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They’re looking for money at a fundraiser held at a private home in the wealthy Peninsula town of Los Altos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you were going to host a very high-end party for a foundation, that’s one of the places you’d want to do it,” said Rick Lombardo, director of the show and the producing artistic director for San Jose Rep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lombardo is directing the production, and he helped shape the play during the writing process. He said Silicon Valley audiences will see some familiar characters on stage, beset by some familiar foibles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The very interesting hypocrisy of the folks who care a great deal about the world,” Lombardo said, “and are going to give a lot of money for green startups, but who own their own private planes and they put more hydrocarbons into the atmosphere doing that than anything else they do in their lives. But they own a Tesla.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The play opens at a time when the games that entrepreneurs play are a hot entertainment topic. HBO’s “Silicon Valley” debuts this Sunday, following films like “Jobs” and “The Social Network,” all set in that amorphous geographical area where venture capitalists are king.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Game On\" portrays these money men as not very nice people, so it may seem odd that playwrights Hoyle and Taccone had lots of help from a venture capitalist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tony and Dan came to me when they were incubating the idea,\" said Roger Strauch, who speaks fluent startup. He’s chairman of The Roda Group, a venture capital firm in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also a big supporter of Berkeley Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>By all accounts, Barry Bonds' short stint as a Giants spring training coach went well. \"I thought he had some good information that he shared with us,\" Buster Posey \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/giants/ci_25355921/barry-bonds-his-week-giants-and-quick-batting\">told the Bay Area News Group\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122935\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 282px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-122935\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/112154407-640x429.jpg\" alt=\"Barry Bonds leaves the San Francisco Federal Building in April 2011 after his conviction for obstructing a grand jury investigation. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"282\" height=\"189\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barry Bonds leaves the San Francisco Federal Building in April 2011 after his conviction for obstructing a grand jury investigation. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I learned a lot of things from him, and just having him here was exciting,\" said Pablo Sandoval. \"He's one of the greatest hitters in the history of baseball.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, great hitter. But, you may be wondering, now that the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Bonds_perjury_case\">legally relevant\u003c/a> portion of Bonds' career appears to be over, is it safe to fondly remember his glory years in polite company?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, maybe within a 20-mile radius of the Willie Mays statue at AT&T Park. Last week, for instance, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VckPhiyahf8\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Olbermann got all Keith-Olbermanny on Bonds\u003c/a>, and while he does not necessarily speak for the average fan, he probably does represent the average Bonds hater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We begin tonight with the shame of the San Francisco Giants,\" Olbermann soft-pedaled in the segment below. He went on to call Bonds \"the man who hit more home runs and in all likelihood more PED-nullifed home runs in Major League Baseball history, scorned or dismissed or laughed at in every baseball town except San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You cheated the game; you dishonored the game. The game has been better off with you forgotten, with you in the wilderness, with your statistics as meaningful as video game numbers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reacting to Bonds' comment that \"things had calmed down a little bit\" in terms of his legal circumstances, Olbermann said: \"If you think things have calmed down, if you think this is right, you are not only a cheat and a liar, sir, you are a fool.\" At that point, I thought he was going to challenge Bonds to a duel, but he settled for calling him \"disgusting\" and communicating his personal satisfaction that Bonds' failure to make the Hall of Fame would torment him for the rest of his life. He ended with, \"I have advice for you: Get lost.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/VckPhiyahf8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Personally, I don't feel qualified to condemn a man to a lifetime of anguish for cheating at baseball -- only God and TV news hosts can do that. It should be noted, however, that Bonds' on-field transgressions are only part of the story in terms of his most-hated-man-in-baseball status. San Francisco Chronicle sportswriter Scott Ostler addressed that aspect last week in this \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/sports/ostler/article/Scary-Bonds-just-an-act-5321160.php\" target=\"_blank\">column\u003c/a>....\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It was weird to watch Barry Bonds at his comeback news conference talk about his old alter ego, Scary Bonds. Barry explained that the condescending and contemptuous lout who ruled the Giants' clubhouse from his reclining leather throne was an act. He created that character in order to play baseball better....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barry wants us to believe he made himself Scary for two decades (he was a jerk in college, too) so he could hit more homers? That he allowed himself to sink so deeply into his character that he willingly carried that personality into his everyday life, inflicting it on teammates, family and \"friends\"?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that's true, man, you talk about selling your soul.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>I have no doubt Scary Bonds was real. One local sportswriter I met in my personal life basically described the slugger as one of the worst human beings he'd met in his entire life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50227\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-50227\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/barry_bonds-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"artalog/Flickr\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">artalog/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But at this point, I'm going to risk condemnation by the Internet community, which comprises a decent portion of the human race, by saying that I remained a huge admirer of Bonds well after I was reasonably certain he had embarked on his better-hitting-through-chemistry approach. It's just amazing what 73 home runs will do to a fan's moral compass. I remember talking to someone, a doctor, who said, \"I \u003cem>know\u003c/em> Barry, he wouldn't do that,\" referring to the slanderous notion the man was enjoying a little extra PED-enabled oomph. Yeah, I know him, too. He \u003cem>hits \u003c/em>like a real paragon of virtue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's not the only reason I liked Bonds. The fact is, I'd met him personally, and the experience belied everything I'd ever read or heard about him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>My story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was back in the ’90s. How long ago was that? Well, the World Trade Center was still standing, Afghanistan was a country no one could locate on a map, and a great deal of money could be made in the stock market by investing in random ticker symbols. I mean, this was so long ago, Yahoo, where I worked, was the No. 1 Internet company, and when most people heard the word google, they thought you were imitating a baby. Yahoo's biggest competitor back then was something called Excite.com, now long defunct. Both companies fielded softball teams in a Silicon Valley league, and I was our squad’s first baseman. One day, arriving at the field for a big intra-company game, I ran smack into a mysteriously dense wall of spectators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s going on?” I asked a teammate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Excite’s playing Barry and Bobby Bonds against us,” he said, nonsensically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huh? I waded through the crowd to the diamond, and there indeed stood Barry and his father, Bobby, warming up alongside the Excite team. Awash in cognitive dissonance, I soon discovered Bonds had signed a promotional deal to make an appearance on Excite’s behalf. Bobby was just along for fun. Excite had also brought a photographer and a PR dude to chronicle the surefire shellacking they were going to administer to us Yahoos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upshot of the event, as it is permanently etched in my mind:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Barry hit a ball that almost tipped the top of my glove at first base, then kept rising to shoot out over the fence in right field.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>We won the game, despite the presence in the opposing lineup of one of the game’s great hitters.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Barry Bonds couldn’t have been more gracious, hospitable, friendly and relaxed.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Yep, Bonds treated our little softball game with respect. He proceeded to sign autographs, pose for pictures and chat with us for close to an hour. Sure he was being paid, but that shouldn’t have been enough to prevent him from acting like an ass; we were just a bunch of local fans, after all, swarming around him trying to get a little face time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I even shared a moment with Bonds alone. He came to bat one inning, and we intentionally walked him. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/IBB_season.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Major League Baseball pitchers soon routinely imitated our strategy\u003c/a>.) I smiled at him, and he grinned back. Then I shook his hand, and he smiled wider. The 12-year-old fan in me went all oogly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonds' demeanor impressed everyone. And that night, one could argue, this sports superstar, a local boy who'd played high school ball in San Mateo, was a genuine part of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what can I say, Keith Olbermann? Isn’t the heart of the matter that we see some sports hero on TV or in interviews, or if we're lucky play against him in a meaningless softball game, and we think we have some insight into him? Or even “know” him? And in our childish identification, we choose to know him as a \u003cem>friend\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I still like Bonds, and I was glad to see him back in the Giants' fold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This essay was published in another form in 2010.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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He ended with, \"I have advice for you: Get lost.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/VckPhiyahf8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Personally, I don't feel qualified to condemn a man to a lifetime of anguish for cheating at baseball -- only God and TV news hosts can do that. It should be noted, however, that Bonds' on-field transgressions are only part of the story in terms of his most-hated-man-in-baseball status. San Francisco Chronicle sportswriter Scott Ostler addressed that aspect last week in this \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/sports/ostler/article/Scary-Bonds-just-an-act-5321160.php\" target=\"_blank\">column\u003c/a>....\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It was weird to watch Barry Bonds at his comeback news conference talk about his old alter ego, Scary Bonds. Barry explained that the condescending and contemptuous lout who ruled the Giants' clubhouse from his reclining leather throne was an act. He created that character in order to play baseball better....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barry wants us to believe he made himself Scary for two decades (he was a jerk in college, too) so he could hit more homers? That he allowed himself to sink so deeply into his character that he willingly carried that personality into his everyday life, inflicting it on teammates, family and \"friends\"?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that's true, man, you talk about selling your soul.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>I have no doubt Scary Bonds was real. One local sportswriter I met in my personal life basically described the slugger as one of the worst human beings he'd met in his entire life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50227\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-50227\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/barry_bonds-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"artalog/Flickr\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">artalog/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But at this point, I'm going to risk condemnation by the Internet community, which comprises a decent portion of the human race, by saying that I remained a huge admirer of Bonds well after I was reasonably certain he had embarked on his better-hitting-through-chemistry approach. It's just amazing what 73 home runs will do to a fan's moral compass. I remember talking to someone, a doctor, who said, \"I \u003cem>know\u003c/em> Barry, he wouldn't do that,\" referring to the slanderous notion the man was enjoying a little extra PED-enabled oomph. Yeah, I know him, too. He \u003cem>hits \u003c/em>like a real paragon of virtue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's not the only reason I liked Bonds. The fact is, I'd met him personally, and the experience belied everything I'd ever read or heard about him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>My story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was back in the ’90s. How long ago was that? Well, the World Trade Center was still standing, Afghanistan was a country no one could locate on a map, and a great deal of money could be made in the stock market by investing in random ticker symbols. I mean, this was so long ago, Yahoo, where I worked, was the No. 1 Internet company, and when most people heard the word google, they thought you were imitating a baby. Yahoo's biggest competitor back then was something called Excite.com, now long defunct. Both companies fielded softball teams in a Silicon Valley league, and I was our squad’s first baseman. One day, arriving at the field for a big intra-company game, I ran smack into a mysteriously dense wall of spectators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s going on?” I asked a teammate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Excite’s playing Barry and Bobby Bonds against us,” he said, nonsensically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huh? I waded through the crowd to the diamond, and there indeed stood Barry and his father, Bobby, warming up alongside the Excite team. Awash in cognitive dissonance, I soon discovered Bonds had signed a promotional deal to make an appearance on Excite’s behalf. Bobby was just along for fun. Excite had also brought a photographer and a PR dude to chronicle the surefire shellacking they were going to administer to us Yahoos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upshot of the event, as it is permanently etched in my mind:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Barry hit a ball that almost tipped the top of my glove at first base, then kept rising to shoot out over the fence in right field.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>We won the game, despite the presence in the opposing lineup of one of the game’s great hitters.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Barry Bonds couldn’t have been more gracious, hospitable, friendly and relaxed.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Yep, Bonds treated our little softball game with respect. He proceeded to sign autographs, pose for pictures and chat with us for close to an hour. Sure he was being paid, but that shouldn’t have been enough to prevent him from acting like an ass; we were just a bunch of local fans, after all, swarming around him trying to get a little face time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I even shared a moment with Bonds alone. He came to bat one inning, and we intentionally walked him. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/IBB_season.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Major League Baseball pitchers soon routinely imitated our strategy\u003c/a>.) I smiled at him, and he grinned back. Then I shook his hand, and he smiled wider. The 12-year-old fan in me went all oogly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonds' demeanor impressed everyone. And that night, one could argue, this sports superstar, a local boy who'd played high school ball in San Mateo, was a genuine part of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what can I say, Keith Olbermann? Isn’t the heart of the matter that we see some sports hero on TV or in interviews, or if we're lucky play against him in a meaningless softball game, and we think we have some insight into him? Or even “know” him? And in our childish identification, we choose to know him as a \u003cem>friend\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I still like Bonds, and I was glad to see him back in the Giants' fold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This essay was published in another form in 2010.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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I know why I need to find him undeserving of the riches the San Francisco Giants bestowed upon him when he crossed the bay from Oakland to ply his trade, which is that of major league starting pitcher. And I know he’ll have a tough time finding another job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all that, the first words that come to mind as he leaves the Giants are “class act.” Plus, I’ll always remember watching him pitch the famous (or is it infamous) \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/On-the-losing-end-of-Jeter-s-famous-flip-3276803.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Slide, Jeremy, Slide” game\u003c/a> in the 2001 playoffs against the New York Yankees. Zito did his part, giving up a run — a home run by Jorge Posada, I think — and two hits. But he lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lots of Oakland A’s fans have never forgiven Zito for going to work for the Giants. They saw it and still see it as disloyalty. Of course, that feeling was and is still mixed with incredulity that anyone would give Zito the contract the Giants gave him: $125 million for seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disbelief was soon alloyed with \u003ca href=\"http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schadenfreude\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Schadenfreude\u003c/a>, as Zito struggled year after year after year. His eventual record with the Giants was 63 wins and 80 losses. The one short sunny spell in Zito’s tenure with the Giants: His 15-8 record in 2012, including a couple of brilliant performances in must-win playoff games. If you crunch the numbers ungenerously, ignoring everything Zito and every big leaguer must do every day to stay in the game, the Giants paid him $2 million per win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zito’s performance gave rise to one fine piece of baseball literature, 2008’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/sports/playmagazine/0914play-ZITO.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Mystery of Barry Zito\u003c/a>,” by Pat Jordan in The New York Times Magazine. The piece recounted Zito’s search for what had gone wrong with his game and his struggle to deal with fans who expected so much more of him:\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Zito is an enigma: a perfectly formed pitcher at 22, his promise fulfilled at 24. Now, at 30, without injury, he is in the midst of a fall from grace so confounding that it confuses not only him but everyone else, which is why his hometown fans boo him. It must be his fault, they say. The money made him complacent. The success came too easy. He has no character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I wasn’t making so much money, the fans would show a little compassion,” Zito told me this summer. “But the money gives them no leeway to be sympathetic. When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I’m the same guy I’ve always been.” Which is not quite true. Despite his looks, there is not much that is boyish about Zito today. He is serious, almost brooding, when he talks. “It’s the people around me who’ve changed,” he said. “I can count my friends on one hand.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But time, his 2012 heroics and perhaps the fact Zito won’t be pitching for the Giants again healed his relationship with the fans. On the last day of the season, he was called into a game to face Mark Kotsay of the San Diego Padres and struck him out. He got standing ovations both coming into the game and on his way to the dugout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, Zito is giving the fans an ovation of sorts. He took out a full-page ad in today’s San Francisco Chronicle (below). He says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Let’s Go Giants … Let’s Go Giants … Let’s Go Giants …”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These words will live with me forever. From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you, the dedicated fans of San Francisco for the fire in your hearts for Giants baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These last seven years were filled with ups and downs both on the field and off. I lost both my parents, found the love of my life in Amber, gained wisdom, found a faith in God, and rode the wave to not one but two World Series Championships in three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been an experience that has shaped the lens that I will see life through for the rest of my time. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>So where exactly does Northern California end and Southern California begin? Wikipedia says: \" '\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_California\" target=\"_blank\">Southern California\u003c/a>' is not a formal geographic designation and definitions of what constitutes southern California vary.' \" (Likewise, \"\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_California\" target=\"_blank\">Northern California\u003c/a>\" is not a formal geographic designation, but in terms of state of mind, we like to think if you find yourself in a discussion as to who has the best artisanal doughnuts, you're in Northern California, no matter where you are.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there's the Hunter Pence-Yasiel Puig All-Star voting divide. The Giants' Pence is vying with Dodgers' rookie phenom Puig and three other players to become the \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/mlb/events/all_star/y2013/fv/ballot.jsp?tcid=ASG13_News_Story\" target=\"_blank\">final selection\u003c/a> on the NL team. Now check out \u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/visualization/all_star/y2013/final_vote/\" target=\"_blank\">MLB's All-Star vote-distribution map\u003c/a>. The green-shaded parts represent areas that voted for Pence, whereas the orange-shaded area is solid Puig territory. Using this criterion, we are positing that Southern California now officially starts at Tulare County, with Mono County encroaching upon what is clearly The North and thus engaging in a Pence-insulting provocation that is likely to lead to civil war, or at least more stuff like \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/the-daily-need/splitting-california-in-two/10504/\" target=\"_blank\">this\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102975\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 206px\">\u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/visualization/all_star/y2013/final_vote/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102975 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/PencePuig.jpg.png\" alt=\"The Pence/Puig All-Star Divide, visualized.\" width=\"206\" height=\"241\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pence/Puig All-Star Divide, visualized.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online voting ends Thursday at 1 p.m. The Giants and their fans are doing their best to promote Pence ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Now trending in SF - \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23VotePENCE&src=hash\">#VotePENCE\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— #VotePENCE (@SFGiants) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFGiants/statuses/354356851363676163\">July 8, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>... but so are the Dodgers and their tribe of followers for Puig ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23VotePuig&src=hash\">#VotePuig\u003c/a> online: \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/3Ep1Ol3JpQ\">http://t.co/3Ep1Ol3JpQ\u003c/a> or text N5 to 89269! 63 minutes left for your chance to win: \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/nVYAD9v2dt\">pic.twitter.com/nVYAD9v2dt\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Dodgers/statuses/354354284558684160\">July 8, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Giants fans, if you need any more incentive to weigh in, consider this from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2013/7/8/4503826/vote-pence\" target=\"_blank\">McCovey Chronicles blog\u003c/a> today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>There are a lot of reasons to keep Yasiel Puig out of the All-Star game. Jealousy, spite, irrational homerism, unfettered rage, schadenfreude, bitterness....\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this irrational universe, I want to see two things:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. More Hunter Pence\u003cbr>\n2. Less Yasiel Puig\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Works for us. \u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/all_star/y2013/fv/ballot.jsp?tcid=ASG13_FV_970x66\" target=\"_blank\">Vote here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44935\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 162px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/bryanstow1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44935\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/bryanstow1.jpg\" alt=\"Bryan Stow family photo\" width=\"162\" height=\"241\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bryan Stow family photo\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bryan Stow incident is one of those things that whenever it comes up, even years later, has you sort of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/04/06/the-incredible-attack-on-giants-fan-bryan-stow/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shaking your head\u003c/a> and muttering to yourself about the abject tribalism that often governs human relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guy goes to opening day, probably basking like everyone else in the shopworn connotations of renewal and hope, and winds up severely beaten with brain damage. All because he rooted for the wrong team. The two men who have been accused of attacking Stow, Louie Sanchez and Marvin Norwood, are still awaiting trial, and the Stow family has sued the Dodgers, claiming the organization’s negligence in stadium security contributed to the attack. That trial is set to begin on Aug. 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stow, 43, has made remarkable progress since he emerged from a coma two years ago. But two weeks ago, in an update on its \u003ca href=\"http://support4bryanstow.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Support4BryanStow\u003c/a> website, his family said that he had been forced to return home from the live-in facility where he had been rehabbing because Stow’s insurance company would no longer pay for that level of care. The family said Stow’s condition has declined somewhat since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, I talked to Bryan’s sister, Bonnie, about this latest development. Stow has been living at his parents’ home in Capitola for about seven weeks now. His two children, who used to live with him part time, now live exclusively with their mother. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edited transcript …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: What sort of care is the insurance company still paying for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BONNIE STOW\u003c/strong>: Outpatient therapy, but it’s been cut to 30 hours of physical therapy, speech therapy and occupational therapy each for the entire calendar year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Can you tell me who the insurance company is?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BONNIE STOW\u003c/strong>: Well, we got a lot of responses from people who were not happy with the insurance company and we don’t want to make the situation worse by people contacting them directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Are you in negotiations?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BONNIE STOW\u003c/strong>: We haven’t gotten to that point yet. We’ve never dealt with this, so we don’t know what avenue we should take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: What was the reason you were given for the company no longer paying for the facility?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BONNIE STOW\u003c/strong>: We were told insurance companies will only continue to pay as long as there are signs of improvement and progress. And the second a patient starts to plateau, they’ll stop paying. But now he’s gotten to the point where he’s taken a big step back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: How has he declined?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BONNIE STOW\u003c/strong>: Even transferring from his wheelchair to his bed is painful. His body stiffens up if he’s not continually moved, which is why we’re trying to stand him every hour for two minutes. But with the lack of therapy, he’s gaining weight, which makes it harder for us to do that. At the live-in facility, he was also getting psychological therapy, which he doesn’t get now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So who is taking care of Bryan at your parents’ home?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BONNIE STOW\u003c/strong>: My parents hired someone for three hours in the morning to get him up and showered, and three hours in the evening. My mom feeds him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Is that covered by insurance?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BONNIE STOW\u003c/strong>: No. It’s $25 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So that’s $150 per day, or about $55,000 per year. Have the donations you were receiving after the attack slowed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BONNIE STOW\u003c/strong>: Yeah, but I don’t want to take away from the donations we are getting. Of course they help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: Are the Giants helping out?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BONNIE STOW\u003c/strong>: Tim Lincecum donated to his fund in the beginning and Barry Bonds donated money for the kids’ education. We get texts from the Giants to make sure we’re doing OK. Tim Flannery did a couple of fundraisers. They treated us to the World Series game. They’ve been supportive in making us feel like part of their family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: How is Bryan doing in terms of his overall recovery?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BONNIE STOW\u003c/strong>: Well, he lived. That’s big progress. His memory is pretty good. He has moments he doesn’t remember what he had for breakfast. He’ll sometimes use a word that’s not what he meant to say, and it doesn’t make sense. But he’s doing really well when you look at him. His body just needs to catch up. And, in order to do that, he needs his therapies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: And how well is the family coping now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BONNIE STOW\u003c/strong>: I feel like this is a different chapter. We’re all in Santa Cruz County, so we’re all here and we’re able to help, so we have the support of each other. We’re coping in the sense that we’re together and we’re doing it as a family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Common Situation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a situation no one ever plans for, of course. I asked Karen Pollitz, a senior fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation who specializes in private health insurance, how often someone who is seriously injured gets sent home from a live-in facility. Stow is still covered by his employer through COBRA, and Pollitz said job-based insurance limitations on coverage for rehab services are common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One common limit is on days or rehab visits a plan will cover in a year or relative to a particular accident or injury. The second (is that) plans will only cover care that’s medically necessary, and the definition of that with respect to rehab may have something to do with whether you’re still on a trajectory to return to the level of health and function prior to the injury or accident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Pollitz said, there is no definition of what’s “medically necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been a long-running discussion,” she said. “What should be the standard for covering medically necessary rehab services that are required over the long term? Is it that you’re eventually going to get better, eventually achieve a certain level of improvement, or is it to prevent further deterioration?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Pollitz whether the Affordable Care Act, which goes into full effect in 2014, could help Stow. It won’t, she said. The 30 hours per year for different rehabilitative services that his family says Stow is now approved for is similar to the standard that plans offered through California’s health exchange will operate under. So, even though people like Stow, who have a long-term injury, will be able to buy insurance, they would still run into the same limits on rehab services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what do you do when an unthinkable tragedy like this strikes? The Stow family is fortunate — if you want to call it that — in the respect that the attack received so much publicity that donations were able to help defray the cost of his recovery. And of course, they may or may not receive money from the Dodgers through their lawsuit. But not everyone gets a fundraising \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/11/02/video-barry-bonds-asks-for-help-for-bryan-stow-kids-college-fund/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video made on their behalf by Barry Bonds.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pollitz said the best option for people in Stow’s situation who can’t afford long-term care may be Medicaid (Medi-Cal in California), which has no limits in getting rehabilitative services at a live-in facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the huge differences between Medi-Cal coverage and private insurance coverage is that (Medi-Cal) doesn’t limit these services, either for medically necessary reasons or dollar limits. This distinction between (what’s) care to improve or care to maintain … that gets blown away under Medicaid. It’s all covered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That might, however, require “spending down” — reducing your assets in order to qualify for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll check in with the Stow family as events develop. For now, here’s a video they posted that documents Bryan’s recovery …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0Nfgxj6xG4]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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