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SAN FRANCISCO -- Ten years ago, a fan known simply as “Dan from Warwick” called into Mike Francesa’s show on WFAN in New York to pose a rather innocuous question: Do the San Francisco Giants and the New York Giants ever get together when they find themselves in the same city?

The football team, after all, is named after the baseball club, which was founded in New York in 1883 before relocating to the West Coast in 1958.

“That might be the weirdest question I’ve gotten in a long time,” a bemused Francesa said. “Yeah, as a matter of fact they have the Giant picnic, they hold it over in Totowa, I think it is. And then

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