The 2010 Baseball World championship Giants had a parade today in San Francisco - 1.5 million fans lining the streets for the first championship since 1954 ! YES ! My wife and I watched on the Comcast network millions of championship years starved fans lining the streets celebrating this awesome TEAM who played like a team looking out for each other with all 25 players- not just 1 expensive free agent with a massive size ego .
When my son was 12 years old in 1997 I took him to see a classic Giants/Dodgers game at Candlestick park fighting for first place and the Giants beat the Dodgers on Brian Johnson's 12th inning home run & Rod Beck got out of a bases loaded no out jam to put the Giants into 1st place in late September that year ! We were high fiving Giants fans we had never met- such a unifying force !
Fast forward to 2010 - my son is 25 years old and we took a break from work for 3 hours at a Round Table Pizza to watch Game 4 that the Giants won , and now my son & I are sharing the Giants 1st World Championship together ! Awesome !
Today my wife & I watched the Giants Parade and I sat there with tears of joy leaking out the sides of my eyes as I watched Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, and heard Brian Wilson, Tim Lincecum, Aubrey Huff ( Rally thong guy ) , Freddie Sanchez, all the Giants players give credit to the FANTASTIC Giants fans for being there for the team. Out of 1.5 million fans lined on the streets- not 1 riot, not one crime committed . Jehovah's Witnesses could take a lesson from Giants fans on REAL unity ! If there is a God- he or she wears Orange & black , the Giants colors.
Here is a link to the S.F. Giants parade this afternoon with photos & a short you-tube : Peaceout, Go Giants ! Mr. Flipper
http://sfist.com/2010/11/03/photos_fans_converge_for_giants_wor.php