SIDE SALAD - Everything crunchy is good.

SCENES FROM A BALLPARK

Alan over at the newly updated and spectacular Hudsonian sends along these photos taken at Dodgertown during his last trip to see the Vero Beach Dodgers for the season.



Unless it's a spring training game, souvenirs don't exactly fly off the shelves at Holman Stadium. I don't want to say that this lovely woman didn't have a lot to do, but as Al put it, "I interrupted her Reader's Digest story."



I'm all for dog-friendly ballparks. As minor league stadiums go - and from a canine point of view - this one would be a great place to lift your leg. But honestly, couldn't they have done better for a dog bowl than that recycled Thanksgiving grease pan?



This has to be the dog equivalent to the meeting on the pitcher's mound in "Bull Durham."