ORANGE & BLACK 2010

FIRST i have to say i am more of a 'fair weather' baseball fan. It's not my first choice when asked to pick a favorite sport.  BUT that being said, i have ALWAYS cheered for the San Francisco Giants anytime i was lucky enough as to be invited to go to the ballpark.

this 2010 post-season has, however, captivated my attention and i have watched all or most of all the post-season championship games

ORANGE & BLACK

FEAR THE BEARD

DON'T STOP BELIEVING

THE TORTURE

and something about aubrey huff's lucky thong?!?

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i was there sitting on the edge of my seat glued to the tv watching this 'misfit' team of AMAZING athletes as they advanced through the play-offs the 'experts' said it couldn't be done. they said phillie was gonna wipe the ground with san francisco.  but this is the City that knows how! and boy did the GIANTS show it!!!

amazingly when all the dust settled the 2010 WORLD SERIES was to be played by two teams from the arizona training camps (i don't understand the significance of this, but i've heard it enough to know it must be important) neither team having won the championship title in the last 50+ years........these teams were the underdogs. the scrappers. the ones that were supposed to console themselves with 'maybe next year'........

i think the GIANTS surprised everyone ~ including themselves ~ when they won the first two games of the series against the RANGERS ...... then a moment of reality set in as the RANGERS took the third game, but much to the chagrin of the naysayers this was NOT the end of the GIANTS...... they came back more confident in the fourth game and clinched the victory in # 5 to become the

2010 WORLD CHAMPION SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS!!!!!

they did it.....and we believed!



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san francisco has been awash in an orange glow since the start of the world series.  city hall.....coit tower....various skyscrapers reaching for the stars all misty orange in the fog.......

we couldn't be there with everyone for that grand finale monday night when the GIANTS beat the RANGERS one last time with a score of 3-1.....so we did the next best thing.....

 

on tuesday night, amy & the boys met me in walnut creek when i got off work and we drove into the City....we parked at AT&T PARK and walked around looking at all the orange lights.....we went across the street to AMICI's for dinner, we brought donald's for georgie but he wasn't very hungry! just happy to be drinking his orange (soda).....we ordered luke linguini with red sauce but it turns out he was much happier eating our NEW HAVEN (clam & bacon) pizza!!.......took lots of pictures of the stadium.....walked down by mccovy cove and peeked through the fence to see the field where games 1 and 2 were won....climbed all over the statue of Lou the Seal and ran around the fishing piers

the boys shouted ECHO ECHO ECHO into the empty corridors of the ballpark and luke said he's gonna hit a homerun.....BUT he said coach dave (their t-ball coach) not there...he at home!

from AT&T park we took a drive down to VAN NESS where we parked illegally and took pictures of CITY HALL and the OPERA HOUSE all bathed in glowing ORANGE.....next we cruised up and down gough street to lombard.....WEEEEEEE THOSE ARE SOME FUN HILLS!!! took the boys on their inaugural ride down the City's favorite crookedest street...and up to COIT TOWER ...also all a glow in ORANGE!

it was midnight before we got two very exhausted little boys home and into their beds....but oh the FUN they had!!!!!