Thursday, April 9, 2009

Sully is God

We're going to take a break from the Dumb Things to state..

Captain, Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, is.. God. For this I have seen, and for this I've experienced. Those know-it-all metereologists said that on Giants Opening Day that it was going to rain, hail, thunderstorm with a tornado and a hurricane, etc. Okay, so I made the last two up. Weather.com had a 100% chance rain approaching game time and 3 and 4pm. Everyone was convinced that there was no way that this game would start on time. So, when I look up at the many "futurecast" radar and see the entire bay area soaked in a menagerie of green, yellows and oranges, I'm saddened. But wait! What's this? There's a neat little hole in the middle of the green....right over AT&T Park. Could this be? How could one perfect circle of non-rainness (yes, that's my new world) be so perfectly situated over the ballpark. It must've been a glitch on the radar. The 5 year old coloring the futurecast map must've had to get up to pee or something.

They pull the tarp off the infield dirt at 12:45. It starts to drizzle. Of course. It lasts 5 minutes. Giants take the field. Followed by Sully. The rain stops. The skys open. Sun shines down on the bleachers. It doesn't rain the entire game at all. Back at the traffic desk Mitch watches the radar and sees as the dark green band off the coast avoids the aura of AT&T park like the plague.

There is only one possible answer to this phenomenon. Okay, there are other possibilities, but I'm going with this one. Sully is God. He makes planes land on water and makes skies part. Plus when our boy Timmy pitches like the 13 year old bat boy he looks like, instead of a dominating overpowering 13 year old he was last year, and the Giants still score 10 runs?! Sully is God.

On a side note...why can't I get cell phone reception with my AT&T cell phone, inside AT&T Park?