The 2008 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 126th year in Major League Baseball, and their ninth at AT&T Park.
 The team finished in fourth place in the National League West with a 72-90 record, 12 games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers.
 2008 marks their 50th Anniversary in the Bay Area since moving from New York in 1958.
 It is also their first since 1992 without all-time home run champion Barry Bonds, who was not re-signed following the 2007 season.
 At the end of the season, Tim Lincecum was voted the 2008 National League Cy Young Award winner.
Theresa Sparks is the Executive Director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission and was a candidate for San Francisco Supervisor for District 6 in the November 2010 election.
 She is a former president of the San Francisco Police Commission and former CEO of Good Vibrations.
 She is also one of San Francisco's most famous transgender women and was a Grand Marshal in the 2008 San Francisco Pride Parade.
The San Francisco Giants are a professional baseball team based in San Francisco, California.
 They have been a member of the National League (NL), as a part of Major League Baseball, since the team's inception in 1883.
 They joined the NL West following the establishment of divisions within the league in 1969.
 The Giants played 75 seasons in New York City, New York, as the New York Gothams and New York Giants, spending the majority of their seasons at the Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan.
 The Giants relocated to San Francisco in 1958, briefly playing at Seals Stadium.
 After sharing Candlestick Park for 29 years with the San Francisco 49ers National Football League team, the Giants moved to their current home, AT&T Park, in 2000.
The San Francisco Giants Radio Network is the radio network of the San Francisco Giants.
 There are 12 stations (7 A.M., 3 F.M., and 2 F.M. translators) in the English-language network, including the flagship.
 Additionally, KXZM/93.7: San Francisco carries the Giants broadcasts in Spanish bringing the total number of radio stations carrying Giants baseball to 13.
The June 2008 San Francisco general elections were held on June 3, 2008 in San Francisco, California.
 The elections included the primaries of two seats in the United States House of Representatives, one seat to the California State Senate, two seats to the California State Assembly, seats to various parties' county central committees, one seat to the San Francisco County Superior Court, two California ballot propositions, and eight San Francisco ballot measures.
The 1993 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 111th season in Major League Baseball, their 36th season in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season, and their 34th at Candlestick Park.
 In the offseason, Barry Bonds left the Pirates to sign a lucrative free agent contract worth a then-record $43.75 million over 6 years with the Giants, with whom his father spent the first 7 years of his career, and with whom his godfather Willie Mays played 22 of his 24 Major League seasons.
 The deal was at that time the largest in baseball history, in terms of both total value and average annual salary.
 To honor his father, Bonds switched his jersey number to 25 once he signed with the Giants, as it had been Bobby's number in San Francisco.
 (His number during most of his stay with the Pirates, 24, was retired in honor of Mays anyway).
 Bonds hit .336 in 1993, leading the league with 46 home runs and 123 RBI en route to his second consecutive MVP award, and third overall (of an eventual seven).
 As good as the Giants were (winning 103 games), the Atlanta Braves won 104 in what some call the last great pennant race (due to the Wild Card being instituted the following season).
 After going up by nine games August 11 with a 77-38 record, the Giants went 12-18 and found themselves three-and-a-half games behind, a 12.5-game swing, by September 15.
 They then went on a 14-2 run, which left them one game behind the Braves with one game remaining, which they lost 12-1 to become the only National League team to win 100 or more games (103) and not make the playoffs in the divisional play era.
The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball franchise based in San Francisco, California.
 They play in the National League West division.
 Also known in their early years as the "New York Gothams" (1883–84) and "New York Giants" (1885–1957), pitchers for the Giants have thrown 17 no-hitters in franchise history.
 A no-hitter is officially recognized by Major League Baseball only "when a pitcher (or pitchers) retires each batter on the opposing team during the entire course of a game, which consists of at least nine innings".
 No-hitters of less than nine complete innings were previously recognized by the league as official; however, several rule alterations in 1991 changed the rule to its current form.
 A no-hitter is rare enough that one team in Major League Baseball has still never had a pitcher accomplish the feat, and teams may go decades without recording one.
 A perfect game, a special subcategory of no-hitter, was finally thrown by Matt Cain on June 13, 2012.
 As defined by Major League Baseball, "in a perfect game, no batter reaches any base during the course of the game."
 Previously, this feat came closest on July 4, 1908 when Hooks Wiltse was hit by a pitch with two outs in the ninth and a scoreless tie.
 The plate umpire, Cy Rigler, claimed he should have called the previous pitch strike three, that would have ended the inning with a perfection.
 Wiltse would go on to retire all three in the tenth to end the game after the Giants scored a run in the top of the tenth.
Pablo Emilio Juan Pedro Sandoval Jr. (born August 11, 1986) is a Venezuelan professional baseball third baseman for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB).
 He has played in Major League Baseball for the Giants and the Boston Red Sox.
 He stands 5 ft tall and weighs 255 lb .
 He previously played portions of three seasons for the Boston Red Sox and seven seasons for the San Francisco Giants.
 Nicknamed "Kung Fu Panda", Sandoval is a two-time All-Star and has won three World Series championships with the Giants.
 Sandoval hit three home runs in Game 1 of the 2012 World Series, becoming the fourth person to hit three home runs in a World Series game, and was named the World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP).
 During the offseason, he plays for the Navegantes del Magallanes of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League.
Timothy Leroy Lincecum ( ; born June 15, 1984), nicknamed "The Freak," is an American professional baseball starting pitcher who is currently a free agent.
 He pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants from 2007 to 2015 and for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in 2016.
 Lincecum helped the Giants win three World Series championships in a five-year span.
 Lincecum was the team's ace starter in 2010 and as a relief pitcher in 2012 and 2014, winning the Babe Ruth Award in 2010 as the most valuable player of the MLB postseason.
The November 2008 San Francisco general elections were held on November 4, 2008 in San Francisco, California.
 The elections included seven seats to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, one seat to the San Francisco County Superior Court, and twenty-two San Francisco ballot measures.

Question: The 2008 San Francisco Giants included the Cy Young-winning player with what nickname?
Answer: The Freak