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Serious question… Who’s the genius in the FO that thought this was a good idea? \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/I90OiA5Yjx\">https://t.co/I90OiA5Yjx\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— CoachⓋShawn (@shawcochrane) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/shawcochrane/status/1511355413723332614?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2022\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Hall said she doesn’t mind seeing Stomper far from the Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We let him go over the bridge once in a while,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Giants fan Robin Shaw pointed out, “Baseball brings out this kind of joy.” He’s excited for the return of baseball — especially after the recent strike and the intense couple of years brought on by COVID, which put a halt on professional sports for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910705\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11910705\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"3 people pose for a selfie outside giants stadium\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut-1536x1055.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS55047_20220318_GiantsOpeningDay-21-1-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ketnia Palacios, Angela Valle, and DJ Lando take a selfie together before heading into Oracle Park for the Giants’ Opening Day of the season on Apr. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards, KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Seeing your friends get sick and your elderly friends or relatives die, it affects people,” he said. “Baseball did its darndest to entertain us, and offered us a distraction and gave us hope.”[aside postID=arts_13910698 label=\"More On Oakland A's\"]As for the future of the Giants, which had a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/giants/giants-clinch-2021-nl-west-title-franchise-record-107th-win\">franchise-record number of wins\u003c/a> last season, Shaw said the team could still sneak in as a wild card with Posey gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a tall order,” he added. “It’s going to be another one of those seasons where we have our own unique sets of trials and tribulations that we’ll have to overcome and that will hopefully steel our resolve.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s almost game time. The 107-win Giants and 106-win Dodgers are gearing up for battle in a best-of-five National League Division Series, starting tonight in the City by the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s among the fiercest rivalries in professional sports, and tonight is technically the first time the two teams have faced off in the NLDS (although they did play two tiebreaking division series in 1951 and 1962, from both of which the Giants emerged victorious).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a momentous matchup in a decades-old, and often bitter, clash between two of the best teams in baseball. But for Dave Edlund, it’s just another night bobbing on the bay in McCovey Cove outside San Francisco’s Oracle Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCovey Cove Dave, as he’s widely known, will most certainly be in attendance on Friday — as he is for most home games — cutting through the chop atop his kayak, eagerly awaiting the next “splash hit” — when a home run sails outside the park and into the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Edlund also plucks the occasional, history-adjacent flailing foul balls — he’s not that picky.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the fastest kayak at McCovey Cove, even though I’m probably the oldest guy. It’s very narrow and it gives me a little bit of an advantage,” Edlund, who is “65-plus,” said last weekend, paddle in hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891595\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11891595\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/IMG_1625.jpg\" alt=\"Man dressed in orange on a white kayak floats in the water beyond the facade of the ballpark.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/IMG_1625.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/IMG_1625-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/IMG_1625-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/IMG_1625-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/IMG_1625-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Edlund, known as McCovey Cove Dave, on his kayak at McCovey Cove behind Oracle Park, home to the San Francisco Giants. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Clad in an orange shirt bearing his name, Edlund is as iconic a sight as Lou Seal the mascot or the swarms of post-game gulls (there’s even a \u003ca href=\"https://store.bobbleheadhall.com/products/mccoveycove\">McCovey Cove Dave bobblehead\u003c/a> available). 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It’s got to be almost like \u003ca href=\"https://bobs.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bob’s Big Boy\u003c/a>. It’s got to be chunky and a heavy doll.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a few rounds of back-and-forth before the team finally saw a design they were happy with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the actual production process might have been difficult, it wasn’t hard to choose which player would be the first bobblehead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no doubt if we were going to do the first one, it would be Willie Mays,” Alioto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost immediately after the Giants’ inaugural giveaway, other teams jumped on the bobblehead bandwagon. Within a few years, clubs in every major professional sport in the United States were giving them away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Sklar, the limited number of bobbleheads handed out before a game and the popularity of the online auction site eBay helped turn bobbleheads into instant collectibles. In 2015, a New York Yankees bobblehead from the early 1960s sold for \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidseideman/2015/06/03/record-price-for-bobbing-head-doll-60k-leaves-collectors-shaking-their-heads/#78c2ac2ea6a2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nearly $60,000\u003c/a> at auction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobblehead technology has advanced significantly over the last 20 years. Much like video games, the likeness between the actual players and their bobbleheads has improved dramatically. (Alioto said that to this day, Mays insists the 1999 bobblehead looks nothing like him.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Giants have done bobbleheads of Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra with sound chips, a Barry Bonds bobblehead with a home run counter, and another Mays bobblehead celebrating his famous \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.com/mlb/video/2016/03/02-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over-the-shoulder catch\u003c/a> that included a ball on a string about to drop into his glove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always wanted to do one with Juan Marichal if we could do the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdLjTT1ldKU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">high leg kick,\u003c/a> or with Rod Beck where he would swing his right arm, so instead of the head bobbling maybe the arm bobbles,” Alioto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11745841\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11745841\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37014_IMG_0523-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the many bobbleheads the Giants have produced since 1999 include musical legends Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra and Carlos Santana.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37014_IMG_0523-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37014_IMG_0523-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37014_IMG_0523-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37014_IMG_0523-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37014_IMG_0523-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37014_IMG_0523-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37014_IMG_0523-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37014_IMG_0523-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37014_IMG_0523-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37014_IMG_0523-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the many bobbleheads the Giants have produced since 1999 include musical legends Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra and Carlos Santana. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s not just the sports world that has caught bobblehead fever over the last 20 years. Alioto remembers going on a family vacation to the Vatican and seeing someone selling pope bobbleheads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, ‘Boy, now I know this idea really worked,’ ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the phenomenon shows no sign of slowing down. 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It’s got to be almost like \u003ca href=\"https://bobs.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bob’s Big Boy\u003c/a>. It’s got to be chunky and a heavy doll.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a few rounds of back-and-forth before the team finally saw a design they were happy with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the actual production process might have been difficult, it wasn’t hard to choose which player would be the first bobblehead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no doubt if we were going to do the first one, it would be Willie Mays,” Alioto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost immediately after the Giants’ inaugural giveaway, other teams jumped on the bobblehead bandwagon. Within a few years, clubs in every major professional sport in the United States were giving them away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Sklar, the limited number of bobbleheads handed out before a game and the popularity of the online auction site eBay helped turn bobbleheads into instant collectibles. In 2015, a New York Yankees bobblehead from the early 1960s sold for \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidseideman/2015/06/03/record-price-for-bobbing-head-doll-60k-leaves-collectors-shaking-their-heads/#78c2ac2ea6a2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nearly $60,000\u003c/a> at auction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobblehead technology has advanced significantly over the last 20 years. Much like video games, the likeness between the actual players and their bobbleheads has improved dramatically. (Alioto said that to this day, Mays insists the 1999 bobblehead looks nothing like him.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Giants have done bobbleheads of Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra with sound chips, a Barry Bonds bobblehead with a home run counter, and another Mays bobblehead celebrating his famous \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.com/mlb/video/2016/03/02-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over-the-shoulder catch\u003c/a> that included a ball on a string about to drop into his glove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always wanted to do one with Juan Marichal if we could do the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdLjTT1ldKU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">high leg kick,\u003c/a> or with Rod Beck where he would swing his right arm, so instead of the head bobbling maybe the arm bobbles,” Alioto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11745841\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11745841\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37014_IMG_0523-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the many bobbleheads the Giants have produced since 1999 include musical legends Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra and Carlos Santana.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37014_IMG_0523-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37014_IMG_0523-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37014_IMG_0523-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37014_IMG_0523-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37014_IMG_0523-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37014_IMG_0523-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37014_IMG_0523-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37014_IMG_0523-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37014_IMG_0523-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS37014_IMG_0523-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the many bobbleheads the Giants have produced since 1999 include musical legends Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra and Carlos Santana. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s not just the sports world that has caught bobblehead fever over the last 20 years. Alioto remembers going on a family vacation to the Vatican and seeing someone selling pope bobbleheads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, ‘Boy, now I know this idea really worked,’ ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the phenomenon shows no sign of slowing down. 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Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), who \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/12/667050590/gop-senators-public-hanging-comment-roils-mississippi-runoff-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joked about a public hanging\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Johnson and his wife, Ann, have \u003ca href=\"http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00675348/1291908/f65\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">each donated $2,700\u003c/a> to Hyde-Smith’s (R-Mississippi) campaign, according to a federal election filing recently made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hyde-Smith, who is facing a Nov. 27 runoff against former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy, a Democrat, has been on the defensive after she was caught on camera joking about attending a “public hanging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comments ignited a firestorm of criticism but did not garner much attention in the Bay Area until Johnson’s contribution was brought to light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For him to have given this donation to Ms. Hyde-Smith is a cooperation with evil,” said the Rev. 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The team, he said, had also run a program teaching baseball and “life skills coaching” to thousands of low-income children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We in the sports world have an ongoing responsibility to step beyond the comfort zone of our ballparks, stadiums and arenas to address injustice and suffering in our communities, and the Giants will continue to make that a priority,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baer noted that the more than 30 people who have ownership stakes in the Giants have different political views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many give to Democratic causes, many to Republican causes, and some refrain from politics altogether,” he said. “Neither I nor anyone else at the Giants can control who any of our owners support politically, just as we cannot and should not control whom any of our employees support politically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who has yet to comment about his donation to Hyde-Smith’s campaign, also once donated $1,000 to a super PAC that created a racist radio ad in Arkansas. 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"content": "\u003cp>KQED listener Chris Thompson is an avid A’s fan who recently found himself at a Giants game with work colleagues. He noticed fans a few rows away trying to get the wave started, but saw they were quickly booed by other Giants fans. Eventually ushers came over and told the group trying to start the wave to simmer down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson wrote to Bay Curious asking:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why don’t they allow people to do the wave at Giants stadium?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First thing we have to get cleared up right away — there is no \u003cem>official\u003c/em> policy against the wave at Giants games. It’s a self-imposed ban that has been a part of Giants fan culture for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But why? I mean, it’s\u003cem> the wave. \u003c/em>At many stadiums, it’s as much a part of baseball as hot dogs and beer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Oakland Athletics Started It\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10608965\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10608965 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Krazy George Henderson tells KQED listener Christopher about the very first wave. 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(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some Giants fans point back to the origins of the wave on Oct. 15, 1981, as the reason they developed a no-wave tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Athletics were battling the Yankees for the American League Championship, and things were not going well for Oakland. The A’s were down by two games in a best-of-five series, and were scoreless five innings into the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when a professional cheerleader called \u003ca href=\"http://www.krazygeorge.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Krazy George\u003c/a> decided to unveil a cheer he’d been developing at local high school pep rallies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch our video of Krazy George Henderson reliving the very first wave:\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/134024146?title=0&byline=0\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_(audience)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some dispute\u003c/a> about whether or not Krazy George’s ’81 Oakland wave was in fact the first wave in history. Other claims point to the University of Washington or international soccer matches. But if you ask Krazy George, all of those other claims were either later than October 1981, or lack the proper supporting evidence of his nationally televised wave at the Oakland Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I say, ‘I don’t \u003cem>claim\u003c/em> to have invented the wave. I DID INVENT THE WAVE.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether that’s definitive or not, the wave’s early connection to Oakland and the A’s is enough to turn some San Francisco Giants fans against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett Dake came to a recent Giants game wearing a T-shirt he got in the ’80s. The back says: “Top 10 Reasons Real Fans Go to the ’Stick.” One reason? No wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s Oakland,” he says. “We’re San Francisco. It’s always been like that. We don’t do the wave here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10608966\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10608966 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Bennett Dake shows of his "Late Night at the 'Stick" shirt from the '80s. Number 9 reads: "No Wave." (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-1400x788.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bennett Dake shows off his ‘Late Night at the ‘Stick’ shirt from the ’80s. Number 9 reads: ‘No Wave.’ (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The Wave Was Associated With Los Angeles (and Thus, the Dodgers)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Though the wave might have started in Oakland, it was broadcast internationally for the first time during the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Television sets across the world showed images of the crowd doing the wave at the soccer final — in many minds forever linking the cheer with that city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the wave is seen as something really Los Angeles, and it was San Francisco reacting to that,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.danfost.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dan Fost\u003c/a>, author of \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Fost/e/B0030CEFRE/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two books about the Giants.\u003c/a> “[The Dodgers fan] experience is all about beating the traffic, getting to the game late, leaving early and throwing beach balls around in the stands. And the wave is just such an L.A. part of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>It’s Too Mainstream\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One identity trait that came up repeatedly during interviews with Giants fans was their feeling of uniqueness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Giants fans sort of think that they’re a little different, so we would never stoop to something as pedestrian as doing the wave,” says Pat Gallagher, who worked as the team’s director of marketing for nearly 33 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And let’s be honest, this identity goes beyond the baseball diamond. The San Francisco Bay Area as a whole has a long history of reveling in the ways it stands apart from the rest of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not doing the wave is a way of saying, ‘San Francisco is different and we don’t do that here,’ ” says Fost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Need another example? Look no further than the \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/sf/history/sf_history_timeline_article.jsp?article=31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crazy Crab\u003c/a>. At a time when baseball teams around the country were eagerly bringing cheery mascots into the mix, the Giants introduced an anti-mascot. The crustacean was a walking mascot parody, and fans were encouraged to boo, hiss and sometimes throw things at the poor schmuck stuck inside the costume.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Real Serious Fans Are Real Serious\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Beyond tradition and perception, what is it about the wave that Giants fans dislike so much?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put it simply, some people think that “real baseball fans” don’t do it. It’s seen as yet another frivolous ballpark novelty that detracts from their beloved pastime. Right up there with the Kiss Cam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Giants fan we spoke with says, “It’s an obnoxious response to fan excitement. I don’t like it. I think it’s silly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real fans chart every pitch and obsess over fundamentals. Everyone else does the wave and eats cotton candy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Giants fans don’t do the wave because they are serious about baseball,” Fost says. “They love the game, they’re paying attention to the game, and they don’t want to take themselves out of the game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How the Tradition is Passed On\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Giants anti-wave philosophy is carried on as a sort of oral tradition. That is, via hearty “BOOOOOs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallagher says that when the team played at Candlestick, you’d often hear hardcore fans boo when anyone tried to start the wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They weren’t booing the players, they were actually booing other fans,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It appears this tradition has made the trip from the ’Stick to AT&T Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giants fan Dalton Hurst had a rude awakening at one of his childhood games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was a kid, I tried to start [the wave] and someone yelled at me,” says Hurst. “I don’t know why they don’t do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>But New Fans Doing The Wave?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the booing, long-standing tradition and ’80s T-shirts — sacrilege — the wave has been spotted circling AT&T park recently. It may be that the team’s success is attracting new fans who just don’t know the rules yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several die-hard fans blamed these bandwagon fans, (or “hipsters,” as one Giants fan called them) for bringing this abhorred tradition into their no-wave stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10608969\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 337px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-6.51.10-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10608969\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-6.51.10-PM.png\" alt=\"YouTube Comments on a video titled, "The Wae at AT&T Park (Giants vs. A's).\" width=\"337\" height=\"227\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">YouTube Comments on a video titled, “The Wave at AT&T Park (Giants vs. A’s).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On one \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17NxEykL2c8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube video of an AT&T Park wave\u003c/a>, the comments section spells out this argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sharing our Findings\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>We took our findings back to Chris Thompson, the question-asker for this Bay Curious story. He couldn’t help but laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are they proud to be that bourgeois?” he says of Giants fans. “This is baseball. … It’s waves and hot dogs and beers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To wave or not to wave? Sound off in the comments below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Got a question you want to see the Bay Curious team take on? \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Submit it!\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>KQED listener Chris Thompson is an avid A’s fan who recently found himself at a Giants game with work colleagues. He noticed fans a few rows away trying to get the wave started, but saw they were quickly booed by other Giants fans. Eventually ushers came over and told the group trying to start the wave to simmer down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson wrote to Bay Curious asking:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why don’t they allow people to do the wave at Giants stadium?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First thing we have to get cleared up right away — there is no \u003cem>official\u003c/em> policy against the wave at Giants games. It’s a self-imposed ban that has been a part of Giants fan culture for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But why? I mean, it’s\u003cem> the wave. \u003c/em>At many stadiums, it’s as much a part of baseball as hot dogs and beer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Oakland Athletics Started It\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10608965\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10608965 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Krazy George Henderson tells KQED listener Christopher about the very first wave. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george-1400x787.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/chris-and-george-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Krazy George Henderson tells KQED listener Chris Thompson about the very first wave. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some Giants fans point back to the origins of the wave on Oct. 15, 1981, as the reason they developed a no-wave tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Athletics were battling the Yankees for the American League Championship, and things were not going well for Oakland. The A’s were down by two games in a best-of-five series, and were scoreless five innings into the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when a professional cheerleader called \u003ca href=\"http://www.krazygeorge.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Krazy George\u003c/a> decided to unveil a cheer he’d been developing at local high school pep rallies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch our video of Krazy George Henderson reliving the very first wave:\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/134024146?title=0&byline=0\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_(audience)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some dispute\u003c/a> about whether or not Krazy George’s ’81 Oakland wave was in fact the first wave in history. Other claims point to the University of Washington or international soccer matches. But if you ask Krazy George, all of those other claims were either later than October 1981, or lack the proper supporting evidence of his nationally televised wave at the Oakland Coliseum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I say, ‘I don’t \u003cem>claim\u003c/em> to have invented the wave. I DID INVENT THE WAVE.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether that’s definitive or not, the wave’s early connection to Oakland and the A’s is enough to turn some San Francisco Giants fans against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett Dake came to a recent Giants game wearing a T-shirt he got in the ’80s. The back says: “Top 10 Reasons Real Fans Go to the ’Stick.” One reason? No wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s Oakland,” he says. “We’re San Francisco. It’s always been like that. We don’t do the wave here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10608966\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10608966 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Bennett Dake shows of his "Late Night at the 'Stick" shirt from the '80s. Number 9 reads: "No Wave." (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-1400x788.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/t-shirt-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bennett Dake shows off his ‘Late Night at the ‘Stick’ shirt from the ’80s. Number 9 reads: ‘No Wave.’ (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The Wave Was Associated With Los Angeles (and Thus, the Dodgers)\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Though the wave might have started in Oakland, it was broadcast internationally for the first time during the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Television sets across the world showed images of the crowd doing the wave at the soccer final — in many minds forever linking the cheer with that city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the wave is seen as something really Los Angeles, and it was San Francisco reacting to that,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.danfost.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dan Fost\u003c/a>, author of \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Fost/e/B0030CEFRE/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two books about the Giants.\u003c/a> “[The Dodgers fan] experience is all about beating the traffic, getting to the game late, leaving early and throwing beach balls around in the stands. And the wave is just such an L.A. part of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>It’s Too Mainstream\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One identity trait that came up repeatedly during interviews with Giants fans was their feeling of uniqueness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Giants fans sort of think that they’re a little different, so we would never stoop to something as pedestrian as doing the wave,” says Pat Gallagher, who worked as the team’s director of marketing for nearly 33 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And let’s be honest, this identity goes beyond the baseball diamond. The San Francisco Bay Area as a whole has a long history of reveling in the ways it stands apart from the rest of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not doing the wave is a way of saying, ‘San Francisco is different and we don’t do that here,’ ” says Fost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Need another example? Look no further than the \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/sf/history/sf_history_timeline_article.jsp?article=31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crazy Crab\u003c/a>. At a time when baseball teams around the country were eagerly bringing cheery mascots into the mix, the Giants introduced an anti-mascot. The crustacean was a walking mascot parody, and fans were encouraged to boo, hiss and sometimes throw things at the poor schmuck stuck inside the costume.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Real Serious Fans Are Real Serious\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Beyond tradition and perception, what is it about the wave that Giants fans dislike so much?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put it simply, some people think that “real baseball fans” don’t do it. It’s seen as yet another frivolous ballpark novelty that detracts from their beloved pastime. Right up there with the Kiss Cam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Giants fan we spoke with says, “It’s an obnoxious response to fan excitement. I don’t like it. I think it’s silly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real fans chart every pitch and obsess over fundamentals. Everyone else does the wave and eats cotton candy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Giants fans don’t do the wave because they are serious about baseball,” Fost says. “They love the game, they’re paying attention to the game, and they don’t want to take themselves out of the game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How the Tradition is Passed On\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Giants anti-wave philosophy is carried on as a sort of oral tradition. That is, via hearty “BOOOOOs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallagher says that when the team played at Candlestick, you’d often hear hardcore fans boo when anyone tried to start the wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They weren’t booing the players, they were actually booing other fans,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It appears this tradition has made the trip from the ’Stick to AT&T Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giants fan Dalton Hurst had a rude awakening at one of his childhood games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was a kid, I tried to start [the wave] and someone yelled at me,” says Hurst. “I don’t know why they don’t do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>But New Fans Doing The Wave?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the booing, long-standing tradition and ’80s T-shirts — sacrilege — the wave has been spotted circling AT&T park recently. It may be that the team’s success is attracting new fans who just don’t know the rules yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several die-hard fans blamed these bandwagon fans, (or “hipsters,” as one Giants fan called them) for bringing this abhorred tradition into their no-wave stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10608969\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 337px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-6.51.10-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10608969\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-6.51.10-PM.png\" alt=\"YouTube Comments on a video titled, "The Wae at AT&T Park (Giants vs. A's).\" width=\"337\" height=\"227\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">YouTube Comments on a video titled, “The Wave at AT&T Park (Giants vs. A’s).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On one \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17NxEykL2c8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube video of an AT&T Park wave\u003c/a>, the comments section spells out this argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sharing our Findings\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>We took our findings back to Chris Thompson, the question-asker for this Bay Curious story. He couldn’t help but laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are they proud to be that bourgeois?” he says of Giants fans. “This is baseball. … It’s waves and hot dogs and beers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To wave or not to wave? Sound off in the comments below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In an hour or so, the Giants, the toast of the Bay Area, will open their National League Division Series against the Chicago Cubs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Cubs fan living in hostile territory, I've got to tell you I can practically smell the self-assuredness of Giants Nation. It's an even-numbered year, after all. Hunter Pence has his pants pulled up a couple of extra inches, and MadBum has put the world on notice \u003ca href=\"http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2016/09/20/dodgers-mock-madison-bumgarner-yasiel-puig-brawl-dont-look-me\" target=\"_blank\">you better not look at him\u003c/a> the wrong way. The unspoken message, conveyed in knowing looks and telepathic chat rooms across the Giants' \u003ca href=\"http://www.athleticsnation.com/2012/4/18/2958535/territorial-rights-a-not-so-brief-history\" target=\"_blank\">jealously guarded exclusive territory\u003c/a>: \u003cem>Too bad, Cubbies! We can't lose.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Cubs fans, laboring under the weight of 1.08 centuries of non-championship history -- near-misses, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ5w8rIz7Mg\" target=\"_blank\">Bartmans\u003c/a>, bad teams and really bad teams --it's both a moment of dread and the overture to an October that one hopes, but dares not hope, will end differently from every other October in the collective memory bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But let's not dwell on the past. Our purpose this afternoon is to offer, in the friendliest possible terms, some tips for Giants fans seeking a deeper understanding of the Cubs and \u003cem>their\u003c/em> fans. In no particular order, despite the numbers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. They're the Cubs, not the \"Cubbies.\" The latter form of address, which fans of the Local Nine tell me they use to irritate fans of the Chicago National League Ballclub, is akin to \"Frisco\" or \"San Fran.\" The preferred form of address is always Cubs, with or without a profanity appropriate to the moment, as in: \"I can't believe the _____ Cubs blew that lead.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. The Cubs have that even-number thing down. Their last championship was in 1908 -- an EVEN NUMBER. And almost semi-magically, it's been 108 years -- ANOTHER EVEN NUMBER --since they last wore the crown of baseball's so-called World Champions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. The Cubs have the all-time best team song -- about losing. It's Steve Goodman's \"\u003ca href=\"http://steve-goodman.hegewisch.net/glad2.html#dyingcub\" target=\"_blank\">A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request\u003c/a>.\" See below. And for extra pathos, note that Goodman died in 1984 just days before the Cubs clinched their first postseason berth in his lifetime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/7xBxZGQ1dJk\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. Yes, they've been losers. Just don't call them \"lovable losers.\" The team's long history of unsuccess makes Cubs fans feel just as warm and cuddly as when Giants fans think about \u003ca href=\"http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ANA/ANA200210260.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Game 6\u003c/a> of the 2002 World Series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. The Cubs and their faithful embrace success but don't shy away from advertising their down days to the world. When the Cubs win, the team \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20151020/NEWS07/151029999/the-story-behind-the-cubs-w-flag\" target=\"_blank\">flies the 'W'\u003c/a>\" -- a white banner with a bold blue \"W \"in the center -- from Wrigley Field's centerfield scoreboard. When they lose, a blue flag with a white \"L\" is hoisted for all to see. Giants fans will want to run right out and buy an \"L\" flag today. I recommend dumping 75 bucks on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.flagpro.com/store/W-flag-5x8ft.html\" target=\"_blank\">5-foot-by-8-foot\u003c/a> version. That way, if the Giants lose this series, you'll have a swell reminder of the occasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6. I hear Giants fans reminiscing about the franchise's tough, tough years and their long, long (sniff, sniff) wait for a World Series championship. One fan offered 1989 as an example of the hard times. Reminder, you partisans of Los Gigantes: \u003cem>Your team was in the World Series\u003c/em> that year. And in 1962. And in 2002. To Cubs fans, who have watched parents and grandparents die waiting for the next pennant, that would be a record of crazy success, even leaving out the nutty even-year thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7. There's one upside to losing: Avoiding the smug entitlement of Giants fans, who now run a close second to the Red Sox faithful in boorish self-absorption and braying triumphalism. Of course, Cubs fans will boast and bray, too, if their team manages to win.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Baseball Writers’ Association of America welcomed two new members into the Hall of Fame Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"http://baseballhall.org/hof/class-of-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when it was announced \u003c/a>that Mike Piazza and Ken Griffey Jr. were the latest inductees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 440 ballots cast, Griffey Jr. received 437 votes. At 99.3 percent of all ballots, Griffey, the sweet-swinging lefty known as “The Kid” (who is now 46 — y\u003cem>ou’re old\u003c/em>), topped Tom Seaver’s previous record of for highest percentage ever. Only three ballots did not include Griffey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--4D9Ue8BV--/aebgmbcaxxz8tzlqjkej.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ‘\u003ca href=\"http://deadspin.com/here-is-a-loop-video-of-ken-griffey-jr-s-perfect-swin-1751020435\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">loop video\u003c/a>‘ of Griffey’s perfect swing. (Courtesy of Deadspin)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The big local news: Cal grad Jeff Kent received 73 votes (16.6 percent) in his third year of eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just kidding. One of Kent’s former teammates was also eligible. You might have heard of him — all-time home run leader, seven-time MVP Barry Bonds. Eligible for the fourth time, Bonds received 195 votes, 44.3 percent of all ballots, falling\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\"> short of the 75 percent (330 votes) needed for enshrinement. (See full results \u003ca href=\"http://baseballhall.org/hof/class-of-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those numbers are up about 7 percent from last year and about 10 percent from 2014. The last four years look like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2016: 195 votes, 44.3% of the vote\u003cbr>\n2015: 202, 36.8%\u003cbr>\n2014: 198, 34.7%\u003cbr>\n2013: 206, 36.2%\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the Hall of Fame capped the number of times a player can appear on the ballot without being selected at 10, as long as they receive more than 5 percent of the vote each year. So, Bonds does still have six years of eligibility remaining. After this year’s vote, it appears he is trending in the right direction and might one day receive the necessary votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MLB/status/684873546854580224\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why are voters more willing now to vote for Bonds, long suspected of using performance-enhancing drugs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Call it attrition. Call it an erosion of sportswriters’ monopoly on morality. But you probably shouldn’t call it forgiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quick primer on the \u003ca href=\"http://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/bbwaa-rules-for-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voting process\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Players are voted into the Hall of Fame by members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Once writers have been active members of the BBWAA for 10 straight years (and have satisfied all other requirements), they are given a vote. This year, according to the BBWAA, there are approximately 650 voting-eligible members. 440 of those members cast ballots. Each voter can choose up to 10 players to include on their ballot. A player must be selected on 75 percent of all cast ballots to be inducted into Cooperstown (the location of the Baseball Hall of Fame).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting with this year’s vote, writers who have not actively covered the game for 10 years are no longer eligible to vote. The right to vote had previously been granted for life, even after a writer’s retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is one reason for Bonds’ gains this year: the great purge of old-school hardliners whose self-appointed duties were to wring their hands and uphold the integrity of the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/684878739570843648\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writer Steve Aschburner \u003ca href=\"http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/19/with-hall-of-fame-changes-baseball-gets-political/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">studied recent ballots\u003c/a> and speculates that “fiddling with the selection process could open its doors to known or suspected cheaters, including two of the most polarizing figures in the game’s history: Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clemens, who faced accusations of steroid use in the latter part of his career, received 199 votes, just four more than Bonds, or 45.2 percent of the ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aschburner adds:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The pattern is likely to gain traction, too, as more honorary members lose their votes each year and additional newer writers qualify. Understandably, even media people want to see their particular generation of stars validated, those players they watched and covered. The Hall obviously has plenty of financial and institutional skin in the game. It needs baseball heroes on the stage for its annual induction ceremony, fresh plaques for its standing-room-only attendance all summer.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In the Hall’s instructions, voters are asked to consider “integrity, character and sportsmanship” in addition to a player’s performance. Voters interpret those instructions, and the overall meaning and importance of the Hall of Fame, very differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/14509820/jayson-stark-explains-2016-hall-fame-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN’s Jayson Stark\u003c/a>, who has cast votes for Bonds and Clemens in every year they’ve been eligible, writes that if the Hall is “a place that’s going to accurately reflect the history of baseball, how can it not include the man who made more home run trots than anyone who ever played and the pitcher who won more Cy Youngs (Clemens) than anyone who ever threw a pitch? That’s the Hall of Fame I want to exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to the next reasons Bonds is gaining more votes: shifting popular sentiment and the simple passage of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/14428464/why-barry-bonds-roger-clemens-appear-jerry-crasnick-hall-fame-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick\u003c/a> — who cast votes for both Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens this year for the first time — writes that he will remember this vote “as the year I dismounted from my high horse, acknowledged reality and took the plunge on baseball’s home run king and a seven-time Cy Young Award winner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 570px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://a2.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2015%2F1223%2Fr38636_864x1296_2-3.jpg&w=570\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"855\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick’s 2016 Hall of Fame ballot\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last January, Crasnick conducted a “social media experiment” where he tweeted the question: “Should Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds be in the Hall of Fame?” He writes: “One hour, 1,200 responses and a barrage of ‘yes’ votes later, I felt like a guy piling sandbags against a tsunami in my efforts to rationalize my ‘no’ vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crasnick adds:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“…it’s delusional to think we, as baseball writers, can uphold some quaint notion of the Hall as a bastion of competitive purity while fans who trek to Cooperstown each summer just want to visit a museum and see the game’s history on display with all its complicated messiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m ready to declare a moratorium on hand-wringing and cast my ballot, with all its flaws and inconsistencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… I’m out of the business of moralizing or parsing distinctions based on real or perceived transgressions. In the case of Bonds and Clemens, I keep going back to the words of ESPN columnist Ian O’Connor, who explained his conflicted Hall of Fame thought process in a 2012 column. “I’m willing to vote for the bad guys,” he wrote. “But only if they’re really, really good.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Crasnick explains that the state of baseball in 2016 is simply different than it was even last year. Bonds was recently hired as the hitting coach for the Miami Marlins, Mark McGwire, another notable suspected doper, is the bench coach for the San Diego Padres, and Alex Rodriguez, yet another player with PED suspicions, “was the feel-good story of 2015.” (Note: in his last year of eligibility, McGwire, former Oakland A’s first baseman, received 12.3 percent of the vote, well shy of 75 percent threshold.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For all my dilatory tactics, the passage of time has proved clarity is a mirage, and we just alternate between lighter and darker shades of gray,” Crasnick says. “Shoulder shrugs are the new clarity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The mere presence of a plaque in Cooperstown, with or without an asterisk or a designated “steroid wing,” can’t change the public perception. Dodgers fans are free to regard Bonds as a cheater and a villain, and Giants fans are free to love him for eternity. As Jerry Seinfeld so famously observed, ‘You’re actually rooting for the clothes when you get right down to it.'”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Another popular argument being put forth this year, as more writers checked the box next to Bonds’ name for the first time, is that we will never know all the facts about alleged PED use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/barry-bonds-roger-clemens-hall-of-fame-ballot-ken-rosenthal-122715\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Sports’ bow-tie-wearing Ken Rosenthal\u003c/a>, who also voted for Bonds and Clemens for the first time this year, explains it this way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The core problem in judging players from the so-called Steroid Era is that we don’t know who did what and to what extent, the effect that the substances had on players, whether some benefited more than others from the drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reversing my position with Bonds and Clemens, I’m simply acknowledging that I no longer am comfortable performing the mental gymnastics necessary to submit a ballot without their names…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I no longer could justify snubbing two of the greatest players of this era.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>For another year, the majority of BBWAA voters disagree with Rosenthal’s sentiment and Barry Bonds has once again been snubbed. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Baseball Writers’ Association of America welcomed two new members into the Hall of Fame Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"http://baseballhall.org/hof/class-of-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when it was announced \u003c/a>that Mike Piazza and Ken Griffey Jr. were the latest inductees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 440 ballots cast, Griffey Jr. received 437 votes. At 99.3 percent of all ballots, Griffey, the sweet-swinging lefty known as “The Kid” (who is now 46 — y\u003cem>ou’re old\u003c/em>), topped Tom Seaver’s previous record of for highest percentage ever. Only three ballots did not include Griffey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--4D9Ue8BV--/aebgmbcaxxz8tzlqjkej.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ‘\u003ca href=\"http://deadspin.com/here-is-a-loop-video-of-ken-griffey-jr-s-perfect-swin-1751020435\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">loop video\u003c/a>‘ of Griffey’s perfect swing. (Courtesy of Deadspin)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The big local news: Cal grad Jeff Kent received 73 votes (16.6 percent) in his third year of eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just kidding. One of Kent’s former teammates was also eligible. You might have heard of him — all-time home run leader, seven-time MVP Barry Bonds. Eligible for the fourth time, Bonds received 195 votes, 44.3 percent of all ballots, falling\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\"> short of the 75 percent (330 votes) needed for enshrinement. (See full results \u003ca href=\"http://baseballhall.org/hof/class-of-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those numbers are up about 7 percent from last year and about 10 percent from 2014. The last four years look like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Writer Steve Aschburner \u003ca href=\"http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/19/with-hall-of-fame-changes-baseball-gets-political/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">studied recent ballots\u003c/a> and speculates that “fiddling with the selection process could open its doors to known or suspected cheaters, including two of the most polarizing figures in the game’s history: Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clemens, who faced accusations of steroid use in the latter part of his career, received 199 votes, just four more than Bonds, or 45.2 percent of the ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aschburner adds:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The pattern is likely to gain traction, too, as more honorary members lose their votes each year and additional newer writers qualify. Understandably, even media people want to see their particular generation of stars validated, those players they watched and covered. The Hall obviously has plenty of financial and institutional skin in the game. It needs baseball heroes on the stage for its annual induction ceremony, fresh plaques for its standing-room-only attendance all summer.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In the Hall’s instructions, voters are asked to consider “integrity, character and sportsmanship” in addition to a player’s performance. Voters interpret those instructions, and the overall meaning and importance of the Hall of Fame, very differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/14509820/jayson-stark-explains-2016-hall-fame-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN’s Jayson Stark\u003c/a>, who has cast votes for Bonds and Clemens in every year they’ve been eligible, writes that if the Hall is “a place that’s going to accurately reflect the history of baseball, how can it not include the man who made more home run trots than anyone who ever played and the pitcher who won more Cy Youngs (Clemens) than anyone who ever threw a pitch? That’s the Hall of Fame I want to exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to the next reasons Bonds is gaining more votes: shifting popular sentiment and the simple passage of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/14428464/why-barry-bonds-roger-clemens-appear-jerry-crasnick-hall-fame-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick\u003c/a> — who cast votes for both Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens this year for the first time — writes that he will remember this vote “as the year I dismounted from my high horse, acknowledged reality and took the plunge on baseball’s home run king and a seven-time Cy Young Award winner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 570px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://a2.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2015%2F1223%2Fr38636_864x1296_2-3.jpg&w=570\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"855\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick’s 2016 Hall of Fame ballot\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last January, Crasnick conducted a “social media experiment” where he tweeted the question: “Should Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds be in the Hall of Fame?” He writes: “One hour, 1,200 responses and a barrage of ‘yes’ votes later, I felt like a guy piling sandbags against a tsunami in my efforts to rationalize my ‘no’ vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crasnick adds:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“…it’s delusional to think we, as baseball writers, can uphold some quaint notion of the Hall as a bastion of competitive purity while fans who trek to Cooperstown each summer just want to visit a museum and see the game’s history on display with all its complicated messiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m ready to declare a moratorium on hand-wringing and cast my ballot, with all its flaws and inconsistencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… I’m out of the business of moralizing or parsing distinctions based on real or perceived transgressions. In the case of Bonds and Clemens, I keep going back to the words of ESPN columnist Ian O’Connor, who explained his conflicted Hall of Fame thought process in a 2012 column. “I’m willing to vote for the bad guys,” he wrote. “But only if they’re really, really good.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Crasnick explains that the state of baseball in 2016 is simply different than it was even last year. Bonds was recently hired as the hitting coach for the Miami Marlins, Mark McGwire, another notable suspected doper, is the bench coach for the San Diego Padres, and Alex Rodriguez, yet another player with PED suspicions, “was the feel-good story of 2015.” (Note: in his last year of eligibility, McGwire, former Oakland A’s first baseman, received 12.3 percent of the vote, well shy of 75 percent threshold.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For all my dilatory tactics, the passage of time has proved clarity is a mirage, and we just alternate between lighter and darker shades of gray,” Crasnick says. “Shoulder shrugs are the new clarity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The mere presence of a plaque in Cooperstown, with or without an asterisk or a designated “steroid wing,” can’t change the public perception. Dodgers fans are free to regard Bonds as a cheater and a villain, and Giants fans are free to love him for eternity. As Jerry Seinfeld so famously observed, ‘You’re actually rooting for the clothes when you get right down to it.'”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Another popular argument being put forth this year, as more writers checked the box next to Bonds’ name for the first time, is that we will never know all the facts about alleged PED use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/barry-bonds-roger-clemens-hall-of-fame-ballot-ken-rosenthal-122715\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Sports’ bow-tie-wearing Ken Rosenthal\u003c/a>, who also voted for Bonds and Clemens for the first time this year, explains it this way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The core problem in judging players from the so-called Steroid Era is that we don’t know who did what and to what extent, the effect that the substances had on players, whether some benefited more than others from the drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reversing my position with Bonds and Clemens, I’m simply acknowledging that I no longer am comfortable performing the mental gymnastics necessary to submit a ballot without their names…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I no longer could justify snubbing two of the greatest players of this era.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>For another year, the majority of BBWAA voters disagree with Rosenthal’s sentiment and Barry Bonds has once again been snubbed. 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