It started with the Fourth of July, which we spent in Cambria watching the waves and fireworks at Moonstone Cove. Both were sick. Unfortunately, I didn’t bring my board or get a piece of the waves.

Although a day later we got the stoke.

Then, on Wednesday, we headed up to Oakland to take in the New York Yankees-Oakland Athletics game.

Great ballgame. Got to see Reggie hang with Ricky, and Jeter with A-Rod. All in all it was a good night.

Cap that with all the LeBron drama, now he and the Miami Heat are being hated on like the New York Yankees, and the death of longtime Yankees announcer Bob Sheppard – the only Yankees employee never criticized by George Steinbrenner. He was the gold standard of PA, and he will be missed.

I was lucky enough to visit the old Yankee Stadium in 2004 for our one-year anniversary. The Yankees were in Anaheim, site of today’s home run derby (which will be without Yankee Robinson Cano), during our trip, but because they were out of town we were able see a lot more of the stadium (including the locker room and press box) during our tour.

I’ve included a shot of the view from Sheppard’s “office,” which I must say might have been the best gig of all time. Consider the lineup of the first game he ever called, which included eight Hall of Famers: Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Johnny Mize, Yogi Berra, and Phil Rizzuto for the Yankees, and Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, and Lou Boudreau for the Boston Red Sox.

His first game was also the debut of Mickey Mantle – not a bad guy to come into the profession with. If only we were all so lucky.

On Saturday, to cap it all off, picked up a NY Yankee Gnome at Ross and got to crack the bottle with Ryantific on one of our finest homebrewed batches of beer – a chipotle red ale that’s as good as any other batch we’ve brewed thus far.

WCBias Brew, coming to a store near you.

All in all a good week. Let’s hope this one is half as solid.

- All pics by the Slim one.