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Take me out to the ball game

"take me out..." is a  100 plus year old song that is as American as Apple Pie.  It is part of the traditions of the game of baseball to blast it around the stadium during the 7th of 9 innings when two professional or major league teams duke out. So on a balmy San Francisco spring (work) day the organization that I work for decided to treat the entire team of around 60 odd people to a baseball game between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers played at the Giants home base here in the city by the bay. ATT Park so named for the telecom giant that owns the rights to the (15 year old) ball park name, was the venue for the season opening series of games between the two west coast rivals. We had seats in the bleachers which for the rabid fans is a no no because you can barely see the action (and the ball) which is a speck on the green inside the diamond that is in the middle of the frame (above). However the team was there more as a matter ...