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The Bay Area 4

Don King wrote
at 12:47am on October 30th, 2006

A year after the fact I still find this picture hilarious. I barely remember the moment just before it was snapped when I told myself to conjure up some fake soberness and look as composed as possible. Instead I look like Rodin's The Thinker had a glamour shot taken. Grant has gone completely insane with booze at this point having just spent the last three hours drunkenly wandering around the bleachers at SBC Park befriending small children and horrifying their parents. Shawn, you might say, looked like he blinked. But no, this was his expression for the majority of the night. And then Bauer comes over the top with, well, I'm not quite sure what he's doing here...

Great moment.

Kurt G. Bauer wrote
at 11:52am on November 2nd, 2006

it is understandable that you revisit this moment out of the weekend, because it is the only truly clear moment, preserved for posterity in film. we were in rare form. and, as you state, it's been just over a year since that fateful weekend when we blew into town on a stiff tailwind and tore apart the bayside confines with calculating jabs and verbal scuffles amidst the giants' apologists. after all that, what were we to do but formulate some semblance of memory from the evening.

this is the best we could do with whatever brain function remained after hours of abuse. varying poisons running through our blood stream conspired to create those drooling, nearly expressionless faces.