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October 24, 2012

Pebble Hunting

An Illustrated Guide to the People of AT&T Park

You will be spending the next two days with the AT&T crowd, so you might as well get to know who they are. While a stadium of 43,000 can hold countless types, the culture of the park can be pretty well summed up by just a few of them.

The young friends with varying degrees of interest in the outcome of the game.
Jason didn’t normally talk to himself, but he was too anxious to sit still or stay quiet. He just wanted to leave his apartment, to get to the park on time, to erupt at the first pitch. That would settle him. Until then, he was too anxious.

“Hat,” he said. “Check. Parka, check. Tickets, check. Glove, check. Skittles, check. Come on guys get here get here get here.” Maybe he should go pee one more time—

—but a knock at the door. “Finally!” he thought to himself. “Finally!” he started to say as he opened the door, but he stopped. “What the s*** Alex. What are you even wearing?”

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riverz

Sam Miller's mastery of the GIF is unrivaled

Oct 24, 2012 08:19 AM

rating: 8

randolph3030

He's Leonardo Gif-inci.

Oct 24, 2012 08:34 AM

rating: 11

Nick J

Vincent Van Gigf (the second g is silent)

Oct 24, 2012 10:12 AM

rating: 4

randolph3030

Paul Gauguif. That's a visual pun.

Oct 25, 2012 10:53 AM

rating: 1

hessshaun

Salvadore Gifi

Oct 25, 2012 08:58 AM

rating: 1

frampton

I have to say, I think the surfer is drinking an Anchor Steam, which might shake your thesis a tiny bit. Otherwise, pretty spot-on.

Oct 24, 2012 08:52 AM

rating: 0

Beau Giles

While not quite an Oakland Raider crowd AT&T Park features a lot more people in costume than any other baseball crowd. Game 6, if the series comes to that, will be in San Francisco on Halloween. Halloween is basically a five day drunken holiday in SF. Poor Jack Buck's head might explode.

Oct 24, 2012 09:42 AM

rating: 4

Dodger300

Ummmm, you mean Joe Buck, maybe?

Oct 26, 2012 05:23 AM

rating: 0

greendrummer

as an A's die hard, we spoof and ridicule these mules at every chance, 15% texting seems like a generously low estimate, and wait till the ball gets hit in the air and they start cheering like Bonds just ripped one....
you too will learn to laugh at these fools

Oct 24, 2012 09:42 AM

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Matt

Ha! Wait until Sam eventually gives the A's fans the treatment. It might not be all that different. Maybe take out the suits, add some snuck-in booze and herb, and add in some people who were just passing by on the BART when they were offered five dollar tickets on the train.

I agree, 15% is too low.

Oct 24, 2012 11:48 AM

rating: 3

Dan McKay

I find your work amusing. Very amusing.

Oct 24, 2012 10:04 AM

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eighteen

Here's some more of the interesting people-watching available in San Fran.

http://www.zombietime.com/hall_of_shame/

Oct 24, 2012 11:17 AM

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alangreene

Over 50% of the crowd will be mostly trendy bandwagonners, waiting to be seen. They did not notice the Giants until about September of '10, ignored them after June of last year and are back.

Much of the rest will be people who got free tickets from Oracle, Salesforce or whatever B2B technology company out there decided to snap them up.

World Series are better than Super Bowls for the corporate atmosphere, but there's going to be a whole lot of non-Die Hards there. It's cool to be a Giants fan right now.

Oct 24, 2012 11:23 AM

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NJTomatoes

You guys really ought to consider having a "linkable story of the day" feature. I could then forward tasty nuggets like this to my cheap friends who are missing out on the best baseball site in the world. Their appetite would frequently become whetted and they might ultimately subscribe. Hmmm, wait a minute. BP is a great strategic advantage in my FBB leagues, so....never mind.

Oct 24, 2012 12:23 PM

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Ben Lindbergh

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Oct 24, 2012 12:30 PM

lipitorkid

1. I'm not sure of the truthfulness of this article. I didn't see a single fan hurling a battery or eating garlic fries.

2. I knew that eccentric fan was a man right away, but I understand your confusion since there are no male Marlin fans.

3. I'm still trying to think of how to make a lesson plan for my English class out of this entire post. Awesome stuff.

Oct 25, 2012 06:44 AM

rating: 2

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