Hmmmmmmm Baby!!!!!

THE GIANTS WIN!!!!! the first game of the 2012 World Series!!  You cannot even begin to imagine the feeling in that ballpark last night!!  It's a good thing this blog isn't an audio one, because I have no voice at all today.  It was an amazing game ... the guys played the best ball ever, against the best pitcher in baseball, and they blew him out of the water, they rang his bell and lit him up!!!  All baseball terms of course.  So many pictures ... so little space!

First we drove through two BART parking areas before finding a place to park.  Arriving at the ballpark, we ate amazingly good crab sandwiches at Crabies ... pricey, but sooooo worth it.  Then the player introductions ... I'll skip the dumb MLB TV announcers.  They make me mad ... they are always  SO obviously for any East Coast team and bad mouth our team and our guys.  I love it when they have to eat crow at the end when their "team" loses!!!

The singing of the star spangled banner is always followed by an amazing flyover.  Love these guys.  Yes they are very low and very loud ... but I also have my 400mm lens on the camera.

Here's Peter buying me a Ghirardelli Chocolate hot fudge sundae!!!

They have great food in this park.  Four scoops of ice cream ... count them ... FOUR!!!  And I ate the whole thing!!!

I won't go in to the entire game ... it was a crazy good one though.  Here is Barry Zito the opening pitcher.  Not only is he a spectacular pitcher, but he's spectacularly good looking too!!!!  I've actually met and talked to him a couple of times.  He's a surfer dude and couldn't be a nicer guy!!!  Terribly down to earth for someone who makes $127 million playing a game.

Barry pitching ... it's amazing the contortions they go through when they pitch.  Tomorrow I will show you what I mean.

This is Pablo Sandoval ... we call him Panda Bear because of his size.  Boy can he hit.  His first three times up at bat he hit home runs.  Thats right ... another night of history!!  Three home runs in three ups in ONE World Series game.  He lost the bat in this image ... see it flying into the crowd???

Pitchers pitch ... they don't bat ... and no one expects them to.  They always strike out ... well most of them do.  Here's our pitcher Barry getting a base hit off Verlander and getting an RBI (run batted in). The fuzzy picture is an orange rag being swung in the row below me!!!  LOL

Detroit Tigers second baseman getting ready to catch a ground ball ...

They finally took Zito out and put in Lincecum as relief pitcher.  He's actually one of our best starters too ... he pitched a little over two innings and got everyone out!  Also an amazing pitcher!!  Like his hair??  We do have some "different" guys on our team ... but they get the job done!!

Here's Panda Bear again hitting that third home run!!!  The guys all have nicknames ... Panda Bear, The Beard, Zites, The Freak ... and so on.  

Okay I won't bore you with any more baseball pictures.  I came home hoarse from screaming all night, sore feet from standing from the third pitch to the end of the game and tired from running at a marathon pace 1-1/2 miles to catch the BART train back to the car.  Exhausting but exhilarating!!!  I'd do it again in a flash.  As you may know, the Giants won the second game tonight, "against all odds", since EVERYONE said the Tigers would win.  They are now off to Detroit where they will play three games.  The World Series is the best 4 out of 7.  Whoever wins 4 games first wins the title.  These guys deserve a little more respect, so I'm hoping they kick some more butt in Detroit!!!!!