A day at the game with Tan and James

On Sunday, we got to go to a Padres-Giants game with Tan and an old friend from Houston, James. We tried to get tix to Saturday night's game, but weren't able to get any, so we opted for the Sunday game instead, hoping we were going to see Bonds hit his tying homerun. Alas, he ended up doing it the night before, and on Sunday he didn't even play!

Neither did half of the other big names. No Vizquel, no Brian Giles, no Milton Bradley, no Morgan Ensberg. (well, Ensberg isn't a big name to anyone here yet, but for us Houston natives he's a guy we were looking forward to seeing after his recent trade here).

Tan and his peanuts

Still, we had a good time, and it was good to see James again. I hung out with him a couple of times with Tan when we were all still at UH, which seems further and further away. James is now a lawyer for crying out loud - he's just waiting to get results back from his bar exam. When did we all become such upstanding adults??

We started the day by getting together for lunch and we had Dim Sum down in the Convoy area. I thought that it was very interesting, and enjoyed everything I ate. It was fun to have all the Chinese ladies walk by with their carts, trying to peddle what they were carrying. We got a lot of food, so much that Tan ended putting the rest in a box to take home!

I don't even know what to tell you we had, but it had a lot shrimp and a lot of pork and some kind of interesting tofu-bean curd kind of dish that tastes really good dipped in that hot chili sauce. Mmm Mmm, we were stuffed.

At the game, we had seats in right outfield, and were up at the very top. But for $12.50, the seats were pretty good - better than the ones at the top behind home plate. There were lots of Giants fans in the seats around us (as usual), but at some point the Petco cat came up into the stands, took off one of the Giants fan's hats, and rubbed it on his hiney. I got a kick out of that!

I couldn't help still feeling animosity toward Roberts and Klesko who jumped ship and followed Bochy (aka Super Mario) up to San Francisco. I still think something shady was involved there. To my satisfaction, neither player bothered to make much of a contribution except one double that Roberts pulled off.

We are so happy to be winning!

Cameron was really at his best, making an awesome play in the outfield, and lighting up some fire at the batter's box. Ensberg did finally get put in at the end as a pinch hitter, and contributed with a hit that led to an RBI. Welcome to San Diego Morgan! We are glad you are here.

One thing I noticed is that San Diego fans have taken to calling out "Kooooooooooooooooooooooz" when Kevin Kouzmanoff steps up to bat. I'm not sold on him yet, and (again, being a Houston native) feel like it's too similar to the old "Cruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuz" I would cry out as a kid whenever Jose Cruz came up to bat at the Astrodome. It doesn't seem right that Kouz gets to have the same salute that the great Jose Cruz got. Yes, I know I'm being a bit overly picky here, but it just doesn't feel right.

So we ended up winning the game, even though Trevor Hoffman almost blew it *again* - the final score was 5-4.

What a great day!

After the game - James, Tan, Natasha & Alberto