The problem with a rollercoaster, is that you start at the bottom, and you’re ultimately let down again in the end. The middle part is a heck of a lot of fun though.
So it was on the Detroit Tigers 10 game road trip out west. We still recall the wind in our hair and the joyous shrieks on the air as we rode the big hills at high speed in Houston, but Oakland was the sticky-handed, teenaged Napoleon in Oakleys forcing you to sit in the coaster for an extra ten minutes while they sort out something on another part of the track, before finally releasing you to begin another hour-long trudge to the front of the line.