This blog began as a way to record my musings about preparations and travels to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada February 16-27, 2010. From that amazing experience came this ongoing story of becoming a sports fan. You can follow my tales of awe, agony, and all the emotions in between as well as view pics from seasons of Phillies baseball. Along the way is a little Eagles football thrown in for fun, and even some astronomy and weather related tales. I feel lucky to have witnessed some historic games, some heartbreaking losses, but all wonderful when told from this new fan's point of view.

Blog Archives postings:
Dec 2009-Feb 2010
Olympics
March 2010-Dec 2011
Baseball and more
2011 The Phillies do again, winning the Eastern Championship for the 5th straight year.
April 2012-Sept 27 2012 Not the best season for the Phillies
2013-We wait and see!

Monday, October 25, 2010

Congrats to the San Francisco Giants National League Champs

The Giants head for the World Series hoping to win for the first time


Citizens' Bank Park Pics

Let the home runs ring


The excitement builds for the NLCS

"Chooch" Carlos Ruiz warming up
record crowds 46,000 fans

Waiting for the Star Spangled Banner

Getting to the Games


Gayle is Ready for Game 2

The fans fill up the subway
Gayle and Ed


NLCS Game 6 hightlights and pictures

Its a party

I always check out who my gang is for the game. Oy, 4 Giants fans sitting in front of us.They wore fake beards, a recognition of the ongoing feud  between the teams. It turned out that the Giants fans were the good sports throughout the game, taking verbal abuse throughout. (as well as some peanuts thrown by fans behind us).





The onslaught of comments and insults only got more obnoxious as the Phillies fans got more drunk. Phillies fan start to use language that is more an more offensive. I don't realize until later games that I could call the attendant to have this guy thrown out of the stands. Instead, we tried our best to avoid him, even when he jumped down next to me and tried to steady himself on my shoulder.








Sanchez relieved from pitching
The Phillies surged ahead in the first two innings with 2 solid runs, but the Giants quickly caught up so that for most of the game, the scorewas tied. The Giants hit a home run-the last run to be scored.