Very strange dream.

Just before I woke up this morning.

I was riding a chopper around San Jose. Nothing unusual there, I often have dreams about riding. One off thing was that in my dream I had long hair and a full beard, and was wearing Wrecking Crew MC colors. After tooling around the Alameda and the Rose Garden areas for a while, I got on 101 South and next thing I know I'm in Los Angeles. I call isomeme and offer to meet him at his office for lunch. Note that I've never seen his office, so my mind inserted some generic high-tech campus place.

I roll into the parking lot and see Craig. I get off the bike, and walk right by him as if in a daze. Now I'm carrying to boxes from Lord&Sons. I enter an area under construction and out the boxes down. When I do that, I'm suddenly overcome by vertigo. I'm stumbling around unable to get my balance, and come to a sliding glass door. I go through it into a huge cube farm. The place is blacked out with the only light coming from the distant tinted windows. I find myself stumbling down these corridors, bouncing off the walls, and growing increasingly aware of a high-pitched keening. I'm overwhelmed with the feeling that I have to get somewhere, but have no idea where it is.

Then I woke up.

Weird, huh?

Today was all about the baseball.

After an annoying 8 innings, my Giants reminded me why Yogi Berra remains the wisest man in baseball.

"It Ain't Over 'Till It's Over!"

San Francisco Giants: 6
Los Angeles Dodgers: 5

The Giants scored four runs in the ninth against Danys Baez (2-2), also getting RBI singles from Lance Niekro and pinch-hitter Dan Ortmeier and a run-scoring double by Todd Greene. Jose Vizcaino entered to run for Greene at third and scored the winning run. Vizquel was immediately mobbed near first — Bonds nowhere to be seen.

If you follow the link, you'll notice that I had to pull that quote from the fifth paragraph of the story. The first four were about Bonds, who was 0-3 with a walk. One of the best comebacks in Giants history and the all the damn reporter can talk about is Bonds? Even I'm getting sick of this!

After the game I was flipping around and caught the beginning of Major League. One of my all-time favorite baseball movies, even with the small details that only a baseball geek would notice. Like in the climatic game against the Yankees. Slugger Clue Haywood strikes out on three straight pitches and throws his bat and batting helmet to the ground. Under the rules, he'd be ejected. Yet he's playing first base in the Indians' half of the inning!

Yes, I'm a geek.

Oh, the home games for that movie were filmed at old County Stadium in Milwaukee, where I saw my first baseball game in 1975. Saw a dude named Aaron hit a homerun...