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Speaker 2: All right, we are back on the murphin Market show
Speaker 2: on a Friday morning, and you know the routine every
Speaker 2: Friday morning. Right around a fifteen, we check in with
Speaker 2: Susan Slusser from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Speaker 3: And Susan, it feels.
Speaker 2: Like this is a reoccurring theme where Murph's on vacation
Speaker 2: on a Friday. We've got John Dickinson filling in once again. Susan,
Speaker 2: how you doing this morning?
Speaker 4: Murphy's doing something right. That's that's all I gotta say.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And Susan, we should have our own podcast. At
Speaker 5: this point, I feel I feel like, no matter where
Speaker 5: you are I am, no matter where I am, you are,
Speaker 5: it's great. But I just it's like, I think we
Speaker 5: need to like capitalize on this somehow.
Speaker 6: Let's do it.
Speaker 4: Let's do it. We're always here. Where's Murph?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Murph is on vacation again. He's actually out on
Speaker 2: the East Coast checking in on his kid who has
Speaker 2: joined the Naval academy. So he is out on the
Speaker 2: East Coast. At the end of pleab summer checking in
Speaker 2: on his boy. But we'll be back on Monday, and
Speaker 2: I think he's scheduled to work next Friday as well,
Speaker 2: so we will eventually get the return of Brian Murphy.
Speaker 2: But Susan, let's talk about the news yesterday that we
Speaker 2: got about the eventual departure of Mike Cruco. He announced
Speaker 2: yesterday that he will be stepping out of the broadcast
Speaker 2: booth at the end of this season after thirty six
Speaker 2: years on the radio and on TV. I should say, Susan,
Speaker 2: your reaction and just your thoughts on Mike Cruco announcing
Speaker 2: his retirement.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's a day nobody ever wanted to come,
Speaker 4: including Mike, and I talked to Mike briefly, but it's
Speaker 4: just not you know, Kruk and Kipe they're so special.
Speaker 4: They're so special. When I first moved over to covering
Speaker 4: the Giants after our you know, a million years on
Speaker 4: the A's, people would always ask me like, like, what's
Speaker 4: the best thing about covering the Giants, And people would
Speaker 4: automatically think I was going to say the ballpark, which
Speaker 4: of course is great, but it's Kruk and Kite number
Speaker 4: one by far, and I think that they're always number
Speaker 4: one in every pole of like what giants fans like
Speaker 4: the most and value the most about the team. So
Speaker 4: I think that's we can all agree on that they're
Speaker 4: just the best and Krucos and also just an amazing
Speaker 4: human being. Everybody I texted to ask to talk to
Speaker 4: about Kruko when I was writing the story yesterday, everybody
Speaker 4: got back to me.
Speaker 5: And that is so rare from your view, what separates
Speaker 5: him and them as a duo from the just the
Speaker 5: numerous other greats, because the Bay Area is just littered
Speaker 5: with grates everywhere every team in terms of broadcasters. But
Speaker 5: yet those two, in their own way, have sort of
Speaker 5: separated themselves from a group of life jins.
Speaker 4: Frankly, yeah, it is unusual, and you know, you're right,
Speaker 4: we are so lucky in the Berryer. I think this
Speaker 4: is just about as rich history for sports broadcasting as
Speaker 4: anywhere in the country, maybe even better. But those two,
Speaker 4: you know, it's unusual to have teammates as players who
Speaker 4: are then broadcasters together. I think that's one thing. They
Speaker 4: know each other so well. But it's really it's the
Speaker 4: warmth and the sense of humor, the empathy, and Kruco
Speaker 4: really you know, he's the driving force I think there
Speaker 4: with the like the empathy Jeff Kent, who's not well,
Speaker 4: he didn't used to be warmon fuzzy Now I think
Speaker 4: now the new Jeff Kent is a little bit more
Speaker 4: warm and fuzzy. But he said the real thing for
Speaker 4: him with Kruco is his ability to really portray what
Speaker 4: a player is dealing with, what a player is going through,
Speaker 4: his loyalty to the players, like he never lost that
Speaker 4: and so he can really, you know, with a lot
Speaker 4: of empathy, explain exactly what is going through a player's mind.
Speaker 4: And Will Clark said he's the guy who kind of
Speaker 4: introduces players for all the fans, anybody that follows the
Speaker 4: Giants and makes them San Francisco Giants. So they kind
Speaker 4: of both said almost the same thing, like he just
Speaker 4: gets the players.
Speaker 2: The Giants have announced that they do plan on celebrating
Speaker 2: Mike Cruco's career in legacy during the final regular season
Speaker 2: game of the season against the Dodgers September twenty seventh
Speaker 2: at Oracle Park. So Susan moving forward and moving on
Speaker 2: from the Mike Cruco conversation, talking about who could potentially
Speaker 2: be in the lineup on September twenty seventh, because the
Speaker 2: Giants made a lot of trades at this year's trade deadline,
Speaker 2: shipping away six different active players off the major league roster.
Speaker 2: Let's start with Elliott Ramos, who I know you reported
Speaker 2: on for a couple of weeks on the thought of
Speaker 2: him being traded. Well, it happened just a few minutes
Speaker 2: before the trade deadline. He gets shipped out for the
Speaker 2: New York Yankees in a trade package that returns a
Speaker 2: camp to the Giants organization. But your thoughts on the
Speaker 2: Elliot Ramas trade overall in the return package that the
Speaker 2: Giants got, Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4: I think we knew that a lot of this, so
Speaker 4: it's coming, maybe not all of it. Six is a
Speaker 4: lot to come off a roster, But Elliott Ramos was
Speaker 4: the one that teams were had scouts with the most. Like,
Speaker 4: whenever I saw scout and we'd start chit chatting, I'd say, like,
Speaker 4: what kind of need is your team? You know, what
Speaker 4: are you looking for? And they'd all say, right right
Speaker 4: handed hitting outfielder. Who's pretty clear that he was the guy.
Speaker 4: So I wasn't surprised, but we're all sad because what
Speaker 4: you know, I'll talk about another special human being, somebody
Speaker 4: that plays with a ton of joy and just a
Speaker 4: wonderful to deal with. So I know fans don't necessarily
Speaker 4: care about that stuff, but that buster Coat could return.
Speaker 4: I felt like on all of this, and I checked
Speaker 4: in with a bunch of scouts and development people and
Speaker 4: Baseball America people things like that, and the consensus was
Speaker 4: the Giants did very well with all of these returns.
Speaker 4: And that's what you have to do this time of year.
Speaker 4: If you're a team in this situation.
Speaker 5: Where do you think that the Giants are in terms
Speaker 5: of the prospects that they got in return the draft,
Speaker 5: the young players that are, you know, at the lower
Speaker 5: level levels of the minor league system. In essence, you
Speaker 5: could make the claim, hey, you know, maybe into twenty eight,
Speaker 5: twenty nine, thirty beyond looks really bright at least on
Speaker 5: paper as much as you know anybody can know about
Speaker 5: players that aren't in the major leagues. Yet, how do
Speaker 5: you think that works with the plan for maybe twenty
Speaker 5: twenty seven and twenty twenty eight in terms of goals
Speaker 5: and talent and still having a lot of veteran players
Speaker 5: pinned in to their starting lineup.
Speaker 3: Next year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think it's like a full full rebuild
Speaker 4: or anything. And I knowing Buster Posey the way we
Speaker 4: all do, I don't see him as a guy who's like, yeah,
Speaker 4: we just won't contend for the next couple of years.
Speaker 4: I think he certainly would like to do that with
Speaker 4: this group. And then we'll know whether or not that's
Speaker 4: the case when we see what they do in free agency. Obviously,
Speaker 4: the potential lockout, well not even potential, the lockout kind
Speaker 4: of you know, confuses that, like when exactly do they
Speaker 4: stop at start adding, But they will at some point,
Speaker 4: and if they rebuild their bullpen, they're expecting that they
Speaker 4: will try to contend next year, and they should because
Speaker 4: they do have some pieces that could do it, and
Speaker 4: they need obviously probably a couple more starting pitchers. But
Speaker 4: right now they do need to sort through this group
Speaker 4: of upper level prospects that they have. That's what this
Speaker 4: last two is about. There are guys here who can
Speaker 4: and will help them next year, and they need to
Speaker 4: know they need to know who. I also think this
Speaker 4: is a good two month stretch for Tony Vitello. He
Speaker 4: is a guy who is very comfortable coaching younger players.
Speaker 4: That is definitely his background, and I think he's going
Speaker 4: to really relish kind of helping all of these players
Speaker 4: maximize their potential. That's what he's done his entire career
Speaker 4: is help young players do that.
Speaker 2: One of those young players, one of those young prospects
Speaker 2: that the Giants got in return at the trade deadline
Speaker 2: that could potentially make an impact as soon as the
Speaker 2: season is Marcela Meyer for the Boston Red Sox. He's
Speaker 2: somebody that was a top five draft picked a couple
Speaker 2: year years ago, has been touted as one of the
Speaker 2: best prospects in baseball. Susan, what can you tell us
Speaker 2: about his recovery from injury right now and if there
Speaker 2: are any game plans to try to get him on
Speaker 2: the major league roster as soon as the season.
Speaker 4: Well, he was slated to be seen by a team
Speaker 4: medical on Wednesday, so and yesterday was an off day,
Speaker 4: so I don't think the team will have any information
Speaker 4: necessarily on where they feel like Marcelo is medically until today.
Speaker 4: But you know, I don't think that there was any
Speaker 4: idea that, you know, say he's going to miss the
Speaker 4: rest of the season. I think he would probably join
Speaker 4: the Giants as soon as he's cleared, and he really
Speaker 4: profiles as a guy who is potentially a fresh start guy.
Speaker 4: I think things, you know, sometimes want to prospect for
Speaker 4: a long time just doesn't quite you know. And with
Speaker 4: Marcella Meyer it's mostly been injuries, doesn't quite pan out,
Speaker 4: Things can kind of go a little bit sour for everybody.
Speaker 4: Fresh start is perfect. I think the Giants probably have
Speaker 4: a lot of ideas and the best thing of all
Speaker 4: is Marcello Meyer comes in and gets to work with
Speaker 4: Ron Washington, which for any infielder's just got to be
Speaker 4: a dream come true. So I think this is a
Speaker 4: really interesting deal. And you know, the Giants get a name,
Speaker 4: kind of prospect and an opportunity here again, Tony Vaitello,
Speaker 4: do your magic.
Speaker 3: Susan, I'm curious.
Speaker 5: You know, big part of the weekend is that the
Speaker 5: Wall of Fame ceremony, and you've got Posey and Belt
Speaker 5: and Panic and Brandon Crawford, Pablo Santoval all going on
Speaker 5: the Wall of Fame. They were all the homegrown infield
Speaker 5: that was a part of the last championship team in
Speaker 5: twenty fourteen. I know you were covering the A's at
Speaker 5: the time, but you would come over as one of
Speaker 5: the lead riders in the game during some of the
Speaker 5: runs when the A's maybe were out to cover the
Speaker 5: playoffs and World Series and different things. I'm curious though,
Speaker 5: more just your perspective on the Giants as somebody at
Speaker 5: that time that wasn't covering the Giants but was covering
Speaker 5: baseball on a day to day basis, just in terms
Speaker 5: of kind of what they had going with a lot
Speaker 5: of the young players that they developed that ultimately became
Speaker 5: a part of that core, and then just kind of
Speaker 5: how you view it all now as you've gotten to
Speaker 5: know and cover some of these guys in a different
Speaker 5: in a different way, in different roles. I know, Crawford
Speaker 5: was around for a time obviously when you were covering
Speaker 5: the Giants. Just sort of all of that from somebody
Speaker 5: that's that's covered the game for such a long time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I always loved coming over here, and of course
Speaker 4: we saw the Giants quite a lot in the spring,
Speaker 4: and you know, during the Interleague and that kind of thing,
Speaker 4: but just so professionally run jumped out always and when
Speaker 4: it came to that core. It's kind of a little
Speaker 4: bit what we were talking about before this is you know,
Speaker 4: look at how what the Dodgers have done, look at
Speaker 4: what that Giants team did. These were that infield, like
Speaker 4: this is home grown guys. Now, the Giants did a
Speaker 4: fantastic job with also then going and getting older relievers
Speaker 4: who became you know, absolute hallmark of that team too,
Speaker 4: which is exactly what this team is going and I
Speaker 4: have to do. I mean, absolutely they need to go
Speaker 4: out and find a sort of or four on the
Speaker 4: free agent market. But there's some similarities. Jeremie Alfha talks
Speaker 4: a lot about this year in terms of two thousand
Speaker 4: and nine, uh and how that was sort of the
Speaker 4: step toward the championship years, and there might be something
Speaker 4: to that. So that's that's one thing. But then coming
Speaker 4: over and covering I said this from the get go,
Speaker 4: when it came over and started covering the Giants after
Speaker 4: the pandemic, was watching Brandon Crawford every day, like, you know,
Speaker 4: he's a good shortstop, you know he's a good hitter.
Speaker 4: You know when you're covered, when you're watching from Afar
Speaker 4: and you're watching highlights and stuffs, when you watch him
Speaker 4: every day, Oh my gosh. And that twenty twenty one
Speaker 4: season was just outrageous you know, he was truly great
Speaker 4: and that was that was really really fun, was watching that.
Speaker 4: He's the best shortstop I've covered on a daily basis.
Speaker 2: Wow, that says a lot, well, Susan. The Giants will
Speaker 2: be celebrating those championship years this week and with five
Speaker 2: members going on the Hall of Fame. Enjoyed the ceremony,
Speaker 2: enjoy seeing some familiar faces. And I'll try to get
Speaker 2: Murph to work next Friday for by the next time
Speaker 2: we talk to you, Susan.
Speaker 4: Fantastic.
Speaker 2: There she is Susan Slusser from the San Francisco Chronicle
Speaker 2: talking about everything involved in the San Francisco Giants, from
Speaker 2: Mike Cruko's retirement to this year's trade deadline to the
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame ceremony this week. And all right, let's
Speaker 2: hop into the Cruco of content. That's right, it's time
Speaker 2: for the cooler of content, where we have found.
Speaker 3: Through Walter's deep research, some.
Speaker 2: Of the best sounds and stories throughout Mike Cruco's career.
Speaker 2: Eightaway cambi Are is the number if you want to
Speaker 2: put Walton Curley to work and make them dig up
Speaker 2: some deep, deep stories that Mike Cruco has told on
Speaker 2: these airwaves. We'll do that next as it's JD and
Speaker 2: Marcus on the Murphy Market Show on the Sports Leader
Speaker 2: KMBR The Sports Leader.
Speaker 6: All right, everyone, Jill, this.
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Speaker 1: Now back to murphin Markets on the Sports Leader.
Speaker 2: Hopping back into the Cooler of content, or as today
Speaker 2: we're calling it, the Cruco of Content. And of course
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Speaker 2: of content is all Mike Kruco.
Speaker 3: And if you're just waking up this morning wondering why
Speaker 3: we're doing in all Mike.
Speaker 2: Cruco Cooler of Content, it's because you missed the news
Speaker 2: yesterday that came out right after our show, right around
Speaker 2: ten am, that Mike Kruco will be stepping aside from
Speaker 2: the broadcast booth. This will be his last season broadcasting
Speaker 2: games for the San Francisco Giants, wrapping up a thirty
Speaker 2: six year career on air calling games. This comes after
Speaker 2: playing fourteen years of Major League baseball, a man that
Speaker 2: has literally dedicated fifty years of his life to Major
Speaker 2: League baseball, and he goes deeper and deeper beyond that,
Speaker 2: going back to the college days, the high school days,
Speaker 2: and Mike Cruco growing up down in southern California to
Speaker 2: now bringing Giants Baseball to the airwaves in Northern California
Speaker 2: for the last thirty six years. So let's hop into
Speaker 2: the cooler and check out some of the best sound
Speaker 2: that we've heard from Mike Cruco over the past couple
Speaker 2: of years. And of course we got to go straight
Speaker 2: to the championship, the first one in San Francisco twenty ten,
Speaker 2: the first parade and the first victory speech from Mike
Speaker 2: Cruco down at City Hall. Let's go back to twenty ten, Walter.
Speaker 2: Here was Mike Cruco with his iconic story of San
Speaker 2: Francisco speech after the Giants' first World Series in San Francisco.
Speaker 8: How great was that parade? I know everybody up here
Speaker 8: felt it, and I know you felt it, and everybody
Speaker 8: here today you are standing here and you are not
Speaker 8: standing alone. You are standing with the person that taught
Speaker 8: you the great story of the San Francisco Giants. Whether
Speaker 8: it be your dad or your mom, or a friend
Speaker 8: or your sister or your grandpa, they taught you right.
Speaker 8: They taught you you had to be loyal, You had
Speaker 8: to love your team. And to a man on this team,
Speaker 8: this twenty ten team, to a man back in August,
Speaker 8: they plugged into you, and you fueled and energized this
Speaker 8: group all the way through the crazy month of September
Speaker 8: and into what is an epic month of October, and
Speaker 8: what is one glorious day in November. And you have
Speaker 8: but one response, and you owe it to the person
Speaker 8: that taught you the good book, San Francisco Giants. You
Speaker 8: need to pass this story on, keep this love alive.
Speaker 9: And when you tell the story, simply tell them we're
Speaker 9: the Giants or San Francisco and.
Speaker 3: We are the world champions.
Speaker 2: We're the Giants, We're San Francisco and we're World Series champions.
Speaker 2: Truly an iconic speech, a speech that still gives me
Speaker 2: goosebumps to this day, JD.
Speaker 3: Because he's right. At one point.
Speaker 2: In your lives, you were taught the game of baseball,
Speaker 2: and you were taught about the San Francisco Giants. It
Speaker 2: could be a mother, a father, a grandmother, a grandfather,
Speaker 2: the lineage, the way that the sport of baseball can
Speaker 2: connect different generations. And Mike Kruco has been one of
Speaker 2: the narrators for that book of Giants Baseball, and it's
Speaker 2: part of our job to continue that message and pass
Speaker 2: it down to the next generation. But it's all going
Speaker 2: to circle back to that speech. The first ever World
Speaker 2: Series parade here in the city of San Francius just tremendous.
Speaker 5: I mean to listen back to it and to sort
Speaker 5: of go back in time, honestly and just appreciate how
Speaker 5: special that run truly was. And a big part of
Speaker 5: the reason why that run was so special was because
Speaker 5: there had been so much heartbreak before, honestly for the
Speaker 5: Giants fan base. But yet such a beloved franchise, and
Speaker 5: why are they such a beloved franchise.
Speaker 3: It's, of course the great players.
Speaker 5: That have come through the decades, But as much as
Speaker 5: it is about the great players, it's about how the
Speaker 5: game is consumed. It's about how you watch the game,
Speaker 5: how you go to the game, how you listen to
Speaker 5: the game, how you experience it on television. And it
Speaker 5: was always going to be special winning a World series,
Speaker 5: let alone three always is, and we're focused on the
Speaker 5: first one here with that speech. But I think a
Speaker 5: big part of the reason why so many were in
Speaker 5: tiers and had such a special, special bond with that
Speaker 5: group was the connection that they built with the team
Speaker 5: through Mike Kruco and Dwaynekuiper.
Speaker 2: Yes, because Mike Cruco and Dwayne Kuiper went through the
Speaker 2: dog days, the struggles, the World Series losses that we
Speaker 2: do not need to bring up. But these guys are
Speaker 2: a part of the fabric, a part of the culture.
Speaker 2: And yeah, JD, it's the easiest joke to make. You
Speaker 2: never forget your first But the Giants weren't done quite yet.
Speaker 2: Even though that celebration was wild, guess what they got
Speaker 2: to do it two more times in the next five
Speaker 2: years twenty ten, twenty twelve, twenty fourteen, all ended with
Speaker 2: championship parades. Here's a compilation of Mike Cruco's best moments,
Speaker 2: some of his best quotes, all put together in a
Speaker 2: quick thirty second package from the championship parades.
Speaker 9: And once again they could say it loudly, we are
Speaker 9: San Francisco. Where are the World champions?
Speaker 10: Your belief, your pride is the backbone of every accomplishment
Speaker 10: they've ever had, and it allows me to stand here
Speaker 10: before you again today for the third time in five years,
Speaker 10: and I could say, we are the Giants, we are
Speaker 10: San Francisco.
Speaker 9: So where are the World champions?
Speaker 2: I mean it gets even better and better every single year,
Speaker 2: every single championship. Not sure how the Giants are planning
Speaker 2: on honoring the legacy of Mike Kruco, but you can
Speaker 2: throw that quote on the bricks out in right field
Speaker 2: if you want. We are Giants, we are San Francisco,
Speaker 2: We are World Series Champions JD.
Speaker 5: Yeah, amazing And just what a we're talking about this
Speaker 5: with Bruce Bochie. I mean just the the knowledge but
Speaker 5: also you know, just the respect that the players had
Speaker 5: for him because of the fact that he was a player,
Speaker 5: the fact that he was able to bond with the
Speaker 5: coaching staff and the manager. But then he just has
Speaker 5: such a way about the way he carries himself and
Speaker 5: the sense of humor and just the eloquence in stating
Speaker 5: things that that just that just bond you with this
Speaker 5: this franchise.
Speaker 2: And he knows how to connect with everybody a filming, everybody,
Speaker 2: with the fans, with the players, with radio hosts like
Speaker 2: Murphy and myself. I mean, he literally connects with everyone,
Speaker 2: including his coworkers. One of the best teams in baseball
Speaker 2: currently right now.
Speaker 5: Just a master communicator on so many different levels. And
Speaker 5: Susan Slusser brought this up, and I was gonna follow,
Speaker 5: and then we kind of got into different parts of
Speaker 5: the conversation. But the blend of the empathy and the
Speaker 5: humor of Mike with Dwayne's more kind of laid back, edgy,
Speaker 5: little edgy, little.
Speaker 3: Little you know, make you, you know, make you think.
Speaker 5: That he's about to pop off and say something, you know,
Speaker 5: a little a little angry or something. It just it
Speaker 5: just works. A little snarky, a little dry. Like the
Speaker 5: combination of both is just so perfect for those reasons.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's a perfect fit.
Speaker 2: And we've seen it throughout their chemistry throughout the years,
Speaker 2: and like that's the thing for Mike that's always stood out.
Speaker 2: He doesn't take himself too seriously in the broadcast booth,
Speaker 2: which is important now. He definitely takes his job serious
Speaker 2: with the amount of prep and knowledge that he has,
Speaker 2: but he's also able to laugh at himself or laugh
Speaker 2: at other people on the broadcast or try out new
Speaker 2: home run calls that maybe is blending in all of
Speaker 2: his coworkers because, of course, as I mentioned, working with
Speaker 2: the great team of Dwayne Kuiper, John Miller, and Dave
Speaker 2: Fleming as well, Mike Kruco's not afraid to mess around
Speaker 2: and maybe just throw all of their home run calls together.
Speaker 3: High drive to last it is.
Speaker 2: Gone. I've always loved that, from the kype and the
Speaker 2: John Miller home run calls to the Dave Fleming go on,
Speaker 2: like the fact that he's not afraid to break his
Speaker 2: own voice just to you know, bust the balls of
Speaker 2: Dave Fleming a little bit, just shows the type of
Speaker 2: guy that he is in the type of relationship that
Speaker 2: they all have.
Speaker 7: JD.
Speaker 3: It's just it's second to none. I mean, it just it.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's hard to explain, but it's easy
Speaker 5: to see because because it doesn't need to be explained,
Speaker 5: it's it's easy to hear. I mean, it's just it's
Speaker 5: just tremendous that the chemistry that that they all have.
Speaker 5: But it's you know, the preparation is the other thing
Speaker 5: you were going in on. The preparation. I mean every
Speaker 5: pitcher every pitch, explain the mentality of certain counts, certain
Speaker 5: in game situations depending upon the hitter, where you are
Speaker 5: in the game. How about the umpire scouting report, Like
Speaker 5: how about how about having a clearly a page or
Speaker 5: a card or something in his notes with every umpire
Speaker 5: a book probably that that he keeps and I think
Speaker 5: he's referenced keeping it as a player, as a pitcher,
Speaker 5: you know who's the home played up, what are their
Speaker 5: tendencies learning those different kinds of things to be able
Speaker 5: to know how you can compete to the highest level
Speaker 5: on that day. I mean just and that still stands
Speaker 5: out because I think you can, as as broadcasters generally speaking,
Speaker 5: get older, and you can you notice certain areas of
Speaker 5: maybe the preps not there, like just you not calling
Speaker 5: anybody out or anything like that, but you can just
Speaker 5: kind of notice like maybe the preparation is not there.
Speaker 5: With Mike specifically two to the to Sunday, the last
Speaker 5: you know, the last game that he called Sunday when
Speaker 5: he was doing it in the studio and Kype was down.
Speaker 5: I mean it just that he is on every little
Speaker 5: detail of what these guys are doing and going through.
Speaker 2: And every single day JD not only just at the ballpark,
Speaker 2: but the fact that he's been joining us on the
Speaker 2: Morning show for I don't know how long. I mean,
Speaker 2: Murf's been doing this damn near going on twenty two years.
Speaker 2: I've been a part of the Morning show for six
Speaker 2: now since I started back in twenty twenty. And every Monday,
Speaker 2: Wednesday Friday during the regular season, you hear the voice
Speaker 2: of Mike Cruco. Even during the off season when we're
Speaker 2: breaking down forty nine Ers versus Seahawks tape. He's joining
Speaker 2: us every Tuesday and Thursday during the off season. Just
Speaker 2: a constant pro and a staple of the Morning Show,
Speaker 2: which is why I want to end it with this
Speaker 2: clip when we celebrated the twenty year anniversary for my
Speaker 2: guy Murph. I know he's on vacation today, but I
Speaker 2: love this voicemail that I got Mike Kruco to leave
Speaker 2: for my man Murph to celebrate his twenty year anniversary
Speaker 2: here at CAMBI are well.
Speaker 6: This is Mike Kruco, and I just want to say
Speaker 6: that I like hard men, and Brian Murphy is.
Speaker 7: A hard man.
Speaker 6: You consider his career path from Marin, where he loved
Speaker 6: all Bay Area sports hard. Then he went down to Ucla,
Speaker 6: the heart of southern California, and he became a hard
Speaker 6: core Ruin. And then it was off to writing about golf,
Speaker 6: which is very hard. And then probably the hardest thing
Speaker 6: of all, Well, it's doing the morning show for twenty years.
Speaker 6: Twenty years, Murph. I can't believe it, but I expect it.
Speaker 6: You love hard, you live hard, and we love you
Speaker 6: for it.
Speaker 7: Happy anniversary, meet.
Speaker 2: Round of applause for the one and only Mike Kruco
Speaker 2: and JD. Guess what It's going to be hard for
Speaker 2: all of us to say goodbye at the end of
Speaker 2: the season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it absolutely is. I think it is great though
Speaker 5: that we know in advance. I think that is one
Speaker 5: thing if you had to choose, like to get not
Speaker 5: not maybe a full year of knowing, and you know,
Speaker 5: I wonder what the process was like. It doesn't really
Speaker 5: matter in terms of him thinking his way through it.
Speaker 5: But the timing of the announcement I think is is
Speaker 5: quality because it gives us enough time to appreciate for
Speaker 5: the remainder of the season everything that he's brought, and
Speaker 5: honor him and just kind of know, because you know,
Speaker 5: so often we don't necessarily know, and it just kind
Speaker 5: of winds up happening and you maybe look back and
Speaker 5: think that you didn't appreciate the end as much. So
Speaker 5: I think it's great for everybody involved that we all
Speaker 5: know the way things are gonna end here over the
Speaker 5: next couple months.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and if I can sneak in a riff on
Speaker 2: a Friday morning, it also gives us a reason to
Speaker 2: watch Giants baseball for the remainder.
Speaker 3: Of the season. I wasn't gonna go the cynical route
Speaker 3: I had to. I wasn't going so hanging through we
Speaker 3: flip flopped on that.
Speaker 2: I had to take it, regardless of the final score
Speaker 2: on the scoreboard. Watching Kruk and Kipe, Listening to Kruk
Speaker 2: and Kipe for the rest of the season is going
Speaker 2: to be a delight.
Speaker 3: JD now one hundred percent accurate and true. And yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm glad.
Speaker 5: I'm glad somebody else went there, because I want to
Speaker 5: focus on the positive part of it.
Speaker 3: Be positive, bro, well, we'll be positive.
Speaker 2: When we talked to Mike Kruco on Monday, he set
Speaker 2: to rejoin the rotation. Murph will be back Monday. Mike
Speaker 2: Kruco will be back Monday, All Things will be right
Speaker 2: in the world will get you your hums and bums,
Speaker 2: and a full extensive breakdown of Mike Cruko's decision a
Speaker 2: step away from the broadcast booth after thirty six years
Speaker 2: and three World Series titles.
Speaker 3: Well, guess what.
Speaker 2: The man that was in charge of the team on
Speaker 2: the field, Bruce Bochi, joined us earlier this morning at
Speaker 2: seven thirty. We're going to replay it for the eight
Speaker 2: fifty nine am crowd. We'll do that next with Bruce
Speaker 2: Bochi's thoughts on the legendary career of Mike Cruco.
Speaker 6: You love hard, you live hard, and.
Speaker 7: We love you for it.
Speaker 1: Now back to murphin markets on the Sports Leader, streaming
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Speaker 2: All right, what a treat this is on a Friday
Speaker 2: morning on the Murph and Markey Show, Marcus Bouschet and
Speaker 2: John Dixon. Back again on a Friday and usually at
Speaker 2: seven point thirty. We talked to Mike Cruco every Monday,
Speaker 2: Wednesday and Friday. Mike Cruco taking an off day today
Speaker 2: with his big announcement yesterday. So how about Mike Cruco
Speaker 2: calling to the bullpen and calling up. Our next guest
Speaker 2: joining us on the UMMA guest line, the four time
Speaker 2: World Series Champion, the Man That Bought brought three World
Speaker 2: Series titles to the city of San Francisco, The one
Speaker 2: and only Bruce Bochie joining us this morning, Boach, Your
Speaker 2: boy Murph is on vacation, So it's Marcus Bouchet and
Speaker 2: John Dickinson on the Morning Show today. How you doing Boach?
Speaker 7: Hey, guys, I'm doing well. Thanks thanks for having me on. Well,
Speaker 7: Murph's all right though, He's good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Murph's doing all right. He's on vacation.
Speaker 2: He'll be back on Monday to talk about the broadcasting
Speaker 2: career of Mike Cruco and Boach. Of course, we want
Speaker 2: to thank you for coming on the show today, but
Speaker 2: really we should be thinking Mike Cruco, who did some
Speaker 2: double booking getting you on the show today. Mike Cruco,
Speaker 2: one of a kind, good enough to get you back
Speaker 2: on the Morning Show today.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll tell you I was done. You know, I
Speaker 7: was shocked. I didn't see this coming. You know. Now
Speaker 7: I have a chance to listen to him, you know
Speaker 7: when I was managing that, you know I did obviously, Uh,
Speaker 7: you know, I get to listen to many games. But uh, yeah,
Speaker 7: I'm gonna miss him. I'm sad because I'm not gonna
Speaker 7: I'm not gonna be able to listen to him. But
Speaker 7: I'm happy for haying Jennifer. You know, as they enjoy,
Speaker 7: you know, step down, enjoy retirement.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 7: But you know Kruke, Uh, I mean he was so
Speaker 7: good to me. You know, when I came up here
Speaker 7: in two thousand and seven, I still remember, you know,
Speaker 7: he was part of Uh. He influenced the culture of
Speaker 7: the Giants. I really believe that, you know, because he
Speaker 7: always preached family. Uh. First thing he did to me
Speaker 7: is showed me the secret handshake that the Giants have
Speaker 7: and uh. And so he just welcomed me in the
Speaker 7: best way. And all the years that I was able
Speaker 7: to spend with him, you know, throughout the season, riding
Speaker 7: the buzz with he and Kype and you know, they
Speaker 7: they were good to me. You know, there were so
Speaker 7: many times I was probably frustrated with the game, and uh,
Speaker 7: but they say something funny or do something that, you know,
Speaker 7: to get me out of and get me back in
Speaker 7: a good mood. I just I just think the world
Speaker 7: of him. And I tell you there's times he make
Speaker 7: me laughs, and he wouldn't know it. You know, he
Speaker 7: had this He'd come in the come house every day
Speaker 7: and he stopped by the office and if there was,
Speaker 7: you know, somebody not in the lineup that he wanted
Speaker 7: to line up, he'd come in and say, Hey, he's
Speaker 7: so and so hurt, and I go, no, he's fine.
Speaker 7: He he he would just turn around walk out, So
Speaker 7: I knew he didn't agree with my lineup. But uh,
Speaker 7: you know, he's he was just so good at what
Speaker 7: he would, you know, at what he did. He was entertaining,
Speaker 7: and they just had great knowledge of the game. And uh,
Speaker 7: I really have gotten a chance to appreciate those two
Speaker 7: even more now that I listened to him every game.
Speaker 7: And I'm gonna miss him, no doubt, but I'm sure
Speaker 7: he'll be around and I just wish him the best.
Speaker 7: And I just think how lucky we all were, you know,
Speaker 7: to be able to have him around.
Speaker 5: Boat You you talk about the impact that that he
Speaker 5: had on the Giant's culture and even in turnerly, you know,
Speaker 5: in your role and being around the players and obviously
Speaker 5: around the team for so long, but so much of
Speaker 5: him along with Kaype is just the connection that's built
Speaker 5: with the Giants fan base, and obviously in addition to
Speaker 5: the success that you guys had, it just it created
Speaker 5: such a joy and passion among the fan base and
Speaker 5: connection to the team that's just really unique in sports
Speaker 5: and special now that you've had a little time to
Speaker 5: kind of reflect and watch the broadcast a little bit
Speaker 5: more from being around those guys, I mean, just just
Speaker 5: speak to the connection between the fan base, the team
Speaker 5: and just.
Speaker 3: How it all kind of tied together.
Speaker 5: Of the magic of kind of the era, because it
Speaker 5: truly transcends decades. It's why people thirty years from now
Speaker 5: are going to be Giants fans because of the impact
Speaker 5: of those two as broadcasters.
Speaker 7: Right right, and and you're you're right on there. I mean,
Speaker 7: they they have such a great chemistry, and they were
Speaker 7: so easy to listen to, and uh, you know when
Speaker 7: you're watching a game, and you know, there's some games
Speaker 7: that I have watched and you know, and I don't
Speaker 7: want to go too far with this, because you know,
Speaker 7: they weren't I listened to announcers and I go, man,
Speaker 7: we are lucky, We are so lucky to have these
Speaker 7: two because uh, you know, they were funny. Uh again,
Speaker 7: they talked to the game of baseball. Uh, you know,
Speaker 7: they kept things light, but you know that they love
Speaker 7: the Giants and that that always came out. Well you
Speaker 7: know how much uh you know, they cared about the team,
Speaker 7: how much they wanted to win, and and so you know,
Speaker 7: I think every every club, it's just so important for
Speaker 7: them to have a spokesman for for the team. I've
Speaker 7: been Scully for example. Uh, you know, and these these
Speaker 7: two were the heart of San Francisco Giants and people
Speaker 7: just got connected with them and connected with the team,
Speaker 7: and that plays a huge role in the following that
Speaker 7: you have. You go to a game, and I know
Speaker 7: things haven't gone well this year, but I'm still amazed,
Speaker 7: you know, all the people that come to the game,
Speaker 7: and I think a lot of that says a lot
Speaker 7: about Crew and Kaipe however, how much they fall in
Speaker 7: love with the team, and they play a big part
Speaker 7: of it because they are the voice. They're the ones
Speaker 7: that are bringing the fans in to become fans of
Speaker 7: the team.
Speaker 2: Mike, We've been lucky enough here, excuse me, Bruce, We've
Speaker 2: been lucky enough here on the morning show to be
Speaker 2: able to interview Mike Cruco three times a week. Murf's
Speaker 2: been doing it for twenty one years. I've been a
Speaker 2: part of the morning show for the last six years,
Speaker 2: and once I got on air, it felt like a
Speaker 2: right of passage to have a conversation with both Kruk
Speaker 2: and Kype.
Speaker 3: So I'm oneing behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: As a player in this organization, it almost feels like
Speaker 2: a right of passage, Like you're not really a San
Speaker 2: Francisco Giant until you have that interaction with Mike Kruco
Speaker 2: and Dwayne Kuiper and they have the ability to relate
Speaker 2: to these players.
Speaker 3: As former players are themselves.
Speaker 2: Talk about that connection we just talked about with the
Speaker 2: fan base, but also with the players throughout the organization
Speaker 2: who get the honor of being able to talk to
Speaker 2: Crook and Kype about the game of baseball.
Speaker 7: Right, you know, players that come here, you know, it
Speaker 7: doesn't take long to realize how big these two are.
Speaker 7: I mean, they are the definition forever giants, and uh,
Speaker 7: you know, and they're always around. You know, they come in,
Speaker 7: they talk to the players. Uh, they come in the clubhouse.
Speaker 7: You know, they're the definition of forever giants. I mean, uh,
Speaker 7: I mean you look at Kruk, I mean, what what
Speaker 7: a great career he had for the San Francisco Giants.
Speaker 7: He goes back to Candlestick and uh and Dan to
Speaker 7: look at, you know, what he's done as a broadcaster.
Speaker 7: He and Kuype and and both of them like you,
Speaker 7: like you said, they played and uh. So there's a
Speaker 7: deep respect there, I think. But in the fact that
Speaker 7: they're always around and uh and they see the players,
Speaker 7: see how beloved they are in this city, and so
Speaker 7: I've always just admired, you know, how good they are.
Speaker 7: But how they interact with the players, you know, on
Speaker 7: a daily basis, including on the road. I know Mike
Speaker 7: he was limited, you know lately, he couldn't go on
Speaker 7: the road like he used to. But what he did
Speaker 7: that they would come to the clubhouse. They were always around.
Speaker 7: They would talk baseball too with these players. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: so anyway, again, we were lucky to have them around.
Speaker 3: Boach.
Speaker 5: Let's switch gears a little bit and talk about what's
Speaker 5: coming up this weekend with the Wall of Fame and
Speaker 5: Buster Posey and Brandon Bell and Brandon Crawford and Pablo
Speaker 5: Sandoval along with Joe Panic all going up on the
Speaker 5: Wall of Fame. Coming up on Saturday. How appropriate is
Speaker 5: it for all of those guys to go on together
Speaker 5: considering what they meant to your runs in different ways
Speaker 5: in twenty ten and fourteen, and being that, you know
Speaker 5: in the with the fourteen team having that entirely homegrown infield.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well they meant everything to our club and just
Speaker 7: on the field, but in that clubhouse. You know what
Speaker 7: these guys did. I mean, that's rare. That's a rare
Speaker 7: deal when you have the whole infield it's homegrown, and
Speaker 7: so you know, we were really fortunate, you know, to
Speaker 7: have this happen, and the credit has to go to
Speaker 7: the scouts first of all, the guys that got them
Speaker 7: in our system. But you know, there's something special about
Speaker 7: a group like this that come up together, you know,
Speaker 7: through the minor leagues and playing you know, together in
Speaker 7: major leagues again, there's that chemistry. There's that you know,
Speaker 7: there's something about wearing that uniform San Francisco Giants might
Speaker 7: even mean little bit more because that's that's that's they
Speaker 7: came up and anyway, they all brought something a little
Speaker 7: bit different. You know, Pablo with his energy, how infectious
Speaker 7: that was. Crawford of course, with his elite defense, his
Speaker 7: clutch plays and at bats Joe, Yeah, just a steadiness,
Speaker 7: Joe panicfare and and about who we talked about when
Speaker 7: he just you know, when he had his retirement thing,
Speaker 7: his sense of humor, and he's the one that closed
Speaker 7: out all the deals, making the picks and helping these
Speaker 7: guys out if their throws a little bit off. And
Speaker 7: where Buster was a leader that just made everybody better.
Speaker 7: And so you know, for us to had have the
Speaker 7: whole infield come like this, come up like this is
Speaker 7: the reason I think we won these championships. They just
Speaker 7: had a calmness about him. They they didn't get too up,
Speaker 7: they didn't get down. You know, they were just you know,
Speaker 7: kind of you know, they a little bit of a
Speaker 7: flat line in a good way. You know. Paba was
Speaker 7: you know, he was the wild Salion out there, but
Speaker 7: the rest of them had that calmness and that really
Speaker 7: works in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Bruce Bochie is the voice of Here this Morning on
Speaker 2: the UMA guest line ahead of this weekend's Wall of
Speaker 2: Fame ceremony, and Bruce, going back to the twenty ten
Speaker 2: World Series parade, Mike Cruco said that this is the
Speaker 2: good book of Giants, Baseball and it's our duty to
Speaker 2: pass along the story of the San Francisco Giants franchise. Well,
Speaker 2: you can't tell the story without those five wall of
Speaker 2: famers going on the wall this weekend. So how important
Speaker 2: is it for you and the organization to keep these
Speaker 2: guys around? I know Busters back as the president of
Speaker 2: Baseball Operation, Joe Panic is back in the organization as
Speaker 2: a roving instructor.
Speaker 3: How important is it for.
Speaker 2: Giants fans of the next generation to acknowledge these guys
Speaker 2: and for the organization to have these guys back involved
Speaker 2: or around this weekend?
Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, these guys helped make a story organizations franchise
Speaker 7: even more storied with with what they did in ten, twelve,
Speaker 7: and fourteen, and and it doesn't happen without them. And
Speaker 7: these are memories that they helped great for all of us,
Speaker 7: include myself. I know how lucky I was to, you know,
Speaker 7: have these guys out there and and then the fans
Speaker 7: just fell in love with them, and they were winners
Speaker 7: and and they embody what you what you want to
Speaker 7: see in a San Francisco Giant. So it is important
Speaker 7: I think that you know, they hang around and uh
Speaker 7: and just and so eight, even a younger player, So
Speaker 7: so they get to, you know, know who they are
Speaker 7: and what they were about. And because that decade, i mean,
Speaker 7: come on, that's that was so special and I'm just
Speaker 7: happy that they're all going to be here. I look
Speaker 7: forward to seeing everybody, including a lot of coaches that
Speaker 7: have come in, a lot of players. They're such great
Speaker 7: they created so many great memories for us. And all
Speaker 7: those hands.
Speaker 5: Even belt, you're looking at you, look you're looking forward
Speaker 5: to stand belt.
Speaker 7: It's always good to see Bell. We like getting them belt,
Speaker 7: you know. He he's the one we had fun with
Speaker 7: and he's so good and he's so good to giving
Speaker 7: it back to you. But yeah, I'd look forward to
Speaker 7: seeing the big donkeys.
Speaker 2: We had a Busser posy on our show yesterday and
Speaker 2: I was joking with him. I asked him, if you
Speaker 2: had to assign roles within the organization for each one
Speaker 2: of your teammates, what would be the roles you would sign.
Speaker 2: He said he would assigned Brandon Bell as the sleep
Speaker 2: specialist for the team. Bruce, I'll ask you, I'll ask
Speaker 2: you the same question if you had to give each
Speaker 2: of these guys one specific role, if it's a actual
Speaker 2: legit coaching role or just a job title you would
Speaker 2: make up? What job roles would you give in the
Speaker 2: organization for guys like Brandon Belt, Brandon Crawford, Joe Panic
Speaker 2: and Pablo Sandibal.
Speaker 7: Pablo. I probably give him a mental skills job. Is
Speaker 7: he just played a game the way you should play
Speaker 7: the game. Uh, with enthusiasm, laugh, have fun. Uh. So
Speaker 7: I put him there. I think obviously you got to
Speaker 7: put Crawford. He'd be the defensive guy. Joe. Uh, you
Speaker 7: know what, Joe, I kind of had to put there too.
Speaker 7: Outsteady he was, as far as you know, on the
Speaker 7: mental side. But to help Crawford out on the defense too.
Speaker 7: He could be a two way guy buster nold it
Speaker 7: on Bell. I can't come up with anything close to that.
Speaker 7: That's that's that's where he should be. And uh and
Speaker 7: and buster uh me he could work with catchers pitchers
Speaker 7: and uh and uh and just assume the leadership role
Speaker 7: with the guys and talk about leading and talk about.
Speaker 5: Winning uh honor honorary nod for for Crawford as what
Speaker 5: team DJ right because he was always the guy kind
Speaker 5: of running the music for for the others. And and
Speaker 5: and how about how about hairstylist for for kraw.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, no, you're right, DJ, Now, DJ, I don't
Speaker 7: know that he didn't. He didn't know it with that
Speaker 7: as far as I'm concerned. But with the players he did.
Speaker 7: But no, he's he was on top of that.
Speaker 2: So no, two good points there, Yeah, Bruce, Just to
Speaker 2: wrap it up here, last couple of minutes before I
Speaker 2: let you go, just a reflection on this season for
Speaker 2: the Giants, because look, you managed for a long time
Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball, you dealt with some of the
Speaker 2: highs and lows, and this season has not gone as.
Speaker 3: Expected for this team this year on the field.
Speaker 2: So for Tony Vaitelo, first year manager, what are some
Speaker 2: of the things that maybe he could take away from
Speaker 2: going through this experience more lows and highs, and what
Speaker 2: you can take away still from this season when you're
Speaker 2: not having the most success on the field.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, with with anything, whether it's hitting, pitching, and
Speaker 7: I'll say coaching, manager or manager, it's it's reps. Just
Speaker 7: getting a lot of reps, so you know you're gonna learned.
Speaker 7: You never stop learning in this game. I said that
Speaker 7: about myself, even you know my later years, I was
Speaker 7: always trying to learn to get better and and Tony's
Speaker 7: really smart and he's doing that, you know, whether it's
Speaker 7: how to handle players or game situations, all those things.
Speaker 7: It's just rep seeing. The more you see the game,
Speaker 7: the more you slow it down. And uh, you know,
Speaker 7: this team's had to deal with a lot and and
Speaker 7: my hope is, yeah, we moved some players, but you
Speaker 7: know that they played good baseball. The silver lining through
Speaker 7: all this is, uh, you know, he's going to get
Speaker 7: a chance to see a lot of these players that
Speaker 7: we brought up and uh, and continue to get those
Speaker 7: important reps. And because you you never know, you can
Speaker 7: get on the roll. I I you know, I look
Speaker 7: at Boston. I mean they they've gone thirty one and five,
Speaker 7: they were done, they were out of it, and then
Speaker 7: look look where they're at now. So I'm not saying
Speaker 7: that you know it's going to happen, but you never know.
Speaker 7: You know, with the club you know that can turn around,
Speaker 7: just play better baseball and more consistent baseball. And yeah,
Speaker 7: they're missing some pieces now, but we're getting a chance
Speaker 7: to see some of these guys and so I'm sure
Speaker 7: you know, there's a lot of things he can tell
Speaker 7: you now that he's learned, or he might do a
Speaker 7: little bit different. I said the same thing every year.
Speaker 7: You know, you're always looking at something what could have
Speaker 7: done to do better? That's what we ask ourselves.
Speaker 5: How often over your managerial career, would would you think
Speaker 5: back in a year where things were going well about
Speaker 5: maybe years where things didn't, But there were parts of
Speaker 5: the team that the good team that were you know,
Speaker 5: also on the team that struggled that we're able to
Speaker 5: you know, grow and develop and be a part of
Speaker 5: the good years.
Speaker 7: Yeah. No, every year is different. Just like a game,
Speaker 7: a season just takes the life of its own. And
Speaker 7: and so you know, guys, they're gonna go up and down.
Speaker 7: They're gonna have their streaks or bad streaks.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 7: You know, ball's gonna bounce your way. Calls uh are
Speaker 7: gonna bounce your way, and you know, some years it
Speaker 7: doesn't happen. I've been asked a lot, well, how come
Speaker 7: we couldn't go back to back and uh, but a
Speaker 7: lot of reasons that would come in. You know, one
Speaker 7: could be the health of the club. One could be
Speaker 7: the play, how the players are performing. Uh, you know,
Speaker 7: the luck factor, things like that, and uh so I
Speaker 7: just try to go in that clubhouse the same way
Speaker 7: every day, and and and just think what I could do,
Speaker 7: you know, to to help the club, Uh, you know,
Speaker 7: get back to winning baseball. It's frustrating when you know,
Speaker 7: it's frustrating for me when you know, we win a
Speaker 7: championship and we the next year we would talk about
Speaker 7: and you know, we can't get complacent whatever. And I
Speaker 7: don't think the players ever were, but it just shows
Speaker 7: you how hard it is to win a championship.
Speaker 2: Bruce, Always appreciate your time. I know it's a big
Speaker 2: weekend for you. A lot of familiar faces. Actually, last
Speaker 2: thing before you would let you go, we had Tim
Speaker 2: Flannery on the show earlier this week from a top
Speaker 2: of the mountain, calling in talking about how he's going
Speaker 2: to be gimming this week and with Jake Peevey and
Speaker 2: the Lunatic Fringe. He wanted me to ask if there's
Speaker 2: any chance he can get you back on stage as
Speaker 2: a backup singer.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, you know, he got me up there down
Speaker 7: in Poway, San Diego, And yeah, that's as nervous as
Speaker 7: I've ever been. But yeah, yeah, I've gotta find out
Speaker 7: where he's playing. I haven't got that invite back, so
Speaker 7: I don't think I was very good.
Speaker 2: We'll make sure to get you back in stage. Looking
Speaker 2: forward to seeing you back at the ballpark this weekend.
Speaker 2: You're the best, Bruce. Appreciate you joining us this morning.
Speaker 7: Guys, Thanks for having me on. Good talking with you.
Speaker 2: Always a privilege to have the one and only Bruce
Speaker 2: Bouchie back on the morning show once again. We'll get
Speaker 2: back into some of these Mike Kruco discussions with some
Speaker 2: of our favorite stories that we have deep down on
Speaker 2: the Z Drive. Part two of the Kruk of Content
Speaker 2: is up next. It's Marcus Bouchet and John Dickinson film
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