Day 16 (Bonus) - Diamondbacks vs. Giants @ AT&T Park

Much to our dismay, most major league baseball teams in the cities that we've been visiting have been away (exception: Cubs). I guess timing really is everything. However, the Giants were not fortunate enough to escape our grips. The event card promised quite a pitchers' duel in the Giants' Matt Cain versus the D-Backs' Dan Haren.

There are several tributes to Willie Mays around the stadium and McCovey Cove, which is where many of those Barry Bonds homerun balls landed. Also, let me mention that if you are ever going to AT&T Park, you should bundle up! The combination of San Fran already getting fairly chilly at night, and the winds whipping up in the Bay, makes for a chilling experience.

We all donned our beloved pinstriped Yankees gear in AT&T Park. Expectedly, we got some glares, but we thought it was rather school-girlish of some of the fans in the upper deck for throwing peanuts at our backs and not fessing up to it. Also expectedly, we saw some Red Sox fans (these people are all over the freakin' country, doesn't matter where you are, chances are there is a Sawx fan lurking around you).

In fact, as we were walking around the stadium, Vlad overheard a compliment given from a Giants fan to a Red Sox fan and said "Red Sox suck", as he pointed to the Yankees logo branding his chest. Startled, another defending, and possibly inebriated fan, slurred out "hey, get outta this stadium". We did eventually leave, but not before we said hello to fellow New Yorker Lauren C. who was also at the game (although it would have made for a better story, this meeting was not coincidental but rather coordinated).

After the game, we headed over to City Tavern and Matrix Fillmore on Fillmore Street for a night cap, before turning in and preparing for our 6-hour drive south to Los Angeles in the early morning. See you in Southern California tomorrow - stay tuned!