OG Athletics Nation alert: it's Bobby Kielty

In Minneapolis for a brief visit with friends and fam, and to attend May Day festivities Sunday - where my KQED tote bag drew some smiles and comments from former Bay Area folks. One was kind enough to say that she is still a member of KQED as well as MPR. Public radio listeners are the best!

To mark the passing of CBS News Radio, I wrote about how it began—with a forgotten broadcast from a Black prison inmate. I came across this incredible story while researching my biography of Edward R. Murrow, and you can read all about it @columjournreview.bsky.social. 🗃️ www.cjr.org/feature/cbs-...

Happy May Day from the corner of 31st and Bloomington where we expect the Mayday parade in a little more than an hour! Plenty of space for spectators right now. Cars can proceed south on Bloomington until 31st, then they need to turn. #powderhornmayday

If you're anywhere near Lake and Minnehaha in the beautiful city of Minneapolis (not my home town but you can see it from here) come on down to #MinneHONK at Arbeiter Brewing for excellent bands - this is Forward! from Madison

Such a delight to listen to @warriorsvox.bsky.social call a game like this

I never heard of the town of Brookdale in Santa Cruz County, where the quake that just rattled everyone in the Bay Area was apparently centered. As an expat Minnesotan, I only know it as a mall that didn't quite make it.

A lovely story with a lot of quotes from beloved-in-Oakland Chris Bassett:

I'm just glad that I could bring Oakland to a lot of people.’’ 💚💛🥁

In two plus years, the @oaklandballers.bsky.social have made an indelible mark on Oakland. After a record-breaking season, they are ready to take the next step as a franchise & they’ve hired the person they believe will lead them there. On new team president Yeshayah Goldfarb’s vision for the team:

Eight years ago today I was volunteering at Super Bowl 52 in Minneapolis. We were told there was a special guest, and the guest jumped up and thanked us all for representing the city. A couple of other volunteers asked me afterward if I knew who that nice young fellow was. "It's the mayor", I said.

We're in a poem @jorgeleon17.bsky.social @ross-coe.bsky.social @cassmoni.bsky.social @denny149.bsky.social @rfwill149.bsky.social

The Minnesota Star Tribune has identified the shooter (gift link). www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

I'm sure all other expat Minnesotans listening to KDFC in the Bay Area winced along with me just now when Lara Downes was backannouncing a Scott Joplin piece by talking about other highlights of the year it was published, 1902, and said it was the year when "the first Target store opened" 1/2

I haven't had a chance to watch this yet, but if Jeff says it's good, it goes on my list.

You know what would make this ballgame better? Drums in the stands.

Very happy for Chris Bassitt, who was always a friend to Oakland fans.

Some nice photos of the Ballers parade including the @oakland68sofficial.bsky.social

Oakland Ballers championship rally at City Hall. The party moves to West Oakland shortly for a parade around Raimondi Park and party at Prescott Market. Let's go Oakland!!!

This was a year ago today, I haven't seen an MLB game since, and I don't know that I ever will again.

Be sure to read to the end:

All the @oaklandballers.bsky.social fans and players who JUST got to sleep after winning the Pioneer League championship....I think the Hayward Fault wanted to join in the celebration

I spy the @djgloverepair.bsky.social sticker on the hot dog warmer of @mayorofoakland.bsky.social at Raimondi Park @oaklandballers.bsky.social

Purely anecdotal but I noticed way more bees and hornets at the Minnesota State Fair than in the past - every time we ate or drank anything, or went within 10 feet of a trash bin. My cousin got stung. But I got the "Stinger" from Beans & Beignets (cold brew, whipped honey, and a pinch of cayenne).

I Survived The Crop Art Slow Lane #mnstatefair

Great analysis here from Gabe Lacques of the continuing impact beyond Oakland of the SELL movement @oakland68sofficial.bsky.social @lastdivebar.bsky.social

I’m trying to figure out the right way to say this, because: Look, the CPB closing is devastating, and I don’t in any way want to blow even a wisp of smoke that it isn’t. But twice today, I’ve seen people express how sad they are that all of public television and radio is over. Not true! (1/3)

My first time flying out of the new Harvey Milk Terminal 1 at SFO, it's very nice! I didn't realize @suncountryair.bsky.social had moved out of the International Terminal, but since I was early I still had plenty of time.

July is often hot chocolate weather in Oakland, even at day games, and @oaklandballers.bsky.social serve an excellent version

If you've been missing the drums that used to play at that other team's games, come to Raimondi Park for the @oaklandballers.bsky.social! 7 Drums 7 from the @oakland68sofficial.bsky.social

Scrappy sox? @oaklandballers.bsky.social

The end game for John Fisher bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/06/29/t...

We have converted @radiobwatt.bsky.social to the drums, there is no going back. @oaklandroots.bsky.social @oakland68sofficial.bsky.social

I saw my first cricket match today, and it was a very good one. Apparently everything we've heard for years about the Oakland Coliseum's suitability for cricket was true. I'm not sure whether it's bush league to do the Wave in cricket, as it is in baseball - but the Wave was done. #oaklandunicorns

Use the map below to find Transbay Service from BART stations. Due to a computer networking problem BART service is suspended system wide until further notice. Seek alternate means of transportation. Find more info at bart.gov/alternatives

It may have been a rivalry game, but @oaklandroots fans and the Tower Bridge Battalion and traveling supporters of Sacramento Republic united in a rousing chant that involved John Fisher! Because everyone hates that guy.

In honor of Senator Durbin's @durbin.senate.gov retirement announcement, I share the greatest House floor speech of all time via @c-span.bsky.social. www.c-span.org/clip/house-p...

This morning on @kqednews.kqed.org radio... 6:22 and 8:22 AM: @azul415.bsky.social on the A's farewell fund for #Oakland Coliseum workers. www.kqed.org/news/1203309...

I will not be attending any MLB games in the foreseeable future, but I am listening to the West Sacramento A's opener on the radio. The first ad on the Bay Area flagship 960 AM is for...the Oakland Roots. @oakland68sofficial.bsky.social

And, we're back. At the Oakland Coliseum for the Oakland Roots home opener. Who are actually Rooted in Oakland. @oakland68sofficial.bsky.social #fjf

Good story about Schnitzer Steel/Radius Recycling:

On Amtrak between Donner Summit and Truckee. Everyone in California gets to take showers this summer, the snowpack is strong.

"Rickey Henderson is Black history. Rickey Henderson is baseball history. Rickey Henderson is American history." Renel Brooks-Moon (And Oakland history, of course)