Giants Fan Escapes From the Cave SAN FRANCISCO - Among the Giants fans at AT&T Park, it would be harder to find one happier than the 25-year-old Ashley Chavez, who has spent most of the past six months in a cave. Chavez grew up a Giants fan in suburban Hayward, Calif., naming all her stuffed animals, including pandas, Will Clark. A year ago, she worked at a Men's Wearhouse as the tuxedo manager. She hoped to save money for a bakery. Then she got tabbed to be part of Major League Baseball's Fan Cave in Manhattan. The cave is actually at 4th Street and Broadway, the former home of Tower Records. It is filled with televisions where select fans, like Chavez, spent every day of this past season watching baseball games, from the first pitch on the East Coast to the last out on the West Coast. The idea was to promote baseball to young people through social media. The Fan Cave plays host to concerts and frequent visits by major-league players. A pool of 22,000 applicants last year were whittled to nine Fan Cave residents. They were pared down, "Survivor"-like, to three by season's end. One was an Angels fan. One was a Cardinals fan. The other, Chavez, watched her team reach the World Series. Since April, Chavez has been in New York for all but two days, when she was taken to Kansas City, Mo., for July's All-Star Game. She watched the playoffs from the Fan Cave before being brought home for the World Series. "I can't tell you how I feel because I've yet to feel it," she said on Thursday. I'm in a dreamland. It's madness. She befriended Pablo Sandoval when he visited the Fan Cave earlier this year, and gave him a hug before Game 1. He hit three home runs. "It's not me," she said. Justin Verlander is apparently his good-luck charm. Her favorite player is reliever Sergio Romo. Her second favorite is catcher Buster Posey, who made her season when he told her that he knew who she was. But she seemed just as excited to meet the ESPN baseball reporter Peter Gammons. She wants the Giants to win the Series, of course, but would love if it happened in six games, so it could be clinched at home - on Halloween night. "It would be pandemonium," she said. Ha, ha! You like that?