The Good Part About Being Late

[kevin_standlee]

I got away from Fremont much later than I'd originally hoped, and I had longer to go than usual, as I had booked into Grants Pass on account of all of the Holiday Inn Expresses south of there down to Yreka were charging much more than usual. I made really good time, and cut my stops short, so in the end I got to Grants Pass only around twenty minutes later than I'd originally projected, but it was still 11 PM. However, the good part about being so late was that I was able to (barely) listen to the Giants game. The game was just getting started when I was leaving Redding, where a local FM station is the Giants affiliate. That FM signal didn't last, though, and beyond Lakehead or thereabouts it faded completely; however, by then, I was able to pick up the network's flagship station, KNBR out of San Francisco, as it was late enough that their signal was bouncing northward. The signal came and went, but I was mostly able to follow the twists and turns of the game, and just as I was leaving Central Point/Medford, the Giants won the game in dramatic fashion with a walk-off hit in the bottom of the 10th inning to win the first game of the "Bay Bridge" series against the Oakland A's.

I also got to hear part of the second period of the Sharks game, swapping back and forth between it and the Giants, but when the Sharks' affiliate's signal faded, there was no fallback, so I didn't get to hear the results of the game until I got to Grants Pass. Go Sharks!

I got upgraded again, this time to a room with a separate parlor, although it's something of a waste since I don't have much time to enjoy it, having arrived so late. Also, there's no wired internet; only wireless. Still, it's a really good room rate and an upgraded room, so I'm not actually complaining.

Comments

[rono-60103.livejournal.com]

I don't know if either team was on a clear channel AM station (note the case) or not, but I've taken advantage of the Albuquerque clear channel (almost) station - 770 KKOB - to listen to UMN games from a distance. First was a Lobo basketball game in November 1991 while driving from Lake Tahoe to Sacramento, then a football game when driving from The Grand Canyon to Phoenix.

Then my brother tells of listening to a game between the Albuquerque Dukes and the Hawaii Islanders AAA baseball teams while at our Grandpa's beach house near Punulu on The Big Island, only to realize at a break that this was also from KOB (as it would have been known back then). This would have probably been either 1970 or 1972.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, KNBR, the Giants flagship station, is a 50,000-watt "flamethrower" and can be heard throughout much of the Western USA at night, but it gets troublesome in the mountains when you go through the sheltered spots.