2010 World Series, Giants v Rangers - Manic As Giants Win Pennant

The 2010 World Series is "upon us" as the late, great Oakland Raiders announcer Bill King would say, and it's the San Francisco Giants vs. The Texas Rangers. And it's fair to say the San Francisco Bay Area is just plain manic and it started before the Giants won The Pennant.

One reason for my absence from SFGate.com and SeattlePI.com, other than obessively working on the now growing Zennie62.com and bring in bloggers (want to blog about the World Series, drop me an email), was that this video blogger was out making new content. (I also thank the people who reminded me of my service to the community, something that slipped by in my quest to remake media.  It's gratifying to know that there are local readers who care about this space. I will publicly tell you that SF Bay Area Media is more damaged than ever, and that's due to ego and bad management that's for another time. The happy end note is there's opportunity in chaos!!)

Here's the latest videos, all on the SF Giants.

What's so awesome about the 2010 World Series, Giants v Rangers is that the San Francisco Party Economy is in full swing. The first game is Wednesday night, and at the same time that for some reason, the San Francisco Chapter of The American Marketing Association elected to have a meeting on digital media marketing!

Just shows you what the SF-AMA knows, as the best vehicle for digital media marketing is sports, and they're missing the premier event in San Francisco - the World Series. SF-AMA should make the meeting a viewing party!

But I digress. It's celebration time. What better place to start than Saturday at The Brick Yard Restaurant and Bar at 1787 Union St (at Octavia), a great place to watch sports, and where the SRO crowd went totally nuts after Giants Pitcher Brian Wilson's final strike out:



(Well, OK, sometimes people do get too excited. A woman I met who's visiting from Boston and med school, got doused with beer during all the celebration. But that was more a regional issue; a lot of locals were getting doused with beer and loving it.)

Brick Yard owner Darren Matte, who gets what great service is about, says you should call him now (415) 400-4712 and info@brickyardsf.com to reserve a table for Wednesday night:



After that celebration, the streets of San Francisco went nuts as people cheered and honked their horns in the rain. From The Brick Yard, where the crowd spontaneously sang "Don't Stop Believing," to The Bus Stop down the street, where the drinks flowed as people whooped and hollered, to the streets of The Marina District, where drunk guys who could hardly stand up were loudly saying "GO GIANTS." Get ready, because it's going to be that way for the rest of this week:



But the party got started before last weekend, as The Giants beat the Phillies in the NLCS. This blogger attended Momo's Restaurant next door to AT&T Park where a female Phillies fan openly let her love for her team be known to any Giants fan there - and there were a lot of them. Unfortunately, she reports having a beer bottle thrown at her not once, but twice at AT&T Park. And in this video one male Giants fan was so massively hammered while talking to her it was impossible to make sense of what he was saying, and to a degree it seemed threatening. But it wasn't all bad - we had the "Yes On 19" crowd, too. Check it out:



And this video made from what were the best seats I'd had for a Giants game or any big game including the seven Super Bowl's I've attended - right along the 3rd base line for last Thursday's game:



Finally, I took my dear friend Emily to the Giants Braves game since we both go back and forth from here to Atlanta. She's a die-hard Braves fan and a great baseball fan, so it was a hoot:



So I am ready and I hope you're ready for what's going to be an awesome week. GO GIANTS, and please, be nice to the visiting Texas Rangers fans. Show the best of San Francisco and Oakland. We know there are ass holes out there, we don't need be reminded of that all the time.

GO GIANTS!

And stay tuned.