Saket Vora

Last Friday I left work a few hours early (ie, 5:30pm) to catch the Caltrain up to the City. My friend Krupali was in town for a cancer conference and we were going to see the San Francisco Giants host the Chicago Cubs at AT&T park. It was my first Giants game, and I figured it’d be a good one to check out because Tim Lincecum was pitching for the Giants — and he’s in the running for a Cy Young award this year.

I got the tickets off Craiglist and printed them out via an electronic ticket “relay” that is run by the Giants site, which looked pretty legit. When the gate agent scanned Krupali’s ticket, it flashed green but he didn’t see it, so he scanned it again and of course it showed it had already been tagged. We headed over to the ‘special issues’ line and tried it again, same story. Krupali nudged me try my ticket, and it worked. We told that agent what happened, and he just told Krupali to duck under the turnstile. Score.

The seats were in the lower level by 3rd base, but kinda far under the overhang (I got the tickets that afternoon). It’s a nice ballpark.

We caught up with things, had a veggie hot dog (hey, it’s San Francisco), and I even got to see the Big Unit come out at the end to close for the Giants. The game was brisk too — the Giants had zero offense, and scored no runs.

After the game ended, we walked a few blocks north of the ball park to eat a great Thai restaurant recommended by Karthik, one of Krupali’s friends who is working at VMWare and living up in SF. I had met Karthik on Krupali’s last visit to SF, at the Wine Bar in SOMA. The three of us caught a late dinner (the food was excellent) and had a wide ranging conversation. iPhones were out for a lot of it, as Karthik was showing off a new camera app he got (he’s an excellent photographer). Krupali and I also tried out the ‘Bump’ app, where both users activate it then do a fist bump to wireless send their contact info over. Neato!

I was meaning to meet up finally with Melih, but I let the night get away from me. Another weekend Melih, another weekend. Now, I need to make a trip down south to visit Krupali in LA since she’s visited the Bay Area three times already.