San Francisco, CA

What does game day mean to you?

August 6th, my family and I were in San Francisco to watch a Giants game at AT&T Park, where we were hoping to see Barry Bonds hit his 756 record breaking home-run, as the 6th was a predicted date by SI, as a good night for this to very well happen.

We’ll unfortunately we were a day too early, but the experience of a sell out crowd that night, with the anticipation of Bonds hitting the record, every bat at the plate, was pretty intense. 

The crowd rose to their feet every time Bonds went to bat, with chants of Barry, Barry, rising up and thundering across the stadium. The excitement was the kind of thrill you love and thrive for, as a sport fan.

The Giants won that night against the Nationals, even though no records were broken.

The experience itself was nice. Great garlic fries, and to my surprise, you could even order up some Jack Daniels.
I also have to applaud that the park still allows smokers a place to smoke inside the stadium, rather than throwing them out of the entire park.

Great food, nice people, and a good game, what could be better.
Yeah seeing that record breaking home run would have been better, but it was still a good time.
For the fanatic sportsperson, San Francisco has a great stadium and baseball franchise too offer those who live and visit this pretty exciting city.

San Francisco’s sports fanatics are winding up for Barry Bond’s milepost of 756 career home runs, and AT&T ballpark is the place where those Giants fans, hope the giant of baseball, will obtain the magic stat, by slugging “756″ into the stands.

Bond, who is often criticized for “juicing” or taking steroids to accomplish the feats he has, is on track to reach home-run “756″ at home on Monday, August 6 according to a Sport Illustrated article.
Reportedly, the lucky spectator who happens to retrieve the “756″ baseball, they will instantly have a treasure of over 500,000 dollars.
For those that don’t fly over six rows of fans, breaking limbs to get to it, they will have priceless memories of one of the MLB greats of our time, that they can tell their grandchildren about one day.

What a “San Franciscan Treat” it will be for the “City by the Bay” to experience and enjoy, if Bonds does belt the “big one” in San Francisco.

I’m sure there are many who could care less and that’s OK, but for the ones that live, eat, and breathe baseball, it will be a “once in a lifetime” special occasion.

My congratulations goes out to Mr. Bond, even with all the steroid criticism. I’m sure Ruth and Aaron received the same scruntiny when they broke previous records.

Staying in pro baseball, enough years to even come close to a record, is something to be commended for, regardless of perhaps taking performance enhancing drugs. Heck, our politicians tend to do worse, but we still treat them as if they were kings.
I know knocking a ball out of the little league fields around my city is quite a task, and 756 of them, forget it.

Barry, if you do happen to be reading this article, Monday the 6th would be a nice night for you to get that record. I’ll be there. 

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