What makes baseball great is that there's so little happening, it's a chance to really pay attention to what you're eating.
AT&T Park in San Francisco embraces this. There is a sushi bar right by our seats, but we made the long walk around the stadium in search of the famous Crazy Crab'z Sandwich. It's Dungeness craband tomato on grilled sourdough — with butter, butter and a pinch of butter.
Mike: Poor Barry Bonds. It wasn't steroids. This sandwich is why he doubled in size.
Ian: The only bad thing about this sandwich is you have to sit through a baseball game to get one.
![In the sixth inning, Ian realizes there is a baseball game going on around all the food.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/385ff39/2147483647/strip/true/crop/636x476+0+0/resize/880x659!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2014%2F08%2F04%2Fphoto-4-2-edit-31d848dd8fa26982041aa414b221590c4f6bd3ec.jpg)
People here really love this sandwich. Usually when there's a line this long at a stadium, there's a urinal at the end of it.
Ian: Everything here is locally sourced. If you notice, second baseman Joe Panik grows the tomatoes himself, right at the edge of the outfield.
Mike: Do you think any of these players have ever been busted for crabbing their bats?
![Final score: Pirates 5, Giants 1, Sandwich 9.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f9c0609/2147483647/strip/true/crop/628x470+0+0/resize/880x659!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2014%2F08%2F04%2Fphoto-1-2-edit-6266a99614f7bc961eacf2f71eacfec02e6066b4.jpg)
The Crazy Crab'z Sandwich is $16. That seems like a lot, but in baseball stadium economy that's like 1.5 terrible beers, and in San Francisco economy that's 1/1,000,000th of your monthly rent.
Mike: Eating this, I now understand why the Giants also have a third-inning stretch.
Ian: It's really touching when the whole stadium sings "buy me some sushi and Dungeness crab" in unison.
![Mike wonders how the delicious crab sandwich might impact the playoff hopes of the Minnesota Twins.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/2c48d1b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/478x478+0+0/resize/880x880!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2014%2F08%2F04%2Fphoto-5-2_sq-5959ae435d874ad751b879146c083ccd9e455150.jpg)
[The verdict: This is a spectacular stadium food. Buttery, fresh, perfect. If you're choosing between the classic hot dog and this, ask yourself why you're choosing at all, and get two of each.]
Sandwich Monday is a satirical feature from the humorists at Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
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