What about, based on the last few seasons, we just have AN Day every home game? The last one could be the last game of the World Series if the pattern holds!

Just a thought ;)

Highlights:
1. lynnzgal’s scallops and shrimp (I’m drooling just thinking about them)
2 .The awesome banner by LB. Pam turned it into a mega-size get-well card for Duke, which we all signed.
3. Personalized cupcakes by gigglingone, and the awesome cake from Mike Heath.
4. mikev’s big-ass grill, and the corn on the cob from same.
5. MobiusKlein bringing his family, including their two kids who are about the same age as little miss specialK, so I didn’t have to spend the whole time entertaining her.
6. All the cool people who came, the great food provided.
7. All the NRAFs who held their end up in the game threads (or therad, since Cindi posted the second one).
8. noava22, who (by his own admission) had maybe a couple more margaritas than he should, getting Carlos Guillen to salute him (not with the central digit).

Fail of the day – me, for not taking an obviously exhausted (and possibly sick) little miss specialK home until after the 8th inning. We were on the 66th Ave on-ramp to 880 when Zooks won the game.

Photos will be posted tomorrow, too tired myself to upload them tonight.

But just barely. Nah, had it all the way.

It took me about two and a half hours to get there from Elk Grove (left 2:30, arrived 5:00) and an hour and a half to get home. I don’t think I’m taking I-80 in again next time. That’s not quite the same as three stops on BART. I missed almost all the dead, cooked animals but did get a couple late hot dogs made by lynnzgal – thanks! In fact, I arrived and not two or three minutes later everyone was gathering for the group photo, so that worked. Also a good thing I brought some dessert instead of a main entree. Whew.

I think McFood (did I remember right?) had one of the lines of the night as he said something about me tossing my cookies as I flung a few to waiting ANers later in the game, frisbee-style. That was good. Most were right on target – you’d almost think I’d done that before (I hadn’t).

And Nico, I really didn’t expect to see you french-kiss that usher! Wow!

Glad I could make it and catch up with a few people and meet a few for the first time. I enjoyed it.

Thanks everyone. It was fab to meet the new faces, great to see the returners, and lovely to get my baby fix (thx Matthew and Sarah).

A great time was had by all! I know it has been said but Holy Toledo, Lynnzgals Shrimp and Scallops were awesome!! As a matter of fact all of the food was great…A huge thanks to lynnzgal and baseballgirl for organizing everything, not an easy feat!

Great Tailgate, Great Game, Great Firewirks, what was not to like!!

we sang the Way out West song..LOL!!

I’m gonna want to do it again, for sure.

I want to add my thanks to the grand organizers – BBG and Lynnzgal. Thanks to all the ANers for being a funner than fun crew (and not doing the wave- I was watching!!). Thanks to MIkev for taking my table (I’ll get it tomorrow). Thanks to the A’s for winning and Chevron for the fireworks (not that they’ll read this). Thanks to Nico for encouraging me to check out photobucket and a successful first photo post (above). Thanks to the weather for cooperating.

You;d tink I won the Oscar or something!

Nothing so prepared as AN Day, but maybe just a minor tailgate?

[…] in Bloggers Gone Wild I, II, and III (if you haven’t rented them, they’re a “must see,” by the way — gigglingone is a surprisingly good actress).

Agreed.

and I think I took exactly zero pictures tonight…oops. Hope someone else captured all the highlights.

To Christy for your wonderful organization of yet another AN Day;
to Lyn for tailgate and party planning and some delicious grilling;
to Blez because I’ve missed you and was so glad that you were here – can you believe how AN has grown!;
to LB for the great banner, I hope our best wishes make Duke smile;
to the kids who came out to the tailgate, sleepy Kate and the twins and all the rest
to Baseball Mom and Baseball Dad for BBG and for coming to the party
to Nico, for all your good stuff
to “who was that very tall famiiar looking guy on the field for fireworks” – cool that you would hang with the fans
to 67 , “Nino”, for bringing more family
to James for those cookies and pix
to giggling one and Wes for AN cupcakes..and to Mike Heath’s son, Jory, for the AN cake
and to all the good people who make AN still a great place to be

Thanks to everyone for their fine efforts. — both the tailgate and Live! Game! Thread! were wonderful. We even had a few live TWSS moments during the game. Today, unfortunately, I can’t really hear anything because I was sitting directly in front of noava22. OptimusPrime started calling the A’s ultimate victory in the 7th inning, and correctly predicted the walkoff and the instigator of same.

 Lynn, I checked and we doubted the Coliseum music programmer unfairly — all of those bands really were at Woodstock. I wish they’d played the Incredible String Band though. And strangely, given the theme, this was the first fireworks show I’ve been at where no one was smoking weed on the field. We must have been in the wrong section.

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sorry if this is misplaced, but i only found that in my attempts to procrastinate, so don’t have enough material to start a DLD.

i’m a little confused though… the rockies play in the NL and Todd Helton plays for them, so i guess jason will just give helton a rest every so often and come in to take 1 PH AB late in games before somebody else goes out to play defense. odd move, but i’m happy to see giambi playing.

Thanks so much to everyone who came and contributed to the fun. The food was fantastic, the conversation was lively, and everything went off without a hitch.

LB…well, you know.

Final thanks to our boys for the perfect ending!

He can’t stop nodding his head. It’s odd, really.

So im sure none of you understand this but my Nino (Godfather) is part of a website, Athletics Nation, and yesterday I went to the game with him. The signature thats on the helmet was done by the guy who created the site, Blez, and he told my Nino that he flew up here to meet him personally, guess you had to be there but it was awesome!!! That guy is cool! Oh and by the way the A’s won!!!! LET’S GO OAKLAND!!!!

I had a wonderful time at the tailgate and game. Thanks to all who made it happen. This truly is a great group of people. Cheers!

What a great gathering. We had so much fun! It was fabulous to put faces with names. Thanks so much BBG and Lynn for organizing and to all of you for the wonderful food and conversation. And thanks to DFA and Mike for listening to my incessant babbling during the game.

Gus and I hope to meet up with you all again soon!

Oh, and did anyone pick up a sage green bath towel that was in a brown Safeway bag? I had the dip wrapped up in that to keep it warm and then totally forgot it when we went into the game.