“Massive crowds took to the street Wednesday night in San Francisco following the Giants’ victory over the Royals in the World Series. The crowds lit several fires across the city.”
See pictures and video of the riots here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimdalrympleii/san-francisco-giants-fans-trash-the-city-after-world-series
Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/anakasparian) and Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) of The Young Turks discuss. Why do people destroy their towns whenever the local sports team wins something? Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
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Verizon, San Francisco Riots, Tim Cook, Racist Teacher & Ebola Nurse – The Young Turks 10/30/2014 Social Commentary
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTpcK80irdQjD363Z9uS624lrkiXC9dIV
Comments
As a life-long Giants fan, this was unbearable and annoying to see. I was glad I was at home and not in SF when that was going down. I do have to disagree with Cenk pretty strongly however. Yes, I can understand being bored with the fact that The Giants have won 3 times in 5 years. They were NOT the favorites…in any of their 3 runs. They have actually only been favored in a total of 1 series in 3 playoff runs and that was the very first series they played in 2010. The Royals were actually slightly favored in the World Series. So that is only being favored by anyone to win 1 out of 9 series…they were also picked to lose the wild card to even get in. Before hand basically every team wanted to play them because they assumed it would be an easy win.