From a friend (Anna) on another blog:
I am looking for people to participate in an online Farewell to Candlestick party. The purpose is, of course, to hold a going away party for the soon-to-be Great America 49ers. The second purpose is to test out software that I hope will become a significant part of and asset to social media and fan/user interaction. The software is at my.groupol.ogy, but you’ll need a private invitation in order to participate in this multimedia event that will feature videos, Candlestick memories, photos and live chat during the game. If you’d like to participate, please send email to anna@ekage.com). If you cannot attend, please contribute your own Candlestick memories on the “Jon Dowds Revenge” site listed in my blogroll (jondowdsrevenge.wordpress.com). Thanks!
It still hasn’t really sunk in yet. Candlestick Park, Monster Cable Stadium, 3-Com, Shit-hole, The Pigsty, whatever you want to call it, it will forever in my heart be The Stick. Some time soon it will be imploded and forgotten. I can’t even begin to guess at how many baseball and football games I’ve been to at the grand old hole, but I do remember the first game I went to. I was in 2nd grade, and it was 1969.
My mom thought it would be a great idea to take me and all the 2nd grade boys (16 of us) in my class to Bat Day. Bat Day usually fell near my birthday (April 25th), and this game was on the day after. I don’t remember very much about the game, but it was a sunny gorgeous Saturday, we were playing Astros, and all my favorite players were out there. Willie Mays, Bobby Bonds, Willie McCovey, and Juan Marichal. An old guy behind me said “watch that centerfielder for the Astros. Jimmy Wynn. They call him the Toy Cannon.” I don’t know if he did anything that day, but I loved the nickname, and he became a guy whose career I followed as a kid. We were sitting in the upper deck cheapies on the 1st base side. I think we won.
The coolest thing about the game was the bats. Every kid 14 and under got a regulation sized bat. During any rally, all the kids would start pounding the bats on the concrete in rhythm. A sound that I’ll never forget, since there were tons of kids in the stands that day. My mom put up with a lot of kid shennanigans, and I hve no idea how we all got there, but I do remember getting bags of peanuts, those Carnation Malted things with the little wooden spoons, hot dogs, and cokes. We had a lot of fun stacking peanut shells on the hats of the 2 drunk oldsters in front of us who had fallen asleep (passed out?) somewhere around the 6th inning. All in all a greeat day, and my introduction to The Stick. Mom did that for the next couple years, bless her heart, and from then on I went to games every chance I got. Scrounging up money to catch the bus and hit the bleachers for 50 cents, or glomming on to friends who were going.
There’s talk of opening the stadium up some time next year for one last tour, and that is something I will not miss.
If you have any pictures or stories to share about the ol’ shit-hole, let me know . . .
Forty Niners Forever 
Scheist! Hello #6.
Oops, wrongo. Just now the wrong team will be traveling to Seattle.
timing is everything.
Panther take NO.
Oh, did we sign Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year yet?
51 TDs. New NFL record. Nah. We don’t need that guy.
Here we go in the Parrots cage!
A.Smith tearing it up again. The crying kind today.
And to think. Most here wanted Alex > Manning. The very idea.
lol.
Seachickers timeout 14:11 1st qtr. Hey! We are not alone!
good start for zona….not.
The arrogance of Kam C. taking that INT out of the end zone. Seattle DBs think they can do whatever they please. I’d argue if I could.
Palmer INT on the endzone. Oy vey!
damn
1 series 1 hit on Wilson. Keep it up Zona
interestingly enough, on the second series the refs allowed the OLB to push Wilson backwards for 5 yds after he handed it off to Beast. Using that QB/Runner rule?
Just did it again too.
If I did the math right, we win our next two and we’ll be locked in as the 5 seed.
Unless of course Seattle loses its last two. I still believe in Santa, but even he can’t bring that present.
I have it the same.
That was a bad pass from Palmer, but Sherman had his hands all over Fitz before the interception.
Zona holds to a 3. Squawks up 3-0 in the second. Arizona has moved the ball well. A mixture of bad luck and poor judgement has kept them off the score board.
What was the poor judgment?
Palmers throw to Fitz, Sherman had position.
Okay, thought I missed something. Besides no holding/PI, I don’t know what Palmer saw there.
Taking the time and effort to charter the plane to Seattle thinking you got a shot of winning.
Funny Dennis, I give them a shot and would love to see them go down at home in a div game.
them being Seahawks, that is.
second them, damn it, forget it, give me a beear (beer).
Arizona D is playing well.
Hope they can for sixty minutes. Blocking the runs might be easier than taking on those penalty-immune DBs, too.
One of life’s great mysteries how Squawks DB’s get away with so much contact.
Always liked Madeline Kahn and Ray’s dad.
Good AZ drive here.
converted 3rd and 16 too.
wow TO.
Nah.
Another Squawk 3 and out.
Need to get some points on the board here.