Subj : Food for discussion To : ANDREW SERRANO From : Steve Quarrella Date : Sun Mar 11 2001 02:03 pm AS> Or, do you plan your trips back home around when the Rangers will be AS> in town? Hey, have you been to the new Tigers ballpark? It's funnier than that, Andrew: I was still living in the Detroit area when Ryan and the Rangers came to town. I figured that such opportunities would be rare, given that Ryan was getting up in age, and a move to Texas wasn't even a gleam in my eye. So, I got here at the end of '92, and never saw Ryan pitch for the Rangers. It just never came together. I've seen plenty of Tigers games, though. Oddly enough, though, the last game I saw in Tiger Stadium? Against the Rangers. I still have some of the videotape. AS> Hey, have you been to the new Tigers ballpark? Not yet, but I should this coming summer, when I'm up there for a trip to the area. My wife is a doll collector, and I guess there's a meeting of the Barbie Doll Five Families or something, so I'll have plenty of time on my hands. Going to look up the R11C, whom I haven't seen in years, and a Tigers game is definitely in the cards. Being a Detroit native, there will actually be something "special" for me regarding this trip to the new park. I'm an old fuddy-duddy about Tiger Stadium -- understand that I spent a large chunk of childhood there, chasing around my heroes from the '68 team and then getting to see guys like Fidrych, Whitaker, and Trammell get started -- and I'm not very excited about "Comerica Park." However, the area where the park is was what you would call a "bomb zone" while I was living in Michigan, and it was just a few minutes from where I went to college. I used to go down Woodward Avenue all the time to go to my favourite places downtown, and that was some fairly scary area, until you crossed the Fisher Freeway and got into the Fox Theater area. So, I'm curious to see a bit of the Detroit renaissance that was promised to us in the 70s, just a few years after the riots, but was never delivered, for many, many reasons that would clutter up this echo with off-topic chatter. It'll be cool to see the RenCen out the back of the park, I'm sure, but I think I'll get a genuine thrill from being in an area that has been pulled out of the toilet and put to good use again. I have the same thoughts about seeing the Lions downtown, as they left the city in the mid-70s, and I never got to see any football games down there at Tiger Stadium. --- * Origin: Cobb, Crawford, and Jones! (1:393/9005) .