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Buster Posey is in town.   You can imagine what this has done to the general level of excitement in our household.  Yes, the White House Correspondents’ Dinner is literally two blocks down the road, but I don’t think my brothers and I could pick Wolf Blitzer out of a lineup.  We can, however, spot Tim Lincecum at 250 feet.   And we proved it today!

We got down on the field for Giants batting practice before their (undeserved, Dad says) 2-1 victory over the Nationals.  It was a great day at the ballpark.    Down on the field, Oliver spent long stretches of time just staring in a weird mixture of admiration and envy at the Giants players as they got ready to take BP.

Buster waved to us.  Aubrey Huff asked if we were triplets (I must have been kneeling!).  And Miguel Tejada gave us some love.  But truth be told, we got the most time with the Nationals — and we really liked meeting Lance Nix.  Oliver was a bit miffed that Lance had hit a home run off Lincecum the night before.   I just thought he was large.  And TT was in it for the loot (that’s his hat getting signed).

In the end, we all got objects of great affection.  If the looks on our faces here seem familiar to you, you’ve probably seen The Lord of the Rings — we look like Gollum having just laid hands on the ring…  three of them to be precise.  You try to get that ball out of TT’s hands.

You’ll note that we wear our divided loyalties proudly.

Then it was off to our super comfy seats.   Having shown up for batting practice, we had a few minutes to kill, and so had some space to spread out…

But the game was a great one.  Down to the final out.  I’m not exactly sure what’s putting that look of enjoyment on my brother’s face below — and don’t want to guess.  But I know that we liked our lemon ices later in the game…  I think Dad got them for us to keep us quiet and in our seats just a little longer.

Anyway – hope you all had a great weekend too.   See you soon!

JPC