Greeting everybody from St. Louis, MO! Its 1100 at night and it is still cookin at ninety degrees. There is also a tornado warning in the area. Gotta love the Midwest!
I boarded the train in Chicago this morning and got here to St. Louis at around three in the afternoon. I stepped off the train and was immediately blown away by the heat and humidity. It is the sticky type of heat that makes you sweat in the first seconds of exposure.
After getting to my hotel, I took a little walk down to Jefferson National Expansion Memorial and the Gateway Arch. I never knew how tall the Arch was. It is enormous! I got plenty of good pictures of the Arch and of the museum that is underneath the structure itself.
I then walked the two blocks to Busch Stadium. The stadium is huge in comparison to the last two ballparks I went to. It is wedged in between a freeway and a gridded street system, so it is sort of oblong in shape. Everything is incredibly expensive and, yes, there is Budweiser and Bud Light being sold everywhere.
The game was very good. Curtis Granderson for the Tigers hit two home runs and added a single, but the Cards drew a bases loaded walk in the seventh to get a 4-3 victory.
After seeing a game at Busch, I would rank it on the level of AT&T Park in San Francisco. They both have similar designs and the views on both are equally astounding. However, after going to PNC Park and Wrigley Filed before, Busch simply does not match up in quality. Maybe if I had visited this park first, my opinion would be different.
As for tomorrow, I will wake up here in St. Louis and venture to the Anheuser-Busch Brewery and take the famous Brewery tour. I hear you get free samples on the tour. And it's free!
At around four, I'll board the plane for Oregon. I should be back in Eugene by midnight. I'll throw out an update after the Brewery tour tomorrow before I leave St. Louis.
Always take on a 3-0 pitch ;)
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