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For those of you not familiar with my views on the A’s move to Fremont Sucksville, these guys sum it up much better in their Ghostride The Volvo video:

(Music by Mistah F.A.B.)

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Before I started Mesh, some friends and I talked about starting a magazine called Bay Area Legends, which would have featured stories on random Bay Area celebrities, quasi-celebrities and personalities, people who were a part of our lives growing up. One of the first people I wanted to interview was Jose Uribe, former Giants shortstop and subject of one of the greatest cheers in baseball history: “Oooh! Ree-bay! Oooh! Ree-bay!”, with one side of Candlestick shouting the “Oooh!” and the other side shouting the “Ree-bay!” To this day, I have tried unsuccessfully to start that cheer at Pac Bell/SBC Whatever Park.
I tried tracking him down back then, in early 2003, and discovered he lived in the Dominican Republic, where he owned a hardware store. I contacted the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association to try and secure an interview, but never got the chance to speak with him.

The Chronicle reported today that Uribe was killed in a car accident. He was 47 years old

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Yeah, whatever.

This is making me nauseous. Seriously.

Henry Schulman of the Chronicle writes that the Giants may be interested in Barry Zito. Okay, so this makes me a huge nerd and a total weirdo, but a couple days ago I had a dream that I picked up the Chronicle and a headline said Giants Sign Barry Zito. Now, I’m pretty positive the Giants won’t actually do this, but it would be a lot cooler if they did. With their offense looking pretty pathetic next year, having Zito and Matt Cain would improve the situation tremendously. I know a girl who dated Barry Zito. He used to play her Dave Matthews & Garth Brooks songs on his guitar. So yeah, he’s got really bad taste in music and is kind of a douchebag, but sign him up.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the Giants are about to continue their quest for mediocrity by signing ex-Giant Rich Aurilia and San Diego Padre Dave Roberts, after having missed out on Alfonso Soriano, Juan Pierre and Carlos Lee. The article also hints that because they missed the boat on those big names, guess who’s coming back? A hobbling Barry Bonds, for $14 million. Ugh. Aurilia is 35 and Roberts is 34 (but looks about 45), making them practically babies to Brian Sabean.

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Well, it appears to be official, The Oakland A’s are moving to Fremont Sucksville. Continuing the suburbanization of America, the A’s have bucked the Major League Baseball trend of moving stadiums downtown and have decided instead to move to a land of business parks, strip malls and tract homes:

The new ballpark will be called Cisco Stadium. What do we know about this “Cisco” company? From a reliable source: Cisco wine is a bum wine. It is for the lowest of the lowest of society, to go from zero to drunk in $0.99. Its alcohol content is 18%, and is known to cause hallucinations and psychotic episodes. Drinkers of Cisco wine have been known to strip naked and run down Market Street, screaming “THE RACCOONS ARE ALIVE!”