Giants World Series Parade: Ticker Tape Tour Through San Francisco Celebrates Win Over Texas

After the Giants’ World Series parade, a ceremony was held in front of San Francisco’s City Hall and before a seemingly innumerable crowd. Ushered to the microphone were, among others, Bruce Bochy, Tim Lincecum, Brian Wilson, Matt Cain, Freddy Sanchez, and finally, Aubrey Huff.

Huff did not sport his “rally thong” exclusively during Wednesday’s events, as he said he was considering, but he made sure to give it its due. With a nod to Zoolander, Huff pulled the thong out of his pants and held it up for the crowd to see.

The Giants’ World Series championship parade finally pulled to a stop on McAllister, right in front of City Hall. Minutes later, broadcasters Jon Miller and Dave Fleming presented the Giants players and staff, one by one, to the enormous crowd that swarmed in and around the Civic Center.

On a scale of 1 to 10, here’s my rating of the crowd’s reaction to each personality introduced:

San Francisco sits in a pretty technologically-inclined corner of America, and hundreds of thousands of fans are present on Market Street for the Giants’ victory parade. So, of course, there is no shortage of live photos from the event.

First, here’s the peerless Willie Mays, who, unsurprisingly, is drawing deafening cheers all the way down the street:

The CSN broadcast crew doesn’t seem to have noticed, but during the Giants’ World Series parade, closer Brian Wilson has apparently left his trolley and taken to the San Francisco streets. From local radio station KCBS:

This comes minutes after Wilson stuck his mohawked head out of the car and yelled, “SAN FRANCISCO, THIS IS RIDICULOUS!” And, yes, he is still wearing his beard. Either before or after bolting from his trolley, Wilson said this:

Over four million people live in the San Francisco metro area. The way it looks on the television broadcasts, it would be easy to believe that every one of them showed up for the Giants’ parade.

The celebration for the World Series champions is now underway, and fans are crowding the sidewalks at every turn. Many fans arrived at sunrise. The financial district is so packed, in fact, that the public transportation service has had to temporarily cancel a number of stops.

Upon clicking on that headline, you knew you were in for a sexy story. And you’ll get it! Kind of! Aubrey Huff, the Giants’ most valuable offensive weapon during their World Series-winning season, has remarked that he’s thinking about wearing his thong during the parade. Like, only his thong.

Is he joking? It’s difficult to say, but this Giants team has successfully manufactured a silly, iconoclastic image this season. And unlike most parts of the country today, the temperature in San Francisco is a pleasant 70 degrees, which I would imagine is ideal thong climate.

The Giants’ parade through San Francisco on Wednesday (2 P.M. Eastern, 11:00 A.M. Pacific) will be broadcast live on MLB Network. The broadcast will include the ceremony at City Hall as well as the parade itself. An encore showing will be broadcast at 11:00 P.M. Pacific.

If you don’t have access to MLB Network, though, Sacramento’s Fox 40 will be broadcasting live streaming video on its website. Once the parade starts, you’ll be able to watch it here. Still another option: CSN Bay Area will be streaming its own live coverage starting at 10:30 A.M. Pacific.

At 11:00 Pacific time on Wednesday morning, the Giants will celebrate San Francisco’s first-ever World Series championship with a parade through the city’s financial district that will pull to a halt in front of City Hall. The procession will start at the corner of Washington and Montgomery Streets, head southwest on Market Street, then veer right on 7th Street and left on McAllister Street, where it will end at the Civic Center.

Here’s a map of the Giants’ parade route: