heart given to a good cause

[candle_beck]

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[batdina]

I too was six when I moved to California and became a Giants fan.

I'm 49 now. It's been a very long time coming.

(I have a buddy who started seeing the Giants when they still played at Seal Stadium. He's been recounting the years leading up to the other night in his blog and it's been pretty wild to follow along. I start nodding my head and saying things like "I was there that night too" long about the late 1960s.)

Glad, very glad actually, that someone I know, for certain values of knowing anyway, was downtown tonight. Thank you for telling me about it.

[candle_beck]

it was something else. i have this print on my wall of the first pitch thrown at seal stadium, the first time major league baseball was played in california, and even though it happened better than fifty years ago, the ball is halfway to the plate and i always end up holding my breath.

'i was there that night' somehow sums up a vast swath of my feelings about baseball. even those of us who couldn't afford world series tickets were still here.

[horizon_greene]

<3

I don't even know what else to say. My attempts to post about it in my own LJ have resulted in haphazard collections of photographs and malformed sentences. So happy for you and all the other fans that had to endure the heartbreak. What a moment. Wish I could've been there.

[candle_beck]

oh man, the haphazard photographs, the mangled language, i am right there with you to be sure. i've spent a week trying to put words to it, but that's pretty stupid, right? stuff that exists beyond articulation, stuff like that.

[guitargirl39]

Baseball, man. This post is so beautiful. I watched the last inning with my buddy from SF and I think he's still on a high from it. So, so happy for you guys. (AND FREDDY!) <3

[candle_beck]

freddddy! somehow we got through the entirety of the season without ever noticing that freddy hails from hollywood, and once we realized, he immediately became HOLLYWOOOOD for the rest of the season. it seemed to work out rather nicely for him!

yeah, the city is busting at the seams. it's really kinda lovely right now.

[roque_clasique]

Dude, CONGRATULATIONS. That sounds beyond spectacular. When I was 17 the Red Sox won the series and ended The Curse of the Bambino and my hometown exploded. Like, EXPLODED. Little pieces were flying everywhere, grown men were weeping in the streets... and I'm no baseball fanatic and I think the Red Sox are kind of an asshole team (though not as bad as those damn Yankees) but it was a whole lot of emotional crazy and I was psyched to be caught up in it, psyched to be part of it, psyched for everyone and everything... I can't even imagine how you must be feeling, wrapped-up and committed as you are to this team. This whole post just makes me grin my head off for you.

[candle_beck]

hah, boston in 2004? yeah, i remember that stuff too. this game, it does wild things to people. (and yes the red sox are assholes, no need to second-guess yourself there).

thanks for the secondhand excitement! we'll take all we can get, true nuff.

[candle_beck]

pretty much!