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there's also some magic about the adrenalin of a key game, and the drive to win. tonight, the Giants have a chance to go to their second world series this decade, and the first i can watch. they're up 3 games to one, and have three chances to win. better they do it tonight at home rather than the following two games in the home of cheez steak.
couldn't sleep to prepare, but i'm ready for 2am first pitch.
must mention, the last time i went to a world series game, we didn't get to see the game, due to a 7.1 earthquake which still has me shakin. 10 days later we lost all four games, ouch.
only in sanfran, some remaining Grateful Dead sing the anthem.
Go Jints! "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
i took me almost five minutes to realize, damn, that was a big one. at about 7 minutes i saw the first ashen faces descending the long escalator from the upper deck, then i realized i had also spun and saw the light standards in motion. at about ten minutes came the news a section of the Bay Bridge was down.
first thought, my car's in the first row, i'm outta here, where's my son. picked my way through so rubble strewn streets and got home to find he'd already gone down to the Marina.
over the next days learned much about the psychology of severe earthquakes. some great baseball stories too as amurka's baseball elite gathered to drink at the Washbag. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
And your mention of SF's most venerable watering hole, the good old Washbag. Everybody's got a story about that swell place. Much better (IMO anyway) before Moose sold it and departed for across the way though. While it wasn't exactly a 'baseball' team, do you remember his beloved Les Lapin Sauvages? Oh, those were the days.
Les Lapin Sauvages? ja, i remember when they invited a team from russia for a match. i was so enthralled to meet some very famous russians i ran up russian hill (to my home) to get some real amurkan baseballs for them to bring back to the land where baseball and pizza were invented.
god they made great drinks. god we made great conversation.
(i'll be back there 2nd week december, god willing and the creeks don't rise.) "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
well give my regards to beautiful Baghdad by the Bay and hoist one (or more) for me while you're there, will ya?
(if Uribe keeps hitting 'em like he did last night, the WS will surely be won by your Jints!)
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