With the sound of crack of the bat as Canseco drove in Gallego and Henderson, Griff emerged from dream memories of Raiders summer camp. Something very different awaited him on the Huygens campus.

He wished for the advice of former Stanford Head Coach, Jack Elway, but wishes would not bring Jack back to California.

Griff reviewed the training equipment his Father-in-Law Mac O'Brien would bring with him when he arrived: orange cones, whistles, speed chutes, weighed sleds from 225 to 800 pounds, agility ladders, hurdles, football tees, nets for kicking practice, tackle dummies of various kinds, tackle wheels that rolled around the field in many colors as if the field was the grounds of a circus, slalom poles used for setting impossible running situations, obstacles of various kinds, a field equipment cart, water bottles, first aid kits.

He was lucky to have a father-in-law who knew what to give his son-in-law for a wedding present, he was thinking when he heard Caydance descending the studio loft stairs. On the radio, Dave Parker hit a line drive to right field. Phillips and Canseco scored. Parker was on second base. McGuire was at bat.