Denver: Cool Town, Crazy Dudes
Well, I'm hanging out at the Starbucks at the 16th Street Mall area here in Denver, which is one of about 500 cool areas in this town. It's 85 degrees with 7% humidity here. That humidity figure is why sticking baseballs in a humidor has been such a factor here. If you let balls sit out in the arid air, it makes the leather dry out. Think about it: If you hit a ball you just dunked it water, compared to a normal ball, it won't travel as far, right? It might not be as obvious as dunking a ball in 
water, but when you hit a ball kept in 70% humidity compared to 7% humidity, it makes a subtle, but noticeable, difference.
Anyway, Denver is one of the better stops when traveling. It's a gorgeous place. But check back with me this time tomorrow. Apparently a cold front is going to come barreling through here around 8-9 p.m., and temperatures are going to drop like a Manny Corpas shirtball.
When I'm out here I like to run out to Black Hawk (a mountain town about 45 minutes West of Denver) to play poker if I have time. I might run out there Sunday morning, because the forecast there is for 1-3 inches of snow! I gotta see that!
As for Denver, it's supposed to be a cold rain. But temperatures for a potential Game 4 could dip into the upper 30s by the late innings. Yikes! Sometimes sitting in the front row of the press box isn't a reward.
I should give a shout out to the wacky (and I believe stoned) 'Nam vet who came up and wanted to know if this thing I am typing on is a laptop. I confirmed that, yes, this is a laptop. He then rambled about wanting me to pull up the Hell's Angels Web site and look for some friend of his who used to live in Oakland but moved to Arizona.
I like crazy dudes, so I said sure. But he couldn't hang around - he's a busy man, you know - so he asked for my phone number. So I wrote down 10 random numbers and handed it to him. It started 610-301-xxxx ... so if you have a number that starts with those six digits, you have a 1-in-10,000 chance of getting a pretty funny phone call at some point.
Probably the most interesting part of the conversation was the "Hell's Angels Web site" portion. You know, there are some organizations that you just never really connect with having official Web sites - but sure enough there is one! I took a glance and, well, grammar isn't a Hell's Angels strong suit. But I'm pretty sure kicking my teeth in could be, so I'm not going any further with that.
water, but when you hit a ball kept in 70% humidity compared to 7% humidity, it makes a subtle, but noticeable, difference.Anyway, Denver is one of the better stops when traveling. It's a gorgeous place. But check back with me this time tomorrow. Apparently a cold front is going to come barreling through here around 8-9 p.m., and temperatures are going to drop like a Manny Corpas shirtball.
When I'm out here I like to run out to Black Hawk (a mountain town about 45 minutes West of Denver) to play poker if I have time. I might run out there Sunday morning, because the forecast there is for 1-3 inches of snow! I gotta see that!
As for Denver, it's supposed to be a cold rain. But temperatures for a potential Game 4 could dip into the upper 30s by the late innings. Yikes! Sometimes sitting in the front row of the press box isn't a reward.
I should give a shout out to the wacky (and I believe stoned) 'Nam vet who came up and wanted to know if this thing I am typing on is a laptop. I confirmed that, yes, this is a laptop. He then rambled about wanting me to pull up the Hell's Angels Web site and look for some friend of his who used to live in Oakland but moved to Arizona.
I like crazy dudes, so I said sure. But he couldn't hang around - he's a busy man, you know - so he asked for my phone number. So I wrote down 10 random numbers and handed it to him. It started 610-301-xxxx ... so if you have a number that starts with those six digits, you have a 1-in-10,000 chance of getting a pretty funny phone call at some point.
Probably the most interesting part of the conversation was the "Hell's Angels Web site" portion. You know, there are some organizations that you just never really connect with having official Web sites - but sure enough there is one! I took a glance and, well, grammar isn't a Hell's Angels strong suit. But I'm pretty sure kicking my teeth in could be, so I'm not going any further with that.
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