Family Tradition - SF Giants

As the Major League Baseball season came to an end earlier this month, many people including Ron Orozco, are still discussing the teams that made it to the final and what is to come in the future.

“You want your team to get to the playoff,” said Ron Orozco, “the Giants won the World Series in 2010. 2012. 2014, so everybody thought 2016, another even year, that they were going to do it.”

Ron Orozco is a huge fan of the San Francisco Giants who is always up to date with his team.

Orozco participates in what is called the “six pack”. The six pack is when you pick six games within the seasons, which is one per month, and attends the game in person.

“It’s so much fun. I’ve been doing so for about eight or nine years,” said Orozco.

Even though right now it is off-season, Orozco is constantly keeping updated through the app, Bleacher Report.

“Anything that has to do with what they are going to do, I read about it,” said Orozco.

“Right now there’s a lot of stories about trades, and who the Giants might be signing,” said Orozco, “they need a closer, someone who come in and close the game out.”

The Giants always release tickets on Black Friday, which is named “Orange Friday”, to allow their fans access to a head start to plan their tickets and games.

Instead, this year the Giants released their Orange Friday tickets sale earlier.

As a child

Growing up, it has become a family tradition because Orozco would attend at least one game with his family every year.

Orozco was born and raised in Stockton, which is only about two hours away from San Francisco.

Orozco stated that the Giants once located in New York, but the team later was moved to San Francisco.

“My dad immediately became a Giants’ fan, because it was the closest team to my home,” said Orozco, “him and my mom took us to a lot of games, and I was just a kid running around and that mean a lot for my family to go to San Francisco and attend the games together.”

Orozco and his family often attend games where the team is playing double headers, which helped with finance budgeting.

“My mom would make sandwiches, pack it all up, candies bars and we’ll head off to San Francisco to watch the game,” said Orozco, “I have an older brother and sister, so it’ll be the five of us and it’s just a thing we all enjoy as a family.

When Orozco and his family doesn’t make it to a game, especially the away games, Orozco and his brother would listen to the game on the radio together.

“Growing up with Ron as a San Francisco Giants fan was great. We remember falling asleep at night with out transistor radios under our pillows listening to the games. Sharing and being together was strengthened by this common interest. But I think our relationship was first. It actually strengthened our San Francisco Giants passion,” said Frank Orozco, Ron’s older brother.

“It’ll be a night game on a school night and my parents would say “you guys have to go to bed”, so my brother and I would get our radio and listen in bed,” said Orozco, “but we turned it really low so my parents wouldn’t hear it.”

Not only did Orozco would listen to the game on the radio with his brother, he would start collecting magazine and cut out photos of the team or players, as well as buying baseball cards and trading amount his friends.

When trading cards with his friends, Orozco would often try to trade off any of his double.

Orozco had before written stories about being a fan of the Giants in the Fresno Bee.

Living in Fresno, which is a bit farther away from San Francisco compares to living in Stockton “changed everything,” said Orozco.

“I wen through a period where I didn’t attend any games for about 10 years,” said Orozco, “I was a college student, I was busy here, I got a job at the Fresno Bee and I was working all the time, it changes everything by moving away from Stockton.”

Orozco would listen to the game occasionally on the radio but “it wasn’t the same.”

Although Orozco seemed to have taken a short break from following the team while he got occupied with school and work, about nine years ago, he began to refollow the Giants.

Two Teams in the Family

Orozco grew up being a huge fan of the Giants and he plans to continue to be a fan and try to share that with his grandchildren.

“It would be really nice, in 10 years, rather than me just go by myself, that I take my daughter and so in law, and my grandchildren,” said Orozco.

Orozco’s granddaughter is five years old and his grandson just turned eight; Orozco plans to introduce little by little, a share of his fandom to them.

Although Orozco’s son in law is a Red Sox’s fan, his grandson seemed to have lean in toward the Giants more than the Red Sox.

Orozco stated that he attended a game with the Red Sox at the Giants with his son in law, his grandson and a few others where his grandson wore a Red Sox’s shirt and a Giants’ cap.

Orozco do hope that in the future, when he’s older and stops following the team, he would like his grandson to continues the tradition.

“My goal is to buy the tickets and have them experience what I experienced as a kid. Eventually I’ll be too old to travel, it’s something I hope they will continue it, and he’s going to gets marry and start his family, hopefully he follows the tradition,” said Orozco, “you can have two teams.”

Franky Orozco said, “He knows how to root for his team without rooting against the other team. He realizes opposing teams have “good” fans also and they may be his friends. We both like it when our friends can enjoy their teams as much as we enjoy ours.”

Orozco plans to attend the Giants game at the Chicago Cubs in 2017, at the historic Wrigley Field Park in Chicago.

“It’s such a big Giants’ deal for them to play at the Wrigley Field,” said Orozco, “they always have a rooter plane for their fans to attend that game.”

Orozco plans to save money and be able to attend the game, which usually is play in August. The deal comes with the flight ticket, tailgate among the fan in the parking lot as well and staying in the same hotel with the team.

With such passion as a fan, even when Orozco can’t make it to a game, he stays up-to-date with the team by reading about them and he plans to continue to root for them even if he does not make it out to their games.

For more information, contact:

Ron Orozco (559) 970 – 1877