So I will be going to my first ever baseball game in early September, with a bunch of exchange students from all over the world who are currently studying in San Francisco.
Now fellow PJ fans, please give me the run down of what I need to know about the game:
How to much are drinks? Do I need to smuggle in my hip flask?
What is the best food? Hotdog with the lot?
MUST haves:
Gilroy Garlic Fries ($7)
Orlando's Jerk Chicken bowl ($9)
Gordon Biersch Marzen ($9)
Can't go wrong with the hot dog/sausage fare either.
I'm not a Giants fan (Mets fan) but whenever I'm in the Bay Area I make it a point to catch a game, one of the best (maybe THE best) ballpark to see a game. Walk around the entire park, check out McCovey Bay in the outfield..really cool. You'll spend $40-$50 on beers/grub - and there is SO much to choose from. But, the jerk chicken bowl and garlic fries are the BOMB. I'm a fan of Marzen (can get it here in SD @ Petco, but I love Stone IPA so I go for that).
You will have a blast - enjoy your fun ballgame. You will spend the rest of your baseball life comparing that ballpark to every other one you ever go to...
ENJOY
So I will be going to my first ever baseball game in early September, with a bunch of exchange students from all over the world who are currently studying in San Francisco.
Now fellow PJ fans, please give me the run down of what I need to know about the game:
How to much are drinks? Do I need to smuggle in my hip flask?
What is the best food? Hotdog with the lot?
take your own food...get an andronico's deli sandwich....smuggle in a flask....save your money for the ridiculously over-priced beers. you'll spend a $20 everytime you buy two. it's worth it, but save your food money (so it becomes BEER money)
If I had known then what I know now...
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
trade for pence
melky gets busted
dodgers heating up
triple ouch
pence is fine
true that
d**gers suck
single ouch.
If I had known then what I know now...
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Pence is fine? He's hitting .177/.212/.290 - yeah, I wouldn't call that fine...
don't try to bring me down with facts.
If I had known then what I know now...
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Pence is fine? He's hitting .177/.212/.290 - yeah, I wouldn't call that fine...
don't try to bring me down with facts.
Them facts always getting in the way of my good stories. :evil:
Spectrum 10/27/09; New Orleans JazzFest 5/1/10; Made in America 9/2/12; WF Center 10/21/13; WF Center 10/22/13; Baltimore 10/27/13; WF Center 4/28/16; WF Center 4/29/16; Fenway Park 8/7/16; Fenway Park 9/2/18; Asbury Park 9/18/21; Camden 9/14/22; Las Vegas 5/16/24; Las Vegas 5/18/24; WF Center 9/7/24; WF Center 9/9/24; Baltimore Arena 9/12/24
Tres Mtns - TLA 3/23/11; EV - Tower Theatre 6/25/11; Temple of the Dog - Tower Theatre 11/5/16
You will have a blast - enjoy your fun ballgame. You will spend the rest of your baseball life comparing that ballpark to every other one you ever go to...
ENJOY
take your own food...get an andronico's deli sandwich....smuggle in a flask....save your money for the ridiculously over-priced beers. you'll spend a $20 everytime you buy two. it's worth it, but save your food money (so it becomes BEER money)
I don't really drink beer, happy to smuggle in a flask.
Is it hard to smuggle?
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure - science.
~Edwin Powell Hubble
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't really drink beer, happy to smuggle in a flask.
Is it hard to smuggle?
not at all. you can have a backpack, bursting at the seams, and they give it a couple of quick pats.
If I had known then what I know now...
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Gotta love the LA team's bandwagoneers! They never have a good reason why they like an LA team. Usually born and raised in Northern California their whole life, never once seeing a game at Dodger stadium and only driving through LA on their way to Disneyland, just so they can wear their Kobe jerseys on Splash Mountain. Just because your cousin lives in Norwalk, doesn't make you a Dodger fan.
But as a Giants fan, and a father of an 8 year old boy (who just last week was cheering for Melky every time he came up to bat at ATT park), this is pretty disappointing. I know I was hurt finding out later that the players I had plastered on my wall as a kid, were not legit. This stuff is difficult to explain to my boy. He just doesn't understand.
There are more Dodger fans in this thread than Giants fans, similar to AT&T when LA is in town!
you KNOW that's bullshit.
If I had known then what I know now...
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Gotta love the LA team's bandwagoneers! They never have a good reason why they like an LA team. Usually born and raised in Northern California their whole life, never once seeing a game at Dodger stadium and only driving through LA on their way to Disneyland, just so they can wear their Kobe jerseys on Splash Mountain. Just because your cousin lives in Norwalk, doesn't make you a Dodger fan.
But as a Giants fan, and a father of an 8 year old boy (who just last week was cheering for Melky every time he came up to bat at ATT park), this is pretty disappointing. I know I was hurt finding out later that the players I had plastered on my wall as a kid, were not legit. This stuff is difficult to explain to my boy. He just doesn't understand.
Gotta love Giant fans constant justifications! And it's hilarious to hear you talk about LA having bandwagon fans with all the Giants' "fans" now after 2010. I love hearing they have a long sellout streak at their park when every game there are thousands of empty seats.
Here's the reason I'm a Dodger fan. I grew up in New Orleans with no MLB team and loved baseball. I liked Steve Sax so gravitated to the Dodgers then Kirk GIbson hit that home run in '88 and I've been hooked since. I remember exactly where I was when that happened. It has nothing to do with "wearing a Kobe jersey on Splash Mountain", which I don't really understand because I don't remember Kobe playing for the Dodgers but maybe I'm mistaken.
Gotta love Giant fans constant justifications! And it's hilarious to hear you talk about LA having bandwagon fans with all the Giants' "fans" now after 2010. I love hearing they have a long sellout streak at their park when every game there are thousands of empty seats.
Here's the reason I'm a Dodger fan. I grew up in New Orleans with no MLB team and loved baseball. I liked Steve Sax so gravitated to the Dodgers then Kirk GIbson hit that home run in '88 and I've been hooked since. I remember exactly where I was when that happened. It has nothing to do with "wearing a Kobe jersey on Splash Mountain", which I don't really understand because I don't remember Kobe playing for the Dodgers but maybe I'm mistaken.
we both have many long term fans. I liked willie mays; you liked steve sax :shock:
whatever.....but your idea that d**ger fans ever take over AT&T (or candlestick) is absolute bullshit.
If I had known then what I know now...
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Gotta love the LA team's bandwagoneers! They never have a good reason why they like an LA team. Usually born and raised in Northern California their whole life, never once seeing a game at Dodger stadium and only driving through LA on their way to Disneyland, just so they can wear their Kobe jerseys on Splash Mountain. Just because your cousin lives in Norwalk, doesn't make you a Dodger fan.
But as a Giants fan, and a father of an 8 year old boy (who just last week was cheering for Melky every time he came up to bat at ATT park), this is pretty disappointing. I know I was hurt finding out later that the players I had plastered on my wall as a kid, were not legit. This stuff is difficult to explain to my boy. He just doesn't understand.
Gotta love Giant fans constant justifications! And it's hilarious to hear you talk about LA having bandwagon fans with all the Giants' "fans" now after 2010. I love hearing they have a long sellout streak at their park when every game there are thousands of empty seats.
Here's the reason I'm a Dodger fan. I grew up in New Orleans with no MLB team and loved baseball. I liked Steve Sax so gravitated to the Dodgers then Kirk GIbson hit that home run in '88 and I've been hooked since. I remember exactly where I was when that happened. It has nothing to do with "wearing a Kobe jersey on Splash Mountain", which I don't really understand because I don't remember Kobe playing for the Dodgers but maybe I'm mistaken.
So, you were hooked in 88? Didn't the Dodgers win that year? I think they won when Steve Sax was a rookie too. Or maybe he was a sophomore, I can't remember. But I do know Steve Sax pretty well, because he was a Sac boy and went to high school not far from where I grew up. We also would call our friends Steve Sax whenever we overthrew a ball.
The Kobe jersey is in reference to LA teams. Big market pulling the little people, like from Louisiana. I guess one LA to the next, right?
All pro clubs use the 'sell-out' approach. That's nothing new. Yeah, it gets old. The Blazers do it up here too, it's marketing. To each their own. But if you come into a stadium as a 'visitor', have a little respect. The same would go for a 'Giants thread'. Maybe since the Dodgers are doing better they'll have their own thread on the PJ boards, next season.
Gotta love Giant fans constant justifications! And it's hilarious to hear you talk about LA having bandwagon fans with all the Giants' "fans" now after 2010. I love hearing they have a long sellout streak at their park when every game there are thousands of empty seats.
Here's the reason I'm a Dodger fan. I grew up in New Orleans with no MLB team and loved baseball. I liked Steve Sax so gravitated to the Dodgers then Kirk GIbson hit that home run in '88 and I've been hooked since. I remember exactly where I was when that happened. It has nothing to do with "wearing a Kobe jersey on Splash Mountain", which I don't really understand because I don't remember Kobe playing for the Dodgers but maybe I'm mistaken.
we both have many long term fans. I liked willie mays; you liked steve sax :shock:
whatever.....but your idea that d**ger fans ever take over AT&T (or candlestick) is absolute bullshit.
I didn't compare Steve Sax to Willie Mays as a player. I was pointing out how I became a fan because JMo acts like every Dodger fan is a bandwagon fan. I've been a fan through many lean years where, growing up in NOLA before the internet I would wait a couple of days to see the score in the paper because the games ended so late. Nothing special, I'm sure a lot of big baseball fans did this.
Dodger fans taking over AT&T is a little strong, but there are A LOT of Dodger fans (trust me I've been there with Dodger cheers drowning out Giant fans) there something Krukow and Kuiper never point out but they love pointing how "Giants fans travel so well" to Colorado, SD, AZ, etc. They aren't traveling, they are 2010 bandwagon fans. You want to talk about bandwagon fans, look right there.
Spectrum 10/27/09; New Orleans JazzFest 5/1/10; Made in America 9/2/12; WF Center 10/21/13; WF Center 10/22/13; Baltimore 10/27/13; WF Center 4/28/16; WF Center 4/29/16; Fenway Park 8/7/16; Fenway Park 9/2/18; Asbury Park 9/18/21; Camden 9/14/22; Las Vegas 5/16/24; Las Vegas 5/18/24; WF Center 9/7/24; WF Center 9/9/24; Baltimore Arena 9/12/24
Tres Mtns - TLA 3/23/11; EV - Tower Theatre 6/25/11; Temple of the Dog - Tower Theatre 11/5/16
Gotta love the LA team's bandwagoneers! They never have a good reason why they like an LA team. Usually born and raised in Northern California their whole life, never once seeing a game at Dodger stadium and only driving through LA on their way to Disneyland, just so they can wear their Kobe jerseys on Splash Mountain. Just because your cousin lives in Norwalk, doesn't make you a Dodger fan.
But as a Giants fan, and a father of an 8 year old boy (who just last week was cheering for Melky every time he came up to bat at ATT park), this is pretty disappointing. I know I was hurt finding out later that the players I had plastered on my wall as a kid, were not legit. This stuff is difficult to explain to my boy. He just doesn't understand.
Gotta love Giant fans constant justifications! And it's hilarious to hear you talk about LA having bandwagon fans with all the Giants' "fans" now after 2010. I love hearing they have a long sellout streak at their park when every game there are thousands of empty seats.
Here's the reason I'm a Dodger fan. I grew up in New Orleans with no MLB team and loved baseball. I liked Steve Sax so gravitated to the Dodgers then Kirk GIbson hit that home run in '88 and I've been hooked since. I remember exactly where I was when that happened. It has nothing to do with "wearing a Kobe jersey on Splash Mountain", which I don't really understand because I don't remember Kobe playing for the Dodgers but maybe I'm mistaken.
So, you were hooked in 88? Didn't the Dodgers win that year? I think they won when Steve Sax was a rookie too. Or maybe he was a sophomore, I can't remember. But I do know Steve Sax pretty well, because he was a Sac boy and went to high school not far from where I grew up. We also would call our friends Steve Sax whenever we overthrew a ball.
The Kobe jersey is in reference to LA teams. Big market pulling the little people, like from Louisiana. I guess one LA to the next, right?
All pro clubs use the 'sell-out' approach. That's nothing new. Yeah, it gets old. The Blazers do it up here too, it's marketing. To each their own. But if you come into a stadium as a 'visitor', have a little respect. The same would go for a 'Giants thread'. Maybe since the Dodgers are doing better they'll have their own thread on the PJ boards, next season.
I was 11 in '88 and have been a fan since. I live outside of Sac now. I actually did not have a problem with the Giants until I moved out here. I would not pull for the Giants just because they were in the Dodgers division just like I wanted the Braves, Padres, etc. to lose. I didn't have a strong dislike for them until moving here and seeing how their fans are, listening to their announcers (Mike Krukow is the biggest buffoon in all of sports), and seeing how obsessed Giants' fans are with the Dodgers.
You sum up the smug Giants attitude when you refer to "the little people, like from Louisiana". Class act.
I say most LA 'fans' are bandwagon fans, not every.
It's cool that you became a fan of this team in the 80's that won more world series than any other team in that decade. I just don't see how you can keep pointing to 2010, and claiming that's the reason we're Giants fans. But I guess it makes sense, if you're calling the kettle black.
You're a Dodgers fan that moved to Northern California! What did you expect? That's like if I moved to LA and had to put up with their fans. It comes with the territory. I'm sure it's painful.
I was 10 in 88. Played baseball since I can remember. I know people who don't like a team until they're winning. I get it.
My aplogies if it sounds smug. Not my intention. Sometimes it's difficult to convey thoughts and opinions via text. My favorite Giant growing up was a 'little person' from New Orleans. I just get frustrated with the wannabe LA fans, even up here in Portland.
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MUST haves:
Gilroy Garlic Fries ($7)
Orlando's Jerk Chicken bowl ($9)
Gordon Biersch Marzen ($9)
Can't go wrong with the hot dog/sausage fare either.
I'm not a Giants fan (Mets fan) but whenever I'm in the Bay Area I make it a point to catch a game, one of the best (maybe THE best) ballpark to see a game. Walk around the entire park, check out McCovey Bay in the outfield..really cool. You'll spend $40-$50 on beers/grub - and there is SO much to choose from. But, the jerk chicken bowl and garlic fries are the BOMB. I'm a fan of Marzen (can get it here in SD @ Petco, but I love Stone IPA so I go for that).
You will have a blast - enjoy your fun ballgame. You will spend the rest of your baseball life comparing that ballpark to every other one you ever go to...
ENJOY
7.9.03~9.28.04~10.1.05~5.12.06~5.13.06~5.27.06~5.28.06
8.5.08(EV)~10.9.09~5.21.10~6.20.11(EV)~7.5.11(EV)~7.9.11(EV)
11.21.13~8.27.16(EV)~11.14.16(TOTD)~4.13.20~9.27.20~9.26.21~10.2.21
2.15.22 (EV)~2.25.22 (EV)~2.27.22 (EV)~5.3.22~5.7.22~9.17.24~9.29.24
take your own food...get an andronico's deli sandwich....smuggle in a flask....save your money for the ridiculously over-priced beers. you'll spend a $20 everytime you buy two. it's worth it, but save your food money (so it becomes BEER money)
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
trade for pence
melky gets busted
dodgers heating up
triple ouch
pence is fine
true that
d**gers suck
single ouch.
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
don't try to bring me down with facts.
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Them facts always getting in the way of my good stories. :evil:
WF Center 4/28/16; WF Center 4/29/16; Fenway Park 8/7/16; Fenway Park 9/2/18; Asbury Park 9/18/21; Camden 9/14/22;
Las Vegas 5/16/24; Las Vegas 5/18/24; WF Center 9/7/24; WF Center 9/9/24; Baltimore Arena 9/12/24
Tres Mtns - TLA 3/23/11; EV - Tower Theatre 6/25/11; Temple of the Dog - Tower Theatre 11/5/16
Sounds amazing! Thank you.
I don't really drink beer, happy to smuggle in a flask.
Is it hard to smuggle?
~Edwin Powell Hubble
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
not at all. you can have a backpack, bursting at the seams, and they give it a couple of quick pats.
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
1995 San Francisco
San Jose
San Diego 2 shows
2003 Missoula
2005 Missoula
2006 Denver 2 shows with Tom Petty
Gorge 2 shows
2009 Utah
LA1
LA2
2012 Missoula : Meet and Greet : "Instant Classic show"
2013 Portland
Spokane
2018 Missoula
Still agree, single ouch. Love how the Philly fans found a place to hibernate while their team sits at the bottom of the NL East.
just pointing out that the guy you traded for sucks balls. good luck with that
troll d**ger fans :roll:
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
sure glad you dont own this
1995 San Francisco
San Jose
San Diego 2 shows
2003 Missoula
2005 Missoula
2006 Denver 2 shows with Tom Petty
Gorge 2 shows
2009 Utah
LA1
LA2
2012 Missoula : Meet and Greet : "Instant Classic show"
2013 Portland
Spokane
2018 Missoula
And the hits just keep on coming! Well, not from Melky...
So...1st place, here we come!
But as a Giants fan, and a father of an 8 year old boy (who just last week was cheering for Melky every time he came up to bat at ATT park), this is pretty disappointing. I know I was hurt finding out later that the players I had plastered on my wall as a kid, were not legit. This stuff is difficult to explain to my boy. He just doesn't understand.
you KNOW that's bullshit.
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
Gotta love Giant fans constant justifications! And it's hilarious to hear you talk about LA having bandwagon fans with all the Giants' "fans" now after 2010. I love hearing they have a long sellout streak at their park when every game there are thousands of empty seats.
Here's the reason I'm a Dodger fan. I grew up in New Orleans with no MLB team and loved baseball. I liked Steve Sax so gravitated to the Dodgers then Kirk GIbson hit that home run in '88 and I've been hooked since. I remember exactly where I was when that happened. It has nothing to do with "wearing a Kobe jersey on Splash Mountain", which I don't really understand because I don't remember Kobe playing for the Dodgers but maybe I'm mistaken.
we both have many long term fans. I liked willie mays; you liked steve sax :shock:
whatever.....but your idea that d**ger fans ever take over AT&T (or candlestick) is absolute bullshit.
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
So, you were hooked in 88? Didn't the Dodgers win that year? I think they won when Steve Sax was a rookie too. Or maybe he was a sophomore, I can't remember. But I do know Steve Sax pretty well, because he was a Sac boy and went to high school not far from where I grew up. We also would call our friends Steve Sax whenever we overthrew a ball.
The Kobe jersey is in reference to LA teams. Big market pulling the little people, like from Louisiana. I guess one LA to the next, right?
All pro clubs use the 'sell-out' approach. That's nothing new. Yeah, it gets old. The Blazers do it up here too, it's marketing. To each their own. But if you come into a stadium as a 'visitor', have a little respect. The same would go for a 'Giants thread'. Maybe since the Dodgers are doing better they'll have their own thread on the PJ boards, next season.
I didn't compare Steve Sax to Willie Mays as a player. I was pointing out how I became a fan because JMo acts like every Dodger fan is a bandwagon fan. I've been a fan through many lean years where, growing up in NOLA before the internet I would wait a couple of days to see the score in the paper because the games ended so late. Nothing special, I'm sure a lot of big baseball fans did this.
Dodger fans taking over AT&T is a little strong, but there are A LOT of Dodger fans (trust me I've been there with Dodger cheers drowning out Giant fans) there something Krukow and Kuiper never point out but they love pointing how "Giants fans travel so well" to Colorado, SD, AZ, etc. They aren't traveling, they are 2010 bandwagon fans. You want to talk about bandwagon fans, look right there.
WF Center 4/28/16; WF Center 4/29/16; Fenway Park 8/7/16; Fenway Park 9/2/18; Asbury Park 9/18/21; Camden 9/14/22;
Las Vegas 5/16/24; Las Vegas 5/18/24; WF Center 9/7/24; WF Center 9/9/24; Baltimore Arena 9/12/24
Tres Mtns - TLA 3/23/11; EV - Tower Theatre 6/25/11; Temple of the Dog - Tower Theatre 11/5/16
I was 11 in '88 and have been a fan since. I live outside of Sac now. I actually did not have a problem with the Giants until I moved out here. I would not pull for the Giants just because they were in the Dodgers division just like I wanted the Braves, Padres, etc. to lose. I didn't have a strong dislike for them until moving here and seeing how their fans are, listening to their announcers (Mike Krukow is the biggest buffoon in all of sports), and seeing how obsessed Giants' fans are with the Dodgers.
You sum up the smug Giants attitude when you refer to "the little people, like from Louisiana". Class act.
It's cool that you became a fan of this team in the 80's that won more world series than any other team in that decade. I just don't see how you can keep pointing to 2010, and claiming that's the reason we're Giants fans. But I guess it makes sense, if you're calling the kettle black.
I was 10 in 88. Played baseball since I can remember. I know people who don't like a team until they're winning. I get it.
My aplogies if it sounds smug. Not my intention. Sometimes it's difficult to convey thoughts and opinions via text. My favorite Giant growing up was a 'little person' from New Orleans. I just get frustrated with the wannabe LA fans, even up here in Portland.