Remember when we told you we were going to see the Warriors on opening night? Well we did, and they lost, which wasn't that surprising, since, you know, it was the Warriors. Our seats were pretty good, but man were they spendy! And did we mention that they lost?

The thing we'll always remember about that night, though, isn't the mediocre basketball we watched, or the awful remodeling job they did on that building a few years ago, or how the place was half-empty even though it was opening night and the team had just spent $130 million on two players two days before, but how the security guards were complete a-holes and weren't going to let us in because we had a bag.

We took BART to Oakland and got to the arena about 10 minutes before game time. Upon seeing that we were wearing a shoulder bag -- a medium-sized messenger bag -- the main security guy at the east gate immediately told us to go outside and that we couldn't bring our bag in. We asked why not and he said that it was too big. We asked how big it could be and he said go outside and read the sign. We went outside and read the signs but didn't see anything about how big a bag could be. After about the third time we asked him, the security guard came outside and pointed to a sign about twenty feet up the wall that said, in two inch letters, along with about twenty other things, "No large bags or backpacks." We asked the security guard, whose name was Buzz G, how large a large bag was and who determined that. He said ours was large and that he determined it. We asked to speak to a supervisor or manager and he said that he himself was in charge. (We doubted that the person in charge of security for the whole facility would be wearing the same company-issued blazer and printed tie as everyone else, but we didn't point that out.) He said there was nowhere to check our bag and that if we didn't like it we could go down to the ticket windows and they'd give us back our sixty-three (!) bucks. As you can imagine, this went on for a little while and eventually he told us to go to a different gate to get in.