I lean towards the early-morning crisp-as-dew sun, leaning with the red and gold zinnias and the purple and white cosmos. I am spellbound by this season's migration of two athletic teams south. The San Francisco 49ers are becoming the Santa Clara 49ers, moving to a huge parcel of land they're buying from Cisco. The developers will build housing and retail around the new stadium. If this is what it takes to get public transit to the south bay - so be it. And centering community around a public stadium isn't unprecedented, although I really don't know if the Roman Coliseum was in the center of town or on the outskirts of town.

San Francisco was so stunned by the news, it took a day for people to realize this sabotaged San Francisco's Olympic bid, a bid for the world games scheduled for so many years in the future no one can even say if we'd want the international games then.

Baseball is wholly different from football. Cisco is preparing to outfit the baseball-only stadium in Fremont with wi-fi and its gadgets of every sort. Instant replays and fans talking to each other through blogs will sit side by side with kids eating popcorn and dreamily watching the outfielder run and run and run and effortlessly stretch his arm up to catch the ball flying with all the force propelled into it by the runner now rounding first. High-tech and baseball are almost inherently opposed, but if this is what it takes to get public transit to the south bay - so be it. Besides, Oakland the city is anticipating doing much better, financially, renting out the Coliseum to concerts instead of baseball games. Lafayette meets Fremont soon, and they find they have more in common than they thought. Play ball.