35 years ago tonight.

Sure it does ... "The Game That Shall Not Be Mentioned In The Quant Household."

 

My ex's cousin had tickets to the original Game 6, but it got rained out and he couldn't stay another day.

 

CONCORD (maybe a cool place for a 12 yr old kid hanging out at the Sun Valley Mall, but that's it)!!!! Cheapskates couldn't even put you up in the Claremont Hotel or the Lafayette Park Hotel (4 star for each)??

 

I was thinking he was probably going through the 24/680 split in downtown Walnut Creek at the time. Hey, Sun Valley had an ice skating rink when I was slightly more than 12, which seemed crazy cool for a kid who had just moved from south Florida to the Bay Area.

EDIT: Orioles utility infielder Kiko Garcia (Ygnacio Valley) and pitcher Tom Candiotti (Concord) are Concord natives. Mark Spitz and Tom Hanks went to public school there before moving.

As @TrooperBari is well aware, the nationally-known Concord Blue Devils drum corps band is headquartered there, as was the Concord Jazz label.

 

That's what happens when 65% of America is asleep when it ends at 12:40 a.m. ET.

 

Hey guys, I was on a newspaper budget. I had a friend in Martinez, so I picked a reasonable place about halfway between. And I was there to work, not cruise the mall or the rink.
When LMU reached the West Regionals, the Claremont was the tournament hotel I stayed there. I prefer a newer, modern place, then a relic that they dress up with couch cushions and nice linen. I mean, the heater was one of those old radiators. I couldn't even figure out how it worked.

 

Gwen and I were in Martinez this summer to help pack up her late brother's stuff, and waking up to a view of Mount Diablo is something that never gets old for me. Plus, Martinez is a cool county seat/railroad town with a farmers' market and nice restaurants. However, paying the amount of money it would cost to live there permanently again is not in my retirement budget.

 

Yeah, but those were the salad days! Our paper went to the French Open, Wimbledon, the Goodwill Games (in Moscow) and the America's Cup (in Fremantle, Australia) in the late 80s.

 

Meanwhile, 34 years ago tonight ...

 

The audio cut, then they went to commercial, then they cut to a rerun of Roseanne until they could re-establish connection.

 

Just in the first couple minutes, there is some really good (nice job by the guy who nailed the intensity less than 10 minutes in) and really bad (the Golden Gate Bridge collapsed?) reporting.