Home field habits

Ethan Lowell

@garagebulls

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When you live in San Francisco long enough, you realize the city is basically one big overlapping Venn diagram of sports, transit maps, and microclimates. These are the spots I keep cycling through—where I watch games, run off bad trades, climb away earnings calls, and remember that point differentials are more fun when you’re the one scoring them. Think of this as my personal rotation of places where the spread, the skyline, and the vibes all clear the bar.

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Name	Address	City	My take
1Oracle Park	24 Willie Mays Plaza, San Francisco, CA 94107	San Francisco	Baseball as urban design flex. The park is basically a case study in pricing power: mediocre Giants season, still packed, still gorgeous, still feels +3 wins just from McCovey Cove alone.
2Chase Center	1 Warriors Way, San Francisco, CA 94158	San Francisco	If Oracle Park is classic value, Chase is the growth stock: shiny, pricey, and engineered for maximum ARPU per fan. But when the Warriors get hot, the decibel level makes every seat feel like courtside.
3Mission Cliffs	2295 Harrison Street, San Francisco, CA 94110	San Francisco	Indoor climbing plus a full weight room in a former warehouse—basically my volatility hedge when the market chart looks like a bad bouldering attempt. Beta here refers to routes and gossip, not CAPM.
4Sports Basement Presidio	610 Old Mason Street, San Francisco, CA 94129	San Francisco	Gear warehouse meets community center, plopped right by Crissy Field. I go in for socks and walk out having rented skis, signed up for a ride, and mentally rebalanced my entire outdoor hobby portfolio.
5Golden Gate Tap Room	449 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA 94102	San Francisco	The Union Square answer to ‘where can we watch literally everything at once?’ Wall‑to‑wall screens, arcade games as timeout filler, and enough taps to diversify even the pickiest beer portfolio.