breaking news ladies and gentlemen you know how you see that at the bottom of your screen rolled across the and and it's under store voted the most inspirational giants and more to the point congratulations. >> thank you it's been an honor i want to thank-you my teammates, coaches, trainers, staff and everybody. it's been an honor a blessing and a lot of fun. >> did you have to get an appendectomy to get it? this is a true story of a man has an appendectomy they say all he'll be out the remainder the season of like them back for the playoffs and he played eight days later? >> 10 or 11 days later i want to be with the team you know. it's been a lot of fun we've been winning i did my best to come back worked with the trainers it hurt me a lot and i'm back here. >> are you scared about head for sliding. >> the first time it hurts but that's fine just try to be positive and more in a race like this you forget about pain you just want to play and win. >> for those of you were now in the health segment if it's taken me two months to recover from an appendectomy lot of be ashamed of yourself. i know the team and wish you that is all you that said i can make this come back and not wait? >> the doctor told me maybe two weeks the doctor here told me you will be ready soon and i told myself be ready keep working hard start walking, running in everything and got on back here with the team carried >> is tonight's the night for champagne carried >> were going to do our best for one play hard and play 100 percent good things happened. >> this is to see what more to the point that appendectomy is thing is that his comeback that passed congratulations on the award all the guys will tell you that's the most prestigious thing when i was voted by our news room filled the sky and the department made me feel good to. when the people you work with like you'd make you feel good. >> thank you so much. >> good luck tonight. >> yankee. >> he of three names torahs, oppose the and wilson coming out of the bullpen. the banks demand get out of here go get ready. we have some questions from the audience that they have put together that's coming up next segment. fresnel little something called how the giants got here. >> every good story needs a good beginning. (cheering) >> the giants won in the 13th inning. >> through april and most of made a stayed at or near the top of their division by the end of may the that's fall silent and the fans began to worry. giants no secret there struggling at the plate. all- star pitcher was struggling on the note. by the end of june it was time for change. >> were sputtering offense of lead. >> buster moves up from the minors and the giants never look back. three had saturday, three more hits sunday carried a hitting streak to 21. with help from posies 21 hitting streak to giants bounceback. as the all- star break to go 13-4 moving from seven and a half games back to a game and a half behind the division leaders. the padre's hang on an envoy to they hang on. as of this turns into september saturday night fever turns to padre fever. >> he's like one great play every day. >> the padre's dropped 10 games in a row. at the edge as the giants' pitching shut down the opposition. they gave up no more than three runs with 18 straight games a record unequaled since 1917 white sox. >> alright to real quick from sports illustrated the onetime star of the san jose mercury news and as i always say a crime against until she asked here's the great and tilly and carried having fun it is a weird deal were covering this stuff. are you comfortable going to the locker room with this group of guys? >> yes it's a fun team so far it's been a great season for people like you and i who grew up here. " seen this team to a lot of different things to read it's fun there's a lot of energy and the last seven years have been a little depressing the giants have not been very good. >> we certainly would be doing a three hour marathon she think this is a front runner community. >> i don't think it's a bad thing or not stupid enough to waste our time on four products. really there's loyalty, then there's choosing a decentralized. this ball park is fun to go back to whether it's a wonder loser. is the more energy right now shore why shouldn't there be. >> and i will not be doing three hours leading up to the forty- niner game sunday >> or the raider game which is blocked out which other people have other things to do. the customer is usually right. >> who's your favorite guy? i think torres has been the spark plug if you did pick one guy that the greatest player somebody say that's the guy like to see do well? >> i like lynn succumbed. i liked the look he spots the the fresh face see halas' are likely buckled down in august and dug deep. the kid has been i call him a kid because he looks like he's 14. helsinki's really posies great and all these other guys but he's been the guy who's change the image of the giants. >> it's nice to see a young lady. >> i might see you again >> when people ask you a and what you do for living to say some a regular on kron 4? >> yes i talked to gary. >> let's go to a break we're back from the ballpark and people don't think will last till seven we may go till 8 to the game may be going on were not want to move up to pitch around us. its marathon time the long this pregame show in the history of the bay area television market. back in a moment. you can't really love me. i know about gayle. i don't know what you're talking about. if you just tell me what happened... 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[ brakes hiss ] ♪ [ male announcer ] now you can watch hit tv shows on your iphone when you get at&t u-verse tv. at&t. rethink possible. on your iphone when you get at&t u-verse tv. @2 are space shall baseball coverage continues in a moment first a quick look to traffic heading to the game. he concedes backed up way beyond the macarthur maze right now. slowly coming into the city over to the golden gate bridge any to see pretty busy but traffic is moving smoothly and to marin and back into the city. here's a quick look at other stories making news from the bay. >> vicki joining me jerry brown and oakland's schools. what were the facts? fact: march 7, 2000. brown asks voters for new mayoral power to appoint school board members. he gets it, and promises better schools. but the drop out rate increases...50%. the school budget goes into a 100 million dollar deficit. the schools become so bad...the state has to take them over. it was "largely a bust," he admitted. jerry brown. failure as governor. failure as mayor. failure we can't afford now. all rights we're back who is that yelling how dare you let me was that kevin yelling? you will be finished. i'm talking to the austrian there's no yelling during his statement. here's the man who build the ballpark, here's a man who's been with the giants from the beginning. if you're not the most responsible for the ballpark to this. >> how about the 30,000 fans who bought season tickets in the first year. by the way yelling is ok, right now the scene here has been just unbelievable. i don't remember as much passion around a giants team really for any the teens including the 20002002 team. >> he never responds the back but there is always a little cloud over barry even when you go on the locker room very was so dominant that the other guys did model let their hair down trade these guys are all their all in an even keel and basis. it makes it fun to be around you buy that? >> i do buy that. we love very for letting him sit with us tonight. he's part of the family but you're right in the sense that the architecture of the team, the dynamics of the team are some guys that are the pieces of a puzzle that so multifaceted puzzle. it goes on and on, that's pretty cool because they're all the main debbie colophon famer some may down the line but they're all fine and guys. pretty special. the giants this week and will go over 3 million in attendance and you don't need me to tell you in this economy it's pretty tough people better have a product they love to spend this type of money. when they didn't win do feel your fan base is what it was during the glory days of bond? >> even when we didn't win we had a rough year no aid to an 07 we still held up. we have the 2.8 million but in some markets the drug 7 800,000 to zero million we dropped a couple hundred thousand so we were able to hang on. this is our 11th year and that's nine of 11 years with 3 million attendance it's a case where were proving this is a baseball town. it could be a football town but for sure at baseball town. >> it's always fun to look back of vegan " and the giants did something that they got madden them for people gives talks of public money and the best built this on your own if he were still at candlestick can you envision that say we do 3 million this year candlestick was what half >> that's a good point it was 1.35 mil. people are coming here and memorizing battles and. those are the hard-core fans we laugh their the ones that came to candlestick. were the people who come here who want a good experience to an edition like baseball and for other reasons. it's a good social environment you get them here because i like the food electing a with friends and then if you get hooked by a baseball and they're cutting back of the time in that's been the other million five. the casual fans. >> we will make a joke on this were on the afternoon right now this is the particular hot sports audience were knocking off zero brought. >> come out to the park casual fans. speaking >> of them have ever heard this one the guy had to drop a college they offered him $60 million you can always go back and get your degree any says you don't believe in education and still answering the e-mail's. my point is. guys like you and me to grow with the giants everything as the game. said a 40,000 how many people are here just for the experience they loved the teens are happy but not die hards. >> tonight so little different if there's all sorts of things going on tonight. on an average night, we've done research about this. 25 to 30 percent are coming because they might go to a couple games the airbus they will answer the questions about baseball that the thank answer and that scared because that gives them a chance to become fans i think if we are still at candlestick would be double monday night's against montreal. >> from you going to build this park monday he'll have 8000 your going get the more thousand against montreal and sure enough larry gives me a call that's put out the first pitch will house 41,000. >> is a lot easier to have 41,000 monday night than 30,000 season tickets. >> t u a guy was running the team what's been the biggest kick. it is the one individual may be not so, some said this guy is been fun to watch? >> there's a lot of those guys i would say in some respect its torres. he's a kid he's 32 years old, kicking around in the minor leagues had about a year-and-a- half to two years of major- league experience spread over 10 years of being a professional baseball. that's a professional aaa player and there's something about his desire in the minor- league system and said let's give this guy shot. it was funny i think the clock to his running around the bases after hit before the appendectomy after a hit a homerun in was about the same the running on the basis of aubrey half. >> to me to give this away what we had a lot half-hour ago when you receive the ultimate honor and you brought back former winners at a 30 years that's critical. including jeff kent a lot of guys back he is such an excitable guy. for all the right reason hello how are you ever tennessean quick answer about the appendectomy when he was feeling horrible the morning was 5:00 a.m. his wife and baby room hotel room in one with the mouth and in what we cover trainer so we got a rental car downstairs and drove himself to the hospital. he drove himself >> what kind of >> > question marks i'd only be a ford pinto the best thing is they bring the past people in baseball tell you know team honors the x players he make these guys feel good is that pay you haven't forgot them in a sense. >> it's who we are in more importantly it's what our memories are carried for me it's willie mays orlando those memories they did find a child could so bring in the back mean something >> with the same thing here bringing back some degree, stars in my news director said if you want to come back for the weekend drive down and get him. this kind of ugly the list was thinking of tom. >> (laughter) write to dr. phil. " congratulations on tonight. >> thanks for being around all year and hanging around here >> it's my second job i have a young wife she must eat. >> i don't want to make any predictions i tell you our stomachs are tight because that's what were paid to worry about the worst-case death on when the look for you and willie mays cause it either way. >> better get a nice suit off the man who built the ball park runs the giants were having a lot of fun to think we're kidding run from 4 till 7 this is a long as pre-game show we knocked off so much of the programming to allow this to happen. so larry you owe us. (laughter) >> carried. >> will go back to the desk was he in a minute. >> jerry quick question for you? kron 4 viewers have all questions for you let's listen to one of the many unanswered ok? >> okay go ahead larry's with me. >> if the giants get in the playoffs jews think that barry will get a start? >> to me and i'm going to lay off very to get in the playoffs would zito be a starter boy he pitched real well except for his last those some of the goddess be of jonathan sanchez the bank rate. >> think it's all about matchups. it's going to be with no more than a playoff so we'll know more in the playoffs so let's take one step at a time. i can tell you one thing very and listeners we have had zero discussion about that whose 1234 in the playoffs were just trying to line up for the end of the season get there in the halftime we do get there, the first playoff game when start wednesday and then there's another series thursday. >> larry knows what's going on is that everything at stake i have nothing at stake for the answer is the dough in the playoffs know. 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'80s for in the spots low seventies in the south bay. the mid to upper '70's and the north bay. here's a look at our weekend outlook tomorrow similar to what was sought today but as we move into sunday much cooler breezy conditions expected trade 75 inland, 60 of the coast and 68 of our bay shores. stay with us what more coming up after the break. hey, at&t u-verse tv? yeah, it's our new tv service. every day thousands of customers