Heatcheck Wednesday

Week 7 of Heatcheck Wednesday, a permanent feature here at Ballpark Frankness. The idea behind this post is to track the past week's Rays home games and wonder how tolerable they would have been, had they been played outdoors.

No home games since last Wednesday (luckily for the Rays, I think). So our standings remain the same.

After 34 homes games, 42 percent of the home schedule:

How you feeling? Hot. Hot. Hot. ---- 1

Hot, but nothing a cold beverage couldn't cure. ---- 3

Take me out the ball game. ---- 30

Comments

[Rick K]

Just a thought for Aaron:

Even though I once thought this ongoing series of updates about temperatures elevated the ANTI's straw man argument, I now think this is a decent topic.

Of course, I wish the "readings" were actually taken at Al Lang, but I am grateful that you are going to all the trouble to record conditions for every home game.

I would suggest that you think about changing up the photo that accompany's posts under this TOPIC. ON weeks when the Temps were bearable, I think it would be a bit better if the image in THOSE posts reflected tolerable conditions, instead of 110 degree temps.

Just a thought...

[Rays Mike]

On Monday afternoon (non-holiday businessman's speical, BTW), there were 53,000 at Yankee Stadium when it was 95 degrees and heat index of 105 to see two last place teams. Save the arguments of fan base, tradition, the population, etc, but the heat did not keep the people away...

This is probably the dumbest part of your blog. Totally subjective and not in any way based on actually experiencing the process of attending a game on any of these days.

Plus you don't even factor in thunderstorms.

Silly little man.

[Rick K]

To the 11:29 AM poster, the reason you haven't seen anything about a THUNDERSTORM yet, is because there has not yet been a Rays home game that would have been impacted by a storm.