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Could not blog Monday morning - the grass was taking seed and I needed to get a handle on it before it was too late, I might have to torch it and start over otherwise.

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So back in Denver where the forecast is a record 96 although 96 in Denver feels like maybe 87. No humidity.

When you eat outside  you never see waitresses waste water. It always gets dumped onto the ground or flower pots or whatever, never back to the kitchen. 

With that said - we stayed at The Maven in Denver - an upscale yuppyish hotel in the LoDo District of Denver - a block from Coors Field and I tell ya, the shower was the biggest I have ever seen.

Literally 4 feet wide and when I say literally I mean maybe a foot?) and very strong.  INSTANT WET! 
The faucets in the bathroom were like a hose. No fine bubbles, just pure water.

Attached to The Maven is The Dairy Block which opened June 1st and has 16 restaurants. Like a REALLY nice food court, a few bars, hamburger places that the meat is ground 5 seconds before it's put on the grill (pretty fresh),  And of course there was a sweet looking fancy pick-up bar.  DJ and I walked through it a couple times and, yea, we were the hot ones. Everybody was staring.

Everywhere you go in Denver it seems people were selling water which is a good thing as it was record breaking temps the entire time we were there.  It's a common thing, every few blocks $1 vendor.

We picked up a case of sour beer for my home brew buddies. Denver seems to be the nexus of the best sour beer in the world.  I carried a case and a couple bombers 6 blocks back to the hotel. It was not pleasant. Then we stopped at Coors Field to get tickets. We picked up the cheapest tickets we could (not really but more on that in a bit) and went back to the hotel to chill.

Coors looks amazingly like Miller Park . . . .  up to a point.  Less security then Miller and much faster.

Our tickets were sort of standing room only on the "roof top". Sounds weird but WOW - It's an entire different world up there.  LOVED IT.  $6 beer. $5 hot dogs.  Lounges,  no waiting restrooms and when you get tired of standing there are plenty of seats to hang out in PLUS you have free access to the Party deck up one floor. HUBBA HUBBA!

 
DJ was obsessed with checking out the party deck  . . . . which is where I got into it with a Philly fan.  It was hilarious.

We're in this walkway and a Cub fan approach's me and said "I HATE THE BREWERS" (but smiling) and I said "I HATE the Cubs" and then we hugged it out laughing. Then we talked a while about how we could be related to each other (NOT) and he pointed at his friends were were NOT Cub fans and we talked about mutual respect  . . . . except for the Phillies.

WELL - At that point he pointed to a friend and said "THAT, is a Phillie fan" and the 25 year old (or whatever) turns around and says "YEA WHAT OF IT!" and everybody starts laughing. I gave him some shit, and he gave it right back.  Both laughing - but we're sort of loud and maybe people are getting worried?  At that point DJ starts to back away and head downstairs and Phillie says as I'm leaving  "WHAT DOES MILWAUKEE HAVE ANYWAY - NOTHING! - JUST A BUNCH OF BREWERIES"  and I believe he knew as soon as it came out of his mouth I had him.  My response?

 "WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED" and did the "drop the mic" turn and walked away.   POINT GRINDER!  As I walked down the stairs I could hear laughter.

That was the thing at Coors.  What a freaking happy bunch of people.  At Miller Park there are REALLY drunk, loud people. It's much more relaxed, laid back and not as drunk at Coors.  And a LOT younger crowd.

Here is a pano view from our standing room only "seats".  When you get tired of standing and drinking on the rood top (on the right) you can sit down.

 
HOWEVER - the CHEAP seats are in center field called The Rock Pile.  Metal bench's, literally bleachers. 60 and older, $1 otherwise $4. You can only get tickets 2 hours before the game.

The Rock Pile is upper dead straight away. The Roof Top is the first group of people standing on the right side and the Party Deck is above them. 

So - I go for some hot dogs (no secret sauce there) and come back, sit down and there is a bunch of commotion just 7 seats away. I look over and . . .

WTF?  A guy is answering trivia 7 seats away AND WINS . . . . our row all win free haircuts at Sports Cuts - YIPPEE!!!

OH OH - before I forget.

The Brit Floyd - seems this concert will be broadcast as part of a PBS pledge drive so stay tuned.   I tried my own "Facebook Live"  - after I realized the camera was facing the wrong way it gets better.  HEY - I'm not an expert. Just a guy with an iPhone.

We were a lot closer but the camera made it look farther away.  Plus no horizontal - perfect weather, 80s and a little breezy. AMAZING acoustics!

Don't be afraid - that is the last second of the video 



So back at Coors Field,  we watch the Rockies get creamed by Arizona who are the like the Cubs to Rockies fans.

The game finishes and it literally took like 5 minutes to get out of the Stadium. The place was pretty full but there are so many stairways it's never crowded and we literally only saw ONE escalator in the entire place.

Again - no overly loud drunks even coming from the Party deck.  No wiffs of weed, everybody VERY polite and friendly.

Sadly - the next day we had to drive home.  As luck would have it Saturday was our 22 wedding anniversary and we celebrated it in Nebraska.  On the drive my sinuses decided it was time to let loose as we dropped in elevation and humidity took hold.  I'll have to figure out that little issue for next time.

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In other news - let me say once again - I've never dissed Trump and how he is handling Kim.  However - so far The US has caved in to Kim and all we have a promise.   Now of course now we can bomb the crap out of them if they break a promise.  But let's remember the infrastructure promise that Trump signed last year.

Actions speak louder then words and vague pieces of paper with bullet points.

A Japanese poll has America as the greatest threat to world peace by 52% of respondents, China by  34% and North Korea by 30%.  Yea - seems about right to me.

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Seems honey bees understand the meaning of 0. Something only dolphins, birds and primates were thought to know. A study took two cards with a number of symbols on them  and placed sugar water under the one with the fewest symbols. Bees could consistently locate the sugar water, and that skill continued when there was one symbol and zero symbols.

The understand 2 circles vs. 3 circles and 4 triangle vs. 1 triangle. But what surprised many were when they had one symbol vs. a blank card.  The bees understood that the blank card was less then the card with one symbol.

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In 2002 there were 30 million active golfers in The US.  In 2016 there were 20.9 million.  The average golf course is about 150 acres and we will need much less of them in the future it seems.

A closed golf course can hold about 600 homes. If recent history is any indicator locals who live around the course will fight such housing initiatives tooth-and-nail.

Dead Golf Courses Are the New NIMBY Battlefield

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Oceans 8 beat expectations by pulling in $53 million world wide - 69% of tickets were purchased by woman.

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That is it for the moment.

Nuff said.