OK, so what can be said about AT&T Park that hasn’t already been said? It’s beautiful? Check. It gets cold at night? Supposedly Mark Twain covered that. You can sit in a boat and catch home run balls? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let’s get to the real nitty-gritty. There’s no doubt that AT&T Park, formerly known as SBC Park, formerly known as Pacific Bell Park, is a cool place. To watch a ballgame, sure, but this is one of those parks where you can not see one pitch and still have a blast. Let us count the ways…
The approach
I went on a Sunday in May — the third Sunday in May, to be exact, and to anyone who’s lived in San Francisco, that should ring a bell. Yes, myself, Twisted Sister and Cousin Joe ran Bay to Breakers that morning. And after I peeled myself off the pavement, wrapped my knee in gauze and popped about six Advils (more on that in a sec), I went with the group (joined in this rather non-athletic pursuit by Mrs. Fan) to see the Giants take on the Astros.
Getting there was a breeze because, in anticipation of Bay to Breakers, we spent the previous night in a downtown hotel so that we could walk to the starting line and have a place to clean up after we were done. So once all that was completed, it was an easy walk of maybe 3/4 of a mile… at least, it was for everyone else in my party. Unfortunately for me, I had run maybe the last half of the race on a knee that had grown sore, and by the time I had showered and cooled down, the knee was howling. So I went to the Advil and hoped it would get better, and when that didn’t happen I sucked it up and dragged my lame leg all the way to the ballpark.
Itinerant Fan 
