- Yesterday was a beautiful spring day in Minnesota. The temperature was near 70, the sun was shining, and there was just enough breeze to cool me off so I didn’t notice how sunburned I was getting as I sat around talking with friends during the single game ticket sale at the ballpark.
From what Eric Webster (“Webby”) had to say, the plans this year are to change most of the entertainment at the park. Gone will be the cheerios races, and most of the other contests involving fans from the stands. There’ll be an organist, “ushertainers” and a number of other things to fill the void, but it sounds like Eric’s got a pretty good plan, and it’ll be interesting to see some changes after a decade of things being pretty much the same. There also will be a new scoreboard that’ll hopefully be installed in time for the start of the season, and it’ll include a big screen so they can show us prepared videos, rather than having interns doing skits.
In all, yesterday was a pretty enjoyable day, and I’m looking forward to the season more than ever. But first I’ve got to wait for the red glow from my arms and forehead to subside a bit. - Rowdy Gophers fans get out of control after hockey victory last night. The same sort of thing as last year, including bonfires in the middle of intersections and plenty of drunks. As an added bonus there were helicopters circling the neighborhood all night, keeping me awake. I may wander over to Dinkytown this morning to see the aftermath. [strib]
- But we don't need anything like The Battle for Booze in Fairfax, VA:
[emptybottle]The police there have decided that getting drunk in a bar is an arrestable offense worth enforcing. You don’t have to be starting trouble, getting in a fight, or climbing behind a wheel—the simple act of drinking in a bar gives them enough probable cause to harass and subject you to tests. And if you actually have the gall to have more than a couple beers while in that bar, you’re going to jail and getting fixed up with a nice criminal record.