WEBVTT - Hour 3: Dirty Work talks to Marcus Thompson, hit sound soiree 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:02.920 Let's get back to Dirty Work with Copes and d 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:06.360 Pop live from fifty eight Social at Oracle Park before 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:10.640 Tonight's Giants game on the Sports Leader. 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:14.080 Dirty Work on a Friday afternoon, Adam copling Deep Hoop 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:16.280 with you from the patio at fifty eight Social Giants 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.279 and the Tigers tonight seven fifteen first pitch six to 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:20.120 fifteen pre game. 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:21.920 But first we got to cack in with our guy. 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.760 Marcus Thompson, of the athletic best sports rider in the country, 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:25.800 joins us each. 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:28.520 And every Friday here on Dirty Work. What's up, Marcus? 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:28.880 How are you? 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:29.080 Man? 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:29.640 What a Marcus? 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.239 Where are you all at at the at the ballpark? 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:35.760 We're here today? Who knows tomorrow? 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:37.199 Who knows somaro from? 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:37.320 Now? 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:37.760 We're here? 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:40.839 Okay, I just heard the noise and the background. I'm like, 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:42.760 where are they? A high show? What's going on? 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:45.200 But that was when you heard the sirens a couple 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:48.680 weeks ago. Yeah, that was more such show. Like, man, 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:49.640 So what's up with you? 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:49.800 Man? 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:51.440 We've had an uneventful week? What are you up to? 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:55.400 Similarly uneventful? 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:55.840 Uh? 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:57.520 Similarly? 0:00:57.640 --> 0:00:57.800 Chill? 0:00:57.840 --> 0:00:59.840 How about we can just say chill? How about we 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:04.360 go with that I'm chilling, very chill week, all. 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.160 Right, very very different for us this week. I'd say. 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:11.200 Yeah, yeah, yes, indeed. 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:15.640 Yeah yeah yeah, I don't know, go ahead. 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.160 Go ahead, No, I would like to hear your questions. 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:21.240 I was gonna like shift gears to sports. But if 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:22.679 you had something else, you can you can hit that. 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:27.120 I mean, no matter what you said, I was gonna say. 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:29.120 You know what I want to say. You can go 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:33.520 to gears, you go to sports all you want to Uh, 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:41.039 it's your Your week has been very disheartening. Yeah, especially 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:44.840 as an outsider looking in. Uh, I definitely want to 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:49.720 give a huge uh shout out to a legend in 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:53.640 our profession and Greg Papa and just reading about what 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:58.640 he's going through was simultaneously like heartwarming and heartbreaking. 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.600 Uh So, my thoughts and my. 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:08.919 Desire to talk is kind of limited to Greg Papa, who, 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:13.520 more than anything, really just deserves the Bay Areas unflinching 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.880 and unyielding support. If you're a sports fan out here 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.560 and you've ever heard his voice in a moment, if 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.519 you've ever been around him, if you ever benefited from him, 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.800 if you ever just got a chance to get a 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:30.320 dose of his swag, then we should all be companies 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:35.000 and fans alike in support of Greg Papa. So that's 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:36.400 all I really want to say today. 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:37.000 How about that? 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.920 No, I appreciate that, man, and I appreciate your reaching 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.720 out to me. And yeah, would you say that our 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:47.320 swag is comparable though me and my father's I would. 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.920 I would say, I say, every time I see you, 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:54.040 I get the same sense of you know, you could 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:57.079 have been flying any era that I get from your father. 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.000 Like sometimes I call you Greg because I think y'all 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:04.000 same person. That's how much the swag is similar, right, 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.200 I mean, you're clearly. 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:09.120 Your daddy's son, right, like the. 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:12.720 French coach you wear, the trench coach you wear, the cologne, 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:13.360 that meat. 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.519 That gets around the corner before you do. 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.440 You know what I'm saying that Randa uh And and 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:19.360 the trauma voice. 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:21.160 Yeah, yeah, you know. 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:23.160 I mean, you're playing in your pop swag. 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:24.000 I'm just putting on you. 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:27.080 I'm just imagining this world where you are like your 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:30.120 father and swag. So I'm trying to paint the picture 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.840 for the audience of what Derek looks like with a 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:34.040 black trench coat on. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:39.720 And you know, right, I was like, I'm. 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.520 Over here thinking about Willie Brown. Bro, you're telling me 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.840 about pop. I was like, well, you just starving Tracy. 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:44.600 What's happening here? 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:45.560 Listen? 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.400 Man? You don't know, man, that that that overcoat that 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:52.720 car Yeah, I don't know about the days at the 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:53.680 Raider Stadium, you. 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.119 Know what I'm saying. 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:59.520 Man, that was a little more like a cheat coat 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:00.400 as well wear. 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:07.680 You know what I'm saying, Yeah, Iren. 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:07.640 And what well, what do you call it then? 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:08.400 A car coat? 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:09.480 An overcoat? 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:10.440 An overcoat? 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:10.640 Yeah? 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:11.320 An overcoat. 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.240 That's I don't know if you called a trench coat 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.080 when he when he has like a scarf underneath it. 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:19.520 I feel like I could go past your pockets. 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:24.760 Yeah, yeah, pocket, you're in the trenches if it goes 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.760 past the pocket, yeah. Marcus on them, you know the 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.000 slag you know, the swaggiest thing that's ever been transferred 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:32.960 from Greg Papa to Derek Papa. And I'm gonna put 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:34.919 this out there. I don't know if Marcus even knows this. 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:37.920 Greg has said on the air that Derek was conceived 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:39.719 on the day that Dave Stewart threw a no header. 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:41.960 I was like, that's the topest thing ever he saw. 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:44.240 Smoke Stewart throwing. He's like, I gotta I gotta make. 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:45.560 One good lord. 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:47.000 Wait wait old dang. 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:48.360 For some reason, I thought. 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:52.880 Born but she said to see oh man, So did 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:54.200 the stare down happen first? 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:58.200 He's just lucky? And did he give me that? 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:02.599 No, we did the math. 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:02.760 Bro. 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:04.840 It's like it's like nine months and four days too. 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.360 It's like it's almost exact, and I get out of 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:08.240 this business anyway. 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.880 It just that was that was as like live as 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:20.000 it gets. Because I was thinking birthday, birthday, and then Dawn, 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:21.760 we can see you. I'm like, wait a second. Then 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:23.960 I can just see him like tipping that cat waving 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:27.000 them off, like nope, nope, not that, not that, don't 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.479 wear that. Nope no, yeah wear that. Yeah. 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:35.760 Hey, and you only get that if you're flying. You 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:37.040 gotta be pop to do that. 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:37.640 You know what I mean? 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.039 You got it? Like, yeah, we're Stu or Stu. Yeah 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.280 smoke stuck. So you I mean you mentioned it, dude. 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:44.360 I was telling stories yesterday. 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.360 I remember meeting Greg when I was when I was 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.520 working at Boulevard Restaurant. I was telling everybody he left 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.520 me tickets to a Raider game, and I thought there's 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:51.960 no way these were actually here. And I was like, 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:53.960 I'm barn over there, and he left me tickets two 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:55.320 days later. Didn't even know me. 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.040 I was like a host and a restaurant that he 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:57.400 was at. 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.640 But do you remember your first interaction with Papa or 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:01.520 the first that you you really got to know him 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:03.599 a little bit, either at the coliseum or or. 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:07.080 Beyond absolutely at the college sum Here's how I knew 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:08.760 all I needed to know right off the back. 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.160 Yeah, like I obviously I knew who he was. I 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:14.360 didn't know he knew who I was. 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.000 But he said it as he walked up to me 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.000 and he gave me a dapt and it was so smooth, 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.360 you know how. You know how sometimes it don't you know, 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.040 like Derek, you might know what I mean, Sometimes you 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:25.520 botch that. 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:34.279 You know, I'm just saying it can be very awkward. 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:36.880 Man, It was so smooth and cool. 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.200 I was like, man, this is exactly who I thought 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.200 he was. It was just like it's a small gesture, 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:43.920 but he was like Obama out there. 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.880 It wasn't a simple handshake neither. 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.000 It was like a three parter with the half. I 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.120 was like, oh, this is my guy right now. 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:57.320 That's that's what we would call Derek. Let me tell her, 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:58.680 that's what we would call giving some skin. 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:00.960 Yeah you know what I mean, I say, you know 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.480 what I'm saying on the black hand side, you feel me? 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.840 Yeah there, Yes, you ain't never bumbled it there you 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.880 never You ain't never course, Okay. 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:11.400 That's what I thought. 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:13.960 I'm not like I haven't. But there's a been times 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:14.960 where people have been impressed. 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:17.760 I've taught some people off guard. 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.400 All finis, Pops has never bundled it like he do 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:22.160 than us. 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:23.920 Fair enough, fair enough. 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.920 He's a student of the game, as you know, in 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.960 many rounds, in many many fasts, Pop is a student 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:30.960 of the game without question. 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.200 Okay, you're seeing my dad's invited the cookout, but not 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:33.760 so much, meme. 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:37.840 Not only is he invited to the cookout, he bringing 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:41.440 the dish and we eat it. You know what I'm saying, Like, Yeah, yeah, ain't. 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:42.840 No raisings in the potato salad. 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.280 No, No, he want to bring. 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.480 He gonna bring some Metalian food. 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:47.960 That we all love. 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:52.600 You know, you don't know me have this, but it's good. 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:53.760 Let's go within it, let's have it. 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:55.720 Yeah, he's the guy that when somebody's got to go 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:57.320 to the bathroom. The dude on the girl has to 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:58.800 go to the bathroom. He's like, pop, come work this 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:00.800 frohim to watch this for me. You know, he trusts 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:01.840 him to watch the grill. 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.280 Watch it, but he's not doing anything on it. I 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:06.880 know my father and the grill grill himself. 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.280 Yeah, I wouldn't picture him on the grill. That's too 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:10.840 much sweat. 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:13.040 Yeah, too much, it'll it'll miss. 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:17.239 Yeah, it's to be in a car code at the grill. 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.120 You know what I there? 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:19.400 Yeah? 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.520 Yeah, Okay, switching gears real quick. Marcus, what was your 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:25.720 reaction to Kevin duran and Klay Thompson here? 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:27.760 He told you what he wanted to talk about. 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:30.040 But I can't. I can't bring this up briefly. 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.559 Sure you could bring it up. Sure, absolutely can bring 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:36.079 it up. Finish finishing questions. 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.640 Okay, what'd you think of Klay Thompson and Kevin durants 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:41.199 exchange on social media this past week? 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.520 You know, I actually thought it was impressive. How Like 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.800 for all these years, Greg Papa was a raider guy and. 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:52.400 Tradition like call in forty nine ers games like and 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.959 he came up with a call and it was awkward. 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:58.079 He's missed the Raider. So for him to make this transition, 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.800 to me, it was all about expert right. It was like, 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:04.360 you all know, I cover a bunch of sports, right like, 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:08.080 so that's as somebody who does it. It is incredibly difficult. 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:12.199 But for him to just ingratiate himself in Niner culture 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:15.360 the way he did, to turn those calls and make 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.760 them as you know, impactful as all those years were 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.160 the Raiders where he was like the facto GM anyway, 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.079 right like that to me is one of the most precious, 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.920 impressive things you'll see in our profession. And it certainly 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.319 helps that the Raiders were in Las Vegas, right like 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.679 they're gone or not have a presence anymore. 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:36.240 But after seeing that and listening to that, I just 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.959 I just never imagined that day, Like twenty years ago. 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.079 You're not thinking Greg Papa is going to be the 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:43.320 voice of the forty nine ers one day. 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:47.120 It just sounds weird, right, It's just it doesn't feel 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:47.760 weird anymore now. 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:48.040 Dude. 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:49.599 I grew up in the East, you know, just like 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:52.640 you manifest that seems so weird kind of different for you. 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.199 But I wasn't a Raider fan. But I thought it 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:56.560 was a little weird at first, and now I don't 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:57.520 even really think about it. 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:00.640 I really don't, Okay, I I get what you want 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:02.400 to answer today, Marcus. So I'll ask you. 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:03.720 I'll ask you this question. 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:04.800 I'll ask you this question. 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:07.520 No no, no no no no no no okay, Okay. 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.920 So years ago, your guy Tim Kawakami asked my dad 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.439 about this whole rumor that he was going to be 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.839 the general manager of the Raiders, had Al Davis stuck around, 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:18.880 So obviously things didn't happen. 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.719 What if well if if, I'll say it alive obviously yeah. 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:22.959 Yeah. 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.640 So it was like on his call, right, He's like, yeah, yeah, 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.200 I'm out right. Yeah. 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:29.880 He's like, no, I don't think I think I'm gonna 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:30.559 x it on my own. 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:30.839 Yeah. 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:36.480 Yeah, I'm gonna check out, check it out. Yeah okay. 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:38.720 So, like, what do you think the Bay Area's reaction 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.200 would have been if Greg Poppa, after years of being 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.040 a play by play guy, was introduced as general manager 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.000 of president of football Operations for the Raiders. 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:47.679 What's your story? 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:51.520 I think I actually think it would have been like 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:55.280 more fitting than you see kind of these things now, right, uh, 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.880 Like like remember when Bob Myers was an agent and 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.839 cross ever to being a germanager. We were like, I 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.120 don't know this is gonna work. Like it felt weird 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:08.480 that I mean, you know, because obviously we didn't really 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.480 know Bob Myers at that point, so it's like, what 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:13.719 can this agent do with no experience. I think that 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.720 would have been Greg pop Up becoming the general manager, 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.440 like he already felt like the team for a lot 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.160 of us who just grew up with the voice like 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.880 his command for the team, like like that's how we 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.520 would learn about football. It was it was Greg pop 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:31.679 on Raiders, it was Jim Barnet. Don't work like you 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.240 learned about the team and not just what was happening 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:35.679 with the game. So I think it would have been 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.920 a little bit more seamless than I imagine, Like it 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.640 would be like if you know, Adam Goldman just became 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:43.319 like Mike Dunley. 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.120 Y's number two, we'd be like, what are you doing? 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:48.240 Right? Like what happened? So I think it would have 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.320 been actually fine. I think people would have been shocked. 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.680 But what was the Raiders success anyway? Who were they 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.040 going to get another retread that wasn't gonna do a 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.959 good job, like, yeah, like you you probably could you 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.720 probably we would have got more supportives, like, hey, trying, 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:04.200 We're trying everything at this. 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:08.839 Point, Marcus Thompson of the Athletic Joint is each and 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.040 every week here on Dury work. That's all we got 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:12.800 for you, Marcus. I appreciate you making time for us, 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:14.520 and then this hasn't been fun this week for any 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.439 of us. So and I know your connection to the 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.079 Bay Area and to the East Band, to Greg Pop individually, 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:20.640 So really, man, I do appreciate you. 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:21.680 You're making time. 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.920 Hey, I'll tell you what, man, I'm not gonna be 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:25.959 as classy about it. 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.640 I'm dropping names, I'm telling stories. 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.280 I'm just just so y'all know, let's get this on 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.000 the record, like you put me in these type of spots, 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.360 I won't be smiling. I'll be like it's gonna be 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.679 a tell all book, like you want to treat me 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:44.040 like this, Okay, Yeah, I write that down. 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:46.200 Like I said, Man, it's crazy. It's not as crazy 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.360 as firing somebody with cancer, but it is crazy, you 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:48.800 know what I mean. 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:49.719 It is out there. 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.440 I'm not I'm not going out with class. 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.920 I just want Yeah, man. So it's almost like I'll 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:56.920 say it, but you did it. 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:02.000 So anyway, Mary, that bad you did it. Marcus Thompson 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:05.600 of the Athletic for now joins us every Friday. We'll 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:10.080 talk to you soon, Marcus. Appreciate it, all right. Marcus 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.040 Thompson of the Athletic, he joins us each and every week. 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:15.160 Though that's a he's a trenches guy. Yeah, Marcus Thomson 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:16.760 isn't in the trenches guy with us. Man, I love 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:18.880 that guy now, guys, look for so much of my career, 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:20.640 I always love and respect that guy. 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:22.160 All right, we're gonna take a quick break. Members of 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.199 the Filter's showing up here at fifty eight. So so 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.600 we got to get in dirty with the filth. Oh yeah, 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:28.800 tell me. You're waiting about an hour at five forty five. 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.280 You can sit down and now you're good. You can cheer. 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.480 You're the one. You're the one cheering, so yeah, more 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:35.040 power to you. 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:37.839 If everybody else is booming it, throwing tomatoes at it. 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.880 We'll get dirty with the filth in about an hour. 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.520 Derek wants you to sit down and ask us one question, apiece, 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.640 one question, your quest question and get it ready. 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:49.960 Yeah, one question. We will do that a bit later. 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:51.480 But you know what this is, dude, it's a Friday 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:53.480 and we have to work overtime. You know what that means. 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.400 What's that we're playing a replay of an interview? Nice? Yeah, dude, 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:57.760 you know who's great? Rich? 0:13:57.920 --> 0:13:58.120 Really? 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:00.680 He joined us each and every Thursday. He's so great. 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.240 You'll hear it again. Next, it's Dirty Work. 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.560 It's a Friday from fifty eight Social and it's only 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:06.359 here on the replay Leader. 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:11.959 Live from fifty eight Social at Oracle Park. This is 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:16.680 Dirty Work with Copes and d Pop on the sports Leader. 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:20.680 Dirty Work on a Friday evening. 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:22.680 Adam Copeland, Deep Pop hanging out with you from the 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:24.920 patio fifty eight Social. The Giants and the Tigers doun 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:26.800 at a seven to fifteen first pitch? Who got pregame 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:30.440 for you at six fifteen? Only here on the sports 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.640 Leader Wall of Fame Day tomorrow, Buster Posey, Brandon Belt, 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.680 Brandon Crawford, Joe Panic and Pablo Sandoval all being inducted 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.440 into the Giants Wall of Fame. And there's no television 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.160 coverage of that. You can hear all of it right 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:45.920 here on the sports Leader. Each and every Thursday former 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.480 Giants shortstop number thirty five, Richard Really it joins us. 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:50.640 You see him as part of NBC Sports Bay Areas 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.920 pre and postgame Giants coverage all season long right here, 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:55.080 but right here. 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:57.920 Over on TV on NBC Sports Bay Area. 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:01.400 We open the conversation with Richard Really yesterday talking about 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.000 the topic of Thursday and really of the week for 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.520 the Giants, and that is that after thirty six years, 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.520 Giants broadcaster Mike Kruco is going to step away from 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:11.520 the booth after this year. We opened the interview with 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:14.600 Richard Really asking about his thoughts on Crouch stepping away. 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:17.440 Oh, listen, I mean, thirty six years is a long 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.960 time and and at some point in the near future. Man, 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.440 you know, both those guys Mike Enjwain got to go 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:24.000 in the Hall of Fame. 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:24.400 Of course. 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:28.640 Yeah, that's that's a given, but uh, you know, to 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:30.760 give you I mean, listen, he gave his life to 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:33.480 the game, right, I mean, he literally did. He played 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.360 for a long time and you know, you start playing 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:38.440 his little kid, and he played through high school, college 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:40.440 and then get to the big leagues and then boom 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:45.720 right after you're right into broadcasting and you know, the 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:51.040 relationship you build as a player, you know with guys 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:55.400 like like Mike. You know, I'd like to say it's 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.320 kind of up to you, but you have no choice 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.440 but to love that guy, right. I mean, he's just 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.960 such an approachable guy. He's such a a a great 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:09.640 personality and such a person with knowledge of the game 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:15.320 that he's been around for god forever. You know, I 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.920 leaned on, you know, both Mike and Dwayne, but you know, 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.200 I you know, when I was struggling, you know, they 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.520 were another set of eyes for you. You know, you 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.480 had Dwayne who could go over you know, either what 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:28.760 he sees on defense or what he sought to play. 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:30.800 And I could go to Mike and be like, hey man, 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:32.560 what are they trying to do to me? Like why 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.040 am I struggling? I feel like I'm chasing And so 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.400 they were a valuable tool. And and I don't have 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.040 any problem in saying this that, you know, and I 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:46.440 think almost everybody would agree with me. I mean, they 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:50.000 have been some of the Giants' best players for the 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:53.880 last thirty years, meaning fans tuned in to listen to 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.920 those guys not only watch the game, but a lot 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:58.640 of fans tune in to listen to those guys. So 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.240 at this moment from Mike to step down, whether it's 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:06.720 you know, whether it's health burnout team, maybe not going 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.040 in the you know direction we all thought. I don't know, 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:12.760 but I want to say it was honor working with 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:16.680 that guy and to have him, you know, call a 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.440 boatload of my games in my career, you know. And 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.160 he's one of the few guys in this few guys 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:25.439