Eno Sarris over at The Athletic just wrote up a fun weekend read about baseball fan interactions with major leaguers, particularly outfielders who spend much of their time standing around while strangers yell at them. And as it turns out, many of the best tit-for-tat, non-toxic trash talk sessions take place in the Bay Area.
Sarris highlights a bunch of examples, and you should read the full piece. A sampling from the Bay Area include:
—Former MLB outfielder Jeff Francoeur got heckled in Oakland in 2011 to such a degree that he decided to bribe his onlookers by wrapping $200 around a baseball and tossing it into the crowd.