Game Day: Wednesday, May 27th

It's past the Noon hour and there are three games underway and a pair of others starting in the next hour.  I had liked the Diamondbacks and Michael Soroka today against the Giants and Trevor McDonald but I'm not going to have the time to research the game.  It's a 2:45 PM CDT start from Pac Bell in San Francisco, CA.

I have walked past that ballpark on many occassions.  In 2016, it was the end of September, my dog Molly and I had tramped up the California coast all the way from San Diego.  We met a weird drifter in Redwood City, he called himself Pepe Morales, he was sort of Mexican.  He was taking the train into San Francisco.  It isn't the BART, its CALTRAIN and it runs from LA all the way to Northern California.  That was the very first night I spent in San Francisco, camping on the bay.  It was a dead end street, 24th street, the Dog Patch neighborhood.  I followed this guy around for a few days, he was a real shifty sort but he seemed to know his way around and seemed to be looking out for us, myself and my dog, so I had some sort of trust in him.  He showed me how to hop on the bus without a fare.  It is very common in San Francisco, many tramps are sneaking in the back door of the buses and everyday, the City of San Francisco and the SFTA, stop the buses while enroute.  It's like a traffic stop to fine tramps.  They pull the bus over, board the bus with their laser beams and their badges, and scan the boarding passes of every rider on the bus.  If you don't have a ticket, you get a fine.  I got two such fines that year.  They were expensive too.  $75.00, if you don't pay within a week, the fine doubles, if you don't pay within a month, it triples.  I hit a pair of triples that year.

I lost my dog in San Francisco.  It's a long story.  The last moment I ever saw her, she was laying on her side in a small, concrete park on Market Street.  I got sidetracked and in a moment she was gone.  The next day I was without the dog that I had taken care of everyday for the previous nine years.  

That dog and I tramped up and down the coast of California in 2016.  We tramped it down to the Tijuana border.  We tramped all over Orange County and Long Beach.  We thoroughly tramped LA.  We tramped the Central Coast, Monterrey, and the strawberry fields in Watsonville.  We tramped the Hecker Pass and the tulip fields in Gilroy, CA.  We tramped up the East Bay into Berkelely, CA, and back south to San Jose, and up the peninsula to Mavericks' Beach.  We saw every beach from Pacific Beach in San Diego to Ocean Beach in San Francisco.   Our ride ended at the Golden Gate.  I lost Molly.  I left my heart in San Francisco.  I didn't go through that gate.  I took the "Devil's Slide" in Pacifica back to LA.  

That's a real road, I walked it, and that's a true story.

Before I lost the dog that year, we saw PETCO Park, the "Big A" in Anaheim, Chavez Ravine in LA, the Coliseum in Oakland and Pac Bell in SF.  We didn't get to a game but we did go to a few movies.  Molly was a miniature pinscher, I could sneak her into the movies and she always liked being at the theater.  I'd put down her water dish, she'd eat popcorn, and she'd sleep in the air conditioning while I enjoyed the show. 

We liked to go to the Howard Hughes Cinemark in Culver City, and the Landmark in West LA.  I also took her to Laemmle on Santa Monica Blvd., to the Nuart Theatre, also on Santa Monica Blvd., to the Aero in Santa Monica proper, and to the Beverly Hills Art House Theater, also on Santa Monica Blvd., its a long road.  We watched some really weird Italian movie in Beverly Hills.  It was a really weird movie.  They make us Germans out to be weird.  Italians win the Gold.  

I have thought for some time now that MLB games should be on at the movie theaters.  I remember going to see a Floyd Mayweather fight at the AMC Theater and I really enjoyed it.  I think baseball would be great to watch in that setting.  Better than being at the bar or watching the game at home.  

That's it for Game Day today.  I'm looking at the Phillies (-165), Rays (-120), Reds (-105), White Sox (-110), Yankees (-205) and the Dodgers (-400).

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