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According to an annual fan cost index, the beer you buy at AT&T Park is baseball's most expensive suds. NBC Bay Area has the full report: "That $8.75 you pay for a 20-ounce beer is more than any other team in baseball in America charges -- by a full 75 cents." Coming in at second place was beer at Tampa Bay Rays' Tropicana Field in Florida, who charge $8 for a 20-ounce beer. But the beer that wins the title of worst deal? NBC Bay Area gives that distinction to Boston's Fenway Park, where "7.25 only buys you a 12-ounce beer."

Tommy Craggs' brilliance is back. Hurray!, is right. Now writing for Deadspin, the former SF scribe has a nifty new feature, "Why Your Stadium Sucks." And he starts things off with San Francisco's twee AT&T Park. Some of his problems with the park known more for its garlic fries and artisan coffee than for its team? It's a throwback ballpark, for starters. "These throwback ballparks are the brick equivalent of a Ken Burns documentary ... a window not on any actual history but on how baseball wants its history to be seen. It's a lot of infantilizing crap," clarifies Craggs. Another point of contention? AT&T Park chronically claiming that it's the first privately funded ballpark in the U.S. Which is true, he goes on to say, "if you don't count an estimated $25 million in municipal fire, police and garbage services; $33 million for the land itself, donated by the city; $83 million in property-tax exemptions; and on and on." Anyway, he has more excellent points that make his case. (Spot-on stuff, Craggs.)

Where an In-N-Out should be, but isn't.

As SFist first reported back in March, Halloween in the Castro (as you knew it) is dead. But! The formerly violent celebration will be resurrected "at a parking lot near AT&T Park as a multicultural celebration." It'll be planned in two parts: one part family party, one part adult party. The family fun (4 to 9 p.m.) will feature a Burning Man art installation, local youth performers, a Dia de Los Muertos exhibit, and parade, and more. The adult party (8 p.m. to midnight) has Destiny's Child's Michelle Williams, tranny performances, a $31 price tag, and booze. (But what we really want to know is this: are the streets in the Castro going to shutdown again that night?)

Just weeks after a mysteriously underreported fire set the top of AT&T Park ablaze, a one-alarm fire inside the San Francisco Giants Dugout Store at AT&T Park sparked late last night.

Looks like there was, in fact, a blaze at AT&T Park last night. And a sizable one at that. SFist reader Ted (i.e., phish223) sent in this on-the scene shot of the fiery action. Read more about it here.

Curbed is on it. As is a WhatImSeeing field corespondent. And even a few SFist tipsters have word on it. What is it, exactly? Well, it seems the Giants home, AT&T Park, was all ablaze last night! Allegedly.

Taylor Buckley, 18, of San Carlos was initially arrested for aggravated assault on Giraudo. He posted bail, but soon after Giraudo died, he was later re-arrested on suspicion of murder.

There are two events of interest to Muni this weekend: Critical Mass tonight at 6, and Supercross Saturday at one of the baseball parks. Both events are dedicated to the elimination of automobiles, but only one will actually accomplish its goal, while the other will just be a noisy, irritating echo chamber.