Oh. My. God.

Only an hour away from the new Sopranos.

Oh My God.

Anyways, why do people leave baseball games really early? Went to the Giants game today and people started leaving at the beginning of the 7th inning, before even the 7th Inning Stretch. Why?

When I was a young boy, my daddy put me on his knee and said "son, never leave a baseball game until it's over" (he also said never swing at the first pitch, but that's another story). Yeah, the Giants were down 3-1 and looking kind of lifeless, but still. It's like sitting through a movie and leaving right before the climax. Granted, it's a long, three hour, occasionally dull and actionless movie, kind of like a French flick, but if you leave early, you could miss all the big fun.

And they did. After a few bad calls, there was a long ten minute arguement between like the entire Giants bench and the home plate empire. Dusty Baker went at twice, even having to be restrained, and Benito Santiago got ejected right around the time he started kicking some blown wrapping paper all over the place. Then the game ended in a bases loaded, bottom of the ninth scenario with both Bonds and Kent up. Of course, they both went down looking, but it was pretty darn exciting.