Friday, October 29, 2010

Working at the World Series 2010 Game 1

When I heard the news about the Giants going the World Series I was excited not only for my home team but also that I had the possibility of working at the World Series. Throughout my junior year of high school I worked for this program called Juma Ventures. This program was created to help the youth get into college and to also provide the youth with a steady part time job. For almost 3 years I have worked at the Giants games, CAL games and 49er games. Back then my boss used to call me the corn dog king because I was the person who sold the most amount of corn dogs. Even though this job never paid well to constantly walk around the stadium selling a product, at least I was able to watch the games. When I left my part time job to attend college, my boss told me I was welcome to come back  and work at any of the games. A few days ago when I asked my boss if I could work at the world series, he said "sure why not?" I then decided that since this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, I took the risk of missing one day in every class and making the 7.5 hour drive down. Game 1: When I arrived at the stadium every where I looked there were Giants fan and there were only a few Texas fans. Even when I was selling my product it seemed liked every time a Texas fan walked by they would get booed by the crazy drunk Giants fans. Once the Giants fans started leading the game the crowd was full of energy. As Im walking up and down the aisles I can feel the vibration of the crowd cheering from my laminated corn dogs sign. Every aisle I would walk down you can hear the hyped up Giants fans saying Ooooooo Reeebay. When the score became 8 Giants Texas 3 Juan Uribe just slammed a homerun, I was standing in front of the bleachers tunnel right where the ball came down. At that instant I was 10 ft away from the homerun ball but there were so many fans stomping on each other trying to get ball that I didn't even attempt to get the ball but at least I was on tv for a second. That night was an experience of a lifetime I felt like I was almost apart of the game and I couldn't wait to work Game 2.

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