It is a little premature but
there is an old saying in the
Spanish language:
“soñar no cuesta nada”
(it doesn’t cost anything
to dream).

By Amaury Pi-González
So the A’S will have to go
beat Boston then New York
or Minnesota to open the
World Series at the
Network Associates
Coliseum by the 19 of
October, while the
Giants will have to
dispose of Florida
and then Chicago
or Atlanta to be
“taveling”to Oakland
for the Fall Classic.

It seems like the Athletics
should handle Boston and
then it will get interesting
against Yankees or Twins,
two of the toughest teams
for the A’S in the past
few years. While for
the Giants after taking
care of the wild card
Marlins (whom they beat
5 out of 6 times this
season)and then facing
the Cubs a team that
beat them 4 games to 2
or Atlanta whom the
Giants handle 4 games
to 2 games during regular
season.

There are a lot of similarities
in the Athletics and the
Giants this year, they
both were the biggest
winners at their home
field, they both dominated
their own divisions, the
Giants had a spectacular
53-23 in the NL west,
best record of any of the
30 teams in their divisions.
A’S were #1 in pitching
in the American League
while the Giants were
#2 in the National League
behind the Dodgers, who
always have pitching.
Between both teams
close to 6 million people
payed to see Major
League Baseball this
year in the Bay Area,
that is just under the
total population of the
9 counties of the Bay
Area

Incredibly both the Giants
and the Athletics finished
with the best records at
home in all of baseball,
both teams were 57-24
in their ballparks.

Back in 1989 when I was
doing the Athletics games
during the World Series
I thought that by 2003 BART
would travel to San José.
We recently learned that
the plans for BART to
complete the whole loop
in the Bay Area going into
San José has been delayed
until 2025 (maybe). So
if the Bay Bride Series
“Part Dos” takes place,
those of you living in
the South Bay (were
most of the people
now live) will have to
drive to the Net and
to the Bell.

We are still the only
area in the country with
two teams with that
posibility this year. It
looked -for a while-
that the Cubs and
White Sox could make
Chicago proud but
only the North Side
of Chicago could be
involved in the ’03
World Series.

For the Athletics this
season had a great
moment when a team
that doesn’t bunt, bunted
with 2 outs in the
bottom of the 12th inning
at home to beat
the most powerful
lineup in all of
baseball. For the Giants
Jason Schmidt looking
like Superman in the
mound breezing through
the young Marlins
lineup in game one gave
Felipe Alou hope that
his Giants will be on
top of the world and
maybe playing against
his son Moisés with
the Cubs and ex-Giants
manager Dusty Baker
in the National League
Championship Series.

Only 3 teams won 100
or more games this
year in baseball: Yankees
with 101, Braves with
101 and Giants with
100.

If the Giants and the
A’S meet in this year’s
World Series, would we
see those caps 1/2
A’S, and 1/2 Giants?
Will departing S.F.
What would departing
SF Mayor Willie Brown
bet to Jerry Brown the
Mayor of Oakland?

By then we will now
if we still have the same
Governor in Sacramento
or if he was “terminated”
by a Southern California
businessman-actor. Or
will Cruz Bustamante
will be the first Hispanic
Governor of California
in 100 years.

Upsets? Of course there
are always a few. The
year prior to the 1989
World Series I remember
well whe the A’S lost
to the inferior Dodgers.

But if the stars are
aligned this month
there is a very good chance
we will see the Giants and
the Athletics in a rematch
of the 1989 Series. Of course
with no earthquake this
time and with no
Candlestick Park either.

Thinking about it, many
good things have happened
to these local baseball
teams since they met
14 years ago, although
in baseball years it seems
like it was 40 years ago.
Both of them -at one time
or another-were leaving the
Bay Area, for Denver,Florida,
and other points east.

Both are still here stronger
than ever and both eager
to win a World Series.

For the A’S they will try
to win their fifth since
arriving in Oakland, for
the Giants, their first in
San Francisco.

Remember: “soñar no
cuesta nada” (It doesn’t
cost anything to dream).

Or If we are dissapointed
would the Red Sox and
Cubs meet in a World
Series. That would mark
‘the end of the world’
as we know it.

Would the Red Sox win
a World Series before
a huge astheroid hit
the Earth in a few
years ?

Remember in the movie
Back to The Future, one
headline read: Cubs Win
World Series !! Wow, that
would be a story, but I
rather see Oakland and
San Francisco at the end.
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Amaury Pi-González is broadcasting
the San Francisco Giants Playoffs
for KZSF 1370 AM Radio
“La Caliente” and just completed
his first season doing all 81
home-games for the new
Seattle Mariners Spanish
Radio Network in Washington
and Oregon.