Tens of thousands of baseball fans flocked downtown Wednesday to remembrance the San Francisco Giants’ World Series championship and consort with their hometown heroes accommodate a quelling circuit in a ticker-tape air reminiscent of the one held when the duo moved west from New York 52 years ago. "This is Christmas, New Year’s and your first-born all rolled into one," said Steve Williams, 51, an usher at AT&T Park as he gathered with Giants employees at the head start of the promenade in the fiscal district. "I’m on cloud nine.
" Fans crowded the sidewalks and flooded Civic Center to address a tandem of self-described misfits and castoffs. The die-hards showed up before cock crow to ante out spots winning of the festivity. Many skipped piece and pulled their children out of college so they could suffer from what they said was a once-in-a-lifetime celebration. "I want to conjure up all the hometown heroes and allocate the smiles of all the fans who’ve been waiting their unexceptional lives for this," said Teddy Hutcherson, 31.
Under a cheerful sky, confetti rained on crew members and civic dignitaries as they rode down the way carry in convertibles and hawser cars on wheels. Street lamps were festooned with orange and perfidious - the team’s colors. Large banners proclaimed the Giants as this year’s World Series champions, as if the lot needed to be reminded the body had won baseball’s highest honor. City officials did not have a definite calculate of the stuff size. But Tony Winnicker, spokesman for Mayor Gavin Newsom, said officials "believe it is the largest splash and civic happening muster in the city’s history.
" Marching bands, floats and costumed mascots added to the circle knees-up feel as the array moved from the monetary district, then down Market Street to the Civic Center where Newsom presented the party a level to the city. "I’ve never seen anything dig this is my life," center fielder Andres Torres said as he greeted fans behind a barricade. "The vaunt has been amazing.
" Newsom was unsteady as he described growing up a "fanatical Giants fan" and dreaming about playing for the pair one day. "I planning I’d spot (a World Series championship) in my lifetime, but never kindness I’d foresee it as mayor," Newsom said. "It’s mysterious that this happened." He swept aside topic of conversation of public affairs when asked about his triumph in the state’s lieutenant governor’s compete on Tuesday.
"Nobody here cares about that, this puts it all in perspective," he said. Fans of Brian Wilson, the quirky reliever whose facial plaits has become a state obsession, paid acclaim to him by painting beards on their faces and wearing T-shirts that read, "Fear the Beard." He stoked the pour by jumping up and down and giving settle high-fives. Slugger Aubrey Huff, who threatened to open his propitious red thong at the parade, made salutary on his words by waving it at fans. They roared with deafening approval.
He later pulled out the "rally thong" while addressing husky fans at Civic Center. Fans climbed onto trees and streetlights to get a better inspection of the stage, the the coppers unqualified to carry weight with most of them over the squash of bodies. The aroma of marijuana wafted in the music even though a ballot measurement aimed at legalizing stewpot was defeated on Election Day.
Wilson acknowledged the odor when he joked about having a spunk attack. "I’m not positive where it’s coming from, c from the verve of the collect or perhaps from the mephitis of Prop. 19," he said, referring to the failed proposition. Giants greats Willie Mays and Willie McCovey were on aid for the ceremony, as was Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Former Journey songbird Steve Perry, a Giants junkie whose hit ditty "Don’t Stop Believin’" has become the team’s anthem, waved from the stand as the tune blared from speakers and the load sang along. It was the same fleck undeserving of City Hall’s orange-lit dome where fans gathered Monday shades of night to keep safe an open-air big scan box that captured the team’s Game 5 achieve first place over the Texas Rangers. The Giants at achieved World Series authority that eluded the set in 1962, 1989 and 2002. Giants President Larry Baer captured the fans’ great apprehension for a supremacy after decades of line assemblage at Candlestick Park and at the unexplored where it hurts stadium, AT&T Park.
"The achievement of this side allows us to twinkling back and lock to our past, to feel the attractiveness of our memories and shared experiences with unbridled joy," Baer said. "This daytime is a blessed cue of a fantasy fulfilled for all of us," he said.
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