Tonight the Giants play in their first game of the 2010 post-season. This will mark the first time in my life that I have watched the Giants in the playoffs from home, rather than at the ballpark - in 1987 my dad and I had tickets in the next to the last row of section 58 in centerfield at Candlestick (beneath the "REE" in OOO-REE-BAY), and since 1989 I have worked every postseason series. But not this year - this year the Salvateenies take precedence.
Joe's streak is also ending. He has covered every bay area baseball post-season since 1987 and attended as a fan in 1981.
I will point out that only one of those previous post-seasons, when one or both of us was in attendance, ended in a Bay Area World Series victory - and that one, in 1989, also included a major earthquake and a loss for the other Bay Area team. So perhaps our absence this year will be good luck for the team.
And maybe the babies' good luck will continue, starting as it did with Matt Cain's victory on their birthday and continuing the next day as they were announced on the big screen as the team moved into first place:
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| Max, cheering for the Giants |
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| Daniel, taking it all in stride |
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| Caroline clapping |
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