Some of them got here at 2:30 a.m., and hid behind a television van so that security wouldn’t kick them out. Some of them are carrying ball-catching contraptions made out of fishing poles, nets and a whole lot of duct tape. They know exactly where to stand — a spot several feet away from the stadium, where they can see the batter and home plate through the security fence in the stadium wall. Some of them have been interviewed over and over — by NBC, by Sports Illustrated, by the Wall Street Journal, by the Chronicle — and made all the morning news shows. Some of them are floating in kayaks, on the ocean. Most of them are drinking. Say hello to the early crew.
H.R. Smith has, among other things, reported on tech and climate change for Grist, studied at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow, contributed to the atlases Infinite City and Nonstop Metropolis, and organized wrestling matches on Shotwell St. between different California archtypes.
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wonderful; didn’t see the early crew anywhere else.