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June 28, 2006
This San Diego Native got mo' ammo
I've always told non-San Diegans they don't--and couldn't--understand how special a place that county is.
When our football team went to the Super Bowl for the first time, you could drive down this street near the beach called Newport Avenue and see gang bangers, hippies, jocks, and hot chicks in their cars and walking along the street, high-fiving each other. They were not tipping over trash cans and breaking windows. When the team promptly lost by more points than any other super bowl in history, we didn't care. We didn't boo. We gave those guys a heroes welcome home. After all, they were our first to get to the big game.
When our baseball team went to the World Series for only the second time, and were promptly swept by the Yankees in four, the final game was in San Diego. The fans stayed for over 2 hours waiving their white towels and cheering their losing team as though they'd just won. A national TV sportscaster said, "I've been to a lot of championship games, and I've never seen anything like this for the losing team, home or not!"
Now you gotta read this story and think, shit, San Diego really is a special place. It's a huge city, with a lot of people from all over the country (who wouldnt' want to live in SoCali after all). But it's still very much like a small town; unpretentious and giving. So when you see Michela's eye get that gleam, and those three little words, "Ah, San Diego" start coming out, you'll know why.
And as a newly anointed baseball fan, I can truly say, Go Padres!
Posted by Michela at June 28, 2006 06:38 PM
Comments
i've created a monster!!!
Posted by: oh, i ganja at June 29, 2006 09:47 AM
Sweetie, that monster was created 29 years ago!
Posted by: Marla at June 29, 2006 04:13 PM
Oh Marla you're the best!
Posted by: Michela at June 29, 2006 05:04 PM
I do believe Ms. 'Michela' has yelled that out before...
Posted by: fruity at June 29, 2006 09:22 PM
Yelled what?
Posted by: Marla at June 30, 2006 02:17 PM
Sorry dahaling Fuity, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
Posted by: Michela at June 30, 2006 06:45 PM
Baseball is such a bore; why don't you try a game of cricket.
Posted by: Atlanticguy at June 30, 2006 08:34 PM
We don't play "cricket" because the name alone is too gay for american dudes. I think sally field played someone named "cricket" on a tv show. Dude that is so mfin gay
Posted by: fruity at June 30, 2006 10:18 PM
I need a pic of marla or i'm gonna burst a temple vessel
Posted by: fruity at June 30, 2006 10:19 PM
I challenge you to a cricket duel! We'll see who emerges from the match a gay man!
Posted by: atlanticguy at July 9, 2006 03:06 PM