April 19, 2007
San Francisco Giants
Yesterday Joe, Craig, and I went across the street to a Giants game. They played St. Louis and after 12 grueling innings they finally pulled ahead to win it. It was pretty exciting. I’ve been to a few baseball games and I was impressed with AT&T Park’s clean and high-tech look. If you’ve talked to me about where I work, you probably heard that we’re across the street from AT&T Park (and if I didn’t tell you, you might have inferred it from the rest of this post). Anyway, I may have relayed the distance to you by saying it was a “stone’s throw away”, although in retrospect this doesn’t seem like something I would say. I might say something more like, “I could probably hit that kid standing by the hot-dog stand”. But never mind that part, I would have been wrong. I’ve now measured it with a Google Maps image and a Photoshop arrow and it looks to be about the distance of a Barry Bonds home run. I can’t throw that far. I could probably get it to the building next to ours, which is probably half the distance from the pitcher’s mound to the plate. Guess I picked the right side of the street to go looking for a job…
