October 23, 2012
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THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!!!
EASILY!!!
1 I awakened last night at around 3 a.m. and this movie was blasting on the teevee.2 The movie was The Sea of Grass starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.
3 I was totally grogged from the Giants’ seemingly effortless victory over the overrated Cardinals. This morning’s Merc headline: Raining Champions!
4 The first thing I heard upon awakening were these words, which I think came from Tracy:
“The St. Louis train leaves in a half an hour.”5 You can’t make this stuff up.6 Marco Scutaro is the NLCS MVP.
7 And the St. Louis train left in a half an hour.
8 And it rained.
9 And we knew from the start that we were going to the World Series.
10 I still put on my Steal Your Base Grateful Dead shirt, now clean, my shorts, and I once again blasted me some pre-game Sugar Magnolia.
11 I then made my pre-game snack, which once again consisted of barbecue potato chips diced with pepper cheese, with a chaser of Crystal Light.
12 The chi was once again too strong for words.
13 At school, my San Bruno buddy showed up with a crusty beard he has been growing since we hit the playoffs, a crooked orange and black tie, and a comic book expression that was a perfect cross between the Joker and Archie, immediately after making out with both Betty and Veronica.
14 The guy had no business being in front of kids.
15 Classic.
16 Moving on, Part One: The unreality was absolutely stunning.
17 I took off at lunch to my favorite pho joint, and stared at my iPhone for around a half hour. I realized that I had ignored around five thousand emails, most of which were companies trying to sell me stuff.
18 I couldn’t care less. Earlier in the day I had caught up with all my grading, so I was living La Vie En Rose, and even thought of the song in the early part of the morning.
19 Coincidences have been happening to me like the rain, a little at a time, but consistent and as awesome as this entire October.
20 The pho joint was teeming with a bajillion customers. At first I thought they were just hungover Giants fans, but San Jose ain’t New York.
21 These guys just wanted to chill with some fat bowls of hot pho. There was clearly no other agenda.
22 Pho is this Vietnamese soup that eats you. It is a fat broth with meat and noodles and all sorts of other flavors that swirl around your head and make you surcease from life’s worries. Viet nepenthe.
23 So I got away from the school, done with my work and chilled at this pho place checking out all the emails I had missed, and tried to ignore the massive amounts of customers surrounding me.
24 This happened yesterday.
25 Right in the midst of this baseball madness and pho dizziness, La Vie En Rose came on in the background of the restaurant, right on cue. La Vie En Rose has a way of doing that.
26 It spun me around and made me once again realize the particles, and the unbelievable non-reality of the Giants.
27 Just another coincidence I imagine.
28 Sort of like Spencer Tracy saying “The St. Louis train leaves in a half an hour.”
29 Or “Nice hook” happening at the same time that ears-and-braces girl blurted, “I LOVE Peter Pan!”
30 Or the Beatles DN last Thursday followed by the Merc News headline “Hard Day’s Night” last Friday. Dude. This stuff is public. I am not making any of it up.
31 Or Miss Phoebe, and Guy de Maupassant’s Diary of a Madman coming on right after I read a student’s response to a short story by the same guy.
32 I loves me some ‘Tober.
33 Especially when the right team wins the pennant.
34 And the “a” holes who try to butcher Scutaro go home, and HE wins the NLCS MVP.
35 For the record, you could have made a case for Barry Zito.
36 His performance was angelically epic.
37 And Vogey.
38 And okay, I must say it.
39 Hunter Pence. As WEIRD as that guy is with his big old eyes that never blink.
40 And our broadcasters from KNBR.
41 Dude.
42 The other day Duane Kuiper said that he saw Vogey in the hallway and said “Hi.”
43 Vogey gave him the finger.
44 Awesome.
45 Garbage trucks. You have to REALLY be a Giants’ fan to get that one. I’ll letcha know about garbage trucks right before the Series.
46 The Series. All of it. Surreal.
47 And now we just have to beat one team.
48 Verlander.
49 Because besides that guy, the Tigers are paper tigers.
50 We get into their pen, we win.
51 Bottom line.
52 So baseball fans, this is why we LOVE this sport.
53 And there’s more.
54 Oh, a LOT more.
55 Bring it.
56 Gottago.
57 Peace.
~H~
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