Heading to Detroit on my own today so I took a city bus from my cousin’s place to the Windsor bus terminal where I caught a regular tunnel bus. They have tunnel buses running all day between Detroit and Windsor just these ones don’t take you straight to the ballpark, but there are a couple different stops on the Detroit side and no matter where you get off it is still a fairly short walk to the ballpark. I left plenty early enough in the afternoon to make sure I wouldn’t get stuck in the tunnel again and was across the border with time to walk around DET a bit before the gates opened at the ballpark.
I got a chance to actually walk around the stadium today and take it in. It is a really nice ballpark, I was a little surprised. It is not usually among the new stadiums that I always hear from people saying which are the nicest.
It is amazing how quickly fans can go from booing to cheering. Last night Sheffield was getting booed mercilessly, partly b/c of the struggles he has had this year and partly b/c of some comments he made about how he should be playing in the OF. Now tonight he hits a HR and gets some cheers then later in the game hits another and gets a lot of cheers. I think it just shows how quickly fans are willing to forgive if you go out and perform.
I caught one of the special tunnel buses outside the ballpark after the game and again it was a slow process getting back across the border. It is really interesting to see the split between Tigers fans and Jays fans that are from Windsor. I would see groups of people where half would we wearing Tigers gear and the other half would have Jays gear. I understand where the split comes up. On one hand you have the team you are closest to and can easily go to the ballpark to see play. On the other you have another team only a couple hrs away that is a Canadian team. Plus you factor in that before Toronto had a team, probably almost everyone was a Tigers fan (with maybe some Expos fans?) and often favourite teams can get passed down generations. I’m only guessing, but I figure they probably get both Detroit and Toronto baseball games on TV and the media probably focuses on both so there is no advantage either way there.
By the time I got back to Windsor and called my cousin he had already gone to sleep (Oh right some people actually have to work) so since the bus I needed to get back to his place does not run late (I think it stops at like 10:30 or 11) I ended up taking a taxi. The taxi was a van and so it had a sliding door for the back. I got in and went to shut the door and the door handle broke off (apparently I don’t know my own strength). The driver then tells me don’t worry about it, it is not made to be shut manually, sure now he tells me.
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