I'm going to be posting some pictures from the wonderful Hawaii trip that I just took pretty soon. By the way - does anyone know how to rotate a video in iMovie? Me being the novice that I am - captured a 30 second video on my phone cam but held it 90 degrees to the right. Oops. I gotta figure that out, the video is priceless.
Anyhow, I saw the most preposterous poll in the Chronicle this week. The poll comes during the week when ESPN Power Rankings puts the A's at the very top. While the Giants are 29th (out of 30). I've always tried to tell my Giants/Bonds/ATT Park loving friends that even though they weren't Giants fans during the Candlestick era, they should at least try to research the teams history before choosing to root for the lesser baseball franchise in the Bay Area. Sure, there are some demographics involved. I realize that I am around a lot of Filipinos, and them being from South San Fran or Daly City or San Bruno or Vallejo or Union City or San Jose some how means that they fall within the "San Francisco" area code. Its the same logic that allows some of my basketball friends to root for the Lakers - "because my Dad used to be a fan of Kareem". Well ya know what - if your Dad wasn't from LA - he was a bandwagoner too. The GS Warriors won a championship in 1975. Jamaal Wilkes, Rick Barry anyone? But whatever, its fine, they look good in $300 black and orange - so it works for them. But, just to reiterate, the A's have 4 World Series Championships, the Giants have zero. This isn't even a question. But hey, the garlic fries at ATT park are pretty darn good.
Who's got it better, Giants or A's?
This week's baseball poll in The Sporting Green comes down to whether it's better to have won World Series or to have a beautiful ballpark, or whether Bay Area fans are just lucky to have two teams in town.
You can take part in the debate by answering our poll at sfgate.com/polls.
