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Record-Breaking Post-Season Pool Means Each SF Giant Is Now $388K Richer

We all know that our San Francisco Giants are lovely, unique snowflakes, but now they've got one more "first" to add to their resumes: They're each receiving

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It's Official: Pablo Sandoval Is Headed To Boston [Updated]

As we heard last week, and as many had heard rumored for weeks now, Giants third-baseman Pablo Sandoval is using his free agency to land a plum deal with the Red Sox.

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Alleged World Series Celebration Vandal Nabbed By SFPD

Cop car wrecked #mission #sf #riot #giants pic.twitter.com/puQsIhckZk — karissa mckelvey (@karissamck) October 30, 2014 Ladies and gentlemen, we might've just gotten ourselves the 2014 version of Gregory Tyler

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SF Giant Jeremy Affeldt Won't Get Mad If You Disagree With Him About Jesus

Don't bother getting bent out of shape over SF Giants pitcher Jeremy Affeldt's outspoken religiosity, because he and Jesus have already triumphed. "I don't have to

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Giants Pitcher Jake Peavy To Buy Cable Car For His Alabama Estate

Casualties of this year's World Series win included 28 trashed Muni vehicles, and now Giants pitcher Jake Peavy and his brother Luke might be picking off one more member of the

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Rioters 'Celebrating' The SF Giants' World Series Win Trashed 28 Muni Vehicles This Year

Mayhem on Market St. pic.twitter.com/Io591JFzR8 — Scott Austin (@ScottMAustin) October 30, 2014 "It's not as bad as it was in 2012" is a nice attempt to put

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Kids Who Skipped School For The Giants Parade Cost The SFUSD Big Bucks

Despite San Francisco United School District entreaties for students to be cool, and to stay in school the day of the SF Giants World Series victory parade, thousands of kids played hooky that

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Video: Watch Madison Bumgarner On Fallon

At least one of our Giants is making the TV rounds now that the World Series is over and WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, and that would be MVP Madison Bumgarner. MadBum went on

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Video: Watch The Entire World Series Celebration Rally From The City Hall Steps

You checked out how the SF Giants Parade floats were built, you watched their soggy march down Market, you even trolled Hunter Pence. But did you make it through the over 90 minutes

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Photos: A Rainy Giants World Series Victory Lap

Despite the biggest rain storm of the year so far arriving just as celebrations were kicking off, thousands poured onto Market Street and into San Francisco's Civic Center today to see

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Hunter Pence Trolling Meme Continues Through Victory Parade

The Giants' star outfielder Hunter Pence, who might have been this year's World Series MVP if it weren't for the star turn of pitcher Madison Bumgarner, got national

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Video: Wacky Taiwanese Animators Take On The SF Giants' Thrilling Victory

If you were wondering how the weirdos at Next Media Animation interpreted the SF Giants' World Series victory, wonder no more. Granted, I looked away from the game a couple times to

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Livestream: Watch The SF Giants Parade

Hookey players from Fairgax. #SFGParade pic.twitter.com/fKjGhMJtPn — Sam Jackson Whiting (@SamWhitingSF) October 31, 2014 Sure, you can go downtown and watch today's parade celebrating the 2014 World Champion SF

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Afternoon Palate Cleanser: San Francisco Summed Up In 11 Seconds

You have some polar opposite things happening in San Francisco lately we're still a city full of rebellious young people and immigrants and we like to set stuff on fire when

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SFPD Arrests 35, Seeks Photos Of Even More Law-Breaking SF Giants Revelers

Mission Explodes from Brian Emerick on Vimeo. The numbers are in! According to San Francisco Police Department Chief Greg Suhr, 35 people were arrested in the melee following the SF Giants World Series

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Video: Aspiring Photojournalist Nearly Creamed By Doughnut-Doing Giants Reveler

Yes, dumb dangerous stuff went down in the Mission last night after the SF Giants won the World Series. But things could have been worse, this video suggests, as you can watch a

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Video: Phish Played 'We Are The Champions' Right After The Giants Won Last Night

Phish, who were playing their third of three sold-out shows at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium last night right when the Giants clinched their third World Series title in three years, broke into

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Photos: Scenes Of Peaceful Revelry In North Beach, Castro, Mission

Sure, a couple people got shot, a bus got trashed, and stuff got lit on fire. And that may reflect poorly on our city, but what did you expect? There were still many

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The Beanstalk: Thank You, Madison... And Pence, And Panda, And Panik, And Morse

Last night, the San Francisco Giants defeated the Kansas City Royals to claim their third World Series Championship in five seasons. Do you know what this means? You get a parade, and YOU

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Video: Giants Arriving Home To AT&T Park This Morning

About 100 truly dedicated (and probably still intoxicated) fans gathered outside AT&T Park at 4:45 this morning to watch the Giants' buses roll in from the airport after their

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Shootings, Stabbing, And A Trashed Police Car: Giants Celebration Mayhem Roundup

Fire Dept on the scene pic.twitter.com/vXzCxHsJXL — Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) October 30, 2014 Well, it happened again, guys. As on the evenings of the SF Giants' 2010 and 2012 victories,

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Tech Shuttle Vandalized During Post-Game Celebrations; Another Got Stuck Due To Toilet Paper Cleanup Effort

Amidst the mayhem of last night following the World Series win, some people were just trying to get home from work on the Peninsula in a company-sponsored shuttle bus. At least one

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Two Wounded By Gunshots In Mission, And Chaos Reigns Again Near Ballpark In Post-World Series Celebrations

In the Mission, as thousands of residents and fans spilled into the streets following the Giants Game 7 victory in the World Series, at least two people appear to have been injured by

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IT'S DONE: San Francisco Giants Take The World Series For Third Time In Five Years

A lot of people said this would go to seven games. And a lot of people thought the Giants would win. A lot of other people thought the Royals would pull it out

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Scenes From Last Night's Civic Center Collision Of Giants Fans And Phish Fans

It wasn't so much of a collision as it was an amiable, SF-style co-existence on the lawns and plazas of Civic Center last night as a thousand or so