Fortunately I was not the only person at Citi Field today who
had the potential of being accused of child abuse. With a
temperature of 95 and a good old fashioned east coast/midwest type heat index of
104, I managed to have finally taken the lifetime Phoenix residents of
Ryan and Logan to a place that they thought was HOT. And boy, was it
ever. We were soaked by game time.

We did escape to the concourse level (which is open to the field like
Coors Field…a big plus today) for a few innings and the Mets and
Cardinals helped as best they could with a slightly over two hour game
which is nearly unheard of these days. Oh, the Cardinals prevailed
6-2 and we were fortunate to see Albert Pujols put one way out of the
park in the first inning. Logan managed to leave the park with one
more ball for his collection. I left still 0 for 62 years.

We will try to get Logan to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island
tomorrow where he will get to be the last of my son-in-law’s children
to see his grandmother’s name on the wall of immigrants. If we
survive a predicted high of 101 and a 110 heat index it will be off to
Yankee stadium for a night game. Will that be a relief from today?
Maybe not. As of this 10 pm writing it is 88 with a “feels like”
temperature of 98.