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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130879\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/28/130853/a%27s-giants-fans-t-shirts/shirts1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-130879\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-130879 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/shirts1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"A's fan Jamey Van Dyke designed this shirt to honor infileder Eric Sogard, one of the few major leaguers to wear glasses. (Jamey Van Dyke\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A's fan Jamey Van Dyke designed this shirt to honor infileder Eric Sogard, one of the few major leaguers to wear glasses. (Jamey Van Dyke)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Bridge rivalry preseason series between the Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants is under way. And in a year when both teams will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 1989 World Series in which they met, fans may be expected to indulge in a greater-than-usual amount of smack-talking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are also things the teams and their followers have in common, and one of them is an increasing amount of imaginative fan-designed T-shirts and other merchandise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years ago, your choices for fan apparel providers were the team store, or a guy on the street corner or BART bridge selling badly-printed knockoffs of the team store's designs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, independent companies like \u003ca href=\"http://adaptadvancers.myshopify.com\" target=\"_blank\">Adapt Clothing\u003c/a> (for the Giants) and \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandish.com\" target=\"_blank\">Oaklandish\u003c/a> (for the A's) have expanded the spectrum. 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It's made it possible for someone who had a design idea, but didn't want to spend two or three hundred dollars on the setup, and then end up with a garage full of the wrong size shirts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perillo started making A's gear two years ago – when fans started doing a dance called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXmrCvM8dk0\" target=\"_blank\">Bernie Lean\u003c/a> to Oakland outfielder Coco Crisp's walk-up music “Moving Like Bernie”. One of his most popular designs has a simple silhouette of a leaning figure with no text. But sales are not what it's about for Purilo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm more about, if I see somebody wearing one of our shirts, it makes me happy. I want to go up and say hi, and talk about the A's with them. It's really an independent culture type of thing. We want to support the team, but we want to do it in an individual way. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-129833 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/JeanQuan.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland mayor Jean Quan\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean Quan (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and newly appointment City Administrator Fred Blackwell joined \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201403180900\">KQED’s “Forum” \u003c/a>on Tuesday morning to speak about all the good things taking place in the city: increased revenue, a growing nightlife, \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_25338515/mega-development-getting-underway-oakland\">new developments like the Brooklyn Basin project\u003c/a> and, according to Quan, a reduction in crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But where crime is concerned, listeners had a very different view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quan credited reorganization in the police department and the city’s cease-fire program with major gains in fighting crime. Of the last seven months, Quan said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shootings are down 41 percent, robberies are down 29 percent, residential burglaries are down 33 percent. Even car thefts, which is sort of the problem statewide, are down 14 percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Forum” listeners pushed back. One listener with the Twitter handle @GonzOakland sent this tweet: “Mayor Quan just told you Oakland is getting safer. It isn’t. The murder rate dipped last year, but it is way up this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quan acknowledged that murders are up by two so far this year, but hopes that the city can improve on last year, which saw a 31 percent reduction in murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are going to go for at least another 10 or 20 percent drop this year,” said Quan. She attributed the uptick so far this year to domestic violence, as opposed to gang-related violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/140239891&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another caller asked the city representatives to speak to the continued loitering along Oakland’s 14th Street corridor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quan said that “the 14th and Broadway corridor is something we’ve been working on for a long time,” and seemed to suggest that a certain amount of crime is inevitable. “When you have major corridors in big cities, you are going to have a lot more crime.” Quan said that she has seen a lot less loitering, and cited plans ” to try to get a coffee shop that opens late right near that BART station, so that there is more eyes on the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other issues touched on during the hour included stadium plans for the Oakland A’s and Raiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I arrived at the city about 2½ years ago, things did not look very good,” said Blackwell. “I mean it looked like all three of the teams had exit strategies that they were trying to execute.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Blackwell said the situation has improved. Oakland has “two viable sites” to offer the A’s, he said, and the city is in discussion with the Raiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not operating from the assumption that we have the money or the political will to provide significant public subsidy for these private facilities,” said Blackwell. “The way we are approaching all these deals is that the city and potentially the county would be looking at investing in the infrastructure around these areas, but really it would be the teams and private developers that would have to come up with the resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No interview with Quan can be complete without discussing her reaction to the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/11/03/occupy-oakland-update/\">city’s 2011 Occupy protests\u003c/a>. Host Michael Krasny asked her what she had learned from those events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I tried to do was to get as much consensus (as possible) so that we could make movement as a city,” Quan said. “That was not an easy thing to do. It’s probably one of the toughest things I’ve had to do in my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And likely something that will resurface in \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_25230764/auditor-enter-oakland-mayors-race\">the upcoming election\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_128794\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/07/as-stadium-news-of-the-week-legal-manutemporary-insanity/rs6758_181574858-hpf/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-128794\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-128794\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS6758_181574858-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"Coco Crisp is congratulated by Eric Sogard, center, and Stephen Vogt after hitting a three-run homer in the Oakland A's division-clinching win against the Minnesota Twins last September. (Jason O. Watson/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coco Crisp is congratulated by Eric Sogard, center, and Stephen Vogt after hitting a three-run homer in the Oakland A's division-clinching win against the Minnesota Twins last September. (Jason O. Watson/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After 32 years, the Oakland Athletics are playing their final spring training games at \u003ca href=\"http://phoenix.gov/parks/sports/phxmuni.html\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Municipal Stadium\u003c/a> this month. Next year the team will be taking over \u003ca href=\"http://hohokamstadium.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hohokam Stadium\u003c/a> in nearby Mesa, the former Cactus League home of the Chicago Cubs. The move is happening with a minimum of fuss. The mayor of Phoenix threw out the first pitch on opening day, and concession stands around the park sell souvenir cups and pins with the Phoenix Muni logo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may be the only time in the 21st century that an A's stadium transition happens smoothly or amicably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, A's part-owner and managing partner Lew Wolff \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/03/07/as-owner-wolff-explores-temporary.html\" target=\"_blank\">was quoted by the Silicon Valley Business Journal\u003c/a> as saying that he'd asked his architects to explore the possibility of building a temporary ballpark for the A's if it became impossible for them to stay at the Oakland Coliseum when their current lease expires at the end of 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way it's a situation most of us have encountered at some point, in moving from one apartment or house to another: What do you do if the new place isn't ready on the day you have to move out of the old one?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most obvious solution is the \u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080330&content_id=2467286&vkey=news_nyy&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy\" target=\"_blank\">Yankee Stadium model\u003c/a>: build the new ballpark next to the old one and move when it's ready. But that may not work for the A's, largely because they share their current home with the Oakland Raiders. This is where it gets to be like a \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_puzzle\" target=\"_blank\">15-puzzle\u003c/a> — that's the term for those annoying plastic toys with the numbered squares that you need to shift around to get in the right order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Raiders strike a deal with Oakland to build a new football stadium on the exact footprint of the current Coliseum (which is \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_24037189/raiders-stadium-site-preference-could-hasten-exit\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly their preference\u003c/a>), then the A's might have to find a temporary home while their new ballpark is built. The Raiders would have the same problem, since there's no way the construction could take place in a single NFL off-season. But they would have the option of temporarily playing at the 49ers' new Levi's Stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">A's owner Lew Wolff floats a new idea: a temporary stadium if the team can't renew its lease at the Oakland Coliseum.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Similarly, the A's could play a season or two at AT&T Park. San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/giants/ci_25234653/giants-willing-share-at-t-park\" target=\"_blank\">recently said his team would be happy\u003c/a> to share its home for a season or two if the A's were building a ballpark in Oakland or elsewhere in the East Bay. If the A's win permission from Major League Baseball to move to San Jose, which so far has been denied them, the Giants might not be so hospitable, since Santa Clara County is currently designated as Giants territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's where the option of a temporary stadium would come in. \u003ca href=\"http://newballpark.org/2013/11/15/creating-a-temporary-stadium-blueprint/\" target=\"_blank\">Rhamesis Muncada of newballpark.org described how \u003c/a>the new minor league soccer team Sacramento Republic FC is building such a facility at the state fairgrounds and suggested that could be a model for the A's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that seems like a big stretch for a major league team. Not only Major League Baseball but the players' union would want to get involved to be sure the games played and stats recorded in a temporary park would be comparable to a permanent one. And building a safe facility in a seismically active region isn't any easier simply because the structure is temporary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the city of San Jose's legal battle with Major League Baseball shifts to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may remember that last year, San Jose got tired of waiting for baseball and its commissioner, Bud Selig, to make a decision on whether the A's would be allowed to move to San Jose, and filed a lawsuit. Last October, a federal court judge in San Jose \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/11/san-jose-gets-split-ruling-in-suit-over-as-move/\" target=\"_blank\">dismissed the suit's challenge\u003c/a> to Major League Baseball's \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2008/12/3/678134/the-history-of-baseball-s\" target=\"_blank\">antitrust exemption\u003c/a> (a second part of the suit, alleging that baseball officials broke state law by interfering with the city's contract with the A's, was allowed to proceed). U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte ruled, in effect, that it's up to Congress, not the courts, to deal with the antitrust issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city appealed Whyte's antitrust ruling and last week filed an 83-page brief arguing its case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get more perspective on how the city is going to press its antitrust claim, I talked to lawyer-turned-sportswriter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hangingsliders\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy Thurm\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thurm\u003c/strong>: San Jose appears to be taking the position that the scope of the antitrust exemption is a question of fact, for a jury to decide. That's pretty unusual. It's not something that San Jose argued in the district court. I can understand from a strategic perspective why San Jose would do that, because it allows the court of appeal, if they're so inclined, to take an intermediate step and send the case back to the district court. And then it would open it up for discovery, back in the district court, which would lead to a whole range of documents and sworn testimony from MLB executives. I've never seen that argument before, and it strikes me as a bit of a Hail Mary pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen: \u003c/strong> That's been a theory when people talk about this case — that MLB will do anything to avoid discovery, that they don't want to open up their books, that Bud Selig doesn't want to go into court. Do you think there is that much that's shocking or proprietary about baseball's inner workings that they want to conceal?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thurm:\u003c/strong> I've always heard that speculation, too — that not just MLB, but the individual owners would much prefer to keep their financials private, and the owners would pressure MLB to get rid of the lawsuit, down the road if it ever came to that. There's the additional pressure point, for the league as a whole, of putting the antitrust exemption at risk. Major League Baseball is the only one of the four professional sports that still hangs on to this exemption from antitrust law, and in particular as it relates to team location and relocation. MLB doesn't want to lose that, and has had to fight for it in Congress and in the courts. They're a long way from having to give up documents or losing that exemption, but I see both those as pressure points. Which is why the way the district court case played out really couldn't have been any better for Major League Baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen:\u003c/strong> By dismissing it quickly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thurm:\u003c/strong> Yes. Now San Jose was successful in getting an expedited appeal, and I was quite surprised that the 9th Circuit agreed to do that. So what normally would take a year to 18 months, between the briefings, and being assigned to a panel, and having oral arguments -- that process is going to move along much more quickly in the 9th Circuit, and we're likely to get at least an initial decision sometime this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen:\u003c/strong> So do you have a guess about what's likely to happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thurm:\u003c/strong> Ultimately I think the 9th Circuit will affirm the district court's decision (to dismiss San Jose's case). But it will be interesting to see, if they affirm, how aggressive they might be on whether they think the law ought to be changed and whether the case law ought to be overturned, to set it up so that the Supreme Court might be interested in taking it. What's so interesting about this is that events on the ground have changed. In Oakland, both the business community and the politicians are trying to gather steam for their two different stadium proposals, Coliseum City and Howard Terminal. If you'd asked me a year ago, I would have said eventually the A's are going to be allowed to move to San Jose. Now there's movement towards resolving the ballpark situation in Oakland, in which case this lawsuit might just go away.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Raiders strike a deal with Oakland to build a new football stadium on the exact footprint of the current Coliseum (which is \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_24037189/raiders-stadium-site-preference-could-hasten-exit\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly their preference\u003c/a>), then the A's might have to find a temporary home while their new ballpark is built. The Raiders would have the same problem, since there's no way the construction could take place in a single NFL off-season. But they would have the option of temporarily playing at the 49ers' new Levi's Stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">A's owner Lew Wolff floats a new idea: a temporary stadium if the team can't renew its lease at the Oakland Coliseum.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Similarly, the A's could play a season or two at AT&T Park. San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/giants/ci_25234653/giants-willing-share-at-t-park\" target=\"_blank\">recently said his team would be happy\u003c/a> to share its home for a season or two if the A's were building a ballpark in Oakland or elsewhere in the East Bay. If the A's win permission from Major League Baseball to move to San Jose, which so far has been denied them, the Giants might not be so hospitable, since Santa Clara County is currently designated as Giants territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's where the option of a temporary stadium would come in. \u003ca href=\"http://newballpark.org/2013/11/15/creating-a-temporary-stadium-blueprint/\" target=\"_blank\">Rhamesis Muncada of newballpark.org described how \u003c/a>the new minor league soccer team Sacramento Republic FC is building such a facility at the state fairgrounds and suggested that could be a model for the A's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that seems like a big stretch for a major league team. Not only Major League Baseball but the players' union would want to get involved to be sure the games played and stats recorded in a temporary park would be comparable to a permanent one. And building a safe facility in a seismically active region isn't any easier simply because the structure is temporary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the city of San Jose's legal battle with Major League Baseball shifts to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may remember that last year, San Jose got tired of waiting for baseball and its commissioner, Bud Selig, to make a decision on whether the A's would be allowed to move to San Jose, and filed a lawsuit. Last October, a federal court judge in San Jose \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/11/san-jose-gets-split-ruling-in-suit-over-as-move/\" target=\"_blank\">dismissed the suit's challenge\u003c/a> to Major League Baseball's \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2008/12/3/678134/the-history-of-baseball-s\" target=\"_blank\">antitrust exemption\u003c/a> (a second part of the suit, alleging that baseball officials broke state law by interfering with the city's contract with the A's, was allowed to proceed). U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte ruled, in effect, that it's up to Congress, not the courts, to deal with the antitrust issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city appealed Whyte's antitrust ruling and last week filed an 83-page brief arguing its case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get more perspective on how the city is going to press its antitrust claim, I talked to lawyer-turned-sportswriter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hangingsliders\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy Thurm\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thurm\u003c/strong>: San Jose appears to be taking the position that the scope of the antitrust exemption is a question of fact, for a jury to decide. That's pretty unusual. It's not something that San Jose argued in the district court. I can understand from a strategic perspective why San Jose would do that, because it allows the court of appeal, if they're so inclined, to take an intermediate step and send the case back to the district court. And then it would open it up for discovery, back in the district court, which would lead to a whole range of documents and sworn testimony from MLB executives. I've never seen that argument before, and it strikes me as a bit of a Hail Mary pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen: \u003c/strong> That's been a theory when people talk about this case — that MLB will do anything to avoid discovery, that they don't want to open up their books, that Bud Selig doesn't want to go into court. Do you think there is that much that's shocking or proprietary about baseball's inner workings that they want to conceal?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thurm:\u003c/strong> I've always heard that speculation, too — that not just MLB, but the individual owners would much prefer to keep their financials private, and the owners would pressure MLB to get rid of the lawsuit, down the road if it ever came to that. There's the additional pressure point, for the league as a whole, of putting the antitrust exemption at risk. Major League Baseball is the only one of the four professional sports that still hangs on to this exemption from antitrust law, and in particular as it relates to team location and relocation. MLB doesn't want to lose that, and has had to fight for it in Congress and in the courts. They're a long way from having to give up documents or losing that exemption, but I see both those as pressure points. Which is why the way the district court case played out really couldn't have been any better for Major League Baseball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen:\u003c/strong> By dismissing it quickly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thurm:\u003c/strong> Yes. Now San Jose was successful in getting an expedited appeal, and I was quite surprised that the 9th Circuit agreed to do that. So what normally would take a year to 18 months, between the briefings, and being assigned to a panel, and having oral arguments -- that process is going to move along much more quickly in the 9th Circuit, and we're likely to get at least an initial decision sometime this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thorsen:\u003c/strong> So do you have a guess about what's likely to happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/474733245.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-127769\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/474733245-640x435.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland A's infielder Eric Sogard, the face that sunk Buster Posey. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"435\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland A's infielder Eric Sogard, the face that sunk Buster Posey. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6:50 a.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> Well, the results are in, and in the end Oakland A's fans could not out-tweet New York Mets partisans in the \"\u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/y2014/faceofmlb/\" target=\"_blank\">Face of Major League Baseball\u003c/a>\" fan poll. Mets third baseman David Wright, who we concede has got a pretty good face, prevailed over A's second baseman Eric Sogard, the glasses-wearing avatar of Nerd Power at the Oakland Coliseum. Our analysts are still studying the final result, but we think that time zones played a part. The 23-hour vote-by-Twitter contest was split 50-50 most of Thursday, with Sogard taking a small lead in the late evening hours on the West Coast, when A's fans with nothing better to do continued to vote while Mets fans slumbered. Voting continued until 5 a.m. PST Friday, so we're guessing early-rising Mets fans caught A's fans napping. (And yes, of course, \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/02/28/as-fans-claim-conspiracy-as-sogard-narrowly-misses-face-of-mlb-title/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">conspiracy theories\u003c/a> have emerged to explain Wright's win.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We believe on perfectly objective grounds that Sogard's visage still emanates an irresistible charm, a slightly goofy, enthusiastic, kidlike radiance undimmed by this setback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7:45 a.m. Thursday Update: \u003c/strong> Yes, I am going to sit here with a straight face and tell you that this is news: Followers of the Oakland Athletics — a franchise known for its on-field overachievements, passionate fan base and tepid attendance — have made bespectacled infielder Eric Sogard, a certified non-celebrity, a finalist in \"\u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/y2014/faceofmlb/\" target=\"_blank\">The Face of Major League Baseball\u003c/a>\" contest. Because Sogard wears glasses, A's fans have dubbed him a nerd and his home plate appearances are accompanied by the scoreboard legend \"Nerd Power.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sogard is in the finals against New York Mets third baseman David Wright. Fans vote by Twitter at the Face of MLB site linked above (or, look, \u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/y2014/faceofmlb/\" target=\"_blank\">here's another link\u003c/a>!). If this is the sort of thing you're interested in, you have until 5 a.m. PST Friday to vote. Currently, the vote is a dead heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's remarkable in the Sogard \"\u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/y2014/faceofmlb/\" target=\"_blank\">Face of MLB\u003c/a>\" saga is that he has outpolled a series of much-better-known players — the Chicago Cubs' Anthony Rizzo, the Colorado Rockies' Troy Tulowitzki and the San Francisco Giants' Buster Posey — Buster Posey, for crying out loud — on his way to the finals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now back to the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10:30 p.m. Wednesday Update:\u003c/strong> Well, just to close the loop: Not that it means much, Oakland fans, but your A's cruised in their Cactus League opener with the Giants, 10-5. We will take note of two ugly (but also perhaps meaningless) pitching performances for the Giants: Starter Yusmeiro Petit got knocked around for four runs in the first, and reliever Sergio Romo got hammered for six runs on seven hits in the fourth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, and there was this: The Athletics' Josh Reddick made \u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/oak/as-josh-reddick-astounds-with-two-dazzling-catches-to-rob-giants-michael-morse?ymd=20140226&content_id=68383732&vkey=news_oak\" target=\"_blank\">two ridiculous catches in right\u003c/a>, both times reaching over a 10-foot fence to rob the Giants' Michael Moore of home runs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In other news:\u003c/strong> The race between Eric Sogard of the A's and the Toronto Blue Jays' Jose Bautista to make it to the final of \"\u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/y2014/faceofmlb/\" target=\"_blank\">The Face of Major League Baseball\u003c/a>\" fan poll is looking like a cliff-hanger with just six hours of voting to go. Sogard led Bautista 68-32 percent Wednesday afternoon. Tonight that margin is down to 53-47 percent. Not that we care. At all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> The San Francisco Giants and Oakland A's are launching spring training play this afternoon at the Giants' home field in Scottsdale, Ariz. You can divine the desperate import of this inaugural Cactus League contest by the two starters for the game. Long reliever \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/chaveje01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Chavez\u003c/a> took the mound for Oakland. Non-household-name \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/petityu01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Yusmeiro Petit\u003c/a>, a 29-year-old journeyman starter who compiled a 4-1 record with the Giants last year, including a shutout, started for San Francisco. (Petit didn't fare so well, giving up four runs in the top of the first, the only inning he worked.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, the two teams have already been face to face in their first real confrontation of the 2014 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah. The Athletics' Eric Sogard, a popular, bespectacled infielder, came out on top of Giants' catcher and 2012 National League Most Valuable Player Buster Posey in the just-for-fun \"\u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/y2014/faceofmlb/\" target=\"_blank\">The Face of Major League Baseball\u003c/a>\" fan poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somehow, the smooth-fielding and sometimes-clutch-hitting Sogard outpolled the godlike Posey 55 percent to 45 percent in the contest. One theory is that A's fans are conducting a well-organized underground campaign in the vote-by-Twitter contest. Another is that Giants' fans are really not so plugged in and really couldn't be bothered to engage in such an undignified popularity contest (they'll wait for the All-Star Game voting to do that). Those propositions are not mutually exclusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I lean toward the power of Sogard's glasses to win the hearts of fans who want a regular guy to win something for once. Whatever the explanation, the grinning Sogard is currently in the Face of Major League Baseball semifinals against the \u003cdel datetime=\"2014-02-27T06:39:50+00:00\">smiling\u003c/del> stern-faced Jose Bautista of the Toronto Blue Jays. With voting continuing through 5 a.m. PST Thursday, Sogard is currently drawing 66 percent of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whoever wins that semifinal will face David Wright of the New York Mets in the Face final.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now back to the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10:30 p.m. Wednesday Update:\u003c/strong> Well, just to close the loop: Not that it means much, Oakland fans, but your A's cruised in their Cactus League opener with the Giants, 10-5. We will take note of two ugly (but also perhaps meaningless) pitching performances for the Giants: Starter Yusmeiro Petit got knocked around for four runs in the first, and reliever Sergio Romo got hammered for six runs on seven hits in the fourth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, and there was this: The Athletics' Josh Reddick made \u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/oak/as-josh-reddick-astounds-with-two-dazzling-catches-to-rob-giants-michael-morse?ymd=20140226&content_id=68383732&vkey=news_oak\" target=\"_blank\">two ridiculous catches in right\u003c/a>, both times reaching over a 10-foot fence to rob the Giants' Michael Moore of home runs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In other news:\u003c/strong> The race between Eric Sogard of the A's and the Toronto Blue Jays' Jose Bautista to make it to the final of \"\u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/y2014/faceofmlb/\" target=\"_blank\">The Face of Major League Baseball\u003c/a>\" fan poll is looking like a cliff-hanger with just six hours of voting to go. Sogard led Bautista 68-32 percent Wednesday afternoon. Tonight that margin is down to 53-47 percent. Not that we care. At all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> The San Francisco Giants and Oakland A's are launching spring training play this afternoon at the Giants' home field in Scottsdale, Ariz. You can divine the desperate import of this inaugural Cactus League contest by the two starters for the game. Long reliever \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/chaveje01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Chavez\u003c/a> took the mound for Oakland. Non-household-name \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/petityu01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Yusmeiro Petit\u003c/a>, a 29-year-old journeyman starter who compiled a 4-1 record with the Giants last year, including a shutout, started for San Francisco. (Petit didn't fare so well, giving up four runs in the top of the first, the only inning he worked.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, the two teams have already been face to face in their first real confrontation of the 2014 season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah. The Athletics' Eric Sogard, a popular, bespectacled infielder, came out on top of Giants' catcher and 2012 National League Most Valuable Player Buster Posey in the just-for-fun \"\u003ca href=\"http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/y2014/faceofmlb/\" target=\"_blank\">The Face of Major League Baseball\u003c/a>\" fan poll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somehow, the smooth-fielding and sometimes-clutch-hitting Sogard outpolled the godlike Posey 55 percent to 45 percent in the contest. One theory is that A's fans are conducting a well-organized underground campaign in the vote-by-Twitter contest. Another is that Giants' fans are really not so plugged in and really couldn't be bothered to engage in such an undignified popularity contest (they'll wait for the All-Star Game voting to do that). Those propositions are not mutually exclusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I lean toward the power of Sogard's glasses to win the hearts of fans who want a regular guy to win something for once. Whatever the explanation, the grinning Sogard is currently in the Face of Major League Baseball semifinals against the \u003cdel datetime=\"2014-02-27T06:39:50+00:00\">smiling\u003c/del> stern-faced Jose Bautista of the Toronto Blue Jays. With voting continuing through 5 a.m. PST Thursday, Sogard is currently drawing 66 percent of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whoever wins that semifinal will face David Wright of the New York Mets in the Face final.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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(Michael Buckner/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since I don't see nearly as many movies as a modern human being is expected to, I can't say I know the Philip Seymour Hoffman canon too well. But given what I saw him in — \"The Big Lebowski,\" \"Almost Famous,\" \"State and Main,\" \"The Talented Mr. Ripley\" and especially \"Capote\" — I think my opinion comported with what I perceive to be the general view: The guy could act. On that basis, and considering his age, 46, hearing about \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/movies/philip-seymour-hoffman-actor-dies-at-46.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">his death earlier today\u003c/a> was, and is, stunning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"a53eb99b85630e70d02b2531e489dac6\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman had one role in recent years with a prominent Bay Area tie, playing former Oakland A's Manager Art Howe in \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210166/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_10\" target=\"_blank\">Moneyball\u003c/a>.\" I don't think it rated as one of Hoffman's career highlights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For as much as I like the A's and the \"Moneyball\" story — both the Michael Lewis book about the non-traditional views of A's General Manager Billy Beane and the way those views have so often come to entertaining life on the field — the Art Howe in the movie felt more than a little off. Hoffman's portrayal was competent enough. But we were seeing the depiction of someone who we, as followers of the local nine, felt we had sort of gotten to know. The guy we had watched on the dugout steps, heard on the radio and read about in the paper year after year in the late Nineties and early Oughts didn't seem like the humorless, narrow-minded, shackled-to-baseball-tradition jerk we were seeing on screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howe complained bitterly about the portrayal. (See \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/28/art-howe-rip-moneyball-and-billy-beane-listen-to-knbr-appearance/\" target=\"_blank\">Art Howe Rips 'Moneyball' and Billy Beane\u003c/a>,\" a post colleague Jon Brooks wrote soon after the movie came out in 2011.) But among those Howe didn't blame was the actor who played him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howe is still talking about the movie — but now to express shock at Hoffman's sudden passing. \u003ca href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2014/02/02/philip-seymore-hoffman-art-howe-moneyball-forgive/#ixzz2sD1qQQF6\" target=\"_blank\">He told TMZ today\u003c/a> that he never held the portrayal against Hoffman:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Howe says he was \"in shock\" when he learned PSH had passed away Sunday ... explaining, \"We never got to meet. I remember reading an article where he said he wanted to meet me and apologize for how he portrayed me. Now we're never going to have that chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howe says he was very unhappy with the way he was portrayed in the flick -- but says he points the finger at the producers and the writers ... not PSH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even though I didn't agree with the way I was portrayed, I didn't blame him -- he was just playing the part he was given,\" Howe says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>KQED News colleague Nina Thorsen was one of thousands of people who volunteered to be an extra when \"Moneyball\" filmed its climactic scene — the A's winning their 20th straight game in 2002 — during a series of late-night shoots at the Coliseum in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the news about Hoffman's passing broke this morning, Nina wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I think every one of the thousands of us who were \"Moneyball\" extras got at least a smile and a wave, and some of my friends who had slightly bigger extra roles said he'd make a point of coming over to sit down and talk with them.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's Hoffman as Howe in \"Moneyball,\" followed by the latest version of the Associated Press obituary on Philip Seymour Hoffman:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/SdCNcN-NFXA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jake Coyle and Tom Hays\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Associated Press\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NEW YORK — Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won the Oscar for best actor in 2006 for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote and created a gallery of other vivid characters, many of them slovenly and somewhat dissipated, was found dead Sunday in his apartment with what officials said was a needle in his arm. He was 46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two law enforcement officials, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the evidence, said the actor apparently died of a drug overdose. Glassine envelopes containing what was believed to be heroin were found with him, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman — no matinee idol, with his lumpy build and limp blond hair — made his career mostly as a character actor, and was one of the most prolific in the business, plying his craft with a rumpled naturalism that also made him one of the most admired performers of his generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stage-trained actor was nominated for Academy Awards four times in all: for \"Capote,\" ''The Master,\" ''Doubt\" and \"Charlie Wilson's War.\" He also received three Tony nominations for his work on Broadway, which included an acclaimed turn as the weary and defeated Willy Loman in \"Death of a Salesman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman spoke candidly over the years about past struggles with drug addiction. After 23 years sober, he admitted in interviews last year to falling off the wagon and developing a heroin problem that led to a stint in rehab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tributes poured in from other Hollywood figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the greatest actors of a generation and a sweet, funny & humble man,\" actor Ricky Gervais tweeted. Director Spike Lee said on Twitter: \"Damn, We Lost Another Great Artist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Kevin Costner said in an AP interview: \"Philip was a very important actor and really takes his place among the real great actors. It's a shame. Who knows what he would have been able to do? But we're left with the legacy of the work he's done and it all speaks for itself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No words for this. He was too great and we're too shattered,\" said Mike Nichols, who directed Hoffman in \"Charlie Wilson's War\" and \"Death of a Salesman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law enforcement officials said Hoffman's body was discovered in a bathroom at his Greenwich Village apartment by a friend who made the 911 call and his assistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Sunday, a police crime-scene van was parked out front, and technicians carrying brown paper bags went in and out. Police kept a growing crowd of onlookers back. A single red daisy had been placed in front of the lobby door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman's family called the news \"tragic and sudden.\" Hoffman is survived by his partner of 15 years, Mimi O'Donnell, and their three children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Phil and appreciate the outpouring of love and support we have received from everyone,\" the family said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of his earliest screen roles, he played a spoiled prep school student in \"Scent of a Woman\" in 1992. One of his breakthroughs came as a gay member of a porno film crew in \"Boogie Nights,\" one of several movies directed by Paul Thomas Anderson that he would eventually appear in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He often played comic, slightly off-kilter characters in movies like \"Along Came Polly,\" ''The Big Lebowski\" and \"Almost Famous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, he was Plutarch Heavensbee in \"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire\" and was reprising that role in the two-part sequel, \"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay,\" which is in the works. And in \"Moneyball,\" he played Art Howe, the grumpy manager of the Oakland Athletics who resisted new thinking about baseball talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just weeks ago, Showtime announced Hoffman would star in \"Happyish,\" a new comedy series about a middle-aged man's pursuit of happiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was nominated for the 2013 Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role in \"The Master\" as the charismatic leader of a religious movement. The film, inspired in part by the life of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, reunited the actor with Anderson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also received a 2009 best-supporting nomination for \"Doubt,\" as a priest who comes under suspicion because of his relationship with a boy, and another best-supporting nomination as a CIA officer in \"Charlie Wilson's War.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in 1967 in Fairport, N.Y., Hoffman was interested in acting from an early age, mesmerized at 12 by a local production of Arthur Miller's \"All My Sons.\" He studied theater as a teenager with the New York State Summer School of the Arts and the Circle in the Square Theatre. He then majored in drama at New York University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his Oscar acceptance speech for \"Capote,\" he thanked his mother for raising him and his three siblings alone, and for taking him to his first play. Hoffman's parents divorced when he was 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He could seemingly take on any role, large or small, loathsome or sympathetic, and appeared to be utterly lacking in vanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Broadway, in addition to starring as Willy Loman, he played Jamie in \"Long Day's Journey Into Night\" and both leads in \"True West.\" All three performances were Tony-nominated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His 2012 performance in \"Death of a Salesman\" was praised as \"heartbreaking\" by AP theater critic Mark Kennedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hoffman is only 44, but he nevertheless sags in his brokenness like a man closer to retirement age, lugging about his sample cases filled with his self-denial and disillusionment,\" Kennedy wrote. \"His fraying connection to reality is pronounced in this production, with Hoffman quick to anger and a hard edge emerging from his babbling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two films starring Hoffman premiered last month at the Sundance Film Festival: the espionage thriller \"A Most Wanted Man\" and \"God's Pocket.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Now we're never going to have that chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howe says he was very unhappy with the way he was portrayed in the flick -- but says he points the finger at the producers and the writers ... not PSH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even though I didn't agree with the way I was portrayed, I didn't blame him -- he was just playing the part he was given,\" Howe says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>KQED News colleague Nina Thorsen was one of thousands of people who volunteered to be an extra when \"Moneyball\" filmed its climactic scene — the A's winning their 20th straight game in 2002 — during a series of late-night shoots at the Coliseum in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the news about Hoffman's passing broke this morning, Nina wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I think every one of the thousands of us who were \"Moneyball\" extras got at least a smile and a wave, and some of my friends who had slightly bigger extra roles said he'd make a point of coming over to sit down and talk with them.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's Hoffman as Howe in \"Moneyball,\" followed by the latest version of the Associated Press obituary on Philip Seymour Hoffman:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/SdCNcN-NFXA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jake Coyle and Tom Hays\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Associated Press\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NEW YORK — Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won the Oscar for best actor in 2006 for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote and created a gallery of other vivid characters, many of them slovenly and somewhat dissipated, was found dead Sunday in his apartment with what officials said was a needle in his arm. He was 46.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two law enforcement officials, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the evidence, said the actor apparently died of a drug overdose. Glassine envelopes containing what was believed to be heroin were found with him, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman — no matinee idol, with his lumpy build and limp blond hair — made his career mostly as a character actor, and was one of the most prolific in the business, plying his craft with a rumpled naturalism that also made him one of the most admired performers of his generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stage-trained actor was nominated for Academy Awards four times in all: for \"Capote,\" ''The Master,\" ''Doubt\" and \"Charlie Wilson's War.\" He also received three Tony nominations for his work on Broadway, which included an acclaimed turn as the weary and defeated Willy Loman in \"Death of a Salesman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman spoke candidly over the years about past struggles with drug addiction. After 23 years sober, he admitted in interviews last year to falling off the wagon and developing a heroin problem that led to a stint in rehab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tributes poured in from other Hollywood figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the greatest actors of a generation and a sweet, funny & humble man,\" actor Ricky Gervais tweeted. Director Spike Lee said on Twitter: \"Damn, We Lost Another Great Artist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Kevin Costner said in an AP interview: \"Philip was a very important actor and really takes his place among the real great actors. It's a shame. Who knows what he would have been able to do? But we're left with the legacy of the work he's done and it all speaks for itself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No words for this. He was too great and we're too shattered,\" said Mike Nichols, who directed Hoffman in \"Charlie Wilson's War\" and \"Death of a Salesman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law enforcement officials said Hoffman's body was discovered in a bathroom at his Greenwich Village apartment by a friend who made the 911 call and his assistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Sunday, a police crime-scene van was parked out front, and technicians carrying brown paper bags went in and out. Police kept a growing crowd of onlookers back. A single red daisy had been placed in front of the lobby door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman's family called the news \"tragic and sudden.\" Hoffman is survived by his partner of 15 years, Mimi O'Donnell, and their three children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Phil and appreciate the outpouring of love and support we have received from everyone,\" the family said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of his earliest screen roles, he played a spoiled prep school student in \"Scent of a Woman\" in 1992. One of his breakthroughs came as a gay member of a porno film crew in \"Boogie Nights,\" one of several movies directed by Paul Thomas Anderson that he would eventually appear in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He often played comic, slightly off-kilter characters in movies like \"Along Came Polly,\" ''The Big Lebowski\" and \"Almost Famous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, he was Plutarch Heavensbee in \"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire\" and was reprising that role in the two-part sequel, \"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay,\" which is in the works. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120279\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/oakland-as-tony-la-russa-elected-to-hall-of-fame/attachment/96801817/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-120279\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120279\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/96801817-640x425.jpg\" alt=\"Former Oakland A's Manager Tony La Russa, right, with outfielder Rickey Henderson in 1994. \" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Oakland A’s Manager Tony La Russa, right, with outfielder Rickey Henderson in 1994.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tony La Russa, who for purposes of this post is a local guy, is one of three managers \u003ca href=\"http://baseballhall.org/news/press-releases/cox-la-russa-torre-elected-hall-fame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">just elected\u003c/a> to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The other two: \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/coxbo01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bobby Cox\u003c/a>, longtime manager of the Atlanta Braves, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/coxbo01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Torre\u003c/a>, who managed the Braves and St. Louis Cardinals before finding success leading the New York Yankees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, Tony La Russa will always be the lawyer who somehow got the Chicago White Sox to the playoffs after decades of pointless wandering through the standings. I grew up in Chicago watching the Sox and Cubs, and felt equally attached to their ancient stadiums. In the early ’80s, people there still talked about the night in 1959 when the Sox clinched the American League pennant and Mayor Daley — the first Mayor Daley — ordered air raid sirens to sound as part of the celebration. People went from a party mood to fearing a nuclear attack was imminent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyway, La Russa, who wasn’t yet 40, already had a law degree (from Florida State), and led the Sox to the playoffs. Where they promptly lost to the Baltimore Orioles. Which is beside the point, because they were still playing in October, after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not quite three seasons later, the Sox fired La Russa and the Oakland A’s hired him. They, too, had been wandering aimlessly around the American League West, managed by the likes of Steve Boros and Jackie Moore. When La Russa arrived on the scene, I remember thinking, “This guy’s a real manager.” And not to give him all credit — the A’s organization was already building the core of the team that would dominated the A.L. West, win three straight pennants (1988-90) and one World Series (1989).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as a fan, it seemed clear La Russa was a manager who knew how to use the talent the front office had signed. Even when the team didn’t win, it was a pretty engaging group to watch. La Russa left the team after A’s owner Walter Haas Jr. died in 1995. He joined the St. Louis Cardinals in 1996, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/larusto01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we hear\u003c/a> that he did pretty well there. The Cards under La Russa won six National League Central titles, three pennants and two World Series. Another career footnote: La Russa was named manager of the year for all three teams he led — those long-ago White Sox, the A’s and the Cardinals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Russa is a longtime resident of the East Bay and is known locally for some of his off-season activities, including \u003ca href=\"http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=20021215&id=-44yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Q-kFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5748,4194044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dancing in the Oakland Ballet’s “Nutcracker”\u003c/a> and for his \u003ca href=\"http://www.arf.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tony La Russa’s Animal Rescue Foundation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the AP’s writeup on La Russa’s Hall of Fame election:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>R.B. Fallstrom\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Associated Press Sports Writer\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ST. LOUIS — Tony La Russa noticed a change between his first game as a big league manager in 1979 and his last in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was right at the beginning of guaranteed contracts. So right away, players had security, potential security, and they were motivated by, ‘Get yours. Get yours,'” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then the media — ESPN started in September of ’79,” he went on. “There was all kind of distractions. Fame and fortune. So what I really believed, and this is something we learned over time, leadership is more important than ever in professional sports.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After leading Oakland to the 1989 World Series title and St. Louis to a pair of championships in 2006 and ’11, La Russa was unanimously elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame on Monday along with former managerial colleagues Bobby Cox and Joe Torre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the sabermetric age, La Russa was a bit of a throwback. He was part of the revolution of batter-pitcher matchups, creating the one-inning closer with Dennis Eckersley. But he was dismissive of a “Moneyball” culture valuing esoteric statistical data in favor of trusting what he saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The metrics part of it is a really good preparation tool, but when you start replacing the manager, his decision-making, what you’re doing is undercutting his opportunity to earn respect, and his leadership gets affected,” he said. “Because who gets the credit for those decisions? That’s 180 degrees the wrong place. So leadership is more important. The more that you can support your leader, which is the coaching staff and manager, the better chance you have to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever intense, the 69-year-old La Russa has spent the last two years as an adviser to baseball Commissioner Bud Selig. La Russa would like to become a club executive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I miss the winning and losing,” he said after his election was announced at the baseball winter meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. “Some day I’ll be with a team, I think. I’d like to be part of the competition again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with a large lead, there was no let-up in La Russa’s dugout. Lips tightly pursed, he pondered the possibilities from his spot in the corner nearest the steps to the clubhouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An innovator, he batted his pitcher eighth in the batting order 432 times, ostensibly to set up a more favorable scenario for Albert Pujols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until La Russa made his final move, walking off from the 2011 World Series parade into retirement, the guard never really came down. And in some ways it still hasn’t, as evidenced by fierce attachments to favorite players, general managers and owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cerebral, and often combative and cranky, La Russa compiled a regular-season record of 2,728-2,365 in 33 seasons. He had 70 postseason victories, trailing only Torre’s 84, and joined role model Sparky Anderson as the lone managers to win Series in both leagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, La Russa managed 12 first-place finishes and six pennants and was picked as Manager of the Year four times. He went to the World Series three straight years from 1988-90, and also lost in the Series in 2004 when the Cardinals were swept by Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A career .199 hitter with no home runs, La Russa made his big league debut as a teen infielder with the 1963 Kansas City Athletics. He got his first managing job at age 35 with the Chicago White Sox in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1983, La Russa guided the White Sox to their first postseason berth in 24 years. He rewarded new Cardinals owners with a division title his first season in St. Louis in 1996, ending the franchise’s nine-year postseason slump, and made it to the playoffs nine times in 16 seasons overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland connection of La Russa and GM Walt Jocketty led to a trade for Mark McGwire, who shattered Roger Maris’ record of 61 homers that had stood since 1961 with 70 homers in 1998. Though since tainted by McGwire’s admission of steroid use, Big Mac was a one-man show that had fans clamoring to see him launch batting practice fastballs into the seats and helped regularly sell out Busch Stadium despite the team’s so-so record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Russa consistently denied knowledge or involvement in the steroids scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The manager’s no-nonsense and refusal to relocate to the Midwest left a bit of distance from a fan base that adored Whitey Herzog’s folksy approach. La Russa softened and gained perspective during the 2001 season, marred by the death of pitcher Darryl Kile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final season was trying. A painful bout of shingles sapped energy early in the season and he informed GM John Mozeliak of his decision in August before the Cardinals rallied from a 10½-game deficit in the NL wild-card race to upset Philadelphia and Milwaukee in the playoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down to their final strike in two different innings in Game 6, the Cardinals came back in Game 6 of the World Series against Texas and then won the title.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after that, he met with his players and told them he was leaving for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some grown men cried,” La Russa said later. “I kind of liked that because they made me cry a few times.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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So right away, players had security, potential security, and they were motivated by, ‘Get yours. Get yours,'” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then the media — ESPN started in September of ’79,” he went on. “There was all kind of distractions. Fame and fortune. So what I really believed, and this is something we learned over time, leadership is more important than ever in professional sports.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After leading Oakland to the 1989 World Series title and St. Louis to a pair of championships in 2006 and ’11, La Russa was unanimously elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame on Monday along with former managerial colleagues Bobby Cox and Joe Torre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the sabermetric age, La Russa was a bit of a throwback. He was part of the revolution of batter-pitcher matchups, creating the one-inning closer with Dennis Eckersley. But he was dismissive of a “Moneyball” culture valuing esoteric statistical data in favor of trusting what he saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The metrics part of it is a really good preparation tool, but when you start replacing the manager, his decision-making, what you’re doing is undercutting his opportunity to earn respect, and his leadership gets affected,” he said. “Because who gets the credit for those decisions? That’s 180 degrees the wrong place. So leadership is more important. The more that you can support your leader, which is the coaching staff and manager, the better chance you have to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever intense, the 69-year-old La Russa has spent the last two years as an adviser to baseball Commissioner Bud Selig. La Russa would like to become a club executive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I miss the winning and losing,” he said after his election was announced at the baseball winter meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. “Some day I’ll be with a team, I think. I’d like to be part of the competition again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with a large lead, there was no let-up in La Russa’s dugout. Lips tightly pursed, he pondered the possibilities from his spot in the corner nearest the steps to the clubhouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An innovator, he batted his pitcher eighth in the batting order 432 times, ostensibly to set up a more favorable scenario for Albert Pujols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until La Russa made his final move, walking off from the 2011 World Series parade into retirement, the guard never really came down. And in some ways it still hasn’t, as evidenced by fierce attachments to favorite players, general managers and owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cerebral, and often combative and cranky, La Russa compiled a regular-season record of 2,728-2,365 in 33 seasons. He had 70 postseason victories, trailing only Torre’s 84, and joined role model Sparky Anderson as the lone managers to win Series in both leagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, La Russa managed 12 first-place finishes and six pennants and was picked as Manager of the Year four times. He went to the World Series three straight years from 1988-90, and also lost in the Series in 2004 when the Cardinals were swept by Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A career .199 hitter with no home runs, La Russa made his big league debut as a teen infielder with the 1963 Kansas City Athletics. He got his first managing job at age 35 with the Chicago White Sox in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1983, La Russa guided the White Sox to their first postseason berth in 24 years. He rewarded new Cardinals owners with a division title his first season in St. Louis in 1996, ending the franchise’s nine-year postseason slump, and made it to the playoffs nine times in 16 seasons overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland connection of La Russa and GM Walt Jocketty led to a trade for Mark McGwire, who shattered Roger Maris’ record of 61 homers that had stood since 1961 with 70 homers in 1998. Though since tainted by McGwire’s admission of steroid use, Big Mac was a one-man show that had fans clamoring to see him launch batting practice fastballs into the seats and helped regularly sell out Busch Stadium despite the team’s so-so record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Russa consistently denied knowledge or involvement in the steroids scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The manager’s no-nonsense and refusal to relocate to the Midwest left a bit of distance from a fan base that adored Whitey Herzog’s folksy approach. 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"disqusTitle": "Lawyers: Baseball Officials Formally Rejected Oakland A's Move to San Jose ",
"title": "Lawyers: Baseball Officials Formally Rejected Oakland A's Move to San Jose ",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/07/major-league-baseball-san-jose-lawsuit-oakland-athletics/oaklandcoliseum072913/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-106140\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/oaklandcoliseum072913-e1386446537995.jpg\" alt=\"A 2013 game at the Oakland Coliseum. The A's are at the center of a court battle to force Major League Baseball to allow the team to move to San Jose. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2013 game at the Oakland Coliseum. The A's are at the center of a court battle to force Major League Baseball to allow the team to move to San Jose. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a surprising development, attorneys for Major League Baseball say Commissioner Bud Selig formally rejected a request by Oakland Athletics ownership to move the team to San Jose last June. That claim comes in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/190083132/SJ-v-MLB-Case-Mgmt-Statement\" target=\"_blank\">case-management statement\u003c/a> prepared in advance of a federal court hearing scheduled next week in San Jose's lawsuit against the the major leagues. The suit alleges that Major League Baseball interfered with the A's attempt to relocate to San Jose in part by not making a timely decision on the matter. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the newly filed case-management document, attorneys for Major League Baseball say a decision was made and communicated to A's owner Lew Wolff. \"In fact, MLB denied the Athletics’ relocation request on June 17, 2013,\" the document says, \"one day before this lawsuit was filed. On that date, Commissioner Selig formally notified the Athletics’ ownership that he was not satisfied with the club’s relocation proposal.\" (Coincidentally, June 17 was the day after \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/athletics/2013/06/16/raw-sewage-on-clubhouse-level-creates-postgame-chaos/\" target=\"_blank\">a highly publicized sewage spill\u003c/a> following an A's game at the Oakland Coliseum.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter from Selig to the Athletics has not been made public. The legal filing says that major league officials notified San Jose of its existence on Oct. 22, and offered to share it with the city if it would agree to a \"protective order\" to keep it confidential and/or agree not to use it for further legal action. San Jose refused, instead asking the court to force baseball officials to provide the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nathaniel Grow, \u003ca href=\"http://sports-law.blogspot.com/2013/12/breaking-news-from-san-jose-v-mlb.html\" target=\"_blank\">writing for the Sports Law Blog\u003c/a>, points out that since no one who's seen the letter will comment on the record, we don't know whether Selig said the A's absolutely could not move the franchise, or whether they simply said the proposal they'd submitted needed tweaking. The latter is implied by an anonymous source cited by\u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/athletics/2013/12/07/did-mlb-deny-the-as-request-to-move-to-san-jose-in-june/\" target=\"_blank\"> Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/11/san-jose-gets-split-ruling-in-suit-over-as-move/\" target=\"_blank\">dismissed a major part\u003c/a> of San Jose's suit — allegations that Major League Baseball was guilty of violating federal antitrust law by blocking the A's move — in an October ruling. The case-management statement filed Friday from both sides in the case states their positions on how to proceed on a remaining claim that Major League Baseball violated California law by interfering with San Jose's contract with the A's for a stadium site downtown. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A's originally made the proposal to move to San Jose in 2009. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The A's originally made the proposal to move to San Jose in 2009. The San Francisco Giants, who control San Jose as part of the team's formally granted operating territory, have blocked the move. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More coverage of the new developments from \u003ca href=\"http://newballpark.org/2013/12/07/lawsuit-update-mlb-says-selig-rejected-as-to-san-jose-move-a-day-before-lawsuit-was-filed/\" target=\"_blank\">newballpark.org\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/24367444/mlb-tells-federal-court-it-rejected-as-move-to-san-jose-in-june\" target=\"_blank\">CBS Sports\u003c/a>, and on Twitter from lawyer-turned-sportswriter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hangingsliders\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy Thurm\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the Oakland City Council is expected to approve a two-year extension to the A's lease at the Coliseum on Tuesday, as early-stage planning continues on two stadium sites in Oakland, \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/2013/12/oaklands-coliseum-city-master-development-team-shift-will-delay-some-deliverables-by-30-days/\" target=\"_blank\">Coliseum City\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://athleticstalknow.com/all-eyes-on-howard-terminal/\" target=\"_blank\">Howard Terminal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_114722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/11/san-jose-gets-split-ruling-in-suit-over-as-move/oaklandcoliseum/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-114722\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/OaklandColiseum.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakland A's at their current home, O.co Coliseum. ((Kwong Yee Cheng/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"376\" class=\"size-full wp-image-114722\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland A's at their current home, O.co Coliseum. ((Kwong Yee Cheng/\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/98153629@N00/9659994199/in/photolist-fHBZJ8-f9dhKY-fHUy5A-fHUxPm-fHBYqg-fHUwVU-fHBYQ4-fHBU7D-fHUyW9-fHUuy5-fHBWz2-fHUv6A-fHBW1p-fHBV9c-fHBYAX-fHUu6q-fHUukd-fHBXVr-84Nbzn-7C9LAW-fHBUAM-5aUypU-4Gcz6X-bXYZfE-5aUxv1-ejBkMW-ejvmJP-ejvBBx-ejyuUg-ejB5af-fHUwnE-f9djPo-fHUzcd-fHBX2c-5aUzf1-a4o4xs-cA6TWu-cA6Uuo-cA6V9G-cA6ThQ-cA6VMU-cA6Wrb-a4kcPe-4GgKrj-bB6o9j-6fJ598-p5QHX-4VVvY8-8rsfb1-8rsfkY-8rp8KX\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The agency that runs the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum has approved new leases for the Oakland A's and Oakland Raiders. The \u003ca href=\"http://coliseumauthority.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Coliseum Authority\u003c/a> approved a one-year lease extension for the Raiders and a two-year extension for the A's. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Kaplan, an at-large member of the Oakland City Council and a member of the Coliseum Authority board, said the new agreement will give the city time to proceed with its ambitious long-range plan for the Coliseum site. That plan, called \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/johnson/article/Quan-staking-future-on-Coliseum-City-plan-4914725.php\" target=\"_blank\">Coliseum City\u003c/a>, would consist of new stadiums for both the A's and Raiders and a new arena for the Golden State Warriors. The multibillion-dollar proposal also calls for development of new office and retails space and 6,000 units of housing ion more than a square mile adjacent to the Coliseum property. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now we're going to begin the work of negotiating for the long term which is the redevelopment of this whole site, new sports facilities, shops, bars, restaurants, and hotels, and an opportunity to expand jobs as well as the fan experience on the site,\" Kaplan said after this morning's vote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland officials are hoping the Coliseum City project can prevent the departure of all three of the city's major league professional sports franchises. The A's are trying to move to San Jose, the Raiders say they're looking for a stadium site elsewhere in Alameda County, and the Warriors want to build a massive new arena on the San Francisco waterfront. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One sign of the less-than-cordial relationship between the Coliseum and the A's is a provision in today's agreement labeled \"Future Cooperation\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The parties agree to cooperate in the execution of provisions of the License, including at least annual meetings of the principals to discuss related matters and the agreement to refrain from knowingly making inaccurate or factually unfounded statements about the condition of the Stadium.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The A's have complained repeatedly about the condition of the 46-year-old Coliseum. 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We can discuss a longer term later.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One stumbling block had been the A's control over stadium concessions for all events. The lease approved Monday calls for the A's to pay $1.75 million per year, including a $250,000 fee that not only keeps the A's in control of concession revenue, but also allows the team to pick the concessions vendor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Raiders sought a one-year extension through the 2014 season. The team will pay $400,000 for the lease. 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