So I was at Giants FanFest today, and it was a beautiful day, hanging out in the warm sunshine, walking on the warning track with the field covered in a mound of mud (was there a Monster Truck rally scheduled?), seeing lots of the Giants signing autographs, etc.

The absolute highlight, though, was a nearly one-hour Q&A with Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum in the club level hosted by Damon Bruce. At the risk of sounding like the super-nerdy fanboy that I am, what a blast seeing my two favorite Gigantes pitchers on the same stage together. They both seemed really cool, Matty has a wickedly dry sense of humor, and Tim the Enchanter truly looks about 12 years old. (He was wearing flip flops and basically looked to be 5'9", 150 lbs. at most.) Also, I'm not a big Damon Bruce fan, but full credit to him for mentioning, to loud applause, that "the best off-season move this team made was not trading Tim Lincecum."

Most of the hour was turned over to the audience for their questions:

When they were done, they hung around for at extra 10 minutes signing autographs as their team handler desperately tried to get them to the next session. I loved these guys before today, now I can't wait for their first regular season starts.