Road Ranger is a gas station apparently and they sponsor the stadium. This minor league stadium is actually the Frontier League, which is a minor, minor league.
Here's a bigger picture of the entrance.
Though we lost our first game, we won the next 2 games which allowed us to play on Sunday.
The field itself was ok. Actually, the grass parts were pretty nice, but the dirt portions were awful. It was like playing on cement. We all really thought the field would be nicer. The batter's box in particular was horrible. You couldn't dig in at all. Just awful. Not sure how they play on that field for a whole season.
After 8 hours in the cold and wind though, I opted to go golfing on Sunday instead....which was more time in the wind and cold. Maybe not smart, but I wanted to shoot with Bill the Bear, Smitty and Nick, always a good time. Though I shot a 3 over on the front 9, I collapsed on the back 9 and haven't even totaled my score yet it was so bad. It was awful. I choose to remember the front 9 though which included an eagle! It was a par 5 where I chipped in from beside the green. It's mostly luck, but I'll take it!!
We made it home from golf just after the start of the Bears game. Bill the Bear (who is much less bear like as he had to shave his beard after an unfortunate razor incident), Nick, his roommate Tim, LL and me all met at Houndstooth Saloon to watch the game. It was LOUD, but that's ok for a football game. Unfortunately, during commercials, they played country music! Ugh. On top of it all the Bears played like crap and went down to their third string quarterback. Well, 3-1 isn't a bad start, but I fear they've been exposed: all defense and no offensive line. No running game. Not good.
3 comments:
too bad the stadium was more looks that content - it does look really beautiful!
Seems like your Thursday post was somewhat prophetic.
Even though the ball fields weren't so great, it's still pretty cool to be able to play in a stadium... even a minor league one!
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