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Conversations with Authors - John Shea (Virtual Event)
Saturday, August 15th, 2020
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John Shea is the co-writer of the instant New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller 24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kidin which the legendary Willie Mays shares the inspirations and influences responsible for guiding him on and off the field. John is the San Francisco Chronicle’s national baseball writer and columnist. He is in his 33rd year covering baseball, including 28 in the Bay Area. He has written three baseball books, including Rickey Henderson’s biography (Off Base: Confessions of a Thief) and Magic by the Bay, an account of the 1989 World Series. He has also won several Associated Press Sports Editors awards, including first place in the nation for a World Series game story. He’s a two-time Bay Area chairman of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America and created the Bill Rigney Good Guy Award, given each year to a Giant and Athletic who is most accommodating to the media.
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On Thursday, John Shea wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle that the San Francisco Giants have been discriminating against their Spanish language broadcasters for the past 25 years.
It starts with reach. The team does not travel their Spanish language crew (Tito Fuentes, Erwin Higueros, and producer Carlos Orellana) for all 81 road games. 35 games receive no Spanish language broadcast at all. This is a unique arrangement compared to the rest of the division:
In the National League West, the Dodgers, Padres and Diamondbacks have their Spanish broadcast crews travel to all 81 road games, assuring all 162 games will be on the air in that language, something the Giants haven’t had since 1998.
Then there’s the matter of pay, which the 81-year old Fuentes reveals to John Shea in the piece, but which Shea only says is “a fraction” of what the English language broadcasters make; and then it flows into managementspeak about cost:
“Tito is awesome, a Giants legend, and Erwin is our captain in the booth who cares deeply about the product,” Pearl said. “I would love to see us do 162 games. The goal is to find advertisers to offset that expense. We’re not looking to make money, but we’ve got to be careful with how much we’re losing.”
This sounds like something Gabe Kapler would