for refills. I missed and entire inning, at one point I just wanted to see how long this would take. The third pass the line was still long, late in the game, so I just went to a bar nearby that had a open view of the field and got a couple of beers.
Hopefully that kind of drunk guy that catches an Astros home run in the left field stands without losing a single drop of his beer doing so, and takes getting booed for not throwing it back is me. That's just to spite the guy last year in the Crawford boxes who looked like he could care less about the game but did not throw Troy Tulowitzki's home run ball back on to the field. I'd never seen someone catch a home run ball and be so clinically detached from the act of doing that. People drop their kids, smack their wives, push away children and old people to catch foul balls. There was probably fifteen seconds between me telling my friend that he was a star player, still young, and someone to pay attention to and him smacking right at the section we were sitting in. I'm never doing that again.
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