October 2, 2009
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1 No news when you snooze lol!
2 I spent two nights in a row down at the school, so last night I got home and started to write this edition of the DN, when I got the snoooooooozies!
3 I must say, it corresponded to the last home game of my Giants. Emotional season, but one filled with a lot of hope.
4 I wanted like crazy to go to the game, but life, as it so often does. stepped in, preventing that idea.
5 So I listened to the final home game on this Walgreens radio, which was actually a great way to end the season.
6 If you are any sort of sports' fan, you know what I'm saying. You can't carry your teevee in to work, or to wherever life takes you, but you can always have some sort of contact with the game, in my place, a Walgreen's low-budget battery operated radio.
7 I originally bought the thing so I could bike around all summer and have it bungeed to my bicycle.
8 That stopped when school began so that I could catch the games up on the Chill during my prep.
9 Ah, who cares anyway?
10 Well, I guess I do.
11 Anyway, thanks Giants, for a grand season.
12 I must confess, when I listened to what I could, I got just the slightest bit sentimental.
13 Did I cry?
14 There's no crying in baseball.
15 Except yesterday, haha.
16 Not ME, of course.
17 I'm too manly.
18 But truly, this was one of the greatest seasons ever. The team wasn't supposed to go anywhere, but through determination, hard work, and belief, they nearly made the playoffs.
19 So much was so awesome I won't list them here, but one thing got me to choke back a tear: this was my Mom's last Giants' season, and she LOVED the team, and focused on every single pitch to her final days. She also loved the Brian Wilson commercials, in which those two little girls hammered on Wilson to get better.
20 That was back in April and May, and yesterday's final home game brought it all back.
21 So yeah.
22 I won't often bring my own sports' faves into the mix, but yesterday became a pretty special day, a radio day, which in many ways made it all so real. I listened to Mike Krukow, Duane Kuiper, Jon Miller, and the newest addition, Dave Fleming (hope I spelled Dave's last name right; I've seen spelled "Flemming" but I assume that someone is off kilter, a good assumption).
23 I loved the tribute the fans gave to Richie Aurelia.
24 And I loved that the slowest guy on the team, Bengie Molina, stretched a single into a double.
25 I even stopped and respected Randy Winn for his amazing fielding in right field, and even nodded when Randy Johnson came in to pitch in the end.
26 But the toughest thing was not giving my team a standing ovation for all their spirit and heart yesterday. I was stuck in a classroom, almost ditched school, and now, honestly, wish that I had, because whatever the heck I spent time doing yesterday didn't hold up to going out to the Yard.
27 <sigh>.
28 This is the first season since I was seventeen that I never got to a game. So while it was tough, it also symbolized moving on, in some strange sorta way.
29 Anyway, in April came the rains, and my team beginning Spring training, and yesterday a team I thought would just be fun to watch almost made it to the playoffs, all with my Mom's approval.
30 And I have to guess that she enjoyed the second half of the season with the best seats in the house, and the greatest Giants' fan ever, my grandfather.
31 There's lots more, but I can't even begin to define any of it.
32 Here's to the 2009 San Francisco Giants, who showed that raw talent, youth, and hope can make a team competitive.
33 Thanks for giving all of us faith. once again. We love you, and that's straight from the heart.
34 See you all Monday.
35 Peace.
~H~
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