4 August 05

A Baseball Outing

Today we took the day off and went to San Francisco with two Brazilian friends (her blog, the Chatterbox, is in Portuguese; less frequently-updated but in English is Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town). We were going to see the Giants play the Rockies. The Giants have been miserable of late and seemed to be continuing in the same funk until the bottom of the eighth where they looked almost like the Oakland A’s, who are charging into the end of the season in the most amazing fashion after an indifferent start, featuring a lot of young, exciting players.

It’s been said a lot, but it bears repeating: this is one of the most beautiful sports venues anywhere. We sat high in the nosebleed section, overlooking the bay, looking down on barn swallows and rough-winged swallows and an awful lot of people who were goofing off work like us. We got buzzed by an Anna’s hummingbird and on the way to the park from the ferry saw a peregrine falcon overhead, possibly one of the young from this year’s successful nest on the PG&E building…

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  1. Did you say you were watching the baseball or the birds? What is a “nosebleed section”?
    — Jenny    5. August 2005, 04:00    Link
  2. Both. There’s more standing around in baseball even than cricket, Jenny.

    The nosebleed section is where it’s so high the oxygen’s thinner, occasioning nosebleeds…
    — Pica    5. August 2005, 06:00    Link
  3. I spent the day in San Francisco too accompanying a friend from France to Alcatraz. The city was lovely both up close and from a distance and the day flowed sweetly. Going home though was a different matter: According to the radio news, the city was gridlocked due to traffic pouring onto the 101 from the baseball game. I’m glad at least that the Giants won.
    — virginia    5. August 2005, 12:01    Link

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