CoPa is almost full now, though there are still a few empty chairs in the upper deck. The Pepsi Porch, which last year had a tier of temporary bleachers installed on it, is crowded with gawkers hanging over the railing. The temporary bleachers under the LF scoreboard, new last year, remain, however.

Appear to be quite a few SROs around the park–many of ‘em drunk or on-the-way to getting loaded white guys with $8 cups of beer-flavored H2O in their hands and a frozen grin on their faces…

I understand how the club can sell sRO tix to a big game like Opening Day. What I don’t understand is how they can get $20 for an SRO ticket.

Weather is 56 degrees with a little breeze now; 51 degrees at 1st pitch. Not great, but certainly a lot better than if Detroit had opened at home a week ago.

Still a fair number of the $5 “Skyline” seats open in the far corner of the LF upper deck. If you’ve never sat up there, you should try them sometime when the park is mostly sold-out. Nice view of downtown, generally some breeze even on a hot summer night when the lower deck is stifling, and while they’re not close to the action, for my money they beat standing in an aisle getting elbowed by drunk frat boys by a mile.

A lot of people complain about Comerica’s open seating, especially in the lower deck when it can become a frying pan when the sun it hot in midsummer. But the corresponding part of this design is that Comerica is a lot more pleasant on days like today than Tiger Stadium was, where so many people in the lower deck sat shivering in the shadows when the temps were in the 50s.