THE SEVENTH INNING STRETCH
The seventh inning of the Major League baseball game between the San Diego Padres and the Oakland A's was moving its way from dusk to night when it happened.
Half of the stadium's enormous banks of light flicked off. A minor glitch it turned out to be.
But for a minute, the bewildered watching the game were stunned into silence. Once everyone figured it wasn't the end of the world, we began to notice small pinpricks of light began appearing. Those dozens of pinholes of light akin to stars in the night firmament--soon multiplied to become hundreds of waving lanterns. Quickly throughout Petco Park, it became fun and soon thousands of those small phone lights attempted to provide light in a silly way to relight the darkened playing field.
Not enough juice.
Those thousands of bouncing hand held mobile phone beams could not provide enough light to resume play. But it didn't matter. The episode from start to finish only lasted three minutes.
Life as we know it resumed.
"Peanuts, here, get yer peanuts, here..."
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