Good morning! And happy summer solstice.
Say hey, Willie Mays: we’ve got a Snap with words today, in tribute to the San Francisco baseball giant.
A month after the legacy Mission bar Uptown was displaced by jacked-up rent, the bar’s owner Kaushik Dattani, a “serial evictor,” applied to open his own bar in the space. Uptown’s former owners, staff, and customers expressed their fury during a city-mandated community meeting.
Over in the Fillmore, Oscar Palma visits the “sacred field” that’s been home for 44 years to the SF International Soccer Family. Players come from every continent except Antarctica, and have built a community together with barbeques, birthdays, a band called Pangea FC, and a lot of multilingual trash talk.
It’s sort of like election talk. We asked candidates for D5 supervisors about their thoughts on SF’s nearly $16 billion budget and funding priorities. Only one said, “If grandstanding and crying fixes a budget, Iโll supply the soapbox and tissue.”
More soon,
Sara
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SNAP
Bay fans bid Say Hey kid adieu
By John Avalos
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.ย โย A. Bartlett Giamatti, โThe Green Fields of the Mind.โ