On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 14:35 -0700, Troy Thiel wrote: > Very cool! thanks for forwarding! > > I'm up for at least riding to a brewer game! >
Oh, my, I wouldn't. I used to be a little bit of a Brewers fan after moving to Wisconsin, but have been largely indifferent to them since both the Miller Park debacle and the self-inflicted demotion to the National League. I would add that the subject line is a bit misleading in that it refers to "all 30 ballparks" when in reality there are far more than 30 professional baseball stadiums, although 30 of them are Major League baseball. ;-) I've been to my share of MLB stadiums, 12 in the American League (and four in the NL). And although I haven't arrived at any of them by bicycle, I have gotten to quite a few of them either by train or by foot, an opportunity not available in Milwaukee because despite decades of debate, no Wisconsin municipality has had the intelligence to put in a rail mass transit system, and the idiocy of having blown the opportunity to build the new stadium-formerly-known-as-County downtown, where visitors to the city could actually walk to the ballpark and to restaurants/bars...well, you know the rest, and don't even get me started on the obscenity of naming it for (SAB)Miller(Coors). But for quite a while, the real baseball fan experience is to be found in minor league baseball (and I've been to far more minor league ballparks than just those 16 Major (12 if you exclude National) League ballparks.) As impressive as the bicyclist's cross-continent journey to MLB ballparks is, I would be far more impressed with an attempt to get to more minor league games even if confined to a smaller geographic region. Troy, screw the Brewers, just go bike to the Northside to some Mallards games. I know it's not minor league baseball in that it's not a professional league, but it's in the same spirit. Perhaps you could consider a bicycle tour of the Northwoods League, even just the southern division would be cool if you didn't want to cross into Manitoba. :-) _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
