Well, they didn't play any better than last night.

[madbaker]

But at least it was a beautiful day at the ballpark.
I earned some good karma, too; I have never caught a baseball at a game. Come close a few times, including about four games ago when a ball bounced off my seat while I was away in the bathroom. Today, just before the game was starting, I was chatting with the broker when all of a sudden, thunk! A ball landed just to my right.

I wasn't paying particularly close attention, but I suspect it was tossed by a batboy (we were about 12 rows back along the third base side, behind the Giants dugout).

The game hadn't started and batting practice was over. Since I hadn't been watching, there was no sense of accomplishment. So I tossed it to a kid two rows in front of me. Heck, I know that this would have meant an immense amount to me at that age.

Still would, actually.

The loss got me thinking, anyway - I've been to about 10 games this season. I think the Giants have only won one (when the wife went). Other games, with brokers or with knitter, the Giants seem to lose.
Coincidence? I think not. Yeah. Too bad, though.

Mental note: do not use the last splorch of sunscreen in the bottle. It doesn't work!

And I did something I haven't done in about 25 years: eat a frozen chocolate malt. With a wooden paddle. Took me waaaay back.

Comments

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

What you should do is test that theory...take your wife to another game and see what happens...

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Odd about the sunscreen. you have my sympathies.

[tsgeisel.livejournal.com]

Frozen chocolate malts can only be eaten with wooden paddles, and I would feel odd having one anywhere other than at a baseball game.

It's a good reason to go to a game, in fact.

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

My neck and face are fine - they were the first place I 'screened. Left arm, slightly burned on the wrist (it was next). Right arm, mostly burned except a sliver where the sunscreen first went before it spread.

Not too bad of a burn, but it's the oddity of it all.

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

I used to buy them when my dad and I would go to games, freeze at Candlestick, and watch the Giants lose. I haven't eaten one outside a game... well, maybe ever but I don't remember that precisely.