I was in San Francisco on Wednesday to experience the Giants victory parade, along with one million of my closest friends. Ha!
It was an honor to be there on Market Street and cover the celebration for KCRA-TV. Here’s the video story, in case you missed it:
Fans cheered pitchers Tim Lincecum and Sergio Romo, outfielder Hunter Pence (partially obscured in the picture below)
Hunter Pence
and all their favorite Giants players.
There was plenty of pageantry in the Giants’ parade — and even an upside-down toy tiger mounted on a broom, carried by Stacy Hunt of Auburn. She was celebrating San Francisco’s four-game sweep of Detroit.
Tiger on a broom after SF sweep
“This is our dead Tiger. Detroit Tiger. We swept them, we’re number one,” Hunt told me along the parade route on Market Street.
Two dozen cannons along Market Street pumped out one and a half tons of orange and black confetti, showering fans with paper.
1.5 tons of confetti
More confetti
The parade brought Giants fans from near and far — and scores from the Sacramento Valley, including Jamie and Scott Johnston of Antelope, who played hooky from work.
“Yeah, we’ve got World Series fever,” Scott Johnston said.
“This is just the culmination,” explained Jamie Johnston. “We started the year in spring training in Arizona. We followed them, went to opening day, so we had to go to the last parade, had to end the year on a good note.”
The Giants’ journey this year has been historic. The team won six straight elimination games in the playoffs, only to humiliate the Tigers in the World Series with four consecutive victories. Or as the Warfield Theatre put it on their billboard: “How Sweep It Is”:
The Message from Market Street
The Giants’ title is their second since 2010, tying them with the Boston Red Sox for the most championships this century.
