Today I learned: Always wear a hat and sunscreen/long sleeves to a baseball game

Went down to Denver yesterday to watch the Rockies at an outdoor stadium - Coors Field. A very nice stadium, all sorts of places to buy food, plenty of ticket takers so that although lines were long, they moved quickly.

Seats weren't that comfy for wide bottoms, but what can you do?

My brother and I went down, and were seated in the upper section by the right field line..not sure what direction the sun was but it was to our left - I know this because my left arm is more sunburned than my right.

I'd been too cheap to buy a Rockies cap, so my face got a little sunburned, not too severe, though.

Overall it was a fun time. Yes, the food is priced outrageously, but it was good. And that's part of the ambiance of going to a ball game, eating all the food.

I did think it was interesting - no one was ever given any plastic caps for their big plastic cups. So people are walking up all these stairs, occasionally being jostled by other peple going up and down, and they're carrying full-to-the-brim cups of liquid, and no lids? For a $6 thing of beer, you'd think the vendor could spend an extra 2 cents each for a plastic lid.

But that wasn't all. I saw someone next to us get a tin bottle of beer. The vendor took the cap off and kept it, and passed the open bottle along to his customer. Why? Caps with sharp edges can be used as weapons? Please! Just like one-inch nail files in finger nail clippers - who is going to be afraid of that? (I once had to give up my fingernail clipper when I went into an air show. I'm five foot 4 and tubby. If I'd tried to threaten anybody with a one inch nail file they'd have laughed in my face!)