Sports is NOT the subject that you wanna bring up. It's almost as bad as talking about politics.

With that said, my favorite time for baseball was when I was in my early 20's. I would go to Dodger Stadium with my girlfriend and we would wait in front of the gates for someone to give us tickets. About two out of every three times we went, we would get free tickets from box holders who just didn't want to waste them. It was really nice sitting between home and first, or third and home, sometimes only two or three rows back, to see guys like Garvey, Cey, Lopes, Russell, Baker, Jimmy Winn and my favorite, Reggie Smith.

Of course, the one time we didn't get free tickets, we had to sit in the center field bleachers surrounded by little leaguers. That was probably my favorite game. If you remember pitchers, it was Burt Hooton against the Mets pitcher Tom Seaver. Dave Kingman hit three home runs and came up in the 9th to face Al Downing (Bulldog will remember him.) Al Downing threw every ball outside so Kingman couldn't hit them. The sellout crowd boo'd Downing because they all wanted Kingman to hit a 4th home run. Kingman struck out. Mets won, I think 11 to 2 or 11 to 0.

I don't think I've been to Dodger stadium since those days, with the exception to see the Rolling Stones.

Oh yea, go Lakers.

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