WEBVTT - Susan Slusser discusses Mike Krukow's retirement 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:03.440 Now back to dirty work with Copes and d Pop 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:07.360 on one oh four five FM and six eighty Am 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:09.840 The Sports Leader. 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:19.919 Starting work on a Thursday afternoon, Adam Copelandepop, Kyle Horr 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:21.680 hanging out with us today. We're being joined on the 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:24.040 UMA guest line by Susan Selester. She covers the Giants 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:27.480 for the San Francisco Chronicles. Susan is sponsored by Serfside. 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:30.000 It's not a Seltzer, it's Surfside, proud partner. 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:31.400 Of the Giants. We do it with Susan each and 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:31.800 every week. 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:33.840 And Susan we were just talking before he came on, saying, 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:36.000 I don't think this is a day where we really 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:38.519 talked much about what's happening on the field for the Giants. 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:40.480 In the last couple of days, with all the news 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:44.400 between cambr changes and Mike Kruco on his own terms 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.240 announcing his retirement. Today, we kind of thought this a 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:49.560 better subject to talk about with you. Somebody who's known 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:51.600 both of these guys and even Greg Silver, three of 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:53.880 these guys and been around the Bay area media scene 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:55.880 for so long. Susan, how are you today on a 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:56.640 Thursday afternoon? 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:59.360 Hi, Susan, that's great, Hi guys. Yeah, I was once 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:02.640 an on the columnist even like I've got a and 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.440 as you you probably know, I did Stanford baseball and 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:09.839 football right now, so I'm I feel very strongly about 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.840 many of these things, but especially Kruko. You know, Kruko 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.119 is near and dear to all Giants fans, I mean 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:20.319 all baseball fans, like some of the response I'm hearing 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.440 from people in other parts of the country who are like, 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:24.800 you know, I'm a fan of this team, but I 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:27.520 try to listen to Kruk and Kite because they're so great, 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.199 which of course, of course they are. And everyone knows 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.440 what Crook's been going through physically. It is, it is 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:37.000 not it's so commendable what he's been doing, and he 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:40.760 would never say it ever, he'd never complain. He's got 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:43.520 the best attitude. He has upbeat at all times. But 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:47.000 it is a massive effort for him to have been 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:49.440 doing games the way he's been doing, especially when he's 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.800 coming to the ballpark, and I you know that is 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:56.240 he wants to be doing this. He would never retire early. 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.280 And my you know, I talked to him briefly today 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.480 and obviously I talked to to Duanne at length. But 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.080 when I talked to Kruk, I said, you know, Dwayne 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:05.800 and I were kind of kicking around, like there's all 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.560 these kind of fill in analysts, and obviously somebody is 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.640 going to wind up being kind of the primary partner, 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:12.840 we would assume, and there's many good choices. But I 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.280 was like, you know, could you maybe be a guy 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.800 that would be an occasional fill in, like there's that 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:22.240 happen sometimes, or even just come like guests turn inning 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.239 or two. And he said, oh, hell yeah, Well okay, 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.880 you know this is the happiest thing I've been all day. 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:31.480 Yeah, I mean that that's very cool. I mean I 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.560 remember when Lon Simmons came. I remember as a kid 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:35.440 getting to hear Lon Simmons call some games because he 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.600 would come back periodically and sit in and be there 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:39.560 for five or six games of a of a home 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:41.040 stand or something, and he would call a couple of 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:42.840 innings and he'd be on the post game rap. I mean, 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.760 that's that's really the beauty of what this is is 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.600 he can continue to touch people and have impacts on 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:50.760 so many different lives. And we've been taking calls all 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.680 day season about it's really like the voices of summer, 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:55.760 the voices of your childhood. I said, I can pinpoint 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.800 moments in my life and hear Mike Cruco's voice, and 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.120 I think for jeerations, he's touched people. But really I 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.519 love broadcasters that one do it in a unique way. 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:10.359 They do it absolutely wholeheartedly, with with as most ingenuity 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.880 as they can or being as genuine as they possibly can. 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:16.040 And then also you learn stuff from him, and he's funny, 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.320 like there's I don't even know which button you'd want 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.000 to hit on or which topic you'd want to hit on, 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.320 because you can't even you can't sum it all up 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.560 into one sentence. Just like he said in his statement, 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:26.240 he doesn't think he could sum up how grateful he 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:27.720 is for his time to everybody. 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.800 Right, Oh, he's great at everything. You're right, one hundred 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.959 percent right, And I mean fight, the humor, the warmth, 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.760 the you know, when you write a story like you know, 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.920 I talk to a bazillion people when when this news 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.480 broke and when you write a story about this, like 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:45.600 you put out a ton of calls and usually you 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.920 know you're lucky if you get maybe half the people responding. 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:53.560 Everyone people just writ like everyone understands how important Mike 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:57.839 Kruco is, but beyond that, everyone loves Mike Krukoder. It's 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:02.720 just impossible not to. So he's just special and amazing. 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:04.920 And you know what, I don't I don't think that 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:09.960 what he's dealing with in body inclusion body mitosis, I 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.320 don't think it gets enough mentioned, because this is another 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.000 one where we talk about you got to you know, 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:18.680 get rid of cancer. You know that MLB has lots 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:24.200 of initiatives about that. There are all the things about als. Look, 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.200 this isn't This is one where it's not fatal. That 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:32.320 this is a vibrant, healthy man with so much to give, 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.440 and this has made it really you know, it's limited 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.320 in him the past two years. And now he's got 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.560 something of an early retirement. Yeah he's seventy four. Sure, 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:45.279 that's past you know, regular retirement age. But broadcasters go 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.359 forever and ever, and that's what we all wanted to see. 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:54.839 So yeah, let's let's strike out this body inclusion body mitosis. No. 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.479 Definitely talking to Susan Sluster on the UMA guest line 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.279 in talking to former players today about this new with 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:02.720 my Cruco in your opinions, us and just covering the 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:04.919 game of baseball for so long? Now, what do you 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.720 think makes players respect broadcasters and like, you know, when 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:10.640 it comes to my Kruco, obviously he played the game, 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.160 but you talk to everybody today and everybody got back 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:13.600 to you. 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:14.440 What do you think makes it? 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.520 What do you think makes uh players respect broadcasters and 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:21.760 the way that my Cruco has well when it comes to. 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.960 The players specifically, Jeff Kent said, it's his loyalty to 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:30.680 the players and his ability to describe players in real 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:37.039 terms that make listeners understand their point of view. You know, 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:40.400 he is always rushing to give here's what a player 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.000 might be thinking on this and that, and in a 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:46.360 way that makes you understand what they're going through, what 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:49.599 their options are, you know, in a in a very 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.560 human way, you know, just not sort of nuts and 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:56.000 bolts that the empathy is so much it comes through, 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.520 and that's I think the players hear that, they see 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.839 that they know him. You know, he's even still he's 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.120 going out on the field and talking to players as 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.400 often as he can. We see him out there, you know, 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:10.599 as he can do it, and I think that goes 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:14.520 a long way too. So he's just it's remarkable what 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:14.960 he's done. 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.280 Really, No, it has and in a lot of this news, Susan, 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.800 I know a lot's been made of Krook and Kype 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:23.760 get into Cooperstown together with him retiring. Do you think 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.360 that maybe they would rethink this whole thing, because I 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.080 think they've been against it, But to get the Ford 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.640 Sea Frick Award together and Krook and Kype in tandem, 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:33.679 you think that could happen. 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.400 Imagine being against that as the hawsers, He's still like, no, 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:37.839 there's no chance we're not doing that. 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.520 People in the area have been pushing this idea for 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:43.720 quite some time, probably going back maybe you know, close 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:47.440 to a decade. They're not on the ballot this year. Sadly, 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:49.320 I would love there was one year they were both 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.000 on the ballot, and I think everybody said at that 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:53.600 point like do it, do it, do it, do it, 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.760 And I don't look okay. I think they're worried about 0:06:57.760 --> 0:06:59.479 setting your precedent and then you got to put in 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:01.159 this pair, and then you got to put in that pair. 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.839 It doesn't have to be you know, the Hall is 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:09.240 running the show. They can make votes essentially whatever, you know, 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.360 whatever they want. The parameters whatever they want. This I 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:16.200 think is a special case and I would love it now. 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.000 I talked to John Miller, and John Miller said, you 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.480 know what, I think they both are worthy of their 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:24.200 own inclusion and they should be considered separately and go 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.960 in separately. And I can see that, like don't you know, 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.800 you don't dilute it or whatever. But it's Crook and 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:33.440 Kuype Like it's hard to get away from the idea. 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.360 They do need to go in together. There. They're almost 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:38.520 more than a team. They're like, you don't think of 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.200 one without the other, You just don't. 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:42.840 There is something to that that it might be kind 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:44.160 of cool if like one of them got in and 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.120 you got Kruk to do the speech for Kaype or 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.400 vice versa, like to do the like that's see, that 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.000 would be pretty sweet, you know what I mean, Like 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:51.880 having having one and then the other would also be 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:57.040 amazing and funny, probably the funniest. Susan Seleser joins us 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:59.440 on the on the UMA guess line. We've been We've 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:02.800 been just really sort of forthcoming and true to ourselves, 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.160 Susan and talking about all these changes that have happened. 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:06.960 I said, it's really special to me that crew gets 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.600 to go out on his own terms, that he gets 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:11.280 to put this statement out, that he gets to enjoy 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.360 these final couple of months of Giants baseball. But we 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.320 haven't shot away at all from what happened here at 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.840 a camb Are yesterday. And for many years you were 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:21.520 covering the A's and Greg Papa the voice of the A's, 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.440 and you are Chronicle Live and all that stuff. I 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:25.880 just wanted to give you an opportunity, if you'd like one, 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.400 to comment on any of that or your relationship with 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:29.880 Greg over the time you were in Oakland. 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:34.600 Well, absolutely, I mean Greg Greig is you talk about 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:36.880 one of the all time graates that Greg is one 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.880 of the all time and grades in multiple sports and 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.360 as good a guy as you'll know, I mean, great 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:46.520 to young journalists and loads of fun. You know, when 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:48.800 I first started on the A's, maybe the first ten 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.040 or twelve years, he was still doing the A's broadcasts 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:56.520 and the Chronicle didn't have the Sunday paper then when initially, 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.040 you know, the Examiner used to be the Sunday paper. 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:02.200 So I always had Saturdays off on the road. And 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.520 there is nothing more fun than sitting in the stands 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.160 and watching a game as a fan with Greg Papa 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.199 because we had the opportunity and that opportunity that a 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.080 few times when there wasn't a broadcast or something on 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:17.319 Saturday National broadcast or what have you, and like, I 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:19.560 learned a lot and it was an awful lot of fun. 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.960 And he's just you know, he's he's great to be around. 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.360 So I was sad when he stopped doing the A's games, 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:30.040 and I am, this makes me even sadder because we 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:31.720 all know what he's going through, we know what he's 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:36.920 dealt with. What an absolute warrior he is. I mean, 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:43.120 he's just indestructible and the force of will is amazing. Ye, 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.600 he's an inspiration. I mean, I'm sure he probably would 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:47.560 hate to hear somebody say that, but he's really an 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.040 inspiration for this to happen on the heels of my 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.920 colleague Grett Branch's incredible story about Greg and what he's 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:58.920 been dealing with is just astonishing to me. It's a yeah, 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.320 I was aghast. Never used that word before, but I 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:03.079 was a guest. 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:04.400 No when it calls for it. And I appreciate all 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:05.440 that you said, Susan. 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:07.160 I have fond memories of that you know, going to 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.960 the coliseum with my pops and meeting you guys on 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:13.720 the beatback then you Michael Urban Pedro Gomez like, I 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:18.760 have fond memories, yeah, Murph for a season, yeah, Ryan 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:22.760 absolutely yeah, no, so fond memories of that. And thank 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.079 you all for the kind words. I do want to 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:27.840 move over to baseball just real quickly. Buster Posey and 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:31.120 his reaction to the trade deadline, just you know, him 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.959 saying in the press conference or just the the the 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.840 media zoom that happened after the trade deadline saying that 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:39.760 you know, everybody was on the table. We did tell 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.400 the other teams about that, so you know, we think 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.360 that a lot of moves were made, but still a 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:45.880 lot of guys are still on the roster. Do you 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.120 think that maybe we could revisit some of you know, 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.760 the speculation as far as Logo Web or Jung Hulee, 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:52.280 like these things could still be on the table in 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:52.920 the off season. 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:57.680 You know, Logan is the one guy that Buster said 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:00.800 was not really available. I do believe that, and I 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:03.000 think that's probably going to continue to be the case 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.040 unless they got blown away. I mean, if somebody comes 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.560 to them with a package that says like, you know, 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:10.800 here's two or a top three prospects, maybe you got 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.160 to consider it. I don't know. I still I think 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:17.319 even well, I don't know anybody else probably is a 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.400 little available Jung who Lee might bring a little bit 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.520 more because you know, he's got that South Korean market 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.960 with him too. And the Giants definitely, you know, they 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:28.240 value Jungle Lee of course, but they like having you know, 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.440 an into an important market that they didn't have before. 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:32.040 Uh. 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:33.960 And they you know, obviously they sent a ton of 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.320 executives to South Korea in the off season and this 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.839 is uh, this does mean something to them. And it's 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:42.320 been really fun kind of seeing that whole relationship open 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.800 up a little bit too, the Jung Hu Jung Hou 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:47.240 crew and all of that kind of stuff, and having 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.760 South Korean reporters following Jung whom in our media corps. 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.200 That's all been a blast. But yeah, I think, you know, 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.640 when you talk about kind of the big three contracts, 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:01.040 I think will probably be talking about that every dread 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:04.000 deadline every off season. It's just going to be awfully 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.400 hard to move any of those deals because they are 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:08.960 big and so you guys have no non trades but 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:13.400 I think devs there's I think there was some interest. 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.080 I think there was a little bit of interest, and 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.160 some people kick the tires. I just don't think the 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.320 Giants want to pick up, you know, half of a 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:23.000 two hundred million dollars left contract just to move a guy, 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:25.640 you know what. I think he's more valuable where he is, 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:27.480 even if you're paying him, like, you may as well 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.360 get something for that amount of money, you know what 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:29.679 I mean? 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:31.640 Yeah, absolutely, last one for you, Susan. 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:33.720 Is it fair to say that it's probably not likely 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:35.200 that Matt Schaman will return the season. 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.840 I don't think so, And I don't know why you would. 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.480 I don't think that the circumstances of the Giants are 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:44.800 in Like if if they were in some sort of 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.319 playoff push and there was a chance he could get 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.320 back with rest and rehab, I know he would do 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.400 everything he could. I just think that you want to 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.920 knock this out and if it's you know, we certainly 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:57.559 her hope it's not surgical unless that is the way 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.120 that absolutely fix it, and which guy's great and and 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.840 you know he's missing it. But if he needs rest 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.320 and rehab, take all of the time you want and 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.560 then then he's like Casey Schmidt. Then you have a 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:11.400 healthy off season, you can have your full workouts, be 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.000 one hundred percent ready to go next season. I think 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.160 you know either way is probably good, but there's just 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.160 no reason to push it. And plus you can keep 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:22.680 seeing all these guys, keep rotating through all these young 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.160 guys and taking a look at everybody you can. They're 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.319 going to be constrained a little bit by the potential 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:30.040 labor stoppage and maybe not wanting to put guys on 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.800 the forty man and keep them playing, so we might 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:34.840 not see somebody like Parks Harbor as much as we 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.360 would like to. But they've got a lot of really 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.640 good options, and some of these young kids are really 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:43.720 fun or good stories like Eddie's, Lanard's that's been great, 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.800 and my gosh, what Besabi's been doing. So I hope 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.640 people are still paying attention because there's some interesting, fun 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.679 stuff that will have repercussions in future years going on. 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:54.840 Susan Sluss and The Voice She Heard covers the Giants 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:56.160 for the San Francisco Chronicles. 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.280 She joined us every week here on Dirty Work. Susan. 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:00.280 We appreciate the time as always, Thank you so much. 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:01.679 Enjoy the rest of the off day and we will 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:02.240 talk to you soot. 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.959 Thank you, Susan, fantastic thanks. 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:06.840 Good stuff there from Susan Selester, Italy came to our 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:08.719 four and five ITA eight five sixty seven. Is that 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:10.760 I'm gonna call antext Did you ever watch a game 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.200 in the stands with with your dad and sless No? 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:17.320 Not, I mean maybe I was so young during that 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:18.280 time it was. 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:18.840 Yeah. 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:20.800 I think student started on the beat in nineteen ninety 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:22.640 nine with the A's, so you were what you were 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.600 I was eight years old years old, Yeah, but I remember. 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:25.840 I mean like yeah, like me and my dad go 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.080 to the ballpark, you know, all the time, and you 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.200 know when he was when he wasn't doing baseball games, 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.080 Like I remember one of my fondest memories is me 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.040 and my little brother and him going, uh Father's Day 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.720 from going from Oracle Park to the Coliseum. We did 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:40.480 the double dip of watching the Giants and the Ags 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.360 and the same day. Yeah, it's fun, but yeah, I 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.560 have fond memories, dude, of God, him being the A's 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.480 broadcaster and that crew, like it kind of felt like 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:50.440 they raised me a little bit. 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.160 Like I remember Susan Pedro Gomez. 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.240 The legend, and you were like, you grew up with Pedro, 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:57.200 didn't you? And his kids? 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.560 Yeah, Pedro I said all the time, like Drew Baby 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.280 sat me all right, pe Man, Yeah that was I 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.600 think about that a lot lately with my father and 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:09.480 his illness. Uh Pedro, Yeah, that that hit me deep. 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:11.360 A couple of years ago. I think it was on 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.400 Super Bowl Sunday. Yeah, it was really suck in years 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.440 and the Chiefs and but yeah, I've fond memories of 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.080 my father and Pedro, and I think reading his book, 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:20.360 I remember who you are. 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.000 Like, Pedro was about that. 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:26.160 With everybody, so you know, he connected with everybody that 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:26.920 he worked with. 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.840 He and my dad were so close, so close. 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.160 And yeah, when my you know, my dad and my 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.640 step mom were, you know, having date night, they dropped 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:36.520 me out the house and hang out with Pedro and 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:36.960 his family. 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:37.480 Was awesome. 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:42.240 That's yeah, that's I mean, the the web you've lived 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.200 through and it has been woven around you and the 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.880 connections you've had just from people tied to your dad 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.720 is pretty incredible. Aightaway, KMBR is number to call in 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:51.760 tex I'm gonna do something really quick here Kyle, I'm 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:53.880 gonna take Pete's call. Pete, I'm waiting for a long time. 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:55.560 Let's do it to get his thoughts in on on 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:57.800 kruking kite. But I don't want to wait anymore because 0:15:57.960 --> 0:15:59.640 he's done and slow, dude, And if you're in slow, 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:01.320 you got it some krouk man, Pete. 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:02.920 I appreciate you waiting on the line. Man, How are 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.160 you good? 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:05.760 Love the show. 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:07.320 Appreciate you man, Thank you so much. 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.400 So I got to go back to Candlestick when Kuiper 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:16.040 was doing a Giant's division and he was interviewing Bob 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.200 Brandley on the field, and I had my young son 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.760 with me. We went over to get his autographed. There 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:24.120 was a crowd there and everybody's going and what do 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:28.280 you want Kuiper's autograph for? You know, they're mocking us. 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.280 So my son yells down to Dwayne. He says, hey, 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.440 sign my baseball for me, and Kuyper turns around, looks 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:36.520 at my son and says, if you can tell me 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:40.560 who I am, I'll sign your baseball. So my son says, well, 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:43.920 your kite. So he gets the baseball, he signs it, 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.280 and now of course everybody signed my baseball, sign my baseball. 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:51.040 He turns around, he walks off. So fast forward many 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:54.200 years later, I'm in downtown San Louis and I run 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.840 into Kruco at a clothing store that he used to 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:01.520 advertise for. And that guy, Mike must have talked to 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:05.159 me and my partner for forty five minutes about baseball 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:10.280 and he answered every question we asked him. And I 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.760 relayed that story about Kuiper taking the time to sign 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:17.320 my ball, my son's baseball. He goes, you know what, 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:19.360 I'm gonna go out to the car. When I get 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:21.359 through here, I'm gonna call Dwinnie and I'm going to 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:25.160 tell him about that. Well, now, fast forward to last year. 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:27.600 Fast forward to last year in twenty twenty five, I go, 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:30.160 you know, Kuiper's not going to be around, or Kruko's 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.280 not going to be around much longer. I'm going to 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.800 write these guys and relay this to see if they remember. 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:38.520 So I type them a letter. I send it to Kuyper, 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:40.520 I send it to Kruco. I give him a couple 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.119 of T shirts, one of can Candlestick and one of 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:49.679 the crowd Candlestick. Kruko texts me on my phone and 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:53.760 thanks me for the story and bringing back the memories. 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:57.040 I saw both those guys play and they're going to 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:01.240 be a part of my memories of Candlestick. They're both awesome. 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:06.080 So I get a picture from Kyper signed really really awesome, 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:07.280 just a great. 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:08.280 Guy, special stuff. 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.480 They're they're very special guys, Pete. Really, I mean that's 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:13.520 and the crazy thing is that what makes me feel 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.080 special is we all feel so unique. I've got a 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:18.080 good KPE story like that too, But you all feel 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.760 so unique. We all do about these interactions we've had. 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:22.399