This has been one of the weirdest weeks for me. For one thing, I started school at San Francisco State University. I am still waiting on one of the tenants who is currently living in the house, which I will be living in to move out. As for now, I am staying in my grandparents house while they are visiting some friends in Chicago.
Last night I arrived and had dinner with my grandparents and talked about a few things with them simultaneously. After dinner I went outside to move my truck out of the way and to my surprise the the Giants were in extra innings against the Rockies. I parked my truck and rushed inside to watch the remaining part of the game. The game went into the 14th inning still 1-1. In the top of the 14th, Edgar Renteria hit either 0 or 1 out triple down the right field line. Travis Ishikawa came up next and drew a walk. Euenio Velez was up and just came off of a recent slump. He gets a pitch to hit and lines it in the left center field gap. He clears the bases with a triple and the Giants take the lead 3-1. I was just as stoked as Velez was after that play. Randy Winn was the next batter up, and drew a walk. On the next play a ground ball was hit to the second baseman, he failed to tag out Winn, Velez scored, but an out was recorded at first. 4-1 Giants. The inning soon ended but, at this point I(and probably every other Giants fan) thought that a 3 run lead going into the bottom half of the inning would be easy for the Giants defense to hold onto. Problem was that Bruce Boche was dealing with his 11th and 12th string pitchers. In my opinion if Boche would have left Brandon Medders in the game the Giants would have won by a run maybe. However Boche pulled Medders from the game and brought in Justin Miller to walk the pitcher who had his bat tied to his shoulder as well as the next batter. The bases were loaded and Boche goes to the bullpen and brings in Valdez. The bottom of the barrel of the Giants bullpen. I think he walked in a run right off the bat, but another batter later the unbelievable happens. Fastball right over the heart of the plate. Ryan Spilbourghs crushes a ball over the right center field fence. A walk off grand slam. It is very rare to see one of those. Especially in the bottom of the 14th inning. It was the worst loss that I have ever seen. One of the most disheartening too.
I had to tell that story because I am hoping that that isn't a metaphor for my future of living on my own. It wasn't easy sleeping after watching that game though.
What I did come to realize though is that SF State is basically like a community college. What a hoot. I'm pretty sure ill feel right at home here in the city. Plus there are many street spots that I need to explore. Today was an easy day of school because we just went over the syllabus in all of my classes.
After school I headed straight for the Menlo Park Skatepark. I found a bunch of lines in the bowl and even one in the deep part of the bowl. Basically just crusin' looking for fun lines in the park. There was this one guy at the park who asked me to guess his age. 20? 19? 17? 16.... Damn this guy did not look 16. His beard was as full as mine. He then started talking about how he was sponsored by some skatepark building company yadayadayada. He left for a little bit and when he came back, he seemed pretty insistent on "competing" with me. At least that's what he was getting at. Competition is basically what I try and avoid when it comes to bmx, but I said ok, lets go to the street course. Nothing significant went down in the street course, but I can tell when a rider wants to flex their muscle to basically say that they are better than you. That kid isn't going anywhere though. He ditched his study hall to ride the skatepark. That is not a good decision or at least as far as priorities go. Just a word from the wise. I don't care is school isn't your thing. At least TRY and graduate high school. No one should feel sorry for poor decisions in the long run. The other locals seemed to be down to earth though.
It has been a while since I updated this blog, but life goes on you know. Tomorrow is ahead. As Robert once said "you gotta keep on keepin' on."
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