Nights Too Cold

Is there something I’m missing?

We moved from New York over 14 years ago. The question I am most frequently asked is what do I miss most back East.

The answer is very simple. It is not hot pastrami sandwiches, nor even Broadway shows. It’s the warm, nice and warm, summer evenings when we could go for a walk in shirt sleeves or just sit out on the patio, talking and enjoying the night air. Or we could go to a ballgame.

Which brings me back to what I’m missing. That is, why somebody hasn’t mentioned with respect to the proposed baseball stadium in Ventura County for a minor league team that people in their right minds are not going to pay money to sit in a stand while the weather gets chillier and chillier until they are downright uncomfortable. I know I couldn’t enjoy a baseball game like that. Of course, I am assuming that night games are the only way to make money in minor league ball.

The big secret that Californians do not tell Easterners before they move here is the 20-degree drop in temperature after the sun goes down. I have been in Foster Park at summer events where the audience gradually evaporated to nothing well before the performance ended. It was just too cold.

I wonder if the sponsors of the stadium will answer this.

ELMER FERBER

Ventura