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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levin and Silverstein noted that \"The Giants in June also reached a $500,000 settlement in a private class-action suit on behalf of security guards, who claimed they were owed back pay for overtime and for working through breaks and meals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/teams/san-francisco-giants/\">Forbes\u003c/a>, the franchise has a value of $786 million. It has the sixth-highest overall payroll in the league at more than $136 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issues raised in the earlier investigation lead to the Labor Department calling for Major League Baseball to examine similar problems in its other clubs. As Levin and Silverstein wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->According to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.fairwarning.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Sept.-12memo.pdf\" target=\"blank\">Sept.12 memo\u003c/a> from the baseball commissioner’s office to presidents of the 30 Major League clubs, the Labor Department concluded from the first Giants investigation that questionable pay practices “are endemic to our industry.” ... [T]he league office summoned representatives of all Major League clubs to attend a meeting with labor officials in Orlando, Fla., next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meeting was scheduled after the agency urged the commissioner’s office to take action on what \u003ca href=\"http://www.fairwarning.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/catalogofissues.pdf\" target=\"blank\">an email\u003c/a> described as the “catalog of issues” raised by the Giants case. The issues included improperly exempting certain employees from overtime pay, and paying daily rates that might fall short of the minimum wage depending on the number of hours worked.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Representatives from all 30 MLB organizations are expected to attend the meeting with the Labor Department, and MLB has strongly urged the clubs to move toward compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story goes on to say:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Another issue was unpaid interns. This “was not part of the completed investigation” of the Giants, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fairwarning.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/catalogofissuespage1.pdf\" target=\"blank\">an email said\u003c/a>, “but…has subsequently been raised.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.unpaidinternslawsuit.com/documents/whdfs71.pdf\">Labor Department\u003c/a>, an unpaid internship is only legal when designed for educational training, and not for the benefit of the employer or to displace regular employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unpaid internships have been under scrutiny of late, particularly in high-profile industries such as media, entertainment — and professional sports. In June, two interns who were paid below minimum wage \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/06/poorly-paid-interns-sue-conde-nast/66221/\">sued media company Conde Nast\u003c/a>, which has \u003ca href=\"http://www.wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/internships-ending-7242603\">responded\u003c/a> by doing away with their internship program altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/teams/san-francisco-giants/\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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I know why I need to find him undeserving of the riches the San Francisco Giants bestowed upon him when he crossed the bay from Oakland to ply his trade, which is that of major league starting pitcher. And I know he’ll have a tough time finding another job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all that, the first words that come to mind as he leaves the Giants are “class act.” Plus, I’ll always remember watching him pitch the famous (or is it infamous) \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/On-the-losing-end-of-Jeter-s-famous-flip-3276803.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Slide, Jeremy, Slide” game\u003c/a> in the 2001 playoffs against the New York Yankees. Zito did his part, giving up a run — a home run by Jorge Posada, I think — and two hits. But he lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lots of Oakland A’s fans have never forgiven Zito for going to work for the Giants. They saw it and still see it as disloyalty. Of course, that feeling was and is still mixed with incredulity that anyone would give Zito the contract the Giants gave him: $125 million for seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disbelief was soon alloyed with \u003ca href=\"http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schadenfreude\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Schadenfreude\u003c/a>, as Zito struggled year after year after year. His eventual record with the Giants was 63 wins and 80 losses. The one short sunny spell in Zito’s tenure with the Giants: His 15-8 record in 2012, including a couple of brilliant performances in must-win playoff games. If you crunch the numbers ungenerously, ignoring everything Zito and every big leaguer must do every day to stay in the game, the Giants paid him $2 million per win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zito’s performance gave rise to one fine piece of baseball literature, 2008’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/sports/playmagazine/0914play-ZITO.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Mystery of Barry Zito\u003c/a>,” by Pat Jordan in The New York Times Magazine. The piece recounted Zito’s search for what had gone wrong with his game and his struggle to deal with fans who expected so much more of him:\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Zito is an enigma: a perfectly formed pitcher at 22, his promise fulfilled at 24. Now, at 30, without injury, he is in the midst of a fall from grace so confounding that it confuses not only him but everyone else, which is why his hometown fans boo him. It must be his fault, they say. The money made him complacent. The success came too easy. He has no character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I wasn’t making so much money, the fans would show a little compassion,” Zito told me this summer. “But the money gives them no leeway to be sympathetic. When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I’m the same guy I’ve always been.” Which is not quite true. Despite his looks, there is not much that is boyish about Zito today. He is serious, almost brooding, when he talks. “It’s the people around me who’ve changed,” he said. “I can count my friends on one hand.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But time, his 2012 heroics and perhaps the fact Zito won’t be pitching for the Giants again healed his relationship with the fans. On the last day of the season, he was called into a game to face Mark Kotsay of the San Diego Padres and struck him out. He got standing ovations both coming into the game and on his way to the dugout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, Zito is giving the fans an ovation of sorts. He took out a full-page ad in today’s San Francisco Chronicle (below). He says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Let’s Go Giants … Let’s Go Giants … Let’s Go Giants …”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These words will live with me forever. From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you, the dedicated fans of San Francisco for the fire in your hearts for Giants baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These last seven years were filled with ups and downs both on the field and off. I lost both my parents, found the love of my life in Amber, gained wisdom, found a faith in God, and rode the wave to not one but two World Series Championships in three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been an experience that has shaped the lens that I will see life through for the rest of my time. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, Zito is giving the fans an ovation of sorts. He took out a full-page ad in today’s San Francisco Chronicle (below). He says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Let’s Go Giants … Let’s Go Giants … Let’s Go Giants …”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These words will live with me forever. From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you, the dedicated fans of San Francisco for the fire in your hearts for Giants baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These last seven years were filled with ups and downs both on the field and off. I lost both my parents, found the love of my life in Amber, gained wisdom, found a faith in God, and rode the wave to not one but two World Series Championships in three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been an experience that has shaped the lens that I will see life through for the rest of my time. I feel so very blessed to have been part of it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thank you San Francisco.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, I know he can afford it. Still, that looks like a class act to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_114892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 534px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/14/barry-zito-san-francisco-giants-farewell-ad/zito-ad/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-114892\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-114892\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/Zito-Ad-534x1024.png\" alt=\"The full page ad that Giants pitcher Barry Zito took out in the San Francisco Chronicle. \" width=\"534\" height=\"1024\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The full page ad that Giants pitcher Barry Zito took out in the San Francisco Chronicle.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_114722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/11/san-jose-gets-split-ruling-in-suit-over-as-move/oaklandcoliseum/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-114722\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-114722\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/OaklandColiseum.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland A's at their current home, O.co Coliseum. ((Kwong Yee Cheng/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"376\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland A's at their current home, O.co Coliseum. (Kwong Yee Cheng/\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/98153629@N00/9659994199/in/photolist-fHBZJ8-f9dhKY-fHUy5A-fHUxPm-fHBYqg-fHUwVU-fHBYQ4-fHBU7D-fHUyW9-fHUuy5-fHBWz2-fHUv6A-fHBW1p-fHBV9c-fHBYAX-fHUu6q-fHUukd-fHBXVr-84Nbzn-7C9LAW-fHBUAM-5aUypU-4Gcz6X-bXYZfE-5aUxv1-ejBkMW-ejvmJP-ejvBBx-ejyuUg-ejB5af-fHUwnE-f9djPo-fHUzcd-fHBX2c-5aUzf1-a4o4xs-cA6TWu-cA6Uuo-cA6V9G-cA6ThQ-cA6VMU-cA6Wrb-a4kcPe-4GgKrj-bB6o9j-6fJ598-p5QHX-4VVvY8-8rsfb1-8rsfkY-8rp8KX\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A federal court judge in San Jose threw out a big part of the city's lawsuit against Major League Baseball, an action that accuses the sport's officials and team owners of violating antitrust laws by failing to act on the Oakland A's request to move to the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte also ruled that San Jose can go ahead with its claim that Major League Baseball has broken state law by interfering with its contract to sell the A's a stadium site. The city's lawyers say that ruling creates an opening for a resolution of the longstanding dispute over the A's relocation because baseball officials, including Commissioner Bud Selig, will try to avoid testifying about why the A's move has been blocked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A's and San Jose have been working for more than four years to make the move happen, with the city and team signing a deal that would let the A's buy downtown parcels where the team would build a 32,000-seat stadium. But major league owners have never acted on the request. That's because the San Francisco Giants have refused to give up their exclusive territorial rights to the South Bay. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"They're going to now have to give depositions as to why they wouldn't allow Oakland to go down there.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Last June, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/18/san-jose-city-council-votes-to-sue-mlb-over-as-move/\" target=\"_blank\">the city sued\u003c/a>, saying baseball's failure to act on the request and its system of exclusive territories amounted to monopolistic behavior barred by federal anti-trust laws. The suit also alleged baseball had illegally interfered with San Jose's contract with the A's. That \u003ca href=\"http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/tortious_interference\" target=\"_blank\">tortious interference\u003c/a> had cost the city money, the San Jose suit alleged, and damaged its future economic prospects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/175443473/Ruling-in-San-Jose-v-Major-League-Baseball-et-al\" target=\"_blank\">26-page ruling\u003c/a> (embedded below), Whyte stuck closely to 60 years of federal case law in dismissing San Jose's antitrust claims. He noted that many courts have questioned a 1922 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that exempted baseball from the nation's antitrust statutes. Whyte said he agreed with earlier jurists that the exemption is “unrealistic, inconsistent, or illogical.\" But like them, he concluded it's up to Congress, not the courts, to remove the exemption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the contract-interference claim, Whyte found that the city had presented a substantial enough claim that that part of the case can proceed. Joe Cotchett and Philip Gregory, the lead attorneys for San Jose, say that depositions and document disclosure in the case could prove embarrassing for MLB Commissioner Bud Selig, team owners and the Giants.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\"They're going to now have to give depositions as to why they wouldn't allow Oakland to go down there,\" Cotchett said after the ruling was released. \"Bud Selig now has to come into court and under oath testify.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The issue all along has been Major League Baseball refusing to deal with either the city or the A's on this issue and delaying and delaying and delaying,\" Gregory said. \"Now they have the prospect of having to open their books and allow the citizens of San Jose to see the real reason why the team hasn't been allowed to relocate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cotchett told KQED he doesn't think things will get that far. He thinks that under pressure to reveal what goes on behind MLB's closed doors, something will give. \"I think the case, at this point, will get resolved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major League Baseball released a statement suggesting it believes the case will get resolved, too -- in its favor, in court:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Major League Baseball is pleased that the Court dismissed the heart of San Jose's action and confirmed that MLB has the legal right to make decisions about the relocation of its member Clubs. The Court dismissed all of San Jose's state and federal law claims challenging that right. We are confident that the remaining state law claims, which assert that San Jose's costs associated with the option agreement for the sale of real estate were increased by the timing of MLB's decision-making process, will be decided in MLB's favor, and that San Jose has not suffered any compensable injury.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed also issued a statement: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I am pleased that the judge has allowed our case to move forward. Major League Baseball’s unfair and anti-competitive actions are costing San Jose residents millions of dollars in annual tax revenues that could go towards paying for more police officers, firefighters, libraries, road repairs and other critical services. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose filed this lawsuit after waiting patiently for more than four years for a decision from Commissioner Selig. The court’s decision this brings us one step closer to paving the way for San Jose to host a major league ballclub.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>(Gregory and Cotchett also hailed Whyte's ruling in language that will warm the hearts of their South Bay clients and infuriate A's partisans still hurting after last night's season-ending loss to the Detroit Tigers: \"While the A's may have lost a playoff series last night, the city [of San Jose] and the A's won in court today,\" Gregory said.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a takeaway, I'm going to turn to Wendy Thurm, a journalist and former lawyer whose tweets\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/04/oakland-as-san-jose-baseball-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\"> we followed closely\u003c/a> during Judge Whyte's hearing on the MLB dismissal motion last week. She \u003ca href=\"http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/san-jose-mlb-oakland-athletics-antitrust-lawsuit-court-order/\" target=\"_blank\">writes on the Fangraph sports site\u003c/a> this afternoon:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>So, now what?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no question that the antitrust claims were the main attraction in the lawsuit. MLB wants to keep its exemption in place, and San Jose’s challenge to it presented a threat. That threat is gone, for now, as the city decides whether to immediately appeal the court’s order. Whether San Jose can appeal now — with the one state law claim surviving the motion to dismiss — is a complicated question. Typically, courts do not permit piecemeal appeals. San Jose also lost the ability to ask the court to force MLB to permit the A’s to relocate. That kind of remedy would have been potentially available only under the antitrust law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, the city can proceed on its interference claim. That means MLB will be forced to turn over documents related to its decision-making process and MLB witnesses — including Commissioner Selig, the members of his Blue Ribbon Commission on the relocation, and MLB owners — will have to answer questions under oath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My guess is that San Jose will try to proceed on two tracks: ask the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to hear an appeal on the antitrust claims immediately and start issuing subpoenas for documents and depositions. MLB will resist both an immediate appeal and San Jose’s effort to dig deep on the league’s decision-making process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To me, Judge Whyte’s order screams “settlement” — in the sense that neither side got what it wanted and there might be just enough to get the two sides talking about a resolution. If that’s the court’s intent — and I could be wrong on that — we’ll see him give San Jose wide latitude on documents it can subpoena and witnesses it can question under oath, all with the idea that MLB would rather resolve the matter than have to reveal its inner workings in discovery.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View Ruling in San Jose v. Major League Baseball et al. on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/175443473/Ruling-in-San-Jose-v-Major-League-Baseball-et-al\">Ruling in San Jose v. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the contract-interference claim, Whyte found that the city had presented a substantial enough claim that that part of the case can proceed. Joe Cotchett and Philip Gregory, the lead attorneys for San Jose, say that depositions and document disclosure in the case could prove embarrassing for MLB Commissioner Bud Selig, team owners and the Giants.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\"They're going to now have to give depositions as to why they wouldn't allow Oakland to go down there,\" Cotchett said after the ruling was released. \"Bud Selig now has to come into court and under oath testify.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The issue all along has been Major League Baseball refusing to deal with either the city or the A's on this issue and delaying and delaying and delaying,\" Gregory said. \"Now they have the prospect of having to open their books and allow the citizens of San Jose to see the real reason why the team hasn't been allowed to relocate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cotchett told KQED he doesn't think things will get that far. He thinks that under pressure to reveal what goes on behind MLB's closed doors, something will give. \"I think the case, at this point, will get resolved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major League Baseball released a statement suggesting it believes the case will get resolved, too -- in its favor, in court:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Major League Baseball is pleased that the Court dismissed the heart of San Jose's action and confirmed that MLB has the legal right to make decisions about the relocation of its member Clubs. The Court dismissed all of San Jose's state and federal law claims challenging that right. We are confident that the remaining state law claims, which assert that San Jose's costs associated with the option agreement for the sale of real estate were increased by the timing of MLB's decision-making process, will be decided in MLB's favor, and that San Jose has not suffered any compensable injury.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed also issued a statement: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I am pleased that the judge has allowed our case to move forward. Major League Baseball’s unfair and anti-competitive actions are costing San Jose residents millions of dollars in annual tax revenues that could go towards paying for more police officers, firefighters, libraries, road repairs and other critical services. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose filed this lawsuit after waiting patiently for more than four years for a decision from Commissioner Selig. The court’s decision this brings us one step closer to paving the way for San Jose to host a major league ballclub.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>(Gregory and Cotchett also hailed Whyte's ruling in language that will warm the hearts of their South Bay clients and infuriate A's partisans still hurting after last night's season-ending loss to the Detroit Tigers: \"While the A's may have lost a playoff series last night, the city [of San Jose] and the A's won in court today,\" Gregory said.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a takeaway, I'm going to turn to Wendy Thurm, a journalist and former lawyer whose tweets\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/04/oakland-as-san-jose-baseball-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\"> we followed closely\u003c/a> during Judge Whyte's hearing on the MLB dismissal motion last week. She \u003ca href=\"http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/san-jose-mlb-oakland-athletics-antitrust-lawsuit-court-order/\" target=\"_blank\">writes on the Fangraph sports site\u003c/a> this afternoon:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>So, now what?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no question that the antitrust claims were the main attraction in the lawsuit. MLB wants to keep its exemption in place, and San Jose’s challenge to it presented a threat. That threat is gone, for now, as the city decides whether to immediately appeal the court’s order. Whether San Jose can appeal now — with the one state law claim surviving the motion to dismiss — is a complicated question. Typically, courts do not permit piecemeal appeals. San Jose also lost the ability to ask the court to force MLB to permit the A’s to relocate. That kind of remedy would have been potentially available only under the antitrust law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, the city can proceed on its interference claim. That means MLB will be forced to turn over documents related to its decision-making process and MLB witnesses — including Commissioner Selig, the members of his Blue Ribbon Commission on the relocation, and MLB owners — will have to answer questions under oath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My guess is that San Jose will try to proceed on two tracks: ask the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to hear an appeal on the antitrust claims immediately and start issuing subpoenas for documents and depositions. MLB will resist both an immediate appeal and San Jose’s effort to dig deep on the league’s decision-making process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To me, Judge Whyte’s order screams “settlement” — in the sense that neither side got what it wanted and there might be just enough to get the two sides talking about a resolution. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://wapc.mlb.com/shared/video/embed/embed.html?content_id=31112503&width=600&height=336&property=mlb\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's no telling if he would have caught it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He\" being Oakland A's right fielder Josh Reddick and \"it\" being the home run struck by Detroit Tigers designated hitter Victor Martinez in Game 4 of the teams' American League Division Series on Tuesday. In a sense, it was the play of the game. In another, it was one of several frustrating stops for the Athletics on their way to losing the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you haven't been hanging on every pitch of the A's-Tigers series, what happened was this: In the bottom of the seventh, Martinez hit a 94 mph fastball from A's reliever Sean Doolittle into deep right field. Reddick, a Gold Glover with a reputation for channeling \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/Nyh4H9Ts7pM\" target=\"_blank\">Spiderman\u003c/a>, retreated to the warning track, gathered himself and leaped. Reddick reached above the scoreboard and home-run line just as a fan reached across the railing and intercepted the ball that may — or may not — have been about to snap into his outstretched glove. As Reddick and center fielder Coco Crisp protested, Martinez broke into a home-run trot, and the right field umpire signaled \"home run.\" The entire six-member umpiring crew retreated to a video booth to look at the replay and confirmed the on-field call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So that's that. Except: It was so close. And the game was on the line. And what was that clown of a fan doing reaching over the railing, anyway? I mean, he didn't even hold on to the ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've seen a lot of Twitter comments since The Un-Catch along the lines of, \"The rule is clear. That was fan interference. Martinez should've been out.\" So now, let us consider \u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/official_rules/foreword.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">the rule book\u003c/a>, and then take another look at the play to see how clear cut this really is. (And at your leisure, take a look at other plays — \u003ca href=\"http://www.closecallsports.com/2012/06/rule-316-spectator-interference-on.html\" target=\"_blank\">lots of other plays\u003c/a> — where the interference issue has come up.)\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nFirst look at \u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/official_rules/definition_terms_2.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Rule 2.00\u003c/a>, which defines spectator interference as occurring \"when a spectator reaches out of the stands, or goes on the playing field, and touches a live ball.\" Then check out \u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/official_rules/game_preliminaries_3.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Rule 3.16\u003c/a>, a meatier discussion of what spectator interference looks like in practice:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When there is spectator interference with any thrown or batted ball, the ball shall be dead at the moment of interference and the umpire shall impose such penalties as in his opinion will nullify the act of interference.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>APPROVED RULING:\u003c/strong> If spectator interference clearly prevents a fielder from catching a fly ball, the umpire shall declare the batter out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rule 3.16 Comment: \u003c/strong>There is a difference between a ball which has been thrown or batted into the stands, touching a spectator thereby being out of play even though it rebounds onto the field and a spectator going onto the field or reaching over, under or through a barrier and touching a ball in play or touching or otherwise interfering with a player. In the latter case it is clearly intentional and shall be dealt with as intentional interference as in Rule 3.15. Batter and runners shall be placed where in the umpire’s judgment they would have been had the interference not occurred. No interference shall be allowed when a fielder reaches over a fence, railing, rope or into a stand to catch a ball. He does so at his own risk. However, should a spectator reach out on the playing field side of such fence, railing or rope, and plainly prevent the fielder from catching the ball, then the batsman should be called out for the spectator’s interference. \u003cem>Example:\u003c/em> Runner on third base, one out and a batter hits a fly ball deep to the outfield (fair or foul). Spectator clearly interferes with the outfielder attempting to catch the fly ball. Umpire calls the batter out for spectator interference. Ball is dead at the time of the call. Umpire decides that because of the distance the ball was hit, the runner on third base would have scored after the catch if the fielder had caught the ball which was interfered with, therefore, the runner is permitted to score. This might not be the case if such fly ball was interfered with a short distance from home plate.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So now, take a look at that video again. Then go back to the rule: \"If spectator interference clearly prevents a fielder from catching a fly ball, the umpire shall declare the batter out.\" And: \"No interference shall be allowed when a fielder reaches over a fence, railing, rope or into a stand to catch a ball. He does so at his own risk. However, should a spectator reach out on the playing field side of such fence, railing or rope, and plainly prevent the fielder from catching the ball, then the batsman should be called out for the spectator’s interference.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's pretty clear the fan reached across the barrier to fumble with the ball. He clearly ended any chance Reddick had to catch it. Listen to the broadcasters viewing the replays, and they seem to be leaning toward the obvious: the clumsy Detroiter had interfered with the ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when looking for certainty in baseball, religion or law, always beware of adjectives, adverbs and other conditional language that creates miles of room for interpretation. In the rule, the spectator must \"clearly\" or \"plainly\" prevent a catch. So — did the fan obviously stop Reddick from making the catch? 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_114257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/08/oakland-as-playoff-update/attachment/183659309/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-114257\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-114257\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/183659309-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A's shortstop Jed Lowrie follows the flight of the ball as he homers in the fifth inning of Tuesday's game. (Leon Halip/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A's shortstop Jed Lowrie follows the flight of the ball as he homers in the fifth inning of Tuesday's game. (Leon Halip/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aftermath: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/08/oakland-athletics-detroit-tigers-game-4-home-run-interference\" target=\"_blank\">Tigers' Disputed Game 4 Home Run: Did the A's Get Robbed?\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:30 p.m.:\u003c/strong> The final — Tigers 8, A's 6. Game 5 is Thursday night at the Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> The A's go into Game 4 up two games to one. And if they win this afternoon — well, I'm too superstitious to say directly what that will mean. 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(Kuiper spent one year, 1993, calling Colorado Rockies games.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ll say, as a perfectly objective Giants non-fan, that I like listening to Kuiper and the rest of the team’s broadcasters: Jon Miller, Dave Fleming and Mike Krukow. No one’s better at creating a picture of the game than Miller, who \u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100725&content_id=12628128&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won the Frick Award\u003c/a> in 2010. 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Bill deserves the honor, and so do they.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Korach acknowledges that in a way, the deck is stacked against King. He isn’t associated with just one team or one sport, the way Ernie Harwell was with the Detroit Tigers or Jack Brickhouse was with the Cubs. The Hall of Fame asks the 20-member panel of voters to weigh the broadcaster’s presence on high-profile national events like the World Series and All-Star Game. King never got that kind of exposure, so that’s another strike against him. Finally, longevity counts, too, and even at 25 years with the A’s, King isn’t among the longest-serving broadcasters on this year’s list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, here’s King’s most famous Oakland A’s call: The crazy end to the 2002 game in which the Athletics beat the Kansas City Royals for the American League-record 20th consecutive win. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113887\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/98153629@N00/9659994199/in/photolist-fHBZJ8-f9dhKY-fHUy5A-fHUxPm-fHBYqg-fHUwVU-fHBYQ4-fHBU7D-fHUyW9-fHUuy5-fHBWz2-fHUv6A-fHBW1p-fHBV9c-fHBYAX-fHUu6q-fHUukd-fHBXVr-84Nbzn-7C9LAW-fHBUAM-5aUypU-4Gcz6X-bXYZfE-5aUxv1-ejBkMW-ejvmJP-ejvBBx-ejyuUg-ejB5af-fHUwnE-f9djPo-fHUzcd-fHBX2c-5aUzf1-a4o4xs-cA6TWu-cA6Uuo-cA6V9G-cA6ThQ-cA6VMU-cA6Wrb-a4kcPe-4GgKrj-bB6o9j-6fJ598-p5QHX-4VVvY8-8rsfb1-8rsfkY-8rp8KX\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-113887\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/9659994199_8d30712ced_z.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland A's still played in Oakland in Sept. 2013. Photo: Kwong Yee Cheng/Flickr\" width=\"640\" height=\"376\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland A's still played in Oakland in Sept. 2013. (Kwong Yee Cheng/\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/98153629@N00/9659994199/in/photolist-fHBZJ8-f9dhKY-fHUy5A-fHUxPm-fHBYqg-fHUwVU-fHBYQ4-fHBU7D-fHUyW9-fHUuy5-fHBWz2-fHUv6A-fHBW1p-fHBV9c-fHBYAX-fHUu6q-fHUukd-fHBXVr-84Nbzn-7C9LAW-fHBUAM-5aUypU-4Gcz6X-bXYZfE-5aUxv1-ejBkMW-ejvmJP-ejvBBx-ejyuUg-ejB5af-fHUwnE-f9djPo-fHUzcd-fHBX2c-5aUzf1-a4o4xs-cA6TWu-cA6Uuo-cA6V9G-cA6ThQ-cA6VMU-cA6Wrb-a4kcPe-4GgKrj-bB6o9j-6fJ598-p5QHX-4VVvY8-8rsfb1-8rsfkY-8rp8KX\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:15 a.m. Friday: \u003c/strong>The hearing is over. Joe Cotchett, the lawyer representing San Jose, says he expects a decision in 20 to 30 days. Reporters covering the hearing conveyed the impression that Judge Ronald Whyte seemed to buy Major League Baseball's argument that its antitrust exemption bars the lawsuit and that San Jose doesn't have any standing to bring an antitrust suit in any case because its alleged injuries — economic damage and interference with its contract with the A's — are speculative. Cotchett said that no matter how Whyte rules, the case will wind up in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/02/bill-king-duane-kuiper-ford-frick-award\" target=\"_blank\">the late Bill King\u003c/a>, the voice of the Oakland Athletics from 1981 through 2005, was announced as a finalist for the fourth year in a row for the \u003ca href=\"http://baseballhall.org/\" target=\"_blank\">National Baseball Hall of Fame\u003c/a>'s Ford C. Frick Award.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte is holding a hearing this morning on the city of San Jose's suit accusing Major League Baseball of violating federal antitrust law by blocking the owners of the Oakland A's from moving the team to the South Bay. The hearing features two Bay Area legal heavyweights — Joe Cotchett for San Jose and John Keker for the major leagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose sued after waiting for more than four years for baseball — meaning Commissioner Bud Selig and the 30 team owners — to take action on the A's relocation request. The move has been blocked by the San Francisco Giants, who hold territorial rights to the South Bay and argue the area is crucial to their franchise's success. Major League Baseball has responded that the city has no standing to file the suit and that it's protected by more than 90 years of court decisions and lawmaking that uphold its exemption from antitrust laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Best live coverage of this morning's hearing: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hangingsliders\" target=\"_blank\">Live tweeting\u003c/a> from freelance baseball writer Wendy Thurm. Here's a sample (also tweeting: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SVBizLauren\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren Hepler\u003c/a> of the Silicon Valley Business Journal):\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Judge Whyte to Keker: wouldn't you agree that there's no rationale why baseball has AT exemption but other sports don't? Keker: No\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Wendy Thurm (@hangingsliders) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hangingsliders/statuses/386167941537869825\">October 4, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Keker: baseball has grown and developed around the exemption since 1922. You may not agree with reasoning but structure built on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Wendy Thurm (@hangingsliders) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hangingsliders/statuses/386168541457567744\">October 4, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->Here's how the San Jose Mercury News \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/athletics/ci_23485245/san-jose-sues-mlb-over-stalled-oakland-move\" target=\"_blank\">described the city's lawsuit\u003c/a> when it was filed in June:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>After four-plus years of waiting to hear whether the Oakland A's will be allowed to move to San Jose, the city filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against Major League Baseball in a bid to shake up a game seemingly stuck in extra innings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit accused MLB of a \"blatant conspiracy\" to deprive San Jose of a major league baseball team by granting the San Francisco Giants exclusive territorial rights to San Jose, which the defending World Series champions refuse to relinquish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For years, MLB has unlawfully conspired to control the location and relocation of major league men's professional baseball clubs under the guise of an 'antitrust exemption' applied to the business of baseball,\" said the 44-page complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And here's how the Merc \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_23816459/oakland-san-jose-mlb-strikes-back-against-citys\" target=\"_blank\">characterized Major League Baseball's response\u003c/a>, which came in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Lawyers for Major League Baseball on Wednesday moved to toss the lawsuit out of court, arguing in legal papers that a federal judge should dismiss the case because its claims are barred by baseball's antitrust exemption and the fact it would lead to \"absurd results\" for the sport and cities around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the league argues that San Jose cannot show it has been injured by baseball's indecision over whether to allow the A's to move to the city because of the San Francisco Giants' claim of territorial rights to the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The alleged harms are too remote and speculative to support an antitrust claim,\" wrote San Francisco attorney John Keker, who is leading the league's defense. \"If (San Jose's claims were supported), it would lead to absurd results: every time a franchise contemplated relocation, MLB would be subjected to suits from any city that desires a team and from any city that does not want to lose a team.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's our Storify summary of key moments live-tweeted from this morning's hearing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"storify\">\u003ciframe src=\"//storify.com/kqednews/san-jose-vs-major-league-baseball/embed\" frameborder=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"750\">\u003c/iframe>[\u003ca href=\"//storify.com/kqednews/san-jose-vs-major-league-baseball\" target=\"_blank\">View the story \"San Jose vs. Major League Baseball\" on Storify\u003c/a>]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Reporters covering the hearing conveyed the impression that Judge Ronald Whyte seemed to buy Major League Baseball's argument that its antitrust exemption bars the lawsuit and that San Jose doesn't have any standing to bring an antitrust suit in any case because its alleged injuries — economic damage and interference with its contract with the A's — are speculative. Cotchett said that no matter how Whyte rules, the case will wind up in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/02/bill-king-duane-kuiper-ford-frick-award\" target=\"_blank\">the late Bill King\u003c/a>, the voice of the Oakland Athletics from 1981 through 2005, was announced as a finalist for the fourth year in a row for the \u003ca href=\"http://baseballhall.org/\" target=\"_blank\">National Baseball Hall of Fame\u003c/a>'s Ford C. Frick Award.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte is holding a hearing this morning on the city of San Jose's suit accusing Major League Baseball of violating federal antitrust law by blocking the owners of the Oakland A's from moving the team to the South Bay. The hearing features two Bay Area legal heavyweights — Joe Cotchett for San Jose and John Keker for the major leagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose sued after waiting for more than four years for baseball — meaning Commissioner Bud Selig and the 30 team owners — to take action on the A's relocation request. The move has been blocked by the San Francisco Giants, who hold territorial rights to the South Bay and argue the area is crucial to their franchise's success. Major League Baseball has responded that the city has no standing to file the suit and that it's protected by more than 90 years of court decisions and lawmaking that uphold its exemption from antitrust laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Best live coverage of this morning's hearing: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hangingsliders\" target=\"_blank\">Live tweeting\u003c/a> from freelance baseball writer Wendy Thurm. Here's a sample (also tweeting: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SVBizLauren\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren Hepler\u003c/a> of the Silicon Valley Business Journal):\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Judge Whyte to Keker: wouldn't you agree that there's no rationale why baseball has AT exemption but other sports don't? Keker: No\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Wendy Thurm (@hangingsliders) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hangingsliders/statuses/386167941537869825\">October 4, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Keker: baseball has grown and developed around the exemption since 1922. 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