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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you haven’t been paying attention to the Oakland Athletics and their surprising path to Major League Baseball’s postseason — you might want to do something about that before the A’s take the field against the New York Yankees tonight (Wednesday) at 5 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a one-game playoff. The winner goes on to face the Boston Red Sox in the American League Division Series starting Friday. The loser goes home for the long dark winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get you up to speed, here are eight of the best stories written about the A’s this year:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It was the silence of the muted skeptic, an I-can’t-even silence that carried a message that hit like a sleeper wave: These guys — whoever the hell they are — aren’t going away.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julian McWilliams of The Athletic \u003ca href=\"https://theathletic.com/561325/2018/10/01/as-manager-bob-melvin-is-the-steady-hand-at-the-wheel-of-this-postseason-run/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reminds us of the man at the helm, Bob Melvin. \u003c/a>\u003cem>(subscription required)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>Even in his pinnacle moment, it wasn’t about him. He never wants to make himself too much a part of a moment that he thinks should be reserved and enjoyed by the players.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jared Diamond’s Wall Street Journal piece on \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-most-2018-team-in-baseball-the-as-1534258241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">why the A’s embody 2018 baseball trends. \u003c/a>\u003cem>(subscription required)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>The magic happening here this summer, in this dilapidated old stadium nestled in the heart of the East Bay, appears hard to believe. Despite modest spring-training expectations … the Oakland Athletics have emerged as baseball’s biggest surprise …\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Sheinin of the Washington Post makes the case for \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/the-athletics-accustomed-to-being-afterthoughts-arent-anymore/2018/08/29/5a77a10a-abb0-11e8-8a0c-70b618c98d3c_story.html?utm_term=.ca86949c397a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the A’s as the most fun team in baseball.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>With their low profile, their decrepit stadium, their 10 p.m. starts on the East Coast and their bare-bones payroll that was the lowest in the majors on Opening Day … the A’s are accustomed to being afterthoughts within the sport they are paid to play.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan Slusser’s poignant preseason story in the San Francisco Chronicle on \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/athletics/article/A-s-Stephen-Piscotty-helps-mom-cope-with-ALS-12526502.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Piscotty and his mother’s struggle with ALS.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>‘She’s so balanced and so fun and pokes fun at us, and she reminds us there is more to life than baseball.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Brown and Martin Gallegos of the Bay Area News Group do \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/01/watch-playoff-bound-as-have-bizarre-pre-game-ritual-that-will-blow-your-mind/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a little dugout anthropology on the A’s curious rituals.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>As with bird calls and dolphin whistles, no one will ever fully understand the secret language of the A’s pre-game handshake ritual. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen the Oakland A’s take the field against the New York Yankees on Wednesday, no one will be rooting harder for the boys in green and gold than I. No super-fan with child named after Billy Beane; no old-timer with a Rickey Henderson rookie card displayed over the mantel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hey, am I an A’s fan, or am I an A’s fan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, I am not an A’s fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then why am I going to be living and dying with every pitch Wednesday?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lemme tell ya a story …\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>October, \u003ci>2001\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Couldn’t have been more than 20 people on the flight over from San Francisco, and despite the poor turnout, you’ve never seen so many \u003cem>weather eyes\u003c/em> cast up and down the aisle. My parents live in downtown Manhattan, just a medium walk away from the \u003cem>thing\u003c/em> itself. Invisible plumes of \u003cem>whatever\u003c/em> — you try not to think about it — snake their way through city streets, waft along the avenues, keep you company on cab rides. Inevitably, they find their way to your nostrils, and you get a nice big whiff of hell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each time I wade out into that acrid soup, I look up and south. You know, maybe catch a glimpse of some smoking ruins or something. But there \u003cem>aren’t\u003c/em> any smoking ruins, because somebody has Photoshopped the skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the city got its two front teeth knocked out, and a lot of people are dead. My dad says we gotta visit my grandfather, up on 86th and First. So we cab it, along with my uncle. Don’t mention \u003cem>what happened\u003c/em>, my dad says. Sure, I think. I mean, the old man, what is he, 91, 92? Lived through two world wars, the Great Depression, and the genuine possibility of nuclear annihilation. Enough already, yes?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">My family, of course, hates the Yankees. Not just hates. \u003cstrong>Hates, despises, loathes.\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>How I’m gonna get through this visit, I don’t know. But thank god for baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In matters of war and peace, there’s not much intergenerational accord in our clan. But at least we agree on one thing. This here’s a \u003cem>National League\u003c/em> family. That unbroken line of devotion, from my grandfather’s New York Giants to his sons’ Giants \u003cem>and\u003c/em> Dodgers (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T0drh8i4Tw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1951\u003c/a> was brutal according to family lore) to the entire family’s last, best hope in the form of the New York Mets (please, don’t get me started).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This legacy, passed down from father to son, then repeat, has always provided the nearest thing to a bond among the remaining living branches on our family tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And soon, we will have the World Series. This year, in 2001, the Senior Circuit will offer up the Arizona Diamondbacks as annual sacrifice to that hungry behemoth of the opposing league.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My family, of course, hates the Yankees. Not just hates. \u003cem>Hates, despises, loathes\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why? As a kid, I once put the question to my father, who looked at me like I’d asked why we don’t have candy for breakfast. Pressed, he finally spit out, with maximum venom: “They never gave anyone else a chance to win!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11696083\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11696083\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AsVAntiYanksCaps-800x587.jpg\" alt=\"An Oakland A's cap sits next to a Yankee Hater's cap (yes, they exist) on the author's kitchen table.\" width=\"800\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AsVAntiYanksCaps-800x587.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AsVAntiYanksCaps-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AsVAntiYanksCaps-1020x749.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AsVAntiYanksCaps-1200x881.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AsVAntiYanksCaps.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AsVAntiYanksCaps-1180x866.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AsVAntiYanksCaps-960x705.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AsVAntiYanksCaps-240x176.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AsVAntiYanksCaps-375x275.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AsVAntiYanksCaps-520x382.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Oakland A’s cap sits next to a Yankee Hater’s cap (yes, they exist) on the author’s kitchen table. \u003ccite>(Jon Brooks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even as a child, this struck me as hypocritical, considering the zero-sum attitude my dad applied to all other areas in life. But the Yankees’ renaissance during my 1970s childhood only seemed to prove him correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, Yankee owner George Steinbrenner was stockpiling superstars, while my Mets felt it fiscally prudent to divest themselves of anyone who might help them, you know, \u003cem>win\u003c/em>. Because my 12-year-old’s interpretation of how the world worked included loserdom by association with your favorite team, my resentment of the Yankees grew. (One of my least cherished memories is attending as a fifth columnist the 1976 Yankees-Royals playoff game at which Chris Chambliss hit a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS6HGwoRrkY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">walk-off home run\u003c/a> to send New York to the World Series. While my 55,000 ecstatic city brethren whooped it up, I sat stonefaced, dissociating among the handslaps and hugs.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now — this is 2001 — we were in the midst of another Yankee run. The team had won three straight championships, the last over the Mets. The fear among the greater community of Yankee haters was that this juggernaut would never \u003cem>lose\u003c/em> again. Not only did they have the best team, the best manager and the most money, they also had, so it is said, something called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=%22yankee+mystique\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yankee mystique\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What that is, I can’t quite articulate, but with all due respect to rationality, it must be feared. Why? Because 27 World Series wins say so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, like an avenging angel, Yankee mystique swoops down upon opposing players (\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/15/sports/baseball/mickey-owen-dies-at-89-allowed-fateful-passed-ball.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mickey Owen\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-35ghwAw90&ab_channel=MLB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pedro Martinez\u003c/a>) and sometimes, as Guardian of the Realm, it bestows swift shots of grace upon the Yankees themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fall, A’s fans saw the phenomenon firsthand in the avatar of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApoJk9X7Vto&ab_channel=MLB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Derek Jeter\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApoJk9X7Vto&ab_channel=MLB\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, Yankee mystique manifests as a creeping foreboding, that no matter what the situation on the scoreboard or the standings, the Yankees will eventually humiliate whoever’s in their way — and their little fans, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should their power lie dormant an inning, a season, a decade, those in the know understand, their power can be contained but never destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That terrible October, 17 years ago, my grandfather had lived through the entirety of the Yankees’ 80-year hegemony. He knew the scope of the problem as well as anyone, and I wanted to hear him voice it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The World Series is coming up, ” I say to him. “Diamondbacks-Yankees …”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hasn’t uttered 10 words all visit — he is not going to live much longer, and in fact, this is the last time I will see him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He nods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m rooting for the Yankees,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I blink. My uncle gasps. My father, head hater of us all, wrinkles his face as if trying to screw it off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The New York team,” my grandfather calmly explains. “I’m rooting for the New York team…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \u003cem>that’s\u003c/em> when it hit me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It changed \u003cem>everything\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My grandfather’s confession had scandalized his offspring. After the visit, on the elevator down, my uncle puts it into perspective in the most tasteless way possible:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t root for the Yankees if they were playing the Berlin Nazis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So there you have it. Hey, listen, I’m not glowing with pride here. The Yankees lost that World Series, and, as always, I rooted against them — hard. Even in that time of great crisis, with my disfigured, traumatized hometown in dire need of a victory, I could not rise above my own petty feud with the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in 2018, I understand my grandfather had it right. I mean, this sort of unrestrained \u003ci>tribalism\u003c/i> — haven’t we used it, perhaps, as trial run for the more consequential divisions in our current politics?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But maybe you have to be as old as my grandfather to finally understand that. Or maybe the Greatest Generation couldn’t help but do what times demand. Or maybe he was just a better man than I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because basically, I remain an unreconstructed Yankee hater. Call it habit, call it stubbornness. Though it’s no way to live, I continue to view any Yankee resurgence like a harbinger of the coming collapse of Western civilization, even while \u003cem>genuine\u003c/em> harbingers render the notion ridiculous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what can I do, but lean into it? While it’s been nine years since the team has prevailed, one must stay vigilant, mustn’t one? While this year’s mighty Red Sox have made a perfectly terrific Yankee season look like second prize in a beauty contest, the Yankees have closed out the season by taking 3 of 4 from their archrivals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once again, I feel that the barbarians are at the gate, and the enemy of my enemy is my friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want to stop hating the Yankees, but I just can’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>C’mon, A’s! 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No super-fan with child named after Billy Beane; no old-timer with a Rickey Henderson rookie card displayed over the mantel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hey, am I an A’s fan, or am I an A’s fan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, I am not an A’s fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then why am I going to be living and dying with every pitch Wednesday?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lemme tell ya a story …\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>October, \u003ci>2001\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Couldn’t have been more than 20 people on the flight over from San Francisco, and despite the poor turnout, you’ve never seen so many \u003cem>weather eyes\u003c/em> cast up and down the aisle. My parents live in downtown Manhattan, just a medium walk away from the \u003cem>thing\u003c/em> itself. Invisible plumes of \u003cem>whatever\u003c/em> — you try not to think about it — snake their way through city streets, waft along the avenues, keep you company on cab rides. Inevitably, they find their way to your nostrils, and you get a nice big whiff of hell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each time I wade out into that acrid soup, I look up and south. You know, maybe catch a glimpse of some smoking ruins or something. But there \u003cem>aren’t\u003c/em> any smoking ruins, because somebody has Photoshopped the skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the city got its two front teeth knocked out, and a lot of people are dead. My dad says we gotta visit my grandfather, up on 86th and First. So we cab it, along with my uncle. Don’t mention \u003cem>what happened\u003c/em>, my dad says. Sure, I think. I mean, the old man, what is he, 91, 92? Lived through two world wars, the Great Depression, and the genuine possibility of nuclear annihilation. Enough already, yes?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">My family, of course, hates the Yankees. Not just hates. \u003cstrong>Hates, despises, loathes.\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>How I’m gonna get through this visit, I don’t know. But thank god for baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In matters of war and peace, there’s not much intergenerational accord in our clan. But at least we agree on one thing. This here’s a \u003cem>National League\u003c/em> family. That unbroken line of devotion, from my grandfather’s New York Giants to his sons’ Giants \u003cem>and\u003c/em> Dodgers (\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T0drh8i4Tw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1951\u003c/a> was brutal according to family lore) to the entire family’s last, best hope in the form of the New York Mets (please, don’t get me started).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This legacy, passed down from father to son, then repeat, has always provided the nearest thing to a bond among the remaining living branches on our family tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And soon, we will have the World Series. This year, in 2001, the Senior Circuit will offer up the Arizona Diamondbacks as annual sacrifice to that hungry behemoth of the opposing league.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My family, of course, hates the Yankees. Not just hates. \u003cem>Hates, despises, loathes\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why? As a kid, I once put the question to my father, who looked at me like I’d asked why we don’t have candy for breakfast. Pressed, he finally spit out, with maximum venom: “They never gave anyone else a chance to win!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11696083\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11696083\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AsVAntiYanksCaps-800x587.jpg\" alt=\"An Oakland A's cap sits next to a Yankee Hater's cap (yes, they exist) on the author's kitchen table.\" width=\"800\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AsVAntiYanksCaps-800x587.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AsVAntiYanksCaps-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AsVAntiYanksCaps-1020x749.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AsVAntiYanksCaps-1200x881.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AsVAntiYanksCaps.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AsVAntiYanksCaps-1180x866.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AsVAntiYanksCaps-960x705.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AsVAntiYanksCaps-240x176.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AsVAntiYanksCaps-375x275.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/AsVAntiYanksCaps-520x382.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Oakland A’s cap sits next to a Yankee Hater’s cap (yes, they exist) on the author’s kitchen table. \u003ccite>(Jon Brooks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even as a child, this struck me as hypocritical, considering the zero-sum attitude my dad applied to all other areas in life. But the Yankees’ renaissance during my 1970s childhood only seemed to prove him correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, Yankee owner George Steinbrenner was stockpiling superstars, while my Mets felt it fiscally prudent to divest themselves of anyone who might help them, you know, \u003cem>win\u003c/em>. Because my 12-year-old’s interpretation of how the world worked included loserdom by association with your favorite team, my resentment of the Yankees grew. (One of my least cherished memories is attending as a fifth columnist the 1976 Yankees-Royals playoff game at which Chris Chambliss hit a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS6HGwoRrkY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">walk-off home run\u003c/a> to send New York to the World Series. While my 55,000 ecstatic city brethren whooped it up, I sat stonefaced, dissociating among the handslaps and hugs.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now — this is 2001 — we were in the midst of another Yankee run. The team had won three straight championships, the last over the Mets. The fear among the greater community of Yankee haters was that this juggernaut would never \u003cem>lose\u003c/em> again. Not only did they have the best team, the best manager and the most money, they also had, so it is said, something called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=%22yankee+mystique\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yankee mystique\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What that is, I can’t quite articulate, but with all due respect to rationality, it must be feared. Why? Because 27 World Series wins say so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, like an avenging angel, Yankee mystique swoops down upon opposing players (\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/15/sports/baseball/mickey-owen-dies-at-89-allowed-fateful-passed-ball.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mickey Owen\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-35ghwAw90&ab_channel=MLB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pedro Martinez\u003c/a>) and sometimes, as Guardian of the Realm, it bestows swift shots of grace upon the Yankees themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fall, A’s fans saw the phenomenon firsthand in the avatar of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApoJk9X7Vto&ab_channel=MLB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Derek Jeter\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ApoJk9X7Vto'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ApoJk9X7Vto'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>For me, Yankee mystique manifests as a creeping foreboding, that no matter what the situation on the scoreboard or the standings, the Yankees will eventually humiliate whoever’s in their way — and their little fans, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should their power lie dormant an inning, a season, a decade, those in the know understand, their power can be contained but never destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That terrible October, 17 years ago, my grandfather had lived through the entirety of the Yankees’ 80-year hegemony. He knew the scope of the problem as well as anyone, and I wanted to hear him voice it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The World Series is coming up, ” I say to him. “Diamondbacks-Yankees …”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hasn’t uttered 10 words all visit — he is not going to live much longer, and in fact, this is the last time I will see him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He nods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m rooting for the Yankees,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I blink. My uncle gasps. My father, head hater of us all, wrinkles his face as if trying to screw it off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The New York team,” my grandfather calmly explains. “I’m rooting for the New York team…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \u003cem>that’s\u003c/em> when it hit me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sept. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It changed \u003cem>everything\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My grandfather’s confession had scandalized his offspring. After the visit, on the elevator down, my uncle puts it into perspective in the most tasteless way possible:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t root for the Yankees if they were playing the Berlin Nazis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So there you have it. Hey, listen, I’m not glowing with pride here. The Yankees lost that World Series, and, as always, I rooted against them — hard. Even in that time of great crisis, with my disfigured, traumatized hometown in dire need of a victory, I could not rise above my own petty feud with the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in 2018, I understand my grandfather had it right. I mean, this sort of unrestrained \u003ci>tribalism\u003c/i> — haven’t we used it, perhaps, as trial run for the more consequential divisions in our current politics?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But maybe you have to be as old as my grandfather to finally understand that. Or maybe the Greatest Generation couldn’t help but do what times demand. Or maybe he was just a better man than I.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because basically, I remain an unreconstructed Yankee hater. Call it habit, call it stubbornness. Though it’s no way to live, I continue to view any Yankee resurgence like a harbinger of the coming collapse of Western civilization, even while \u003cem>genuine\u003c/em> harbingers render the notion ridiculous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what can I do, but lean into it? While it’s been nine years since the team has prevailed, one must stay vigilant, mustn’t one? While this year’s mighty Red Sox have made a perfectly terrific Yankee season look like second prize in a beauty contest, the Yankees have closed out the season by taking 3 of 4 from their archrivals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once again, I feel that the barbarians are at the gate, and the enemy of my enemy is my friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want to stop hating the Yankees, but I just can’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>C’mon, A’s! 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Stay caught up with the best of KQED’s reporting each week by subscribing to the \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/qed-up/id1197721799?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Q’ed Up podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a busy week overseas. Here’s what’s happening in our neck of the woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680469/how-an-oakland-oaks-baseball-player-broke-barriers\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artie Wilson broke baseball’s color barrier in Oakland\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-800x713.jpg\" alt=\"Baseball card featuring Artie Wilson.\" width=\"800\" height=\"713\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11680536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-800x713.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-160x143.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-1020x909.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-1200x1069.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-1180x1051.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-960x855.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-240x214.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-375x334.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-520x463.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie.jpg 1918w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baseball card featuring Artie Wilson. \u003ccite>(Society for American Baseball Research)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We all know about how Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. But what we don’t often think about is that there were dozens of minor leagues operating all over the country, and they all had color barriers of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those barriers was in the Pacific Coast League, and in 1949, it was broken in Oakland when Artie Wilson suited up for the Oakland Oaks. Wilson was a 5-time all star in the Negro Leagues, and some say he was even better than Robinson. While playing for the Oaks, Wilson faced the same bigotry and racial hatred that Robinson did on the other side of the country. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1951, Wilson made his big league debut for the New York Giants, but he eventually told the Giants manager to send him back to the minor leagues so the team could bring up a young star in the organization: Willie Mays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had never heard of Artie Wilson until I listened to KQED’s Brian Watt’s interview with Gaylon White, a baseball historian and author of “Singles and Smiles: How Artie Wilson Broke Baseball’s Color Barrier.” It’s a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680469/how-an-oakland-oaks-baseball-player-broke-barriers\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">great interview\u003c/a> full of fascinating details and stories from baseball’s past.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11679947/its-like-a-tax-for-living-in-east-palo-alto-life-in-a-bank-desert\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What do you do if there are no banks in town?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_1299-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Parking sign for an ATM near East Palo Alto Government Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679959\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parking sign for an ATM near East Palo Alto Government Center. \u003ccite>(Tonya Mosley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the most popular places in East Palo Alto isn’t a restaurant, a park or a community gathering space. It’s a Bank of America ATM. It’s the only major bank presence in East Palo Alto, a city of nearly 30,000 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Tonya Mosley explains that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11679947/its-like-a-tax-for-living-in-east-palo-alto-life-in-a-bank-desert\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lack of banking options\u003c/a> is a holdover from the region’s racist past, when segregation and redlining were pervasive. Now, residents are fighting to get more banks into their city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680321/all-wildfires-are-not-alike-but-the-u-s-is-fighting-them-that-way\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">We don’t have a fire problem. We have many fire problems.\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"Wildland firefighters, like this crew heading into New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, in 2012, are equipped and operate differently from urban firefighters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11680330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-1020x741.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-1200x872.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-1180x857.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-960x698.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-240x174.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-375x272.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-520x378.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildland firefighters, like this crew heading into New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, in 2012, are equipped and operate differently from urban firefighters. \u003ccite>(USFS Gila National Forest, CC BY-SA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It seems like every week there’s a new fire (or two or three) burning through the region or the state. And while all wildfires might look alike to most of us, Stephen Pyne \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680321/all-wildfires-are-not-alike-but-the-u-s-is-fighting-them-that-way\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">knows they’re not\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pyne teaches about fire at Arizona State University, and he says that we need to stop fighting all fires the same:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Every major fire rekindles another round of commentaries about “America’s wildfire problem.” But the fact is that our nation does not have a fire problem. It has many fire problems, and they require different strategies. Some problem fires have technical solutions, some demand cultural calls. All are political.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch2>4. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11674188/hetch-hetchy-waters-epic-journey-from-mountains-to-tap\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How long does it take San Francisco’s drinking water to get to your tap?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677995\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS5675_DSC00348-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"The Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park supplies water to San Francisco and other Bay Area cities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11677995\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park supplies water to San Francisco and other Bay Area cities. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 85 percent of San Francisco’s water comes from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park, and it goes on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11674188/hetch-hetchy-waters-epic-journey-from-mountains-to-tap\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quite the journey\u003c/a>. Along its more than 150 mile trek, the water goes through a hydroelectric dam that generates electricity to power San Francisco schools, Muni light-rail vehicles and more. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how long does that all take? \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> explains, with the help of a very curious 8-year-old.\t\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680221/the-female-orgasm-comes-quietly-to-the-streets-of-san-francisco\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How do you advertise a ‘smart’ vibrator?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-800x577.jpg\" alt='An ad for a \"smart\" vibrator could not compete for attention with workers washing a building at Van Ness Avenue and Jackson Street in San Francisco.' width=\"800\" height=\"577\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11680262\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-800x577.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-1020x736.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-1200x866.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-1180x851.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-960x693.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-240x173.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-375x271.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-520x375.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ad for a “smart” vibrator could not compete for attention with workers washing a building at Van Ness Avenue and Jackson Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My first reaction when I saw the story headlined, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680221/the-female-orgasm-comes-quietly-to-the-streets-of-san-francisco\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Female Orgasm Comes (Quietly) to the Streets of San Francisco\u003c/a>,” was that it might be one of the best headlines I’d ever read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then I read the story and found it even better than the headline. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Stay caught up with the best of KQED’s reporting each week by subscribing to the \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/qed-up/id1197721799?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Q’ed Up podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a busy week overseas. Here’s what’s happening in our neck of the woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680469/how-an-oakland-oaks-baseball-player-broke-barriers\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artie Wilson broke baseball’s color barrier in Oakland\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-800x713.jpg\" alt=\"Baseball card featuring Artie Wilson.\" width=\"800\" height=\"713\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11680536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-800x713.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-160x143.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-1020x909.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-1200x1069.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-1180x1051.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-960x855.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-240x214.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-375x334.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie-520x463.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/aartie.jpg 1918w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baseball card featuring Artie Wilson. \u003ccite>(Society for American Baseball Research)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We all know about how Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. But what we don’t often think about is that there were dozens of minor leagues operating all over the country, and they all had color barriers of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those barriers was in the Pacific Coast League, and in 1949, it was broken in Oakland when Artie Wilson suited up for the Oakland Oaks. Wilson was a 5-time all star in the Negro Leagues, and some say he was even better than Robinson. While playing for the Oaks, Wilson faced the same bigotry and racial hatred that Robinson did on the other side of the country. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1951, Wilson made his big league debut for the New York Giants, but he eventually told the Giants manager to send him back to the minor leagues so the team could bring up a young star in the organization: Willie Mays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had never heard of Artie Wilson until I listened to KQED’s Brian Watt’s interview with Gaylon White, a baseball historian and author of “Singles and Smiles: How Artie Wilson Broke Baseball’s Color Barrier.” It’s a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680469/how-an-oakland-oaks-baseball-player-broke-barriers\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">great interview\u003c/a> full of fascinating details and stories from baseball’s past.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11679947/its-like-a-tax-for-living-in-east-palo-alto-life-in-a-bank-desert\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What do you do if there are no banks in town?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11679959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/IMG_1299-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Parking sign for an ATM near East Palo Alto Government Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11679959\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parking sign for an ATM near East Palo Alto Government Center. \u003ccite>(Tonya Mosley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the most popular places in East Palo Alto isn’t a restaurant, a park or a community gathering space. It’s a Bank of America ATM. It’s the only major bank presence in East Palo Alto, a city of nearly 30,000 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Tonya Mosley explains that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11679947/its-like-a-tax-for-living-in-east-palo-alto-life-in-a-bank-desert\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lack of banking options\u003c/a> is a holdover from the region’s racist past, when segregation and redlining were pervasive. Now, residents are fighting to get more banks into their city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680321/all-wildfires-are-not-alike-but-the-u-s-is-fighting-them-that-way\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">We don’t have a fire problem. We have many fire problems.\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"Wildland firefighters, like this crew heading into New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, in 2012, are equipped and operate differently from urban firefighters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11680330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-1020x741.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-1200x872.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-1180x857.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-960x698.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-240x174.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-375x272.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Firefighters-520x378.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildland firefighters, like this crew heading into New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, in 2012, are equipped and operate differently from urban firefighters. \u003ccite>(USFS Gila National Forest, CC BY-SA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It seems like every week there’s a new fire (or two or three) burning through the region or the state. And while all wildfires might look alike to most of us, Stephen Pyne \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680321/all-wildfires-are-not-alike-but-the-u-s-is-fighting-them-that-way\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">knows they’re not\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pyne teaches about fire at Arizona State University, and he says that we need to stop fighting all fires the same:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Every major fire rekindles another round of commentaries about “America’s wildfire problem.” But the fact is that our nation does not have a fire problem. It has many fire problems, and they require different strategies. Some problem fires have technical solutions, some demand cultural calls. All are political.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch2>4. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11674188/hetch-hetchy-waters-epic-journey-from-mountains-to-tap\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How long does it take San Francisco’s drinking water to get to your tap?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11677995\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS5675_DSC00348-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"The Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park supplies water to San Francisco and other Bay Area cities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11677995\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park supplies water to San Francisco and other Bay Area cities. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 85 percent of San Francisco’s water comes from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park, and it goes on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11674188/hetch-hetchy-waters-epic-journey-from-mountains-to-tap\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quite the journey\u003c/a>. Along its more than 150 mile trek, the water goes through a hydroelectric dam that generates electricity to power San Francisco schools, Muni light-rail vehicles and more. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how long does that all take? \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> explains, with the help of a very curious 8-year-old.\t\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680221/the-female-orgasm-comes-quietly-to-the-streets-of-san-francisco\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How do you advertise a ‘smart’ vibrator?\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11680262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-800x577.jpg\" alt='An ad for a \"smart\" vibrator could not compete for attention with workers washing a building at Van Ness Avenue and Jackson Street in San Francisco.' width=\"800\" height=\"577\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11680262\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-800x577.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-1020x736.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-1200x866.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-1180x851.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-960x693.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-240x173.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-375x271.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31788_lioness1-qut-520x375.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ad for a “smart” vibrator could not compete for attention with workers washing a building at Van Ness Avenue and Jackson Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My first reaction when I saw the story headlined, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11680221/the-female-orgasm-comes-quietly-to-the-streets-of-san-francisco\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Female Orgasm Comes (Quietly) to the Streets of San Francisco\u003c/a>,” was that it might be one of the best headlines I’d ever read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then I read the story and found it even better than the headline. 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"content": "\u003cp>Sean Manaea might've been the only person at the Oakland Coliseum who didn't realize he was still working on a no-hitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a dropped popup in the fifth inning, the Athletics lefty figured it was over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't even think about it until I looked up in the seventh or eighth,\" Manaea said, \"and I was like, 'Oh my God, why is there still a zero on there?'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because it was ruled an error. And because his shot at history remained intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manaea became the first pitcher to throw a no-hitter against Boston in almost exactly 25 years, with an overturned call on the bases preserving the gem Saturday night in Oakland's 3-0 win over the sizzling Red Sox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Athletics/status/987896008603402240\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manaea struck out 10, walked two and threw 108 pitches to finish off Oakland's first no-no since Dallas Braden tossed a perfect game against Tampa Bay in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manaea got Hanley Ramirez to ground out to complete the first no-hitter versus the Red Sox since Seattle's Chris Bosio did it on April 22, 1993.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just telling myself, keep everything the same, and not let anything get too big for me,\" Manaea said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boston looked as if it had a hit with two outs in the sixth at the Oakland Coliseum. Andrew Benintendi hit a grounder to the right side, tried to dodge a tag by first baseman Matt Olson and was called safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benintendi ran onto the grass in foul territory to get around Olson. The umpires then conferred and, without going to replay, ruled Benintendi was out for going wide of the baseline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do I agree with it? No,\" Red Sox manager Alex Cora said. \"It is what it is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Said Benintendi: \"It's just a missed call.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think if we have 10 hits at that point, that's a single. But the situation the game was in, they might have been searching for something and they found it,\" Benintendi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crew chief Brian Gorman said the umps reached their decision \"pretty fast.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If he goes more than 3 feet avoiding the tag, he's declared out,\" Gorman told a pool reporter. \"He was more than 3 feet away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11664000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30563_GettyImages-949802498-qut-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11664000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30563_GettyImages-949802498-qut-800x540.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30563_GettyImages-949802498-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30563_GettyImages-949802498-qut-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30563_GettyImages-949802498-qut-1200x810.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30563_GettyImages-949802498-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30563_GettyImages-949802498-qut-1180x797.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30563_GettyImages-949802498-qut-960x648.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30563_GettyImages-949802498-qut-240x162.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30563_GettyImages-949802498-qut-375x253.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30563_GettyImages-949802498-qut-520x351.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Manaea #55 of the Oakland Athletics gets showered with Gatorade and water by teammates after he threw a no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox at the Oakland Alameda Coliseum on April 21, 2018. \u003ccite>(Thearon W. 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The play was scored as an error.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was running back and I heard (center fielder Mark) Canha was yelling, 'Marcus, Marcus,' and I thought he said, 'I got it,'\" Semien said, \"but I still think I should've caught the ball.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Usually I don't want to make errors, but in that situation you take the error,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Manaea's mind, it was a single.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just thought it was a hit, so from there until the eighth or ninth, I thought it was just a one-hitter,\" Manaea said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few innings later, he noticed what everybody else already knew — no-hitter in progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So after that, my adrenaline started pumping a little bit again, and I really wanted to finish this thing out,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manaea (3-2) had been battered by Boston in three previous starts, going 1-2 with a 13.50 ERA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the 26-year-old cooled off a Red Sox team that had won eight in a row and 17 of 18. Boston began the game with a major league-best .293 batting average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Congratulations Sean Manaea, you were really good tonight bro,\" Ramirez tweeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/HanleyRamirez/status/987906079727243264\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manaea retired 14 straight batters after walking Mookie Betts leading off the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of Red Sox fans were in the announced crowd of 25,746, and many rose to their feet when Manaea took the mound in the ninth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betts hit a ball to the warning track with one out in the ninth. 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This is Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Welcome to Section 149.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/09/2017-09-22e-tcrmag.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26911_image002-1-qut.jpg\" Title=\"Meet the Heartbeat of the Oakland A’s\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gotta support the team,” says Bryanne Aler-Ningas, the unofficial bandleader of the right field rhythm section. “Our atmosphere here is pretty active, pretty festive. So it’s always a party and that's what attracted me. I've been here all my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aler-Ningas was born and raised in Oakland and used to come to the games as a kid with his grandparents, parents and siblings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a time-honored tradition that we come out here and support the team,\" he says proudly. \"I remember doing our homework in the parking lot before we went in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drum beating is said to have begun in the early 2000s, with a small group of college-age fans who drummed in \u003cem>left\u003c/em> field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were the originals,” says Will MacNeil, Section 149’s longest-running flag-waver and fill-in drummer. “Our group started bringing the drums about 2006, 2007, and they've been banging away ever since. I can’t complain. They help bring a lot of atmosphere to this place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacNeil has been an A’s fan his entire life, too, even though he says his family wasn’t sure how that happened. “All my family is Giants fans. So I'm the outcast of the family,” he laughs. “I loved the colors. That's what hooked me to them. I'm not black and orange. It's not Halloween in my household!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 789px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11618714\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26909_image004-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"789\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26909_image004-qut.jpg 789w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26909_image004-qut-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26909_image004-qut-240x141.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26909_image004-qut-375x221.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26909_image004-qut-520x306.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 789px) 100vw, 789px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED employee Nina Thorsen has sat with ‘Bleacher Diehards’ for the past 12 years, but just started drumming this year. \u003ccite>(Serginho Roosblad/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although she just started playing the drum this year, Nina Thorsen has been sitting with the bleacher crew for the past 12 years. “I used to play the tambourine, but it's much harder to achieve the beats with one,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thorsen, who also happens to work at KQED, is originally from Minnesota. She loved the Twins, but the A’s eventually won her over. “The A's have a unique character. They have a kind of ‘do-it-yourself’ almost punk quality to them,” she says earnestly. “Also it's just a very fun place. The team, the players and the fans seem to sort of all have a spirit that matches each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s that welcoming spirit and underdog tale that many A’s fans say drew them to the team in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We came up with the ‘I believe in Stephen Vogt’ chant up here. It's kind of like the U.S. men's soccer team chant,” explains Aler-Ningas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vogt does have a Cinderella story. He was called to the majors in 2013 after spending six seasons in the minors. By the time the A’s bought the 29-year-old rookie’s contract for $150,000, Vogt’s Major League batting stats were a painful 0 for 32. He wasn’t doing well. But with the A’s, he did. Vogt -- now a member of the Milwaukee Brewers -- became a back-to-back All-Star catcher for Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He's our kind of guy. The total underdog story. That's Oakland,” says Aler-Ningas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he says, that’s why they drum. To root for the underdog. A team that hasn’t won the World Series since 1989. A “Moneyball” team that has one of the lowest payrolls in the majors -- and that narrowly beat out the Tampa Bay Rays for the lowest league attendance over the past two seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those numbers don’t bother the drum-beating diehards. They seem to make them stronger. More committed. More in love with their team and their town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it's 5,000 or 50,000 in this place, it's just, I love it!\" says Aler-Ningas. \"I don't know, I’m an Oakland guy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 787px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11618715\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26912_image001-1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"787\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26912_image001-1-qut.jpg 787w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26912_image001-1-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26912_image001-1-qut-240x136.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26912_image001-1-qut-375x212.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26912_image001-1-qut-520x294.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Bleacher Diehard' drummer Andy Cho showing off his drum in right field at an Oakland A's game. \u003ccite>(Serginho Roosblad/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Within the bleacher right field and left field, we call ourselves the 'FANily.' So it's something that we embraced,” says Andy Cho, a longtime A’s fan and drummer. “We're very, very close. We spend more time with each other than we do with our own families at times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, finally, this FANily has something else to beat the drum about. The A’s just announced their intention to build a downtown ballpark at the Lake Merritt campus of Laney College and stay rooted in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rooted, just like these fans.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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So I'm the outcast of the family,” he laughs. “I loved the colors. That's what hooked me to them. I'm not black and orange. It's not Halloween in my household!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 789px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11618714\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26909_image004-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"789\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26909_image004-qut.jpg 789w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26909_image004-qut-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26909_image004-qut-240x141.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26909_image004-qut-375x221.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26909_image004-qut-520x306.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 789px) 100vw, 789px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED employee Nina Thorsen has sat with ‘Bleacher Diehards’ for the past 12 years, but just started drumming this year. \u003ccite>(Serginho Roosblad/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although she just started playing the drum this year, Nina Thorsen has been sitting with the bleacher crew for the past 12 years. “I used to play the tambourine, but it's much harder to achieve the beats with one,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thorsen, who also happens to work at KQED, is originally from Minnesota. She loved the Twins, but the A’s eventually won her over. “The A's have a unique character. They have a kind of ‘do-it-yourself’ almost punk quality to them,” she says earnestly. “Also it's just a very fun place. The team, the players and the fans seem to sort of all have a spirit that matches each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s that welcoming spirit and underdog tale that many A’s fans say drew them to the team in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We came up with the ‘I believe in Stephen Vogt’ chant up here. It's kind of like the U.S. men's soccer team chant,” explains Aler-Ningas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vogt does have a Cinderella story. He was called to the majors in 2013 after spending six seasons in the minors. By the time the A’s bought the 29-year-old rookie’s contract for $150,000, Vogt’s Major League batting stats were a painful 0 for 32. He wasn’t doing well. But with the A’s, he did. Vogt -- now a member of the Milwaukee Brewers -- became a back-to-back All-Star catcher for Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He's our kind of guy. The total underdog story. That's Oakland,” says Aler-Ningas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he says, that’s why they drum. To root for the underdog. A team that hasn’t won the World Series since 1989. A “Moneyball” team that has one of the lowest payrolls in the majors -- and that narrowly beat out the Tampa Bay Rays for the lowest league attendance over the past two seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those numbers don’t bother the drum-beating diehards. They seem to make them stronger. More committed. More in love with their team and their town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it's 5,000 or 50,000 in this place, it's just, I love it!\" says Aler-Ningas. \"I don't know, I’m an Oakland guy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 787px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11618715\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26912_image001-1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"787\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26912_image001-1-qut.jpg 787w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26912_image001-1-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26912_image001-1-qut-240x136.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26912_image001-1-qut-375x212.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/RS26912_image001-1-qut-520x294.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Bleacher Diehard' drummer Andy Cho showing off his drum in right field at an Oakland A's game. \u003ccite>(Serginho Roosblad/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Within the bleacher right field and left field, we call ourselves the 'FANily.' 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"content": "\u003cp>During her eight years with MTV News, Tabitha Soren brought journalistic gravitas to a network that focused on celebrity and drama. Her interview with Tupac Shakur still stands as one of his most insightful, and her coverage of Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign earned MTV News a Peabody Award. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After leaving MTV in 1998, Soren moved to the Bay Area with her husband, the author Michael Lewis. While he worked on books like \u003ci>The New New Thing,\u003c/i> Soren attended Stanford on a fellowship, spending most of her time in the fine arts department. She decided she wanted to become a photographer — pursuing art with her camera instead of news, Soren said, allowed her to be more honest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s coming from my heart instead of my head. Journalism was about searching for an objective truth, and my artwork is searching for an emotional truth,” Soren said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, Soren attended the Oakland Athletics’ Spring Training camp while her husband researched the team for his book \u003cem>Moneyball\u003c/em>. Though she wasn’t a fan of baseball at the time, seeing the team’s new recruits inspired her to start a massive project. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11565939\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 457px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/SOREN_Stockton_Ports_0132-457x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tin Type of a player on the Stockton Ports\" width=\"457\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11565939\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/SOREN_Stockton_Ports_0132-457x600.jpg 457w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/SOREN_Stockton_Ports_0132-400x525.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/SOREN_Stockton_Ports_0132.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tintype of a player on the Stockton Ports. \u003ccite>(Photo: Tabitha Soren)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I met a draft class who was arriving at Spring Training for the very first time,” Soren said. “And I saw all these kids with their faces full of hope, all going to work towards playing on a major league team, and I thought, ‘Wow, wouldn’t this be great to shoot their picture every year and see how their faces change, because they can’t remain this hopeful.'” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That idea, born 14 years ago, comes to fruition with her newest book of photographs, \u003cem>Fantasy Life\u003c/em>. Her idea of chronicling the players losing faith in the game didn’t pan out; the changes weren’t as visual as she hoped. But what Soren did find was a whole other world built around what she once thought was America’s most boring pastime. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even the guys in the dugout, they looked so bored in half of my pictures, making sculptures out of peanut shells or tobacco cans,” Soren said. “You know, the things that go on in there are not scintillating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Soren found a way to bring out the more artistic qualities of the game. She experimented with tintype, a technology first developed in the 1860s. It made for beautiful images that, unlike other sports photographs, didn’t depend on action or celebrity. \u003ci>Fantasy Life\u003c/i> collects the best of those tintypes as well as an assortment of other photos she took at games — both major and minor league — all over the state. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For baseball fans, \u003ci>Fantasy Life\u003c/i> provides a look at star players you won’t get from ESPN, and that’s thanks to Billy Beane, the executive vice president of baseball operations for the Oakland A’s, who gave Soren complete access to the team during her 14-year project. Beane said he’s not much of an art fan, but that there was plenty for him to appreciate in Soren’s photographs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was able to look back at her exhibition, and knowing all the time she put into it — I’m going “God, she’s putting a lot of time into it this. What are going to be the results?” But looking back at it now, it sort of acts as a time capsule,” Beane said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Read more about Soren’s baseball photos \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/05/10/tabitha-sorens-fantasy-life-processes-baseball-through-artistic-filter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in our previous story.\u003c/a> Nearly 200 photos from \u003cb>Fantasy Life\u003c/b> will be on display at San Francisco City Hall from July 20–Dec. 15, 2017, across two floors — including many players from the San Francisco Giants — and admission is free.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>During her eight years with MTV News, Tabitha Soren brought journalistic gravitas to a network that focused on celebrity and drama. Her interview with Tupac Shakur still stands as one of his most insightful, and her coverage of Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign earned MTV News a Peabody Award. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After leaving MTV in 1998, Soren moved to the Bay Area with her husband, the author Michael Lewis. While he worked on books like \u003ci>The New New Thing,\u003c/i> Soren attended Stanford on a fellowship, spending most of her time in the fine arts department. She decided she wanted to become a photographer — pursuing art with her camera instead of news, Soren said, allowed her to be more honest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s coming from my heart instead of my head. Journalism was about searching for an objective truth, and my artwork is searching for an emotional truth,” Soren said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, Soren attended the Oakland Athletics’ Spring Training camp while her husband researched the team for his book \u003cem>Moneyball\u003c/em>. Though she wasn’t a fan of baseball at the time, seeing the team’s new recruits inspired her to start a massive project. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11565939\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 457px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/SOREN_Stockton_Ports_0132-457x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tin Type of a player on the Stockton Ports\" width=\"457\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11565939\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/SOREN_Stockton_Ports_0132-457x600.jpg 457w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/SOREN_Stockton_Ports_0132-400x525.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/SOREN_Stockton_Ports_0132.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tintype of a player on the Stockton Ports. \u003ccite>(Photo: Tabitha Soren)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I met a draft class who was arriving at Spring Training for the very first time,” Soren said. “And I saw all these kids with their faces full of hope, all going to work towards playing on a major league team, and I thought, ‘Wow, wouldn’t this be great to shoot their picture every year and see how their faces change, because they can’t remain this hopeful.'” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That idea, born 14 years ago, comes to fruition with her newest book of photographs, \u003cem>Fantasy Life\u003c/em>. Her idea of chronicling the players losing faith in the game didn’t pan out; the changes weren’t as visual as she hoped. But what Soren did find was a whole other world built around what she once thought was America’s most boring pastime. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even the guys in the dugout, they looked so bored in half of my pictures, making sculptures out of peanut shells or tobacco cans,” Soren said. “You know, the things that go on in there are not scintillating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Soren found a way to bring out the more artistic qualities of the game. She experimented with tintype, a technology first developed in the 1860s. It made for beautiful images that, unlike other sports photographs, didn’t depend on action or celebrity. \u003ci>Fantasy Life\u003c/i> collects the best of those tintypes as well as an assortment of other photos she took at games — both major and minor league — all over the state. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For baseball fans, \u003ci>Fantasy Life\u003c/i> provides a look at star players you won’t get from ESPN, and that’s thanks to Billy Beane, the executive vice president of baseball operations for the Oakland A’s, who gave Soren complete access to the team during her 14-year project. Beane said he’s not much of an art fan, but that there was plenty for him to appreciate in Soren’s photographs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was able to look back at her exhibition, and knowing all the time she put into it — I’m going “God, she’s putting a lot of time into it this. What are going to be the results?” But looking back at it now, it sort of acts as a time capsule,” Beane said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Read more about Soren’s baseball photos \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/05/10/tabitha-sorens-fantasy-life-processes-baseball-through-artistic-filter/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in our previous story.\u003c/a> Nearly 200 photos from \u003cb>Fantasy Life\u003c/b> will be on display at San Francisco City Hall from July 20–Dec. 15, 2017, across two floors — including many players from the San Francisco Giants — and admission is free.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>KQED listener Chris Thompson is an avid A’s fan who recently found himself at a Giants game with work colleagues. He noticed fans a few rows away trying to get the wave started, but saw they were quickly booed by other Giants fans. Eventually ushers came over and told the group trying to start the wave to simmer down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson wrote to Bay Curious asking:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why don’t they allow people to do the wave at Giants stadium?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First thing we have to get cleared up right away — there is no \u003cem>official\u003c/em> policy against the wave at Giants games. It’s a self-imposed ban that has been a part of Giants fan culture for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But why? I mean, it’s\u003cem> the wave. \u003c/em>At many stadiums, it’s as much a part of baseball as hot dogs and beer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Oakland Athletics Started It\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10608965\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10608965 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Krazy George Henderson tells KQED listener Christopher about the very first wave. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george-1400x787.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Krazy George Henderson tells KQED listener Chris Thompson about the very first wave. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some Giants fans point back to the origins of the wave on Oct. 15, 1981, as the reason they developed a no-wave tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Athletics were battling the Yankees for the American League Championship, and things were not going well for Oakland. The A’s were down by two games in a best-of-five series, and were scoreless five innings into the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when a professional cheerleader called \u003ca href=\"http://www.krazygeorge.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Krazy George\u003c/a> decided to unveil a cheer he’d been developing at local high school pep rallies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch our video of Krazy George Henderson reliving the very first wave:\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/134024146?title=0&byline=0\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_(audience)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some dispute\u003c/a> about whether or not Krazy George’s ’81 Oakland wave was in fact the first wave in history. Other claims point to the University of Washington or international soccer matches. But if you ask Krazy George, all of those other claims were either later than October 1981, or lack the proper supporting evidence of his nationally televised wave at the Oakland Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I say, ‘I don’t \u003cem>claim\u003c/em> to have invented the wave. I DID INVENT THE WAVE.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether that’s definitive or not, the wave’s early connection to Oakland and the A’s is enough to turn some San Francisco Giants fans against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett Dake came to a recent Giants game wearing a T-shirt he got in the ’80s. The back says: “Top 10 Reasons Real Fans Go to the ’Stick.” One reason? No wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s Oakland,” he says. “We’re San Francisco. It’s always been like that. We don’t do the wave here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10608966\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10608966 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Bennett Dake shows of his "Late Night at the 'Stick" shirt from the '80s. Number 9 reads: "No Wave." (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-1400x788.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bennett Dake shows off his ‘Late Night at the ‘Stick’ shirt from the ’80s. Number 9 reads: ‘No Wave.’ (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The Wave Was Associated With Los Angeles (and Thus, the Dodgers)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Though the wave might have started in Oakland, it was broadcast internationally for the first time during the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Television sets across the world showed images of the crowd doing the wave at the soccer final — in many minds forever linking the cheer with that city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the wave is seen as something really Los Angeles, and it was San Francisco reacting to that,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.danfost.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dan Fost\u003c/a>, author of \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Fost/e/B0030CEFRE/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two books about the Giants.\u003c/a> “[The Dodgers fan] experience is all about beating the traffic, getting to the game late, leaving early and throwing beach balls around in the stands. And the wave is just such an L.A. part of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>It’s Too Mainstream\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One identity trait that came up repeatedly during interviews with Giants fans was their feeling of uniqueness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Giants fans sort of think that they’re a little different, so we would never stoop to something as pedestrian as doing the wave,” says Pat Gallagher, who worked as the team’s director of marketing for nearly 33 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And let’s be honest, this identity goes beyond the baseball diamond. The San Francisco Bay Area as a whole has a long history of reveling in the ways it stands apart from the rest of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not doing the wave is a way of saying, ‘San Francisco is different and we don’t do that here,’ ” says Fost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Need another example? Look no further than the \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/sf/history/sf_history_timeline_article.jsp?article=31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crazy Crab\u003c/a>. At a time when baseball teams around the country were eagerly bringing cheery mascots into the mix, the Giants introduced an anti-mascot. The crustacean was a walking mascot parody, and fans were encouraged to boo, hiss and sometimes throw things at the poor schmuck stuck inside the costume.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Real Serious Fans Are Real Serious\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Beyond tradition and perception, what is it about the wave that Giants fans dislike so much?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put it simply, some people think that “real baseball fans” don’t do it. It’s seen as yet another frivolous ballpark novelty that detracts from their beloved pastime. Right up there with the Kiss Cam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Giants fan we spoke with says, “It’s an obnoxious response to fan excitement. I don’t like it. I think it’s silly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real fans chart every pitch and obsess over fundamentals. Everyone else does the wave and eats cotton candy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Giants fans don’t do the wave because they are serious about baseball,” Fost says. “They love the game, they’re paying attention to the game, and they don’t want to take themselves out of the game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How the Tradition is Passed On\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Giants anti-wave philosophy is carried on as a sort of oral tradition. That is, via hearty “BOOOOOs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallagher says that when the team played at Candlestick, you’d often hear hardcore fans boo when anyone tried to start the wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They weren’t booing the players, they were actually booing other fans,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It appears this tradition has made the trip from the ’Stick to AT&T Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giants fan Dalton Hurst had a rude awakening at one of his childhood games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was a kid, I tried to start [the wave] and someone yelled at me,” says Hurst. “I don’t know why they don’t do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>But New Fans Doing The Wave?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the booing, long-standing tradition and ’80s T-shirts — sacrilege — the wave has been spotted circling AT&T park recently. It may be that the team’s success is attracting new fans who just don’t know the rules yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several die-hard fans blamed these bandwagon fans, (or “hipsters,” as one Giants fan called them) for bringing this abhorred tradition into their no-wave stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10608969\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 337px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-6.51.10-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10608969\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-6.51.10-PM.png\" alt=\"YouTube Comments on a video titled, "The Wae at AT&T Park (Giants vs. A's).\" width=\"337\" height=\"227\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">YouTube Comments on a video titled, “The Wave at AT&T Park (Giants vs. A’s).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On one \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17NxEykL2c8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube video of an AT&T Park wave\u003c/a>, the comments section spells out this argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sharing our Findings\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>We took our findings back to Chris Thompson, the question-asker for this Bay Curious story. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But why? I mean, it’s\u003cem> the wave. \u003c/em>At many stadiums, it’s as much a part of baseball as hot dogs and beer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Oakland Athletics Started It\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10608965\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10608965 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Krazy George Henderson tells KQED listener Christopher about the very first wave. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george-1400x787.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Krazy George Henderson tells KQED listener Chris Thompson about the very first wave. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some Giants fans point back to the origins of the wave on Oct. 15, 1981, as the reason they developed a no-wave tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Athletics were battling the Yankees for the American League Championship, and things were not going well for Oakland. The A’s were down by two games in a best-of-five series, and were scoreless five innings into the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when a professional cheerleader called \u003ca href=\"http://www.krazygeorge.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Krazy George\u003c/a> decided to unveil a cheer he’d been developing at local high school pep rallies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch our video of Krazy George Henderson reliving the very first wave:\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/134024146?title=0&byline=0\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_(audience)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some dispute\u003c/a> about whether or not Krazy George’s ’81 Oakland wave was in fact the first wave in history. Other claims point to the University of Washington or international soccer matches. But if you ask Krazy George, all of those other claims were either later than October 1981, or lack the proper supporting evidence of his nationally televised wave at the Oakland Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I say, ‘I don’t \u003cem>claim\u003c/em> to have invented the wave. I DID INVENT THE WAVE.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether that’s definitive or not, the wave’s early connection to Oakland and the A’s is enough to turn some San Francisco Giants fans against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett Dake came to a recent Giants game wearing a T-shirt he got in the ’80s. The back says: “Top 10 Reasons Real Fans Go to the ’Stick.” One reason? No wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s Oakland,” he says. “We’re San Francisco. It’s always been like that. We don’t do the wave here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10608966\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10608966 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Bennett Dake shows of his "Late Night at the 'Stick" shirt from the '80s. Number 9 reads: "No Wave." (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-1400x788.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bennett Dake shows off his ‘Late Night at the ‘Stick’ shirt from the ’80s. Number 9 reads: ‘No Wave.’ (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The Wave Was Associated With Los Angeles (and Thus, the Dodgers)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Though the wave might have started in Oakland, it was broadcast internationally for the first time during the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Television sets across the world showed images of the crowd doing the wave at the soccer final — in many minds forever linking the cheer with that city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the wave is seen as something really Los Angeles, and it was San Francisco reacting to that,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.danfost.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dan Fost\u003c/a>, author of \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Fost/e/B0030CEFRE/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two books about the Giants.\u003c/a> “[The Dodgers fan] experience is all about beating the traffic, getting to the game late, leaving early and throwing beach balls around in the stands. And the wave is just such an L.A. part of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>It’s Too Mainstream\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One identity trait that came up repeatedly during interviews with Giants fans was their feeling of uniqueness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Giants fans sort of think that they’re a little different, so we would never stoop to something as pedestrian as doing the wave,” says Pat Gallagher, who worked as the team’s director of marketing for nearly 33 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And let’s be honest, this identity goes beyond the baseball diamond. The San Francisco Bay Area as a whole has a long history of reveling in the ways it stands apart from the rest of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not doing the wave is a way of saying, ‘San Francisco is different and we don’t do that here,’ ” says Fost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Need another example? Look no further than the \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/sf/history/sf_history_timeline_article.jsp?article=31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crazy Crab\u003c/a>. At a time when baseball teams around the country were eagerly bringing cheery mascots into the mix, the Giants introduced an anti-mascot. The crustacean was a walking mascot parody, and fans were encouraged to boo, hiss and sometimes throw things at the poor schmuck stuck inside the costume.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Real Serious Fans Are Real Serious\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Beyond tradition and perception, what is it about the wave that Giants fans dislike so much?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put it simply, some people think that “real baseball fans” don’t do it. It’s seen as yet another frivolous ballpark novelty that detracts from their beloved pastime. Right up there with the Kiss Cam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Giants fan we spoke with says, “It’s an obnoxious response to fan excitement. I don’t like it. I think it’s silly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real fans chart every pitch and obsess over fundamentals. Everyone else does the wave and eats cotton candy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Giants fans don’t do the wave because they are serious about baseball,” Fost says. “They love the game, they’re paying attention to the game, and they don’t want to take themselves out of the game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How the Tradition is Passed On\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Giants anti-wave philosophy is carried on as a sort of oral tradition. That is, via hearty “BOOOOOs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallagher says that when the team played at Candlestick, you’d often hear hardcore fans boo when anyone tried to start the wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They weren’t booing the players, they were actually booing other fans,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It appears this tradition has made the trip from the ’Stick to AT&T Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giants fan Dalton Hurst had a rude awakening at one of his childhood games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was a kid, I tried to start [the wave] and someone yelled at me,” says Hurst. “I don’t know why they don’t do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>But New Fans Doing The Wave?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the booing, long-standing tradition and ’80s T-shirts — sacrilege — the wave has been spotted circling AT&T park recently. It may be that the team’s success is attracting new fans who just don’t know the rules yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several die-hard fans blamed these bandwagon fans, (or “hipsters,” as one Giants fan called them) for bringing this abhorred tradition into their no-wave stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10608969\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 337px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-6.51.10-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10608969\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-6.51.10-PM.png\" alt=\"YouTube Comments on a video titled, "The Wae at AT&T Park (Giants vs. A's).\" width=\"337\" height=\"227\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">YouTube Comments on a video titled, “The Wave at AT&T Park (Giants vs. A’s).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On one \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17NxEykL2c8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube video of an AT&T Park wave\u003c/a>, the comments section spells out this argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sharing our Findings\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>We took our findings back to Chris Thompson, the question-asker for this Bay Curious story. He couldn’t help but laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are they proud to be that bourgeois?” he says of Giants fans. “This is baseball. … It’s waves and hot dogs and beers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To wave or not to wave? Sound off in the comments below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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After many years as the Triple-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants, the Grizzlies lost that status in an affiliation reshuffle. Instead, they became part of the Houston Astros organization. Without a nearby major league club to draw fans from, the team needed to emphasize their Fresno identity. That's where Grizzlies' marketing director Sam Hansen came in -- with tacos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/281849503\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a successful taco-themed event last year, this year the team took it up several notches. 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In addition to the game-worn jerseys, fans could buy T-shirts declaring their loyalty to Teams Lengua, al Pastor, Carnitas and Carne Asada, or choose a cap with a jaunty taco truck or tank top in the pseudo-sarape design. And two weeks after the game, the Grizzlies added a design that parodies Donald Trump's \"Make America Great Again\" -- a red cap that promises \"Taco Trucks on Every Corner.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Royer had organized a group of his co-workers to come to the game. Sporting a giant foam hat in the shape of a taco, Royer said food trucks are a fundamental part of Central Valley culture. \"I'm from Bakersfield, and if you go downtown on a weekend in Bakersfield, there are food trucks everywhere. We're out here having fun -- Fresno, Bakersfield, Central Valley, this is what we do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the baseball side of the game, it also proved to be a success. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Baseball Writers’ Association of America welcomed two new members into the Hall of Fame Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"http://baseballhall.org/hof/class-of-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when it was announced \u003c/a>that Mike Piazza and Ken Griffey Jr. were the latest inductees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 440 ballots cast, Griffey Jr. received 437 votes. At 99.3 percent of all ballots, Griffey, the sweet-swinging lefty known as “The Kid” (who is now 46 — y\u003cem>ou’re old\u003c/em>), topped Tom Seaver’s previous record of for highest percentage ever. Only three ballots did not include Griffey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--4D9Ue8BV--/aebgmbcaxxz8tzlqjkej.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ‘\u003ca href=\"http://deadspin.com/here-is-a-loop-video-of-ken-griffey-jr-s-perfect-swin-1751020435\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">loop video\u003c/a>‘ of Griffey’s perfect swing. (Courtesy of Deadspin)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The big local news: Cal grad Jeff Kent received 73 votes (16.6 percent) in his third year of eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just kidding. One of Kent’s former teammates was also eligible. You might have heard of him — all-time home run leader, seven-time MVP Barry Bonds. Eligible for the fourth time, Bonds received 195 votes, 44.3 percent of all ballots, falling\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\"> short of the 75 percent (330 votes) needed for enshrinement. (See full results \u003ca href=\"http://baseballhall.org/hof/class-of-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those numbers are up about 7 percent from last year and about 10 percent from 2014. The last four years look like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2016: 195 votes, 44.3% of the vote\u003cbr>\n2015: 202, 36.8%\u003cbr>\n2014: 198, 34.7%\u003cbr>\n2013: 206, 36.2%\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the Hall of Fame capped the number of times a player can appear on the ballot without being selected at 10, as long as they receive more than 5 percent of the vote each year. So, Bonds does still have six years of eligibility remaining. After this year’s vote, it appears he is trending in the right direction and might one day receive the necessary votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MLB/status/684873546854580224\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why are voters more willing now to vote for Bonds, long suspected of using performance-enhancing drugs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Call it attrition. Call it an erosion of sportswriters’ monopoly on morality. But you probably shouldn’t call it forgiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quick primer on the \u003ca href=\"http://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/bbwaa-rules-for-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voting process\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Players are voted into the Hall of Fame by members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Once writers have been active members of the BBWAA for 10 straight years (and have satisfied all other requirements), they are given a vote. This year, according to the BBWAA, there are approximately 650 voting-eligible members. 440 of those members cast ballots. Each voter can choose up to 10 players to include on their ballot. A player must be selected on 75 percent of all cast ballots to be inducted into Cooperstown (the location of the Baseball Hall of Fame).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting with this year’s vote, writers who have not actively covered the game for 10 years are no longer eligible to vote. The right to vote had previously been granted for life, even after a writer’s retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is one reason for Bonds’ gains this year: the great purge of old-school hardliners whose self-appointed duties were to wring their hands and uphold the integrity of the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/684878739570843648\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writer Steve Aschburner \u003ca href=\"http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/19/with-hall-of-fame-changes-baseball-gets-political/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">studied recent ballots\u003c/a> and speculates that “fiddling with the selection process could open its doors to known or suspected cheaters, including two of the most polarizing figures in the game’s history: Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clemens, who faced accusations of steroid use in the latter part of his career, received 199 votes, just four more than Bonds, or 45.2 percent of the ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aschburner adds:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The pattern is likely to gain traction, too, as more honorary members lose their votes each year and additional newer writers qualify. Understandably, even media people want to see their particular generation of stars validated, those players they watched and covered. The Hall obviously has plenty of financial and institutional skin in the game. It needs baseball heroes on the stage for its annual induction ceremony, fresh plaques for its standing-room-only attendance all summer.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In the Hall’s instructions, voters are asked to consider “integrity, character and sportsmanship” in addition to a player’s performance. Voters interpret those instructions, and the overall meaning and importance of the Hall of Fame, very differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/14509820/jayson-stark-explains-2016-hall-fame-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN’s Jayson Stark\u003c/a>, who has cast votes for Bonds and Clemens in every year they’ve been eligible, writes that if the Hall is “a place that’s going to accurately reflect the history of baseball, how can it not include the man who made more home run trots than anyone who ever played and the pitcher who won more Cy Youngs (Clemens) than anyone who ever threw a pitch? That’s the Hall of Fame I want to exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to the next reasons Bonds is gaining more votes: shifting popular sentiment and the simple passage of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/14428464/why-barry-bonds-roger-clemens-appear-jerry-crasnick-hall-fame-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick\u003c/a> — who cast votes for both Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens this year for the first time — writes that he will remember this vote “as the year I dismounted from my high horse, acknowledged reality and took the plunge on baseball’s home run king and a seven-time Cy Young Award winner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 570px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://a2.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2015%2F1223%2Fr38636_864x1296_2-3.jpg&w=570\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"855\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick’s 2016 Hall of Fame ballot\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last January, Crasnick conducted a “social media experiment” where he tweeted the question: “Should Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds be in the Hall of Fame?” He writes: “One hour, 1,200 responses and a barrage of ‘yes’ votes later, I felt like a guy piling sandbags against a tsunami in my efforts to rationalize my ‘no’ vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crasnick adds:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“…it’s delusional to think we, as baseball writers, can uphold some quaint notion of the Hall as a bastion of competitive purity while fans who trek to Cooperstown each summer just want to visit a museum and see the game’s history on display with all its complicated messiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m ready to declare a moratorium on hand-wringing and cast my ballot, with all its flaws and inconsistencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… I’m out of the business of moralizing or parsing distinctions based on real or perceived transgressions. In the case of Bonds and Clemens, I keep going back to the words of ESPN columnist Ian O’Connor, who explained his conflicted Hall of Fame thought process in a 2012 column. “I’m willing to vote for the bad guys,” he wrote. “But only if they’re really, really good.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Crasnick explains that the state of baseball in 2016 is simply different than it was even last year. Bonds was recently hired as the hitting coach for the Miami Marlins, Mark McGwire, another notable suspected doper, is the bench coach for the San Diego Padres, and Alex Rodriguez, yet another player with PED suspicions, “was the feel-good story of 2015.” (Note: in his last year of eligibility, McGwire, former Oakland A’s first baseman, received 12.3 percent of the vote, well shy of 75 percent threshold.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For all my dilatory tactics, the passage of time has proved clarity is a mirage, and we just alternate between lighter and darker shades of gray,” Crasnick says. “Shoulder shrugs are the new clarity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The mere presence of a plaque in Cooperstown, with or without an asterisk or a designated “steroid wing,” can’t change the public perception. Dodgers fans are free to regard Bonds as a cheater and a villain, and Giants fans are free to love him for eternity. As Jerry Seinfeld so famously observed, ‘You’re actually rooting for the clothes when you get right down to it.'”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Another popular argument being put forth this year, as more writers checked the box next to Bonds’ name for the first time, is that we will never know all the facts about alleged PED use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/barry-bonds-roger-clemens-hall-of-fame-ballot-ken-rosenthal-122715\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Sports’ bow-tie-wearing Ken Rosenthal\u003c/a>, who also voted for Bonds and Clemens for the first time this year, explains it this way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The core problem in judging players from the so-called Steroid Era is that we don’t know who did what and to what extent, the effect that the substances had on players, whether some benefited more than others from the drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reversing my position with Bonds and Clemens, I’m simply acknowledging that I no longer am comfortable performing the mental gymnastics necessary to submit a ballot without their names…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I no longer could justify snubbing two of the greatest players of this era.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>For another year, the majority of BBWAA voters disagree with Rosenthal’s sentiment and Barry Bonds has once again been snubbed. Consider it a win for mental gymnastics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six tries left.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Voters interpret those instructions, and the overall meaning and importance of the Hall of Fame, very differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/14509820/jayson-stark-explains-2016-hall-fame-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN’s Jayson Stark\u003c/a>, who has cast votes for Bonds and Clemens in every year they’ve been eligible, writes that if the Hall is “a place that’s going to accurately reflect the history of baseball, how can it not include the man who made more home run trots than anyone who ever played and the pitcher who won more Cy Youngs (Clemens) than anyone who ever threw a pitch? That’s the Hall of Fame I want to exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to the next reasons Bonds is gaining more votes: shifting popular sentiment and the simple passage of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/14428464/why-barry-bonds-roger-clemens-appear-jerry-crasnick-hall-fame-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick\u003c/a> — who cast votes for both Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens this year for the first time — writes that he will remember this vote “as the year I dismounted from my high horse, acknowledged reality and took the plunge on baseball’s home run king and a seven-time Cy Young Award winner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 570px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://a2.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2015%2F1223%2Fr38636_864x1296_2-3.jpg&w=570\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"855\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick’s 2016 Hall of Fame ballot\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last January, Crasnick conducted a “social media experiment” where he tweeted the question: “Should Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds be in the Hall of Fame?” He writes: “One hour, 1,200 responses and a barrage of ‘yes’ votes later, I felt like a guy piling sandbags against a tsunami in my efforts to rationalize my ‘no’ vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crasnick adds:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“…it’s delusional to think we, as baseball writers, can uphold some quaint notion of the Hall as a bastion of competitive purity while fans who trek to Cooperstown each summer just want to visit a museum and see the game’s history on display with all its complicated messiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m ready to declare a moratorium on hand-wringing and cast my ballot, with all its flaws and inconsistencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… I’m out of the business of moralizing or parsing distinctions based on real or perceived transgressions. 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Bonds was recently hired as the hitting coach for the Miami Marlins, Mark McGwire, another notable suspected doper, is the bench coach for the San Diego Padres, and Alex Rodriguez, yet another player with PED suspicions, “was the feel-good story of 2015.” (Note: in his last year of eligibility, McGwire, former Oakland A’s first baseman, received 12.3 percent of the vote, well shy of 75 percent threshold.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For all my dilatory tactics, the passage of time has proved clarity is a mirage, and we just alternate between lighter and darker shades of gray,” Crasnick says. “Shoulder shrugs are the new clarity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The mere presence of a plaque in Cooperstown, with or without an asterisk or a designated “steroid wing,” can’t change the public perception. Dodgers fans are free to regard Bonds as a cheater and a villain, and Giants fans are free to love him for eternity. 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Balukjian says the 15 players in his pack cover a wide range of talents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One Hall of Famer (Fisk), some guys that were pretty big stars like \u003ca href=\"http://www.waxpackbook.com/dwight-gooden.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dwight Gooden\u003c/a>, and it ranges all the way down to guys that most fans would not have heard of, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.waxpackbook.com/jaime-cocanower.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jamie Cocanower\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.waxpackbook.com/don-carman.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Don Carman\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.waxpackbook.com/randy-ready.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Randy Ready.\u003c/a> It really is a mix in terms of where these guys came from, what kind of careers they had, the randomness of the pack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10628791\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 421px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10628791\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RandyBowling-800x931.jpg\" alt=\"Brad Balukjian (L) tracked down Randy Ready for a game of bowling in Dallas. 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The Fremont, Calif.-born Ready began his career in ’83 with the Milwaukee Brewers. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brad Balukjian)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The California Report (TCR)\u003c/strong>: Most of these guys are now in their fifties and sixties, decades removed from playing. How do they deal with being ex-major leaguers, was there a commonality about how they look back?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brad Balukjian\u003c/strong>: One of the things that I’m discovering is that the players are actually a lot less nostalgic than the fans are. They will talk about their past and the heroics if you want them to, but they’re not necessarily as romantic about the past as fans or writers are. 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