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There's a story behind the song the Giants played to chase away the seagulls at Oracle Park

KNBR's Twitter account caught the seagulls descending on Oracle Park during the post-game along with a familiar tune for anyone who's ever stuck around after a game: DJ Casper, AKA Mr. C The Slide Man's anthem, "The Cha Cha Slide."

"We use the audio prompts (to deter the seagulls)," Alfonso Felder, the Giants vice president of administration, told SFGATE in 2019. "These prompts, combined with crowd noise, can be effective in dispersing the seagulls in moments when they become highly visible."

The team has used the song for years after Felder identified the source of the stadium's bird woes, which became increasingly problematic over the last decade.