We took a private tour of Coors field on Saturday and the first thing we did was walk down to the field because it was game day and the grounds crew was going to get to work on getting it ready. On our way down the stairs one of my friends notices that deGrom was sitting the visitor’s dugout. Now I think our tour guide Walt noticed him and called an audible for all of us to take a group photo to distract us from deGrom.
As we were taking the photos, deGrom made a beeline to the bullpen across the way and sat down over there. Don’t blame the guy, probably needed some solitude from the rest of the team to just clear his head and who wants to be around fans when you want to relax. Walt our tour guide told my buddy MJ that if you pick up the bullpen phone you could hear it all the way into the dug out. MJ picked it up and the phone was ringing and you can hear it across the park. Then something happened. Something very cool. deGrom answered the phone. There was a quick exchange of pleasantries and MJ’s day was made.
Now onto the tour. It was just like the CitiField tour but it was cut a bit shorter due to game day. There was no locker room room tours or tours of the innards of the stadium. We walked around the park, was told how the field was dug twenty feet into the ground due to zoning laws with the height of the stadium, and the stadium that was helped built by private companies and bonds is now free and clear of debt and all the money coming in is now profit. The bonds have all been paid off already.
Of course they should us the different club areas and seat areas around the stadium and the new rooftop which I posted about the other day. One of the cool things in two of the “event” rooms is in one their is a marble pitchers rubber and then a home plate 60ft 6in away in the other room.
This is the Mile High Marker where they took out the seats for the rooftop… I really enjoyed this ballpark and the tour. If you haven’t take the CitiField one.
Coors Field was built into a warehouse that is 103 yrs old and that building was used to start building a craft beer made by Coor’s just for the stadium called Belly Slide Beer. When Coors realized how popular that the beer was decided to market it nationally. It’s known as Blue Moon now.
