San Francisco Sightseeing Articles

This past weekend I traveled to San Francisco Tours with my wife and kid to visit the city and catch a few baseball games. We went to AT&T Park for a Giants game and went over the bridge to Oakland to go to an Athletics game. I was sure to only take one hat and wear it everywhere I went – my Rockies hat.

I will do a review of each stadium over the next few days, both have their high points and low, but I have a few quick stories of what Giants fans think about the Rockies and the Wild Card Race.

We stayed about two miles from the ballpark and on the day we went to AT&T we took the bus to avoid parking hassles and fees. On the trip down there were three ladies on their way to the game and they were big baseball fans. Their overall impression of the Giants being in the Wild Card Race was pure joy and disbelief. They didn't have much to say on the Rockies because they just simply couldn't believe that their team was in contention this late in the season.

That was a fairly common theme during the trip.

We also took a drive north to Sonoma to wine country to do a tour and see the fields and at one of the wineries there was a guy working who wanted to talk baseball. He was much more knowledgeable of the Rockies and was shocked that they were in the playoff race also. He too was surprised that the Giants are in the position they are. We both came to the conclusion that both fan bases had no inclination that their teams would be where they are right now in March and April.

He said he enjoyed watching the Rockies and thought they were an exciting team. He was a big fan of Dexter Fowler and thought very highly of him. He wasn’t sold on the Rockies pitching lasting all season, but felt the same way about the Giants offense.

Speaking of Fowler I happened to catch a bit of local sports radio while driving at one point and they were talking baseball. This is where I am envious of other cities, especially baseball cities. No question that Denver is Bronco territory first and foremost and even though the Rockies are currently one half game ahead of the rest of the pack for the Wild Card spot local sports talk radio is still 90% Bronco talk. In cities like San Francisco where baseball blood lines run much deeper baseball is #1 and other sports take a back seat. Anyway, the local guy on the radio was also in love with Dexter Fowler. He said it looked like the guy was seven feet tall and only took four or five strides to get from home to first or from first to second. He was very high on Fowler and was also excited to watch him develop in the future.

I passed some other folks in the city who gave the "Go Giants" remark in passing and in other brief conversations the whole bay area is baseball crazy right now and loving their Giants. Tim Lincecum and Pablo Sandoval are turning into Gods in the area.

We were at the game that Lincecum pitched on Saturday and it seemed like every other fan had a Lincecum jersey or t-shirt on. It was also dog night and two of the dogs had a Giants skull cap on with the Lincecum style hair hanging out of them.