Rats for the rats

The Angels' new nighttime cleaning crew is hard at work trying to keep down the rodent population. Angel Stadium was cited recently for a number of rodent violations so some changes were made. The biggest one is to have the cleaning crew start cleaning the stadium immediately after games instead of letting the ballpark litter sit on the ground until the morning. They are fanned out now in the upper deck at 11:55 p.m. trying to keep things clean.

One interesting story overheard today was that when Angel Stadium had been cleaned after games in the past (call it a decade ago) one newspaper called the team to ask why the stadium lights were on late at night and power was being wasted. It seems that in their new effort to save power, the rodents took over. Perhaps you can't win. Looks like the electric bill is going to take a hit until the rat issue is solved.