Went to the ball game at the AT&T park on the bay's waterfront yesterday. What a great stadium! Built in a classic design of the ball parks of years goneby, even the views from the worst seats give you a great outlook over the marina & the Bay Bridge. I got to see Barry Bonds bat (& got some good closeup footage), but he didn't hit any homers this time. The promanade level of the park takes you all the way around the field, with a HUGE (& fairly pricey) array of food, drink & merchandise on offer. I sampled a Giants Hot Dog ($3.75), an all-beef Superdog ($4.50) & a Louisianna Hot Link (another hot dog, with a kick) for $5.25. Washed down with a couple of Sierra Nevada pale ales, this mixture in my stomach produced a slightly (only slightly) uneasy feeling of not wanting to eat anything else for quite a while.
Apart from the Giants much needed win, other notable stories in today's Chronicle:
* Senate committee rejects President Bush's proposed strategies on torture of enemy combatants
* So far, the hurricane season is pretty tame (good news for me!)
* The CIA knew Hussein had no ties to bin Laden, but did not pass this onto the White House, and;
* Dog the Bounty Hunter has been arrested on charges in Mexico for kidnapping
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