
Manny Pacquiao is returning to AT&T Park on Sunday, and this time he’ll be fielding questions in a forum that fans will be allowed to attend.
Miguel Cotto will be with him, as Sunday’s appearance in San Francisco is part of a media tour building up their Nov. 14 bout. Promoter Bob Arum will also be on hand.
Alas, I won’t be. I have a family commitment involving my niece and her husband visiting from Okinawa. I missed Pacquiao’s April visit to a San Francisco Giants game, where he threw out the first pitch, because I was taking a computer class.
This time, Pacquiao and his entourage will be on hand after the Giants’ afternoon game with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and “the stadium will be open to the public,” the Giants have announced. We media types will have further access to Pacquiao and Cotto after that, so I’m pretty frustrated by my prior commitment, even though I did visit Pacquiao’s training camp in Los Angeles last fall as he prepared for his upset of Oscar De La Hoya.