Introduction: I love my Sharks, but don’t always feel like going to the game. Watching from home is great, no traffic, comfy couch, good view, cheap food, no line for the bathroom. On the other hand, there’s nothing like being at the game. So being able to bring some of the sights and sounds to […]
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Twenty years ago, Red Bull hosted their first flugtag (German for airshow) competition in Vienna, Austria. It has since grown into a large event held several times a year in different cities around the world, drawing enormous crowds. This year marks the 10th anniversary of Red Bull Flugtag in the United States, where it started
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My previous experience at the 2010 Giants World Series Championship Parade was incredible and unforgettable. Sadly, my 2012 Giants World Series Championship Parade experience was terrible and entirely forgettable. I hopped on the baby bullet Caltrain knowing full well it would be packed for the parade, but I naively thought that it wouldn’t be so
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Last Saturday the Stanford Blood Center and the Sharks Foundation held a blood drive at the Shark Tank. The draw for the blood drive was that anyone who tried giving blood would be let in to see the Sharks morning practice skate. Not having given blood in over a year, and seeing a nice reward
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On Tuesday I took the day off work to stand in the presence of the Giants World Series trophy, less commonly known as the Commissioner’s Trophy. As you may recall, The San Francisco Giants Are World Champs! Starting January 4th, the Giants organization began taking the trophy on tour all over Northern California (and some
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Last Saturday morning Chrystie and I got up early and headed to the Shark Tank to see the Sharks practice. Every once in a while the Sharks will allow the public to watch their morning skate sessions – you may recall this post from last year. They were running the same promotion again, so we
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On Wednesday morning I awoke early to catch the train for San Francisco to partake in what knew would be an epic parade that I would one day tell my grandkids about. Two days earlier the Giants had won their first World Series since moving to San Francisco in 1958, and mayor Gavin Newsome promised
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A month ago, the 49ers ran a promotion in the San Jose Mercury News that gave out free tickets to select training camp sessions. Not being a subscriber to the Mercury, I didn’t think I’d be able to go, but Chrystie’s coworker found a website to sign up for tickets, so Chrystie and I signed
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On April 14th the Sharks began their playoff run, and I began growing my playoff beard – a recent tradition among athletes and fans that I began doing during the Sharks short-lived playoff run last year. The gist of the playoff beard is, when your team enters the playoffs you shave, and you don’t shave
I was clicking around on Wikipedia the other day and got to the World Series winners page and noticed some team names I had never heard of before. This got me wondering what teams used to be called in the early days, and I found a lot of interesting results. Every franchise has been called
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