dave flemming. mike cruco and dwayne kriker. hall of fame broadcaster jon miller. and finally, two giants living legends, hall of famer mr. willy makati and hall of famer, the greatest mr. willie mays. [applause] how about a big hand for all of our special guests, everyone? [applause] we would like to thank the city and county of san francisco and our community partners, bank of america, caw, levi's, coors and miller, sales force.com, diamond foods, and charles schwab who helped make this possible. we would like to recognize broadcast partners knbr 680, the sports leader, comcast sports net bay area and nbc bay area, who bring giants baseball to our fans all season long and who have made it possible for today's event to be watched by giants fans throughout northern california. now, everyone, let's get this show on the road. let's get this party started. it is my great pleasure to introduce two members of the best broadcast team in all of baseball -- please welcome dave fleming and john miller. [applause] >> thank you for that. i always thought that this must be wha

sudden explosions of war from one day to the next went from a border skirmish to an all-out really flemming war and has the law -- hezbollah i scuttled to get to be brewed as fast as i could, i took a cab from damascus and had to pay a price for someone to be willing to drive through the bombs to take me there and my single goal, my main goal was to find out as much as i could about hezbollah and its return file support will. the thing i was most concerned about is not just what was the organization about and it's a theology, but who were these hundreds of thousands of people who had turned it into this popular massive and in its own community successful force? i had a simple strategy when i got there, and that was to drive to the border and look for the guys in cargo pants and beards. this was my sword off simple recipe for trying to get to an organization that i expected to be hard to approach especially at a time in which it was engaged in an all-out war with israel what a silly plan that might be when i learned no one in lebanon wanted to work with the yy did this. eventually i rented m

players and coaches stuck together in the face of adversity, especially when their head coach, dan flemming, suffered a heart attack, that placed sports and the tournament in perspective. they rallied around the school and they went on to win their first basketball state championship in 15 years and the second in school's history. i'd also like to congratulate coach tom gripa and the lancer football team for their tremendous season. you made us proud. congratulations, lancers. i also rise today to congratulate the taft high school senators who won the division iii basketball state championship. now, i acknowledge that it's rare that a member of this esteemed body, the house of representatives, ever says anything positive about senators but i'd like to make an exception today. led by their head coach, mark mitchell, the senators defeated cleveland central catholic high school to win the first championship in their school's history. the senators went into the tournament ranked number one by the associated press. they not only made school history by winning their first state championship but t