April 22, 2008
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So...the other night when I wrote about the Sharks' amazing 7th game
I had ALREADY begun a second DN!
Who knew this Sharks' classic would go on to become one of the greatest Sharks'games in their history, as well as a launching pad to the longest DN in the DN's history? I originally split the Sharks' DN into TWO separate pieces, and was convinced it was to be the first DN doubleheader EVER, a dubious achievement if ever there were one.
ANYWAYZZZZZZZZZZ
For what it's worth, here is the other DN, along with some additional comments at the end of it all.
Hope you enjoy it.
1 So this is the first doubleheader in the history of the DN.
2 I'm writing TWO different DN's on the same night.
3 The reason I'm doing that is that the Sharks/Flames game is on and it's almost impossible to do anything but watch.
4 That may change, but meanwhile, we have two going.
5 I also had the Giants going, just for the purposes of extreme contrast.
6 I got all excited when we got a double.
7 I explained to people that this year's double is like last year's home run.
8 Only a Giants' fan would understand that.
9 They played the Obacks last night.
10 Barry Zito couldn't throw a fastball if you gave him a hotfoot.
11 The Obacks.
12 People in the deep South think they're playin' the Hillaries.
13 They don't know how to vote because the Hillaries are wearing shirts that say San Francisco.
14 They think the Hillaries are campaigning for gay rights. That dog don't hunt in Gopher Creek, Missouruh.
15 Fortunately they have re-runs of Green Acres on some other channel.
16 In Gopher Creek, they think Green Acres is what a rookie catcher gets when he miscalulates a slider.
17 M'bad.
18 So far the biggest thing to happen was that the organ player played "Shave and a haircut", and about eight people clapped, "Six bits."
19 I'm wallowing in the peanut and malt world of baseball, just waiting for the moths to flicker in the stadium lights and disappear into the night sky.
20 I love April. I wandered into my yard and watered the flowers. The pool filter hummed gently. I have amber and blue garden lights.
21 The third period just began.
22 I'm switching DN's again...
...And the rest, as they say, is Sharks' history...
23 So now we're back to this morning. It was sorta fun re-reading what could have been the long, lost DN that only I would care about anyway.
24 Interesting in that it had obviously been written after the first period. Somewhere
25 Notice there is absolutely no mention of the Sharks' madness that had just taken place.
26 Most of it was written right after the first period. I think I wrote all the way up to number 20, and switched over. The entire amazing second period took place between numbers 20 and 21.
27 The backyard Zen and focus on baseball is a sort of "Get me outttaaaahere!!!" defense mechanism to the madness going on in the Tank.
28 My daughters pulled me into Sharkland this year and for that I will be forever grateful.
29 I always used to watch marginally, but my argument was that I never played hockey as a kid so I just appreciated that San Jose had a team, and used to chill at Henry's in the early days.
30 I'm convinced that back then, the Sharks used to come in while Ponch and I would feast on red meat and BV cabernets, writing musicals on bar napkins.
31 He is a hockey fan and always enjoyed the Sharks so he could tell you if we were having meals with those guys. They used to hang out at Henry's back-in-the day.
32 Anyway, I loved that I wound up putting the Giants on the shelf for one night in April.
33 It took me long enough, but I finally turned the corner on hockey, and it's like finding some long, lost cousins or something.
34 Bengie Molina just hit a home run to tie the Giants' game. It's on the radio while my daughter Nicole watches Step It Up and Dance. Trevor Hoffman threw the pitch and I STILL hate that guy for ending Robby Thompson's career, as well as Bob Brenley's.
35 Only a REAL Giants' fan would catch those references.
36 Or still be listening to them on the radio when they're 7 1/2 games out in mid-April.
37 I had to go to the Merc New Sports for that last statistic.
38 I couldn't find the Sports. Looked all over. Gone.
39 It's okay though. I went outside and took a header into the recycling bin, where I tossed one of them.
40 Yesterday I bought two papers.
41 Peace.
~H~
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