Two years ago I celebrated the San Francisco Giants winning the team’s first World Series title since they moved to San Francisco from New York. Tonight they do it once again and it is a fine time to be a sports fan in the Bay Area. Looking like a mini-dynasty in the making I’m so very proud of this team and solidifies why my first sports love will always remain baseball and the Giants as the top sports team in my heart and soul.
So, congratulations to Sergio Romo for shutting down the feared Detroit Tigers line-up and for sporting one awesome beard. Congratulations to our city’s own Kung Fu Panda in Pablo Sandoval. No one’s talking and complaining about his weight problem now. He has achieved his inner peace and let this Dragon Warrior do what he’s good at even if it means eating and eating. Congratulations to Buster Posey who now has two World Series title under his belt and barely two full seasons of work as a major league baseball player. He’s the cornerstone of what looks like the team of the NL for years to come. Finally congratulations to Bruce Bochy. Let no one ever dispute whether he’s a Hall of Fame manager or belongs in the company of baseball’s great managers past and present.
Finally, congratulations to the rest of the San Francisco Giants, it’s fans, the City that has supported it and the rest of the Bay Area all the way down to San Jose who have supported the champs through thick and thin. Now let the celebration begin and let the parade of Champions start on Halloween.
Through the Shattered Lens 
I’m confused, why is it called the World Series? Every team in the competition comes from North America. Even when only teams from the US were in the contest, it was the World Series. That’s a pretty parochicial view of the world. I liked it better when you had two New York teams and it was the Subway Series.
Also, since when did it become trendy to leave your sticker on the cap? Remember when people hated it when you wore your cap backwards? I never had a problem with that. Stickers on caps, that’s a problem.
Surely “San Francisco” by the Village People would be more appropriate at the moment. Every bit as flamboyant as Queen but with the added quality of civic pride.
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True, but then again pretty much the roster for both teams and every team in both leagues have players from most every country that plays baseball in some fashion.
The stickers are on the cap because the players and everyone on the team just got the World Series Champ caps the moment they won. I’m guessing they more important things to do than remove the stickers when they wanted to celebrate.
I have no idea what you’re even trying to imply with the last statement. I picked the song because that was the same song I picked when they last won the World Series two years ago. No one seemed to have any problem with it.
You can like wanting both New York teams and calling it a subway series but as a SF Giants fan I couldn’t care less. Just like NY fans could care less that the Giants won (though there’re still quite a bit of Giants fans in NY when the team used to call NY home before moving to SF in the 1950’s). Maybe someone else here can explain things in much more detail. But thanks again for your usual unfiltered input. Maybe I and those fans of the Giants can go back to celebrating something the city and the region can be proud of.
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Considering the way they dominated the Tigers, the Giants earned We Are The Champions.
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Congratulations to the Giants! I wish that my Rangers could have made it to the World Series for a third time but the Giants played a great series and they totally deserved this victory!
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