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Speaker 1: There's no question we got the best in the group.

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Speaker 2: That's why Murf and Marcus catch up with Krouk right now,

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Speaker 2: right now on knd R one oh four, five and

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Speaker 3: Well, everybody's stealing pretty good because it's a Friday, the

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Speaker 3: weather's great, and the Giants beat the Mets seven to two.

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Speaker 1: That's three out of four and that's kind of starting

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Speaker 3: Plus they scored seven runs last night against the lefty

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Speaker 3: and of course nine on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: So to the last three games, the offense has gone off.

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Speaker 1: We had Robbie Ray with another quality.

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Speaker 3: Start, and man Dan Sue Sack, Daniel Sue Sack lighting.

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Speaker 1: Up Sacramento Roseville.

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Speaker 3: Jesuit High and Carmichael and his nephew who got tossed

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Speaker 3: around like a rag golf. All these things to talk

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Speaker 3: about with Mike Kruco on the Yumaguest line. So, Mike,

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Speaker 3: lots of good, good good stuff.

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Speaker 1: How you doing, Good morning morning, Mike.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was fun. It was on so many different level. Well,

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Speaker 4: I love the way it started. I mean they gave

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Speaker 4: and they and they score three. I mean, I thought

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Speaker 4: that kind of just big story in last night's game.

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Speaker 4: The offense. Uh, you know there there is such a

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Speaker 4: different team now than what we saw with the Yankees.

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Speaker 4: And now here they you know, they not only answer

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Speaker 4: They had opportunities that they that they didn't capitalize, but

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Speaker 4: they set up opportunities all night long. And I like

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Speaker 4: the two sack flies of the bases loaded nobody out.

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's really good baseball. So I mean a

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Speaker 4: lot of good things happening at the plate. And I

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Speaker 4: And uh and Robbie Ray. How about Robbie Ray. Mean,

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Speaker 4: I mean, he really had the grind last night. But

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Speaker 3: So just a good win, Absolutely great vibes. Let's go

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Speaker 3: to the catcher, Daniel Susack. Now we've talked about him

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Speaker 3: periodically since the move was made in December, and we

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Speaker 1: He was a first round draft pick. There's a lot

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Speaker 3: Here, and then throughout spring we would periodically mention him,

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Speaker 3: and then he gets his first start. I mean, Pat

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Speaker 3: a week plus before we get him and Mike, what

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Speaker 3: a debut. Among the many stats I saw, he's the

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Speaker 3: first catcher to have three hits in a walk in

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Speaker 3: his first game in the Big since Mike Piazza in

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Speaker 3: nineteen ninety two. But setting aside that, it was just

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Speaker 3: everything about it. The approach, the way he goes the

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Speaker 3: the stands, the nephew getting tossed around. I'd love. I mean, Mike,

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Speaker 3: you're an old catcher. You love talking catchers. What did

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Speaker 4: Well, when I saw in him this spring was something

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Speaker 4: And the other thing too. Watching him throw, I mean,

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Speaker 4: I mean he put on a show.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Mike, we actually talked about that yesterday with Tony Vitelo,

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Speaker 1: After a night game to come back and catch a

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Speaker 5: We thought we were going to see Susak make his debut,

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Speaker 5: then he had to wait an extra day. But after

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Speaker 4: But even at that, I mean, you're going to get

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Speaker 1: It was just sensational.

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Speaker 4: Everybody did? I mean, Kite wanted to go down there

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Speaker 3: The big story last night, other than the offensive explosion

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Speaker 1: And well, he wasn't the closer last night. Now Tony v.

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Speaker 1: I'm okay with it.

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Speaker 3: a wide ranging monologue I'm giving you here. But what

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Speaker 4: Well, it means that Tony Botello's pretty reacted to what

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Speaker 3: Well, well, listen, last weekend I was gonna we couldn't

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Speaker 1: Have a great weekend.

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Speaker 3: Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We should remind everybody that

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Speaker 1: State Valkyrie's Day.

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Speaker 3: First fifteen thousand fans receive a Valkyriese baseball jersey presented

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Speaker 3: by Adobe as the Giants, host of New York Mets

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