1. Game was a near-sellout but the attendance was never announced. Hopefully not still counting.
2. Season ticket holders have a separate private entrance where you can bypass the long lines of the regular entrances. As usual, I walked up to the season-ticket holder entrance with my special-marked and distinctive season tickets in hand and clearly visible when I was greeted with "SIR, YOU MUST BE A SEASON-TICKET HOLDER TO USE THIS ENTRANCE!". I again displayed our tickets and was then allowed to use the entrance. This is the second time this has happened this year. I no doubt have a non-season-ticket-holder appearance. But I am not going to change it for anyone.
3. Four ladies probably in their late 50's/early 60's sat down in front of us. I thought they would probably talk about hairdressers and perms or something. As it turned out, they were extremely knowledgeable fans. We talked to them all game.
4. It rained steadily for about an inning. After about 15 minutes, my friend and I "cried uncle" and walked about 8 feet away and stood under an overhang and watched from there. The ladies stayed in their seats and even turned around and looked at us and pointed.
5. The Tiger Shop was jammed as usual. Nobody in line at the cash registers though as the merchandise costs two to three times what nearly identical stuff costs at Target. (Don't ask what baseball cards cost there) Not a big fan of that business model. They can save money on cashiers though and just turn it into a museum, which is what it is used for now.
Near sellouts mean traffic issues after the game. Do you know that many older people smoke in their cars?
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Please understand, this question is not to be provocative, but as a baseball fan and seeing your knowledge of the game, I would love to hear your thoughts about Ty Cobb. Don't want to bring up bad memories, but I would love to hear a fan talk intelligently on the subject of an icon who could be viewed as an embarrassment at the same time. Thank you for your consideration.
I think Ty Cobb was somewhat a product of his time. It was not at all uncommon for players a hundred years ago to get engaged (sometimes physically) with the fans, umpires, other players whatever. That said, Ty Cobb seemed to be a "cut above" in this department in just about every way imaginable.
I can't defend his character, racism, actions etc especially considering today's more genteel standards of behavior for ballplayers.
Unfortunately (or maybe for some people fortunately) Ty Cobb has somewhat been forgotten because his small ball style of play went out when Babe Ruth came into the game and also Babe Ruth's dynamic personality very much eclipsed that of the "bitter" Ty Cobb.
In summary, I appreciated his accomplishments and his style of play somewhat but at the same time recognizing him as a deeply flawed man.
This is just off the top of my head so I could be missing something very obvious or significant of course.
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