When the 2020 baseball schedule was announced I had this weekend circled. It doesn’t happen all that often, but the White Sox were to be in San Francisco May 8-9-10 to play the Giants. I’ve never been to San Fran, and it’s been on my list of places to visit for years now and I’ve just never gotten around to it.
When I do get there, I’ll be in Full Tourist Mode. Alcatraz, Golden Gate, etc. An extended trip with a few days out in Yosemite would be nice. But I need to go during baseball season, because I want to see a ballgame at Oracle Park. Ever since the park opened and the team moved from Candlestick I’ve wanted to go. It just looks like a beautiful park, built next to the water and an amazing view. I want to sit high up, perhaps down the first base line to get a good view of a ball hit out of the park into McCovey Cove. I don’t NEED to see the White Sox, but when the opportunity comes up once ever five or six years and I saw it on the schedule, I was interested.
The issue, at least at the time when I saw the schedule this year with the Sox being in San Fran May 8-9-10, was actually twofold. One, Mother’s Day is the 10th. Two, our wedding anniversary is on the 8th. Busy weekend.
I actually thought I could swing it this time, asking Jen “Want to spend our anniversary in San Francisco this year?” And as I’ve been averse to travel the last several years because of financial and other concerns with starting a small business. She was immediately skeptical when I broached the idea seemingly out of the blue. And I immediately felt guilty of using our anniversary as an excuse to travel across the country to see a baseball game, even though I’m sure we’d make a good time out of it with all the other things there are to see and do out there.
Turns out, as the weekend is here and we’ve been close to two months into a COVID-19 lockdown. So even if we would have planned the trip, it wouldn’t have happened. No baseball at Oracle, or anywhere else in the country, this weekend.
Maybe the next time the White Sox play out there it will come at a more opportune time. See you some day, San Francisco.
