On Saturday, Howie and I drove 744 miles to see a baseball game. We left SF to join the Giants as they played the hated Dodgers in Los Angeles. Aside from the haze of smog over the stadium, there were a few things about Dodger Stadium that bothered me.

The Dodger Fans: These fans were more interested in doing the wave and hitting beach balls (at least 6 in our section alone) than watching Barry Bonds at bat. These losers were actually busy booing other fans who did not keep the wave going in the middle of a 0-0 game. Pathetic. They cheer when the Giants got a sacrifice fly to score the 1st run of the game. Heck, they even cheer when a Dodger batter beats out the relay to first on a potential double play. We had a running joke in our section about how the Dodgers count reaching second base as half a run.

The Super Dodger Dog: The vendor described the regular Dodger Dog ($3.50) as a skinny weiner and the Super Dodger Dog ($4.75) as fatter and bigger. I was dying for any of the 4 sausage/links from the Orlando Cepeda booth ($5.00) at Pac Bell. As usual, the Dodger standards were well below par.

Trapped in the Pavilion: While the price of admission to the bleachers was only $6.00, it sucked that we were unable to have access to the rest of the ballpark. I love bleacher seating, but it might have been cool to see the rest of the park. Then again, knowing the Dodger standards, maybe not.

Dodgers Marketing: Why were the Dodgers' offering fans postseason tickets? Don't you have to be in the postseason first? The Dodgers also love to live in the past. The scoreboard would always tell if a Dodger player was an All-Star in 1998 or had 102 hits in the 2001 season. I thought this was sad. It just serves to remind the fans how weak the team was this year.

Other Game Notes:
- Giants won 6-0. Most of the fans were too amused by the beach balls to notice the score.

- At least the ballpark parking beats Pac Bell's. Except for those who know the secret parking spots on Bluxome St.

- We sat next to a guy who looked exactly like Chandler Bing. He was a Giants fan. In fact, we got our tickets from his buddy who sat next to him. His buddy did not resemble a Friends character.

- Also in our section were about 4,000 Mormons. No exagerration on the numbers. The whole back half of the right field bleachers was packed with guys in white shirts, ties, and nametags. The Dodgers must have lost tons in beer sales.

- We left SF at 11:00 am and made it back at 5:30 am. Yes, we traveled back in time.

- The Dodgers suck.