Dave, you don't want to hold my hand: I've been picking my nose.

But yeah, you make sense. I understand where you're coming from. I just come from somewhere else, essentially materialism.

To weightier things:

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By the way, which ballpark do you think has the best hotdog?
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No contest: Dodger Stadium, the all-beef kosher Dodger dog. Other ballparks I haven't visited may top it, but of those I've been to none does. (I've seen Major League games at SF's PacBell and its predecessor The Stick, Oakland Coliseum, Dodger Stadium and its predecessor the Coliseum in LA, The Big A in Anaheim, old Comiskey in Chicago, Turner Field in Atlanta, Memorial Stadium and Camden Yards in Baltimore, the now defunct Vet in Philly, Shea in New York [the worst park], and Fenway in Boston [the worst dog]. Next spring I hope to add St. Louis' Busch and Philly's new park to the list.).

Come to think of it, I also saw a Major League game at Wrigley Field--the one in LA, a smaller replica of the one in Chicago, complete to the ivy-covered brick outfield wall. It no longer exists, torn down in the sixties. The game I saw was a spring exhibition game in 1955 between the Cleveland Indians and the New York Giants, who of course were the participants in the previous year's World Series. Willie Mays hit three balls out of the little bandbox. I was eleven and in awe.

Steve