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sfgate.com Businesses  « Back to Article  Baseball as you always
hope it will be  Published 4:00 am, Friday, September 19, 1997
Larger | Smaller Email This Page 1 of 1  MIKE KRUKOW, who hasn't
paid to see a major-league baseball game in almost 20 years,
walked toward his car Thursday evening saying only, "Rare
privilege, rare privilege today."  Even allowing for Krukow's
fairly shameless allegiance to the Giants (he's closing in on
his 20-year gold watch, after all), he explained the game that
re-ordered the National League West race with deftness and
precision. It was a game worth any ticket price, nuanced yet
explosive, subtle as a whisper and as forceful as a snow shovel
in the mush - and all of it yanking the customer around the
ballpark like a puppy on a new leash. It wasn't just Brian
Johnson dope-slapping an indifferent Mark Guthrie fastball into
the left-field bleachers to give the Giants their 6-5 victory
Thursday. It wasn't just Rod Beck lo