That place is a hot box. Air conditioning doesn't work well with 45 thousand plus in the middle of the summer. It was designed to protect against cold not heat.
No I would have been fine with it. If we grounded into a double play I would have been furious. That's a gamble I'd like to see us take. Explained in my above post.
The first and third situation with a speed at first should be an automatic steal attempt. When you factor in already having a good baserunner at first and the catchers hesitation to throw through makes it a very high percentage play.