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I just went a-googling for that A’s pitcher from Stockton, Dallas Braden, who yelled at Alex Rodriguez and told him to “get off my mound” and later said “That’s not how we do things in the 209.” It turns out that (1) I’m old, as this was sixteen years ago, and (2) Braden later publicly turned on Stockton after an attempted carjacking, and he brought a baseball bat to a local anti-violence gathering.