Today, with my best friend Howard and his family visiting, we went down to the baseball park at China Basin, intending to circumnavigate that lovely structure.
As good luck would have it, we were allowed inside the park to tour a small portion of the outfield area.
Inside the stadium, which currently is set up for a college football bowl game on the 28th (Maryland v. Oregon State), the seats were all empty, no food was on sale, and therefore, no seagulls bothered to soar overhead.
It was, in one sense, a lonely venue.
Still, having been here so many times when the seats were packed, Aidan and I could hear the ghosts cheering for our heroes of past years.
Now, of course, our greatest hero of all, Barry Bonds, stands indicted on charges of perjury over whether he used steroids to achieve some of the amazing feats we witnessed and celebrated.
Such a lonely place, now.
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