Prettiest baseball stadium

I'd like to nominate Petco Park as the best looking place to watch Major League Baseball. It's gorgeous, and not just because it's in a place where the weather is perfect. I've been to Camden Yards and quite a few other places and I've not yet been to somewhere as nice as this. You could walk around for 8 innings just marvelling at how nice it is. Here are a few pictures from my recent visit:

Outside the park walking from the trolley. A little closer.
The approach to the main gate/ticket office, there's pretty much greenery all around the stadium.

The main gate area, I'm not a great photographer obviously.

It's somewhat hard to see here but these are the steps leading up from the main gate to the concourse. On the sides of the steps is a wall that has water running down it. It's darn impressive trust me.

This is the interior of the park on the main concourse, this hanging greenery is pretty much all around the stadium except for on section of the outfield which has a lawn that you can look into the stadium from.

Same kind of shot.

A shot of some guy in a hawaiian shirt! No it's a bad picture but it's supposed to show how well the stadium melds with the city, it just kinda flows and you can see the buildings set so well in the avenues of view. Honestly a couple blocks north from the ballpark and you don't know you are near a stadium it melds so well.

A shot of left field.Left center field, that's the scoreboard and it's really nice.

Shot of homeplate, we were sitting in the shade, which was kinda dissapointing since I could have been working on my tan the whole time. Also it kinda dulled the pictures.

One of the benefits of sitting in the shade is that all throughout the park there are high definition TVs and scoreboards. The TVs are great because they show the live broadcast and you get replays of stuff that you just saw or had questions about.

Next time I will shoot more of the park and hopefully some of the local talent.

Rampage, why must you be so silly

Rampage Jackson got arrested after a hit and run and a chase with the police yesterday when he was driving a truck with a picture of him and his name on the side of it. Probably not going to get away with that one. I see cars all the time and I think I might be able to describe the lifted up camouflage truck with a picture of a famous black man with a chain around his neck on the side. The idea of fleeing the scene in such a vehicle is laughable, I'm speculating that he was under the influence of something. On the other hand, the chances of someone messing with him in lockup are low. Can you imagine being in a cell with some guy who tried to fight Rampage after he'd been arrested? Those blood stains would never come out.

Chicks dig the long ball

How does someone hit 28 home runs in the first round and not win the home run derby? All other competitors should have just bunted out for the rest of the night. Hamilton was hitting bombs, ridiculously large home runs. I've never seen anything like that before in my life, the man just got in a grove and punished some leather.