Oakland & Berkeley

Immediately after the Dodger game, we drove up the I-5 as far as we could, and ended up in a Holiday Inn Express somewhere an hour or two outside of the Bay area. The Oakland game the day after was an EARLY one, so we had to get right back up the next morning, super tired, but it also gave us the afternoon and evening off in the Oakland/Berkeley area, where we planned to check out Cal's campus and play some tennis. Because we party HARD!

It was dark as shit so I couldn't see much on the drive up the night before, but we saw a ton of windmills on the drive to the Colisuem, which was mad cool.

Where the Golden State Warriors play, next door to the Oakland Colisuem...

[We played catch in the parking lot... there was a whole lot of room... of course we were told to move after we initially played in the lot we parked in and had some narrow misses after bad throws... and ended up in an adjacent, empty lot, where we could throw it as hard and as far as we could and not worry about errant bounces.]

...where the Raiders and A's both play.

It's one of those huge, multi-purpose stadiums, and totally overdone for baseball, especially if the team sucks and nobody comes to the games (the entire upper level is completely closed off).

Great seats were not hard to come by.

Mike *almost* always has a hat for whichever stadium we're in! hah!

Lookin' good on Day 2! Got my glove on, ready for foul ball action.

Nomar Garciaparra!

Once and future Phillie, Michael Young!

Mike's photo.

Box Score Research : Rangers won 6-4, Young hit a HR, former Phillie Marlon Byrd had an RBI sac-fly for the Rangers, Nomar had an RBI-double for the A's, it was hot as shit.

The view from our sweet Oakland hotel room... San Francisco across the bay, the bay bridge...

We played tennis in Berkeley, and running hard for a wide return, I ended up going head-first into a pole and fucked up my head. It was a weirdly-shaped set of courts and the fence line was assymetrical, hence the pole in my way. Still, not so smart.

Zachary's Pizza in Berkeley, local hot spot.

We hit a local pub that had this great trio of old rockers, doing their thing!

The train station.

Broke into the Cal football stadium! It wasn't hard. Mike's wide open!

Mid-field.

I purposely wore my Peace Sign shirt on Berkeley's campus due to their deep-rooted history of anti-war activism. Right on.

On to San Francisco...