WEBVTT - Mike Krukow’s Lasting Giants Legacy | Susan Slusser and Bruce Bochy Reflect 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:04.880 Now back to murphin Markets on the Sports Leader streaming 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:08.799 live on the sports Leader dot com at KNBR the 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:10.920 Sports Leader app. 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:22.040 All right, we are back on the murphin Market show 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.520 on a Friday morning, and you know the routine every 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:28.760 Friday morning. Right around a fifteen, we check in with 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:31.200 Susan Slusser from the San Francisco Chronicle. 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:32.880 And Susan, it feels. 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:35.479 Like this is a reoccurring theme where Murph's on vacation 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:40.080 on a Friday. We've got John Dickinson filling in once again. Susan, 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:41.200 how you doing this morning? 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:44.880 Murphy's doing something right. That's that's all I gotta say. 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:48.519 Yeah, And Susan, we should have our own podcast. At 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:51.880 this point, I feel I feel like, no matter where 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:54.680 you are I am, no matter where I am, you are, 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.440 it's great. But I just it's like, I think we 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:00.640 need to like capitalize on this somehow. 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:01.440 Let's do it. 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:03.920 Let's do it. We're always here. Where's Murph? 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.800 Absolutely, Murph is on vacation again. He's actually out on 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:09.200 the East Coast checking in on his kid who has 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:12.120 joined the Naval academy. So he is out on the 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:15.360 East Coast. At the end of pleab summer checking in 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:17.640 on his boy. But we'll be back on Monday, and 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:21.080 I think he's scheduled to work next Friday as well, 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:24.400 so we will eventually get the return of Brian Murphy. 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.560 But Susan, let's talk about the news yesterday that we 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:31.760 got about the eventual departure of Mike Cruco. He announced 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:34.200 yesterday that he will be stepping out of the broadcast 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.400 booth at the end of this season after thirty six 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:41.520 years on the radio and on TV. I should say, Susan, 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.960 your reaction and just your thoughts on Mike Cruco announcing 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:45.640 his retirement. 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.400 I mean, it's a day nobody ever wanted to come, 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.240 including Mike, and I talked to Mike briefly, but it's 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:55.000 just not you know, Kruk and Kipe they're so special. 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.080 They're so special. When I first moved over to covering 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.160 the Giants after our you know, a million years on 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.080 the A's, people would always ask me like, like, what's 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:05.520 the best thing about covering the Giants, And people would 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.200 automatically think I was going to say the ballpark, which 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.960 of course is great, but it's Kruk and Kite number 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.680 one by far, and I think that they're always number 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:18.120 one in every pole of like what giants fans like 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.079 the most and value the most about the team. So 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:23.200 I think that's we can all agree on that they're 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:27.080 just the best and Krucos and also just an amazing 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:32.280 human being. Everybody I texted to ask to talk to 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:34.959 about Kruko when I was writing the story yesterday, everybody 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:35.560 got back to me. 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:39.880 And that is so rare from your view, what separates 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:44.799 him and them as a duo from the just the 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:48.359 numerous other greats, because the Bay Area is just littered 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:53.440 with grates everywhere every team in terms of broadcasters. But 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.840 yet those two, in their own way, have sort of 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:00.360 separated themselves from a group of life jins. 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.840 Frankly, yeah, it is unusual, and you know, you're right, 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:05.840 we are so lucky in the Berryer. I think this 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:10.360 is just about as rich history for sports broadcasting as 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:14.040 anywhere in the country, maybe even better. But those two, 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:17.560 you know, it's unusual to have teammates as players who 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:20.200 are then broadcasters together. I think that's one thing. They 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.960 know each other so well. But it's really it's the 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:27.000 warmth and the sense of humor, the empathy, and Kruco 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.440 really you know, he's the driving force I think there 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:33.560 with the like the empathy Jeff Kent, who's not well, 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:35.520 he didn't used to be warmon fuzzy Now I think 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.520 now the new Jeff Kent is a little bit more 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.800 warm and fuzzy. But he said the real thing for 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:45.080 him with Kruco is his ability to really portray what 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.800 a player is dealing with, what a player is going through, 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.600 his loyalty to the players, like he never lost that 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:53.600 and so he can really, you know, with a lot 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.960 of empathy, explain exactly what is going through a player's mind. 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.080 And Will Clark said he's the guy who kind of 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.280 introduces players for all the fans, anybody that follows the 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.480 Giants and makes them San Francisco Giants. So they kind 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:08.680 of both said almost the same thing, like he just 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:09.800 gets the players. 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.320 The Giants have announced that they do plan on celebrating 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.560 Mike Cruco's career in legacy during the final regular season 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.840 game of the season against the Dodgers September twenty seventh 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.880 at Oracle Park. So Susan moving forward and moving on 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.719 from the Mike Cruco conversation, talking about who could potentially 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.479 be in the lineup on September twenty seventh, because the 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:32.000 Giants made a lot of trades at this year's trade deadline, 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:35.280 shipping away six different active players off the major league roster. 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.640 Let's start with Elliott Ramos, who I know you reported 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:40.880 on for a couple of weeks on the thought of 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.640 him being traded. Well, it happened just a few minutes 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:45.719 before the trade deadline. He gets shipped out for the 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.599 New York Yankees in a trade package that returns a 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.680 camp to the Giants organization. But your thoughts on the 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.040 Elliot Ramas trade overall in the return package that the 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.840 Giants got, Yeah, you know. 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.120 I think we knew that a lot of this, so 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.080 it's coming, maybe not all of it. Six is a 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.840 lot to come off a roster, But Elliott Ramos was 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.000 the one that teams were had scouts with the most. Like, 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:11.120 whenever I saw scout and we'd start chit chatting, I'd say, like, 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.839 what kind of need is your team? You know, what 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.440 are you looking for? And they'd all say, right right 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:21.280 handed hitting outfielder. Who's pretty clear that he was the guy. 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:23.839 So I wasn't surprised, but we're all sad because what 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:27.000 you know, I'll talk about another special human being, somebody 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.520 that plays with a ton of joy and just a 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.440 wonderful to deal with. So I know fans don't necessarily 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:36.320 care about that stuff, but that buster Coat could return. 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.360 I felt like on all of this, and I checked 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.640 in with a bunch of scouts and development people and 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:44.640 Baseball America people things like that, and the consensus was 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.200 the Giants did very well with all of these returns. 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:48.800 And that's what you have to do this time of year. 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:50.760 If you're a team in this situation. 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.640 Where do you think that the Giants are in terms 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.400 of the prospects that they got in return the draft, 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.719 the young players that are, you know, at the lower 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:03.000 level levels of the minor league system. In essence, you 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.720 could make the claim, hey, you know, maybe into twenty eight, 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:09.880 twenty nine, thirty beyond looks really bright at least on 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:13.000 paper as much as you know anybody can know about 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.719 players that aren't in the major leagues. Yet, how do 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:20.839 you think that works with the plan for maybe twenty 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.600 twenty seven and twenty twenty eight in terms of goals 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:29.240 and talent and still having a lot of veteran players 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.160 pinned in to their starting lineup. 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:31.640 Next year. 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:35.159 Yeah, I don't think it's like a full full rebuild 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.040 or anything. And I knowing Buster Posey the way we 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.640 all do, I don't see him as a guy who's like, yeah, 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:42.520 we just won't contend for the next couple of years. 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.320 I think he certainly would like to do that with 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.360 this group. And then we'll know whether or not that's 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:52.039 the case when we see what they do in free agency. Obviously, 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:55.520 the potential lockout, well not even potential, the lockout kind 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:59.279 of you know, confuses that, like when exactly do they 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.880 stop at start adding, But they will at some point, 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.039 and if they rebuild their bullpen, they're expecting that they 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.120 will try to contend next year, and they should because 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:08.800 they do have some pieces that could do it, and 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:12.080 they need obviously probably a couple more starting pitchers. But 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:14.559 right now they do need to sort through this group 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.400 of upper level prospects that they have. That's what this 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.440 last two is about. There are guys here who can 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.280 and will help them next year, and they need to 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.640 know they need to know who. I also think this 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.880 is a good two month stretch for Tony Vitello. He 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:32.920 is a guy who is very comfortable coaching younger players. 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:37.520 That is definitely his background, and I think he's going 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:41.440 to really relish kind of helping all of these players 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:45.080 maximize their potential. That's what he's done his entire career 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:46.400 is help young players do that. 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.840 One of those young players, one of those young prospects 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:52.239 that the Giants got in return at the trade deadline 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.640 that could potentially make an impact as soon as the 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.520 season is Marcela Meyer for the Boston Red Sox. He's 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.800 somebody that was a top five draft picked a couple 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:01.720 year years ago, has been touted as one of the 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.600 best prospects in baseball. Susan, what can you tell us 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.280 about his recovery from injury right now and if there 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:08.960 are any game plans to try to get him on 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:10.600 the major league roster as soon as the season. 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.480 Well, he was slated to be seen by a team 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:17.400 medical on Wednesday, so and yesterday was an off day, 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.080 so I don't think the team will have any information 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:23.880 necessarily on where they feel like Marcelo is medically until today. 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.320 But you know, I don't think that there was any 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.080 idea that, you know, say he's going to miss the 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.920 rest of the season. I think he would probably join 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.800 the Giants as soon as he's cleared, and he really 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.120 profiles as a guy who is potentially a fresh start guy. 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.880 I think things, you know, sometimes want to prospect for 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.800 a long time just doesn't quite you know. And with 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:48.600 Marcella Meyer it's mostly been injuries, doesn't quite pan out, 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.160 Things can kind of go a little bit sour for everybody. 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.520 Fresh start is perfect. I think the Giants probably have 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.120 a lot of ideas and the best thing of all 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:58.120 is Marcello Meyer comes in and gets to work with 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.240 Ron Washington, which for any infielder's just got to be 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.240 a dream come true. So I think this is a 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:08.320 really interesting deal. And you know, the Giants get a name, 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:12.480 kind of prospect and an opportunity here again, Tony Vaitello, 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:14.200 do your magic. 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:16.280 Susan, I'm curious. 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.400 You know, big part of the weekend is that the 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:21.880 Wall of Fame ceremony, and you've got Posey and Belt 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:25.840 and Panic and Brandon Crawford, Pablo Santoval all going on 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.479 the Wall of Fame. They were all the homegrown infield 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.400 that was a part of the last championship team in 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:34.520 twenty fourteen. I know you were covering the A's at 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.719 the time, but you would come over as one of 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:38.720 the lead riders in the game during some of the 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.360 runs when the A's maybe were out to cover the 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.120 playoffs and World Series and different things. I'm curious though, 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:48.439 more just your perspective on the Giants as somebody at 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.280 that time that wasn't covering the Giants but was covering 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.079 baseball on a day to day basis, just in terms 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.360 of kind of what they had going with a lot 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:00.319 of the young players that they developed that ultimately became 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.880 a part of that core, and then just kind of 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:06.280 how you view it all now as you've gotten to 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:10.040 know and cover some of these guys in a different 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.920 in a different way, in different roles. I know, Crawford 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:16.000 was around for a time obviously when you were covering 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.640 the Giants. Just sort of all of that from somebody 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:20.720 that's that's covered the game for such a long time. 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.000 Yeah, I always loved coming over here, and of course 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:26.520 we saw the Giants quite a lot in the spring, 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:30.400 and you know, during the Interleague and that kind of thing, 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:36.200 but just so professionally run jumped out always and when 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.080 it came to that core. It's kind of a little 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.240 bit what we were talking about before this is you know, 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:42.360 look at how what the Dodgers have done, look at 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.760 what that Giants team did. These were that infield, like 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:49.480 this is home grown guys. Now, the Giants did a 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:54.199 fantastic job with also then going and getting older relievers 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.760 who became you know, absolute hallmark of that team too, 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.160 which is exactly what this team is going and I 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:02.440 have to do. I mean, absolutely they need to go 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.160 out and find a sort of or four on the 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:09.160 free agent market. But there's some similarities. Jeremie Alfha talks 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.760 a lot about this year in terms of two thousand 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.600 and nine, uh and how that was sort of the 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:19.120 step toward the championship years, and there might be something 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:22.679 to that. So that's that's one thing. But then coming 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.280 over and covering I said this from the get go, 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:27.400 when it came over and started covering the Giants after 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:32.439 the pandemic, was watching Brandon Crawford every day, like, you know, 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:34.360 he's a good shortstop, you know he's a good hitter. 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:36.600 You know when you're covered, when you're watching from Afar 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:38.760 and you're watching highlights and stuffs, when you watch him 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:42.000 every day, Oh my gosh. And that twenty twenty one 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:45.439 season was just outrageous you know, he was truly great 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.000 and that was that was really really fun, was watching that. 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.160 He's the best shortstop I've covered on a daily basis. 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.800 Wow, that says a lot, well, Susan. The Giants will 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.520 be celebrating those championship years this week and with five 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.240 members going on the Hall of Fame. Enjoyed the ceremony, 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.000 enjoy seeing some familiar faces. And I'll try to get 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.839 Murph to work next Friday for by the next time 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:06.680 we talk to you, Susan. 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:08.240 Fantastic. 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:12.040 There she is Susan Slusser from the San Francisco Chronicle 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.880 talking about everything involved in the San Francisco Giants, from 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.960 Mike Cruko's retirement to this year's trade deadline to the 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.480 Hall of Fame ceremony this week. And all right, let's 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.760 hop into the Cruco of content. That's right, it's time 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.760 for the cooler of content, where we have found. 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.320 Through Walter's deep research, some. 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:33.240 Of the best sounds and stories throughout Mike Cruco's career. 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.120 Eightaway cambi Are is the number if you want to 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:38.720 put Walton Curley to work and make them dig up 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.839 some deep, deep stories that Mike Cruco has told on 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.040 these airwaves. We'll do that next as it's JD and 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.920 Marcus on the Murphy Market Show on the Sports Leader 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.520 KMBR The Sports Leader. 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.520 All right, everyone, Jill, this. 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:55.600 Is the cooler. 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:57.960 He's betting a cooler. 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:01.440 Of content, corn capacious, of joyful news. 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:02.480 It might be all thet time. 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:08.640 Now back to murphin Markets on the Sports Leader. 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:18.960 Hopping back into the Cooler of content, or as today 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.960 we're calling it, the Cruco of Content. And of course 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.000 the Cooler of Content is sponsored by Marine Health with 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:28.680 tap physicians, surgeons and clinicians. 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:29.320 Right here into North Bay. 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.920 Marine Health puts you closer to your best health, world 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:38.320 class care, closer than you think. And yes, today's cooler 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.440 of content is all Mike Kruco. 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.280 And if you're just waking up this morning wondering why 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:45.600 we're doing in all Mike. 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.760 Cruco Cooler of Content, it's because you missed the news 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.600 yesterday that came out right after our show, right around 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:55.400 ten am, that Mike Kruco will be stepping aside from 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:59.479 the broadcast booth. This will be his last season broadcasting 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:03.120 games for the San Francisco Giants, wrapping up a thirty 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:07.840 six year career on air calling games. This comes after 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:11.920 playing fourteen years of Major League baseball, a man that 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:16.480 has literally dedicated fifty years of his life to Major 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.480 League baseball, and he goes deeper and deeper beyond that, 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.320 going back to the college days, the high school days, 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:26.200 and Mike Cruco growing up down in southern California to 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:30.560 now bringing Giants Baseball to the airwaves in Northern California 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.000 for the last thirty six years. So let's hop into 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.360 the cooler and check out some of the best sound 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.200 that we've heard from Mike Cruco over the past couple 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:41.240 of years. And of course we got to go straight 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:46.680 to the championship, the first one in San Francisco twenty ten, 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:51.320 the first parade and the first victory speech from Mike 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:56.360 Cruco down at City Hall. Let's go back to twenty ten, Walter. 0:14:56.680 --> 0:15:00.320 Here was Mike Cruco with his iconic story of San 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:04.640 Francisco speech after the Giants' first World Series in San Francisco. 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:10.560 How great was that parade? I know everybody up here 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:14.560 felt it, and I know you felt it, and everybody 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.600 here today you are standing here and you are not 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:22.240 standing alone. You are standing with the person that taught 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:26.120 you the great story of the San Francisco Giants. Whether 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:28.200 it be your dad or your mom, or a friend 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:32.560 or your sister or your grandpa, they taught you right. 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:35.440 They taught you you had to be loyal, You had 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.840 to love your team. And to a man on this team, 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:43.000 this twenty ten team, to a man back in August, 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:47.120 they plugged into you, and you fueled and energized this 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.600 group all the way through the crazy month of September 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:53.400 and into what is an epic month of October, and 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:58.960 what is one glorious day in November. And you have 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:03.400 but one response, and you owe it to the person 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:08.000 that taught you the good book, San Francisco Giants. You 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:12.320 need to pass this story on, keep this love alive. 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:17.240 And when you tell the story, simply tell them we're 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.840 the Giants or San Francisco and. 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:22.200 We are the world champions. 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:28.440 We're the Giants, We're San Francisco and we're World Series champions. 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.640 Truly an iconic speech, a speech that still gives me 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:33.840 goosebumps to this day, JD. 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.000 Because he's right. At one point. 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.480 In your lives, you were taught the game of baseball, 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:41.760 and you were taught about the San Francisco Giants. It 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:45.440 could be a mother, a father, a grandmother, a grandfather, 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.680 the lineage, the way that the sport of baseball can 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:52.440 connect different generations. And Mike Kruco has been one of 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.800 the narrators for that book of Giants Baseball, and it's 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.560 part of our job to continue that message and pass 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:00.760 it down to the next generation. But it's all going 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.800 to circle back to that speech. The first ever World 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:06.960 Series parade here in the city of San Francius just tremendous. 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.800 I mean to listen back to it and to sort 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:16.359 of go back in time, honestly and just appreciate how 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:20.320 special that run truly was. And a big part of 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:24.240 the reason why that run was so special was because 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:28.159 there had been so much heartbreak before, honestly for the 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:31.840 Giants fan base. But yet such a beloved franchise, and 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:33.520 why are they such a beloved franchise. 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.040 It's, of course the great players. 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:39.439 That have come through the decades, But as much as 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.679 it is about the great players, it's about how the 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.640 game is consumed. It's about how you watch the game, 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:47.639 how you go to the game, how you listen to 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:52.320 the game, how you experience it on television. And it 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.679 was always going to be special winning a World series, 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.159 let alone three always is, and we're focused on the 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:00.600 first one here with that speech. But I think a 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:04.400 big part of the reason why so many were in 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:09.239 tiers and had such a special, special bond with that 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:13.720 group was the connection that they built with the team 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.199 through Mike Kruco and Dwaynekuiper. 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.800 Yes, because Mike Cruco and Dwayne Kuiper went through the 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:23.520 dog days, the struggles, the World Series losses that we 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:25.639 do not need to bring up. But these guys are 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:27.600 a part of the fabric, a part of the culture. 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.480 And yeah, JD, it's the easiest joke to make. You 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:34.320 never forget your first But the Giants weren't done quite yet. 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.280 Even though that celebration was wild, guess what they got 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:39.480 to do it two more times in the next five 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:43.240 years twenty ten, twenty twelve, twenty fourteen, all ended with 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:48.040 championship parades. Here's a compilation of Mike Cruco's best moments, 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:51.040 some of his best quotes, all put together in a 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.720 quick thirty second package from the championship parades. 0:18:55.200 --> 0:19:02.159 And once again they could say it loudly, we are 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:06.320 San Francisco. Where are the World champions? 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:15.920 Your belief, your pride is the backbone of every accomplishment 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:19.280 they've ever had, and it allows me to stand here 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:24.200 before you again today for the third time in five years, 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:30.040 and I could say, we are the Giants, we are 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:31.000 San Francisco. 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:34.240 So where are the World champions? 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:38.440 I mean it gets even better and better every single year, 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:42.600 every single championship. Not sure how the Giants are planning 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:45.480 on honoring the legacy of Mike Kruco, but you can 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:47.600 throw that quote on the bricks out in right field 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:50.440 if you want. We are Giants, we are San Francisco, 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:52.400 We are World Series Champions JD. 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:57.280 Yeah, amazing And just what a we're talking about this 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:01.840 with Bruce Bochie. I mean just the the knowledge but 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:05.560 also you know, just the respect that the players had 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:07.560 for him because of the fact that he was a player, 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:10.760 the fact that he was able to bond with the 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:14.120 coaching staff and the manager. But then he just has 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:19.399 such a way about the way he carries himself and 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:24.879 the sense of humor and just the eloquence in stating 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:28.800 things that that just that just bond you with this 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:29.480 this franchise. 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:32.920 And he knows how to connect with everybody a filming, everybody, 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:37.000 with the fans, with the players, with radio hosts like 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:40.280 Murphy and myself. I mean, he literally connects with everyone, 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:43.160 including his coworkers. One of the best teams in baseball 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:43.800 currently right now. 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:48.000 Just a master communicator on so many different levels. And 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:53.320 Susan Slusser brought this up, and I was gonna follow, 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:54.960 and then we kind of got into different parts of 0:20:55.160 --> 0:21:00.919 the conversation. But the blend of the empathy and the 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:06.679 humor of Mike with Dwayne's more kind of laid back, edgy, 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:08.600 little edgy, little. 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:11.159 Little you know, make you, you know, make you think. 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:13.399 That he's about to pop off and say something, you know, 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:15.920 a little a little angry or something. It just it 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:19.480 just works. A little snarky, a little dry. Like the 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:24.479 combination of both is just so perfect for those reasons. 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:25.800 I mean, it's a perfect fit. 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:28.520