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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112221\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/23/112216/Oakland-As-AL-West/rs6757_photo-3-hpf/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-112221\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-112221\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/RS6757_photo-3-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland A's celebrate their victory yesterday at the Coliseum. (Nina Thorsen / KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland A's celebrate a victory at the Coliseum. (Nina Thorsen / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In many ways, 2013 ended for Bay Area sports fans in the same way 2012 did. Stanford went to the Rose Bowl, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/12/31/113662/stanford_band_heads_to_pasadena_for_rose_bowl\">just as they did last year\u003c/a>, (though this time they lost). The Raiders are \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/raiders/article/Raiders-Allen-optimistic-about-job-team-5103452.php\">taking stock after a 4-12 season\u003c/a>, just as they did last year. The 49ers are headed for the postseason, just as they did last year – of course, eventually reaching, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/04/were-the-ravens-holding-breaking-down-the-super-bowls-most-controversial-play/\">and losing\u003c/a>, the Super Bowl. A’s fans are enjoying their second consecutive AL West championship, cursing, once again, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2013-10-10/alds-2013-justin-verlander-detroit-tigers-oakland-athletics-as-score-results-game-5-american-league-baseball-series\">the name of Justin Verlander\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/news/article/oak/oakland-as-optimistic-for-more-success-as-calendar-turns-to-2014?ymd=20131226&content_id=66133636&vkey=news_oak\">counting the days\u003c/a> until February 14 when pitchers and catchers report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now for something completely different: the San Francisco Giants followed up their \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/29/photos-video-celebrations-of-giants-world-series-win-get-rowdy/\">2012 championship\u003c/a>, the second in three years, with an unmemorable 2013, tied for third place in their division. At least Giants fans \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/14/barry-zito-san-francisco-giants-farewell-ad\">won’t have Barry Zito starts to agonize over any more\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/28/san-jose-sharks-in-crucial-game/\" target=\"_blank\"> San Jose Sharks\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/17/warri/\">Golden State Warriors\u003c/a> also made it to the postseason in 2013. The San Jose Earthquakes weren’t so fortunate on the field, although the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/San+Jose+Earthquakes+Fans+Compete+with+Chants\">devotion of their fans continued strong\u003c/a>. The World Baseball Classic went off smoothly in San Francisco, introducing new audiences to the term \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/15/are-you-ready-for-some-honkbal-the-world-baseball-classic-heads-to-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">honkbal\u003c/a>. A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/09/death-in-the-americas-cup-drowned-sailors-team-held-capsize-drill-last-fall/\" target=\"_blank\">tragic death\u003c/a> marred the America's Cup, but the race ended with a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/09/death-in-the-americas-cup-drowned-sailors-team-held-capsize-drill-last-fall/\" target=\"_blank\">classic comeback story\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2013 also brought new attention to the issue of football players affected by concussions and head injuries – a story KQED \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/video/sidelined-sports-concussions/\">has been reporting on\u003c/a> since at least 2000, when the late Kathy McAnally \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1068695\">filed this story for NPR\u003c/a> about 49er quarterback Steve Young. This year, local journalists Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada published \"League of Denial,\" a book and \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/league-of-denial/\">companion Frontline documentary;\u003c/a> California schools \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/11/13/how-new-laws-raise-awareness-of-concussion-in-student-athletes/\">took more precautions\u003c/a>; and the NFL settled a lawsuit with \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201309261000\">some retired players\u003c/a> and their families. Baseball is also stepping up \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/12/buster-posey-ray-fosse-baseball-collision-ban\" target=\"_blank\">player protections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, the most consistently engaging story of 2013 in Northern California sports was the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/28/hopeful-sacramento-kings-fans-are-whale-watching/\">battle to keep the Kings NBA franchise in Sacramento\u003c/a>. From the shock felt by Kings fans in January when team owners announced its sale to a group that would move it to Seattle, to the elation when the NBA \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/15/sacramento-kings-fans-rejoice-at/\">officially declared the relocation threat over\u003c/a>, it had more drama, emotion, and suspense than most sports teams generate in an entire season. Under new ownership led by Bay Area tech mogul \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/24/shaq-press-conference-sacramento-kings/\">Vivek Ranadive\u003c/a>, the Kings are looking to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/01/the-sacramento-kings-court-india/\">capture first-time fans in India\u003c/a> and are experiencing the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/12/11/5992920/kings-have-largest-home-attendance.html\" target=\"_blank\">largest attendance boost in the league\u003c/a>. Plans for a new downtown arena continue, despite an ongoing attempt to force a June 2014 ballot measure on the city's financial contributions to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's far from the only sports facility story that made headlines in 2013, and they will certainly do the same in 2014. The city of San Jose decided to move its fight to take the A’s from Oakland \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/18/san-jose-city-council-votes-to-sue-mlb-over-as-move/\" target=\"_blank\">into the courtroom in June.\u003c/a> While most of it has been dismissed, some charges will likely be \u003ca href=\"http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/federal-court-hearing-san-jose-ballpark-oakland-athletics/\" target=\"_blank\">refiled in state court.\u003c/a> The lawsuit also revealed that Major League Baseball \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/07/major-league-baseball-rejected-oakland-as-move-to-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\">turned down the A's relocation \u003c/a>request, though it's not clear whether that applied only to a specific plan or the whole notion of the move south. Oakland fans took heart from renewed attention and \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/raiders/ci_24209664/deep-pocketed-developers-sign-up-coliseum-city\" target=\"_blank\">new developers for Coliseum City\u003c/a>, which could house new venues for the A's, Raiders, and Warriors, along with a new proposal for a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Oakland-ballpark-backers-tout-waterfront-site-5067603.php\">waterfront stadium in Oakland. \u003c/a> The Warriors ownership, though, continues to be more interested in relocating to San Francisco and their own \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/12/golden-state-warriors-unveil-slightly-downsized-arena-design-for/\" target=\"_blank\">waterfront jewel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction continued on Levi's Stadium, the new home of the 49ers in Santa Clara; it's touted as the \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/audio/49ers-tackle-sustainability-with-new-green-stadium/\" target=\"_blank\">greenest in the NFL\u003c/a>. 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One of these impromptu neighborhoods pops up around a light pole bearing the letter “E.” It’s here, over the years, that strangers became friends and family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a cold Sunday morning earlier this month, excitement built around the “E” pole a few hours before the 49ers played their penultimate regular season home game against the Seattle Seahawks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the first to arrive was the Vigil family, who drove up from Salinas. Danny Vigil Sr., 61, became a 49ers season ticket holder in 1980. The previous season, San Francisco had won only two games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first got my tickets, I mean, the team wasn’t doing anything,” Vigil said. “We could go in and almost sit anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/S7pxVXI-5Qc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Vigil watched the 49ers win six games during his first year at Candlestick, but the team’s fortunes would change dramatically in 1981. Led by Coach Bill Walsh, the 49ers won 13 regular season games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The playoffs that season featured maybe the greatest play in Candlestick Park history: \"The Catch,\" when receiver Dwight Clark snagged a Joe Montana pass late in the fourth quarter of the NFC Championship Game against the Dallas Cowboys. The catch gave the 49ers the win and sent them to their first Super Bowl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just thankful I had the opportunity to come here for all those years,” Vigil said. “We just had a blast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the fun for the Salinas car salesman has been passing on the traditions to his son, Danny Vigil Jr. The 41-year-old has in turn shared the experience of tailgating with his own children and grandchildren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is all part of the atmosphere of coming out to Candlestick,\" the younger Vigil said. “Eating up, filling up and then getting into the game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few cars down, Darrell Harrington and Ed Heffernan took in the sights and sounds. This was their final game at Candlestick. For nearly two decades, the friends have made the trek from their homes in Solano County to watch the 49ers in action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/g-cyAlPjxx8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>“It was kind of quieter coming down,” Harrington said. “Lot of things rattled around in our head. Probably not overly emotional, but we’re just thinking about ‘Wow, this is our last trip down.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrington and Heffernan won’t be following the team to Santa Clara next year, where a new stadium awaits. They said the added mileage played the biggest role in their decision. Cost was also an issue: With seat licenses and ticket prices, Harrington said, they'd have to pay $5,700 to keep the two seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I brought some ticket stubs that were from the NFC Championship Game against Dallas with 'The Catch',” Harrington said. “The ticket was $20. I mean, that gives you a little indication about inflation,” he said with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had a great time here and the 'E' pole has been so great to us,” Heffernan said. “And it’s fun. And I think if I’m going to miss anything it’s going to be the tailgate parties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One word that comes up repeatedly by those at Pole E is \"family.\" Both real and adopted families can be found scattered in any direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This right here just feels like home,” said Ronnie Basill of San Francisco. “Everybody knows each other. Everybody tailgates, they get together, everybody shares everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I mean history describes this place. We’ve seen the greatest-ever play here.' \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Mixed in with the normal excitement of a Sunday at Candlestick was the feeling of resignation knowing the stadium's days are numbered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emilio Ramirez, 45, grew up in the neighborhood around Candlestick Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me this was like a cathedral,” Ramirez said. “It’s all I would see when I would look out my front door or take a walk. I went to school around here, and we would actually take field trips to this place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramirez, who works for United Airlines at San Francisco International Airport, said he decided to keep his season tickets for next year, but emphasized it won’t be the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this city kind of made a mistake to let this place go. I think it helps the community,\" Ramirez said. \"It brings people together that normally don’t hang out together. So this is going to be really — it’s tragic to have let this happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emotion lined the voice of Nick Lujan, a 35-year-old from Martinez, when he was asked about the upcoming regular season home finale on Dec. 23 against the Atlanta Falcons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to hate it,” Lujan said. “I grew up here. This was Sunday church for me. This was where I came. This was what I looked forward to eight Sundays out of the year ... more than that because there was playoff games, there was championship games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean history describes this place. We’ve seen the greatest-ever play here. Not everyone came to see Jerry Rice breaking records, Joe Montana breaking records, Ronnie Lott laying down hits. History. 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Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>— Pete Rose\u003c/cite>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Back to Buster Posey. In 2011, Florida’s Scott Cousins plowed into the former Rookie of the Year, bending him backwards. His leg snapped and he writhed in agony behind the plate. His season was over, and the Giants lost perhaps their single most important player. With him, the Giants won the 2010 and 2012 World Series. Without him, they failed to make the playoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since that 2011 incident, Giants manager Bruce Bochy has pushed for banning collisions at home plate. Obviously, because of Posey. And for the most part, baseball pundits, officials and old-school players said collisions were just part of the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why, after more than a century of runners trying to flatten catchers on close plays at the plate, has Major League Baseball decided to change the rules? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why, after more than a century of runners trying to flatten catchers on close plays at the plate, has Major League Baseball decided to change the rules? Several reasons: Money and winning are the top two. Posey, for instance, \u003ca href=\"http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/buster-posey-agrees-nine-167-million-contract-giants-192056284--mlb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed a nine-year, $167 million contract\u003c/a> earlier this year. But he’s not only the only superstar catcher making big money. The St. Louis Cardinals signed catcher Yadier Molina to a five-year, $75 million deal. Minnesota’s Joe Mauer is in the middle of an eight-year, $184 million contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the guy who squats behind the plate for three hours every game, directs the pitchers, and positions the fielders gets paid a lot — especially if they can hit a little, too. And with all that cash at stake, it becomes easier to see why team owners see the eminent good sense of preventing major injuries to their catchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the role of \u003ca href=\"http://sabr.org/sabermetrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sabermetrics\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s presume a player starts every game and plays every inning. He’ll play at least 1,458 innings in a season, and more with extra-inning and playoff games). So one out in one inning becomes devalued greatly, unless of course that out ends a superstar’s season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabermetrics, once a nerdy statistical subculture, is now overrunning baseball (Exhibit A: Oakland \u003ca href=\"http://www.mlb.com/oak/team/exec_bios/beane_billy.jsp\" target=\"-blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General Manager Billy Beane\u003c/a> and “\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Moneyball-Art-Winning-Unfair-Game/dp/0393324818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moneyball\u003c/a>“). Using stats is not new in the game. But now it’s a driving force. Beane once dumped guys thought to be big names that scouts loved for a misfit band of players few had heard of (see \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hattesc01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scott Hatteberg\u003c/a>). The A’s continue to win with low payrolls and the complex statistical calculations of a player became more intriguing to guys running teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New measures developed by \u003ca href=\"http://www.billjamesonline.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill James\u003c/a> and other sabermetrics pioneers — \u003ca href=\"http://www.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?page=stats/glossary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">runs created, OPS\u003c/a> (on-base plus slugging) and \u003ca href=\"http://www.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?page=stats/glossary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WAR\u003c/a> (wins above replacement), just to name a few — have become a top priority. So more teams have hired young stats guys as GMs and assistants to GMs. (By the way, Buster Posey’s WAR in 2012 was 7.4. That means, in his MVP year, he was worth nearly seven-and-a-half wins more than any replacement the Giants had in the minors or on the bench.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now that the major leagues are looking more at these exotic numbers, one run in one inning of one game is so devalued that allowing a runner to plow into a catcher is dangerous, not only because one or both of them might get hurt, but because it is just not that important in the grand scheme of all those outs, innings and games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another reason for the change is right in front of us. Both San Francisco’s Bruce Bochy and Oakland’s Bob Melvin were catchers. In fact, a number of managers now were once catchers. And that makes sense — after all catchers are considered field generals. The St. Louis Cardinals’ Mike Matheny made a strong push for the ban on collisions at the plate. He’s another former catcher who retired from the game, citing an ongoing issue with concussions. He also manages the aforementioned All-Star Yadier Molina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And concussions are a concern too. Major League Baseball officials must have been looking at \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/30/sports/football/judge-announces-settlement-in-nfl-concussion-suit.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the National Football League’s recent settlement\u003c/a> with former players over the issue. The agreement was for $765 million and involved 4,500 players. Could the MLB allow players to continue to take these hits at the plate in good faith, knowing they could cause head injuries? The safe bet is to just ban them outright, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the reason for the change, it doesn’t really matter. The new rule will punish runners for targeting catchers, punish catchers for blocking the plate and a decision on both will be reviewable immediately to umpires (another new rule: an instant replay feature). All that is good for America’s pastime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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(Jamie Squire/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The America's Cup — \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/25/americas-cup-live/\" target=\"_blank\">remember that\u003c/a>? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later this month, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is due to submit the city's formal proposal to host the 35th America's Cup in 2016 or 2017. Right on cue, we're getting a glass half-full/half-empty debate about how much of an economic benefit the 2013 Cup delivered to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareaeconomy.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area Council Economic Institute\u003c/a> is providing the benchmark for the discussion. The organization released an analysis of the economic activity generated by this year's America's Cup, a report that came with two scenarios: \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>In scenario 1\u003c/strong>, the Cup was responsible for $550 million in economic activity and created more than 3,800 jobs. The crucial footnote: those estimates count the impact of redeveloping Pier 27, part of the main spectator venue for the Cup that will now serve as the city's cruise-ship terminal.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Scenario 2 \u003c/strong>excludes the cruise-ship terminal from consideration and finds overall economic impact was $364 million in economic activity 2,900 jobs were created.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Those findings, which included $280 million in spending by the four teams that eventually competed in the Cup and its preliminaries, prompted Sean Randolph, the president of the economic institute, to enthuse in a press release: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The $550 million in economic activity generated by the America’s Cup is substantial. 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What no one is rushing to mention is that the numbers are a fraction of \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareaeconomy.org/media/files/pdf/San_Francisco_America_Cup_Economic_Impact_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the impact the economic institute estimated in 2010\u003c/a> and are well short of even a scaled-down forecast issued last March. In the first estimate, the organization said the America's Cup could bring $1.4 billion in increased economic activity, dwarfing events like the Super Bowl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> But the caveat for the early report was that no one knew how many teams might compete or what the regatta format would be. Based on earlier Cup events, organizers predicted as many as 15 teams might compete for the prize in 2013. As it turned out, only four teams that eventually appeared to race — Oracle Team USA as Cup defenders and teams from New Zealand, Italy and Sweden as challengers. The small number of teams led the economic institute to trim its impact estimate by a half-billion dollars, to $902 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, today's numbers might be disappointing if you go by those earlier estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here's where the economic-impact glass really turns half-empty: In hosting the event for Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison and his America's Cup Event Authority, the city reportedly incurred $20.7 million in expenses to host the event for items like police overtime and traffic and crowd control. A fund-raising effort to defray those costs fell short, and the San Francisco Chronicle reports that, despite millions in tax revenue generated by the Cup, the city is still \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/America-s-Cup-put-San-Francisco-5-5-million-in-5050201.php\" target=\"_blank\">$5.5 million in the red\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor John Avalos, a leading critic of the city's deal to host the Cup, told the Chronicle isn't happy about the deficit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"A $5.5 million deficit, all for a yacht race for billionaires. The whole event has been nothing more than a stupefying spectacle of how this city works for the top 1 percent on everyone else's dime.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Board of Supervisors President David Chiu says the money was well spent. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120279\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/oakland-as-tony-la-russa-elected-to-hall-of-fame/attachment/96801817/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-120279\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120279\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/96801817-640x425.jpg\" alt=\"Former Oakland A's Manager Tony La Russa, right, with outfielder Rickey Henderson in 1994. \" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Oakland A’s Manager Tony La Russa, right, with outfielder Rickey Henderson in 1994.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tony La Russa, who for purposes of this post is a local guy, is one of three managers \u003ca href=\"http://baseballhall.org/news/press-releases/cox-la-russa-torre-elected-hall-fame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">just elected\u003c/a> to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The other two: \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/coxbo01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bobby Cox\u003c/a>, longtime manager of the Atlanta Braves, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/coxbo01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Torre\u003c/a>, who managed the Braves and St. Louis Cardinals before finding success leading the New York Yankees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, Tony La Russa will always be the lawyer who somehow got the Chicago White Sox to the playoffs after decades of pointless wandering through the standings. I grew up in Chicago watching the Sox and Cubs, and felt equally attached to their ancient stadiums. In the early ’80s, people there still talked about the night in 1959 when the Sox clinched the American League pennant and Mayor Daley — the first Mayor Daley — ordered air raid sirens to sound as part of the celebration. People went from a party mood to fearing a nuclear attack was imminent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyway, La Russa, who wasn’t yet 40, already had a law degree (from Florida State), and led the Sox to the playoffs. Where they promptly lost to the Baltimore Orioles. Which is beside the point, because they were still playing in October, after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not quite three seasons later, the Sox fired La Russa and the Oakland A’s hired him. They, too, had been wandering aimlessly around the American League West, managed by the likes of Steve Boros and Jackie Moore. When La Russa arrived on the scene, I remember thinking, “This guy’s a real manager.” And not to give him all credit — the A’s organization was already building the core of the team that would dominated the A.L. West, win three straight pennants (1988-90) and one World Series (1989).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as a fan, it seemed clear La Russa was a manager who knew how to use the talent the front office had signed. Even when the team didn’t win, it was a pretty engaging group to watch. La Russa left the team after A’s owner Walter Haas Jr. died in 1995. He joined the St. Louis Cardinals in 1996, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/larusto01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we hear\u003c/a> that he did pretty well there. The Cards under La Russa won six National League Central titles, three pennants and two World Series. Another career footnote: La Russa was named manager of the year for all three teams he led — those long-ago White Sox, the A’s and the Cardinals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Russa is a longtime resident of the East Bay and is known locally for some of his off-season activities, including \u003ca href=\"http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=20021215&id=-44yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Q-kFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5748,4194044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dancing in the Oakland Ballet’s “Nutcracker”\u003c/a> and for his \u003ca href=\"http://www.arf.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tony La Russa’s Animal Rescue Foundation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the AP’s writeup on La Russa’s Hall of Fame election:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>R.B. Fallstrom\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Associated Press Sports Writer\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ST. LOUIS — Tony La Russa noticed a change between his first game as a big league manager in 1979 and his last in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was right at the beginning of guaranteed contracts. So right away, players had security, potential security, and they were motivated by, ‘Get yours. Get yours,'” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then the media — ESPN started in September of ’79,” he went on. “There was all kind of distractions. Fame and fortune. So what I really believed, and this is something we learned over time, leadership is more important than ever in professional sports.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After leading Oakland to the 1989 World Series title and St. Louis to a pair of championships in 2006 and ’11, La Russa was unanimously elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame on Monday along with former managerial colleagues Bobby Cox and Joe Torre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the sabermetric age, La Russa was a bit of a throwback. He was part of the revolution of batter-pitcher matchups, creating the one-inning closer with Dennis Eckersley. But he was dismissive of a “Moneyball” culture valuing esoteric statistical data in favor of trusting what he saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The metrics part of it is a really good preparation tool, but when you start replacing the manager, his decision-making, what you’re doing is undercutting his opportunity to earn respect, and his leadership gets affected,” he said. “Because who gets the credit for those decisions? That’s 180 degrees the wrong place. So leadership is more important. The more that you can support your leader, which is the coaching staff and manager, the better chance you have to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever intense, the 69-year-old La Russa has spent the last two years as an adviser to baseball Commissioner Bud Selig. La Russa would like to become a club executive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I miss the winning and losing,” he said after his election was announced at the baseball winter meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. “Some day I’ll be with a team, I think. I’d like to be part of the competition again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with a large lead, there was no let-up in La Russa’s dugout. Lips tightly pursed, he pondered the possibilities from his spot in the corner nearest the steps to the clubhouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An innovator, he batted his pitcher eighth in the batting order 432 times, ostensibly to set up a more favorable scenario for Albert Pujols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until La Russa made his final move, walking off from the 2011 World Series parade into retirement, the guard never really came down. And in some ways it still hasn’t, as evidenced by fierce attachments to favorite players, general managers and owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cerebral, and often combative and cranky, La Russa compiled a regular-season record of 2,728-2,365 in 33 seasons. He had 70 postseason victories, trailing only Torre’s 84, and joined role model Sparky Anderson as the lone managers to win Series in both leagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, La Russa managed 12 first-place finishes and six pennants and was picked as Manager of the Year four times. He went to the World Series three straight years from 1988-90, and also lost in the Series in 2004 when the Cardinals were swept by Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A career .199 hitter with no home runs, La Russa made his big league debut as a teen infielder with the 1963 Kansas City Athletics. He got his first managing job at age 35 with the Chicago White Sox in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1983, La Russa guided the White Sox to their first postseason berth in 24 years. He rewarded new Cardinals owners with a division title his first season in St. Louis in 1996, ending the franchise’s nine-year postseason slump, and made it to the playoffs nine times in 16 seasons overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland connection of La Russa and GM Walt Jocketty led to a trade for Mark McGwire, who shattered Roger Maris’ record of 61 homers that had stood since 1961 with 70 homers in 1998. Though since tainted by McGwire’s admission of steroid use, Big Mac was a one-man show that had fans clamoring to see him launch batting practice fastballs into the seats and helped regularly sell out Busch Stadium despite the team’s so-so record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Russa consistently denied knowledge or involvement in the steroids scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The manager’s no-nonsense and refusal to relocate to the Midwest left a bit of distance from a fan base that adored Whitey Herzog’s folksy approach. La Russa softened and gained perspective during the 2001 season, marred by the death of pitcher Darryl Kile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final season was trying. A painful bout of shingles sapped energy early in the season and he informed GM John Mozeliak of his decision in August before the Cardinals rallied from a 10½-game deficit in the NL wild-card race to upset Philadelphia and Milwaukee in the playoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down to their final strike in two different innings in Game 6, the Cardinals came back in Game 6 of the World Series against Texas and then won the title.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after that, he met with his players and told them he was leaving for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some grown men cried,” La Russa said later. “I kind of liked that because they made me cry a few times.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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So right away, players had security, potential security, and they were motivated by, ‘Get yours. Get yours,'” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then the media — ESPN started in September of ’79,” he went on. “There was all kind of distractions. Fame and fortune. So what I really believed, and this is something we learned over time, leadership is more important than ever in professional sports.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After leading Oakland to the 1989 World Series title and St. Louis to a pair of championships in 2006 and ’11, La Russa was unanimously elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame on Monday along with former managerial colleagues Bobby Cox and Joe Torre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the sabermetric age, La Russa was a bit of a throwback. He was part of the revolution of batter-pitcher matchups, creating the one-inning closer with Dennis Eckersley. But he was dismissive of a “Moneyball” culture valuing esoteric statistical data in favor of trusting what he saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The metrics part of it is a really good preparation tool, but when you start replacing the manager, his decision-making, what you’re doing is undercutting his opportunity to earn respect, and his leadership gets affected,” he said. “Because who gets the credit for those decisions? That’s 180 degrees the wrong place. So leadership is more important. The more that you can support your leader, which is the coaching staff and manager, the better chance you have to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever intense, the 69-year-old La Russa has spent the last two years as an adviser to baseball Commissioner Bud Selig. La Russa would like to become a club executive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I miss the winning and losing,” he said after his election was announced at the baseball winter meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. “Some day I’ll be with a team, I think. 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He had 70 postseason victories, trailing only Torre’s 84, and joined role model Sparky Anderson as the lone managers to win Series in both leagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, La Russa managed 12 first-place finishes and six pennants and was picked as Manager of the Year four times. He went to the World Series three straight years from 1988-90, and also lost in the Series in 2004 when the Cardinals were swept by Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A career .199 hitter with no home runs, La Russa made his big league debut as a teen infielder with the 1963 Kansas City Athletics. He got his first managing job at age 35 with the Chicago White Sox in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1983, La Russa guided the White Sox to their first postseason berth in 24 years. He rewarded new Cardinals owners with a division title his first season in St. Louis in 1996, ending the franchise’s nine-year postseason slump, and made it to the playoffs nine times in 16 seasons overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland connection of La Russa and GM Walt Jocketty led to a trade for Mark McGwire, who shattered Roger Maris’ record of 61 homers that had stood since 1961 with 70 homers in 1998. Though since tainted by McGwire’s admission of steroid use, Big Mac was a one-man show that had fans clamoring to see him launch batting practice fastballs into the seats and helped regularly sell out Busch Stadium despite the team’s so-so record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Russa consistently denied knowledge or involvement in the steroids scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The manager’s no-nonsense and refusal to relocate to the Midwest left a bit of distance from a fan base that adored Whitey Herzog’s folksy approach. 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"disqusTitle": "Lawyers: Baseball Officials Formally Rejected Oakland A's Move to San Jose ",
"title": "Lawyers: Baseball Officials Formally Rejected Oakland A's Move to San Jose ",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/07/major-league-baseball-san-jose-lawsuit-oakland-athletics/oaklandcoliseum072913/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-106140\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/oaklandcoliseum072913-e1386446537995.jpg\" alt=\"A 2013 game at the Oakland Coliseum. The A's are at the center of a court battle to force Major League Baseball to allow the team to move to San Jose. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2013 game at the Oakland Coliseum. The A's are at the center of a court battle to force Major League Baseball to allow the team to move to San Jose. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a surprising development, attorneys for Major League Baseball say Commissioner Bud Selig formally rejected a request by Oakland Athletics ownership to move the team to San Jose last June. That claim comes in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/190083132/SJ-v-MLB-Case-Mgmt-Statement\" target=\"_blank\">case-management statement\u003c/a> prepared in advance of a federal court hearing scheduled next week in San Jose's lawsuit against the the major leagues. The suit alleges that Major League Baseball interfered with the A's attempt to relocate to San Jose in part by not making a timely decision on the matter. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the newly filed case-management document, attorneys for Major League Baseball say a decision was made and communicated to A's owner Lew Wolff. \"In fact, MLB denied the Athletics’ relocation request on June 17, 2013,\" the document says, \"one day before this lawsuit was filed. On that date, Commissioner Selig formally notified the Athletics’ ownership that he was not satisfied with the club’s relocation proposal.\" (Coincidentally, June 17 was the day after \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/athletics/2013/06/16/raw-sewage-on-clubhouse-level-creates-postgame-chaos/\" target=\"_blank\">a highly publicized sewage spill\u003c/a> following an A's game at the Oakland Coliseum.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter from Selig to the Athletics has not been made public. The legal filing says that major league officials notified San Jose of its existence on Oct. 22, and offered to share it with the city if it would agree to a \"protective order\" to keep it confidential and/or agree not to use it for further legal action. San Jose refused, instead asking the court to force baseball officials to provide the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nathaniel Grow, \u003ca href=\"http://sports-law.blogspot.com/2013/12/breaking-news-from-san-jose-v-mlb.html\" target=\"_blank\">writing for the Sports Law Blog\u003c/a>, points out that since no one who's seen the letter will comment on the record, we don't know whether Selig said the A's absolutely could not move the franchise, or whether they simply said the proposal they'd submitted needed tweaking. The latter is implied by an anonymous source cited by\u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/athletics/2013/12/07/did-mlb-deny-the-as-request-to-move-to-san-jose-in-june/\" target=\"_blank\"> Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/11/san-jose-gets-split-ruling-in-suit-over-as-move/\" target=\"_blank\">dismissed a major part\u003c/a> of San Jose's suit — allegations that Major League Baseball was guilty of violating federal antitrust law by blocking the A's move — in an October ruling. The case-management statement filed Friday from both sides in the case states their positions on how to proceed on a remaining claim that Major League Baseball violated California law by interfering with San Jose's contract with the A's for a stadium site downtown. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A's originally made the proposal to move to San Jose in 2009. 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But the playing field will be known starting next fall as Kabam Field under a naming-rights deal with a San Francisco videogame maker.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Give credit to the people overseeing the football program at UC Berkeley. They’re not satisfied with having one of the worst teams in the nation, a squad that won just one — one! — of its 12 games this year. They’re not content with a program whose \u003ca href=\"http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/AcademicPerformanceFacts-2013-11-18.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">past academic performance\u003c/a> makes a travesty of Cal’s reputation as one of the best public universities in the United States. They’re not even happy having embarked on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2013/02/25/116965/uc_berkeley_struggles_with_unproven_stadium_funding_model\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a shaky funding scheme\u003c/a> to finance Memorial Stadium’s $320 million renovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Cal’s buffing up the football program’s luster by \u003ca href=\"http://www.calbears.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=30100&ATCLID=209332506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">awarding naming rights\u003c/a> for the gridiron where the Golden Bears suffered humiliation after humiliation this year. Since there’s no money in naming the field for one of the team’s great figures of the past — \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_23950177/purdy-pappy-waldorf-coaching-legend-at-both-cal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pappy Waldorf\u003c/a>, who got Cal to the Rose Bowl three times, say, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.joeroth12.com/joe.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Roth\u003c/a>, the star quarterback cut down by cancer in the ’70s — the university is striking a deal with San Francisco-based videogame maker Kabam. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting next fall, the Bears’ home turf will be called “Kabam Field at California Memorial Stadium.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am not much of a gamer myself, not having touched a controller since the early days of “\u003ca href=\"http://goldeneyegame.com/#/home/accolades\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goldeneye\u003c/a>,” but I am sure Kabam’s titles are top notch. For instance, “The Hobbit: Armies of the Third Age,” which invites us to “wage an epic war in Middle-earth.” And given the money involved, the company. The 15-year deal is worth $18 million. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SBNation’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiagoldenblogs.com/2013/12/4/5177446/kabam-awarded-naming-rights-to-california-memorial-stadium-field\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Golden Blogs has the lowdown \u003c/a>on Kabam and its connection to Berkeley:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Kabam is raising its 2013 revenue forecast by about 8 percent to $325 million as recent hits like “Dragons of Atlantis” beat expectations and its publishing business for other developers’ games is taking off, Chief Executive Kevin Chou said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kabam, which is considering going public, expects to be profitable this year, with revenue up 80 percent from 2012, the former Silicon Valley venture capitalist and investment bank analyst said in an interview late on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kabam … will also be establishing a scholarship program, library donations, internships, as well as executive exchanges, an “innovation lab” for developing projects, and an interactive gaming zone at the stadium.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In exchange for its $18 million, the company will get to emblazon its name on the two 25-yard lines and have signage on the 50-yard line and elsewhere in the stadium. So next fall, in addition to wondering how many teams Cal will hold under 50 points, we can look forward to seeing the legend “Kabam Field” on Cal’s artificial grass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kabam Field? \u003cem>Kabam\u003c/em> Field? Really?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I mean, we’ve seen some bad names. Houston’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/the-enron-field-curse-why-you-should-steer-clear-of-companies-that-put-their-name-on-stadium-2012-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enron Field\u003c/a>, for instance. More locally, we have the extraordinarily uneuphonic O-dot-Co Coliseum. We’ve had \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/Candlestick-Park-takes-name-back-from-Monster-3224747.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monster Park\u003c/a>, which is only the second-worst official name hung on the soon-to-be-vacated Candlestick Park (what could have been worse? 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