Some stuff I thought of once. A little while ago. Like, today.

The Rockies had a double-header today at their still-brang-new Spring Training facility in Scottsdale, AZ, which has been Bantered About By One here. I don't have the figures at my fingers (which is to say, I'm too lazy to do the research to find them—which the Banter of One will hereafter refer to as "research") as to what the record is for a double header at their erstwhile Spring Training facility in Tucson, AZ (Hi-Corbett Field), but I would be happy to buy you dinner if you can prove to me that it was greater than today's combined attendance of 23,600.

It seems to me, from research I've gathered, that attendance at most ballparks, in the Cactus League at least, has been baron. But not at Salt River Fields. No siree. Seriously, the Rockies basically pulled off two sellouts in one day. In One Day. Even weekday games at Salt River Fields are faring better than their Cactus League counterparts, according to my research.

Indeed, according to this article, attendance is trending upward in the Cactus League. And I especially like how it doesn't even credit the Rockies in this trend:

"This year, the elevated number of attendees can be attributed primarily to two factors: the Arizona Diamondbacks, who are playing their first season in the Valley after moving their spring-training home from Tucson, and the San Francisco Giants, the 2010 World Series Champions…"

See, the Rockies share Salt River Fields with the Diamondbacks. And the Diamondbacks call Phoenix their regular-season home. I have this sneaking feeling that if the Rockies and their entire slate of Spring Training competition Spring Trained in Denver (provided the weather allowed them to do so), attendance for the Rockies would be sensational. Sensational, and all the synonyms you can come up with for sensational. To wit: During the 2010 regular season, Colorado averaged greater than 10,000 per game more than the Diamondbacks. Even in 2001, the year that the Diamondbacks won the World Series, the Rockies still out-attended them by an average of over 5,000 fans per game. Now that's research backed by some serious research.



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The AppleTV is a really cool gadget. Especially now that its most recent software update allows it to stream to me my MLB.tv subscription. My wife and I took our dog for a long walk in City Park, after which I camped out on the couch and watched the Giants and Dodgers do some Spring Training battle. And then later in the day I kept track of the Rockies and Diamondbacks tilt. All on the 46 inch TV in the living room, as opposed to the computer.

So I've got that going for me.