Heard it on the Radio

As some to most of you know, I live in the eastern portion of the Bay Area in usually sunny California. The local baseball team (and the one I root for)? Oakland Athletics. The slightly farther local team? The San Francisco Giants. My son has taken to listening to baseball games at night on the radio in his room. Geographically we're closest to the A's, and yet we get the worst reception for their broadcasts. Which teams local broadcasts come in better, you ask? The Giants for one, who he's been listening to so much he's decided that next year in Little League he wants his team to be named the Giants. It's a little sad for me. But we won't be doing that, because he can still only be named after minor league teams. And speaking of minor leaguers, he also gets the Sacramento Rivercats games. They come in very clear since they're more or less across the delta from us. But wait, there's more! He can also listen to the Padres games. They come in clearer than the A's broadcasts, and they're coming from San Diego. I know this because I hear the ads for the local car lots and lawyers from down in the Marine Corps. Capitol. And who else can he listen to in his room? Why the L.A. Dodgers of course! Another of my least favorite teams, thanks to 1988 and Kirk Gibson. Damn that lousy gimp. But all this brings us back to the fact that he can listen to four teams who are farther away than our local favorite teams on the radio. Now he can listen to the A's games, but we have to get the dial just right, and angle the radio just so, and be careful not to breathe to hard in the direction of the radio waves so as not to disrupt them and cause massive buzzing and other horrible sounds besides the voice of Ken Korach to come out of that radio.

So I pose to you a question, how do I improve the reception on a simple boombox within a small boy's bedroom to better hear the team we root for? Please leave all suggestions in the specified comment area below. NASA people, I'm looking at you.