Speaker 1: Now back to dirty Work with Copes and d Pop
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Speaker 2: Starty Work on a Thursday afternoon, Adam Copelande Pop, Kyle
Speaker 2: Horror hanging out with us today. We're being joined on
Speaker 2: the UMA guest line by Susan Selester. She covers the
Speaker 2: Giants for the San Francisco Chronicles. Susan is sponsored by
Speaker 2: SERFSID It's not a Seltzer, it's Surfside, proud partner of
Speaker 2: the Giants.
Speaker 3: We do it with Susan each and every week.
Speaker 2: And Susan we were just talking before he came on, saying,
Speaker 2: I don't think this is a day where we really
Speaker 2: talk much about what's happening on the field for the Giants.
Speaker 2: In the last couple of days, with all the news
Speaker 2: between Cambre changes and Mike Kruco on his own terms
Speaker 2: announcing his retirement today, we kind of thought this a
Speaker 2: better subject to.
Speaker 3: Talk about with you.
Speaker 2: Somebody who's known both of these guys and even Greg Silver,
Speaker 2: three of these guys and been around the Bay area
Speaker 2: media scene for so long.
Speaker 3: Susan, how are you today?
Speaker 2: On a Thursday afternoon, hy Susan's great.
Speaker 4: Hi guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was once an on the air called even
Speaker 5: like I've got a and I and as you you
Speaker 5: probably know, I did Stanford baseball and football right now,
Speaker 5: So I'm I feel very strongly about many of these things,
Speaker 5: but especially Kruko. You know, Kruko is near and dear
Speaker 5: to all Giants fans, I mean all baseball fans, like
Speaker 5: some of the response I'm hearing from people in other
Speaker 5: parts of the country who are like, you know, I'm
Speaker 5: a fan of this team, but I try to listen
Speaker 5: to Kruk and Kite because they're so great, which of course,
Speaker 5: of course they are. And everyone knows what Crook's been
Speaker 5: going through physically. It is, it is not. It's so
Speaker 5: commendable what he's been doing, and he would never say
Speaker 5: it ever, he'd never complain. He's got the best attitude,
Speaker 5: he has upbeat at all times. But it is a
Speaker 5: massive effort for him to have been doing games the
Speaker 5: way he's been doing, especially when he's coming to the ballpark,
Speaker 5: and I you know that is he wants to be
Speaker 5: doing this. He would never retire early. And my you know,
Speaker 5: I talked to him briefly today and obviously I talked
Speaker 5: to to Dwayne at length, But when I talked to Kruk,
Speaker 5: I said, you know, Dwayne and I were kind of
Speaker 5: kicking around, like there's all these kind of fill in analysts,
Speaker 5: and obviously somebody is going to wind up being kind
Speaker 5: of the primary partner, we would assume, and there's many
Speaker 5: good choices. But I was like, you know, could you
Speaker 5: maybe be a guy that would be an occasional fill
Speaker 5: in like there's that happen sometimes, or even just come
Speaker 5: like guest turninning or two. And he said, oh, hell yeah,
Speaker 5: Well okay, you know this is the happiest thing I've
Speaker 5: been all day.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's very cool. I mean I remember when
Speaker 2: Lon Simmons came. I remember as a kid getting to
Speaker 2: hear Lon Simmons call some games because he would come
Speaker 2: back periodically and sit in and be there for five
Speaker 2: or six games of a home stand or something, and
Speaker 2: he would call a couple of innings and he'd be
Speaker 2: on the postgame rap. I mean, that's that's really the
Speaker 2: beauty of what this is is he can continue to touch.
Speaker 3: People and have impacts on so many different lives.
Speaker 2: And we've been taking calls all day season about it's
Speaker 2: really like the voices of summer, the voices of your childhood.
Speaker 2: I said, I can pinpoint moments in my life and
Speaker 2: hear Mike Cruco's voice, and I think for generation he's
Speaker 2: touched people. But really I love broadcasters that one do
Speaker 2: it in a unique way. They do it absolutely wholeheartedly
Speaker 2: with as most ingenuity as they can or being as
Speaker 2: genuine as they possibly can. And then also you learn
Speaker 2: stuff from him, and he's funny, like there's I don't
Speaker 2: even know which button you'd want to hit on or
Speaker 2: which topic you'd want to hit on, because you can't
Speaker 2: even you can't sum it all up into one sentence.
Speaker 2: Just like he said in his statement, he doesn't think
Speaker 2: he could sum up how grateful he is for his
Speaker 2: time to everybody.
Speaker 5: Right, Oh, he's great at everything. You're right, a one
Speaker 5: hundred percent right, And I mean, find the humor, the warmth,
Speaker 5: the you know, when you write a story like you know,
Speaker 5: I talk to a bazillion people when I when this
Speaker 5: news broke, and when you write a story about this,
Speaker 5: like you put out a ton of calls and he usually,
Speaker 5: you know, you're lucky if you get maybe half the
Speaker 5: people responding. Everyone people just write like everyone understands how
Speaker 5: important Mike Kruco is. But beyond that, everyone loves Mike
Speaker 5: Kruco there, it's just impossible not to. So he's just
Speaker 5: special and amazing. And you know what, I don't I
Speaker 5: don't think that what he's dealing with in body inclusion,
Speaker 5: body mitosis, I don't think it gets enough mentioned, because
Speaker 5: this is another one where we talk about you got
Speaker 5: to you know, get rid of cancer. You know that
Speaker 5: MLB has lots of initiatives about that. There are all
Speaker 5: the things about als. Look, this isn't This is one
Speaker 5: where it's not fatal. That this is a vibrant, healthy
Speaker 5: man with so much to give, and this has made
Speaker 5: it really you know, it's limited in him the past
Speaker 5: two years. And now he's got something of an early retirement.
Speaker 5: Yeah he's seventy four. Sure, that's past you know, regular
Speaker 5: retirement age, but broadcasters go forever and ever, and that's
Speaker 5: what we all wanted to see. So yeah, let's let's
Speaker 5: strike out this and body inclusion body mitosis.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 6: Definitely talking to Susan Sluster on the UMA guest line
Speaker 6: in talking to former players today about this news with
Speaker 6: my cruco and your opinions us and just covering the
Speaker 6: game of baseball for so long? Now, what do you
Speaker 6: think makes players respect broadcasters and like, you know, when
Speaker 6: it comes to my Kruco, obviously he played the game,
Speaker 6: but you talked to everybody today and everybody got back
Speaker 6: to you.
Speaker 7: What do you think makes it?
Speaker 6: What do you think makes players respect broadcasters and the
Speaker 6: way that my Cruco has well when it.
Speaker 5: Comes to the players specifically, just Kent said, it's his
Speaker 5: loyalty to the players and his ability to describe players
Speaker 5: in real terms that make listeners understand their point of view.
Speaker 5: You know, he is always rushing to give here's what
Speaker 5: a player might be thinking on this and that, and
Speaker 5: in a way that makes you understand what they're going through,
Speaker 5: what their options are, you know, in a in a
Speaker 5: very human way, you know, just not sort of nuts
Speaker 5: and bolts that the empathy is so much it comes through,
Speaker 5: and that's I think the players hear that, they see
Speaker 5: that they know him. You know, he's even still he's
Speaker 5: going out on the field and talking to players as
Speaker 5: often as he can. We see him out there, you know,
Speaker 5: as he can do it, and I think that goes
Speaker 5: a long way too. So he's just it's remarkable what
Speaker 5: he's done.
Speaker 6: Really, No, it has and in a lot of this news, Susan,
Speaker 6: I know a lot's been made of Krook and Kype
Speaker 6: get into Cooperstown together with him retiring. Do you think
Speaker 6: that maybe they would rethink this whole thing, because I
Speaker 6: think they've been against it. But to get the Ford
Speaker 6: Sea Frick Award together and Krook and Kype in tandem,
Speaker 6: you think that could happen.
Speaker 2: Imagine being against that as the Hall suits, He's still like, no,
Speaker 2: there's no chance we're not doing that.
Speaker 5: People in the Bay Area have been pushing this idea
Speaker 5: for quite some time, probably going back maybe you know,
Speaker 5: close to a decade. They're not on the ballot this year. Sadly,
Speaker 5: I would love there was one year they were both
Speaker 5: on the ballot, and I think everybody said at that
Speaker 5: point like do it, do it, do it, do it,
Speaker 5: And I don't look okay. I think they're worried about
Speaker 5: setting your precedent and then you got to put in
Speaker 5: this pair and then you to put in that pair.
Speaker 5: It doesn't have to be you know, the Hall is
Speaker 5: running the show. They can make votes essentially whatever, you know,
Speaker 5: whatever they want, the parameters, whatever, they want this, I
Speaker 5: think is a special case and I would love it now.
Speaker 5: I talked to John Miller, and John Miller said, you
Speaker 5: know what, I think they both are worthy of their
Speaker 5: own inclusion and they should be considered separately and go
Speaker 5: in separately. And I can see that, like don't you know,
Speaker 5: you don't dilute it or whatever. But it's Crook and
Speaker 5: Kuype Like it's hard to get away from the idea
Speaker 5: they do need to go in together. They're they're almost
Speaker 5: more than a team. They're like, you don't think of
Speaker 5: one without the other, You just don't.
Speaker 2: There is something to that that it might be kind
Speaker 2: of cool if like one of them got in and
Speaker 2: you got Kruk to do the speech for Kaype or
Speaker 2: vice versa, like to do the like that's see, that
Speaker 2: would be pretty sweet, you.
Speaker 3: Know what I mean? Like having having one and then
Speaker 3: the other would also be amazing.
Speaker 2: And funny, probably the funniest. Susan Slesser joins us on
Speaker 2: the on the UMA guest line. We've been we've been
Speaker 2: just it's really sort of forthcoming and true to ourselves
Speaker 2: season and talking about all these changes that have happened.
Speaker 2: I said, it's really special to me, the crew gets
Speaker 2: to go out on his own terms, that he gets
Speaker 2: to put this statement out, that he gets to enjoy
Speaker 2: these these final couple of months of Giants baseball. But
Speaker 2: we haven't shot away at all from what happened here
Speaker 2: at a cambr yesterday. And for many years you were
Speaker 2: covering the A's and Greg Papa the voice of the A's,
Speaker 2: and you are Chronicle Live and all that stuff. I
Speaker 2: just wanted to give you an opportunity, if you'd like one,
Speaker 2: to comment on any of that or your relationship with
Speaker 2: Greg over the time you were in Oakland.
Speaker 5: Well, absolutely, I mean Greg Greig is you talk about
Speaker 5: one of the all time greates that Greg is one
Speaker 5: of the all time and grades in multiple sports and
Speaker 5: as good a guy as you'll know, I mean great
Speaker 5: to young journalists, and the loads of fun. You know,
Speaker 5: when I first started on the A's, maybe the first
Speaker 5: ten or twelve years, he was still doing the A's
Speaker 5: broadcasts and the Chronicle didn't have the Sunday paper. Then
Speaker 5: when initially you know, the Examiner used to be the
Speaker 5: Sunday paper. So he's had saturdays off on the road,
Speaker 5: and there is nothing more fun than sitting in the
Speaker 5: stands and watching a game as a fan with Greg
Speaker 5: Papa because we had the opportunity, and that opportunity that
Speaker 5: a few times when there wasn't a broadcast or something
Speaker 5: on Saturday National broadcast or what have you, and like,
Speaker 5: I learned a lot and it was an awful lot
Speaker 5: of fun. And he's just you know, he's he's great
Speaker 5: to be around. So I was sad when he stopped
Speaker 5: doing the A's games, and I am this makes me
Speaker 5: even sadder because we all know what he's going through,
Speaker 5: we know what he's dealt with. What an absolute warrior
Speaker 5: he is. I mean, he's just indestructible and the force
Speaker 5: of will is just amazing. Yeah, he's an inspiration. I mean,
Speaker 5: I'm sure he probably would hate to hear somebody say that,
Speaker 5: but he's really an inspiration for this to happen on
Speaker 5: the heels of my colleague Garrett Branch's incredible story about
Speaker 5: Greg and what he's been dealing with is just astonishing
Speaker 5: to me. It's a yeah, I was a ghast. I've
Speaker 5: never used that word before, but I was a guest.
Speaker 7: No when it calls for it. And I appreciate all
Speaker 7: that you said, Susan.
Speaker 6: I have fond memories of that, you know, going to
Speaker 6: the coliseum with my pops and meeting you guys on
Speaker 6: the beatback then you Michael Urban Pedro Gomez like I
Speaker 6: have fond memories, yeah, Murpher a.
Speaker 7: Season, yeah, Ryan absolutely yeah no, So fond memories of that.
Speaker 7: And thank you all for the kind words.
Speaker 6: I do want to move over to baseball just real quickly,
Speaker 6: Buster Posey and his reaction to the trade deadline, just
Speaker 6: you know, him saying in the press conference or just
Speaker 6: the the the media zoom that happened after the trade
Speaker 6: deadline saying that you know, everybody was on the table.
Speaker 6: We did tell the other teams about that, so you know,
Speaker 6: we think that a lot of moves were made, but
Speaker 6: still a lot of guys are still on the roster.
Speaker 6: Do you think that maybe we could revisit some of
Speaker 6: you know, the speculation as far as Logo Web or
Speaker 6: Jung Hulei, like, these.
Speaker 7: Things could still be on the table in the off season.
Speaker 5: You know, Logan is the one guy that Buster said
Speaker 5: was not really available on it, and I think that's
Speaker 5: probably going to continue to be the case unless they
Speaker 5: got blown away. I mean, if somebody comes to them
Speaker 5: with a package that says, like, you know, here's two
Speaker 5: or a top three prospects, maybe you got to consider it.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I still I think even well, I
Speaker 5: don't know anybody else probably is a little available. Jung
Speaker 5: Who Lee might bring a little bit more because you know,
Speaker 5: he's got that South Korean market with him too. And
Speaker 5: the Giants definitely, you know, they value Jungu Lee of course,
Speaker 5: but they like having you know, an into an important
Speaker 5: market that they didn't have before.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 5: And they you know, obviously they sent a ton of
Speaker 5: executives to South Korea in the off season and this
Speaker 5: is uh, this does mean something to them. And it's
Speaker 5: been really fun kind of seeing that whole relationship open
Speaker 5: up a little bit too, the Jung Hu Ju Junghu
Speaker 5: crew and all of that kind of stuff, and having
Speaker 5: South Korean reporters following Jung Who in our media corps.
Speaker 5: That's all been a blast. But yeah, I think, you know,
Speaker 5: when you talk about kind of the big three contracts,
Speaker 5: I think we'll probably be talking about that every dread
Speaker 5: deadline every off season. It's just going to be awfully
Speaker 5: hard to move any of those deals because they are
Speaker 5: big and two guys have no non trades, but I
Speaker 5: think devs there's I think there was some interest. I
Speaker 5: think there was a little bit of interest, and some
Speaker 5: people kick the tires. I just don't think the Giants
Speaker 5: want to pick up, you know, half of a two
Speaker 5: hundred million dollars left contract just to move a guy,
Speaker 5: you know what. I think he's more valuable where he is,
Speaker 5: even if you're paying him, like, you may as well
Speaker 5: get something for that amount of money, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean?
Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, last one for you, Susan.
Speaker 6: Is it fair to say that it's probably not likely
Speaker 6: that Matt Shaman will return the season.
Speaker 5: I don't think so, and I don't know why you would.
Speaker 5: I don't think that the circumstances of the Giants are
Speaker 5: in Like if if they were in some sort of
Speaker 5: playoff push and there was a chance he could get
Speaker 5: back with rest and rehab, I know he would do
Speaker 5: everything he could. I just think that you want to
Speaker 5: knock this out and if it's you know, we certainly
Speaker 5: her hope it's not surgical unless that is the way
Speaker 5: that absolutely fix it, and which guy is great and
Speaker 5: then you know he's missing it. But if he needs
Speaker 5: rest and rehab, take all of the time you want,
Speaker 5: and then then he's like Casey Schmidt. Then you have
Speaker 5: a healthy off season, you can have your full workouts,
Speaker 5: be one hundred percent ready to go next season. I
Speaker 5: think you know either way is probably good, but there's
Speaker 5: just no reason to push it. And plus you can
Speaker 5: keep seeing all these guys, keep rotating through all these
Speaker 5: young guys and taking a look at everybody you can.
Speaker 5: They're going to be constrained a little bit by the
Speaker 5: potential labor stoppage and maybe not wanting to put guys
Speaker 5: on the forty man and keep them playing, so we
Speaker 5: might not see somebody like Parks Harbor as much as
Speaker 5: we would like to. But they've got a lot of
Speaker 5: really good options, and some of these young kids are
Speaker 5: really fun or good stories like Eddie's, Leonard's that's been great,
Speaker 5: and my gosh, what Bessabi's been doing. So I hope
Speaker 5: people are still paying attention because there's some interesting, fun
Speaker 5: stuff that will have repercussions in future years going on.
Speaker 2: Susan Slusser the Voice She Heard, covers the Giants for
Speaker 2: the San Francisco Chronicles. She joined us every week here
Speaker 2: on Dirty Work. Susan, we appreciate the time as always
Speaker 2: thank you so much. Joined the rest of the off
Speaker 2: day and we will talk to you.
Speaker 5: Shoot. Thank you, Susan, fantastic, thanks us.
Speaker 2: Good stuff there from from Susan Selester. Itaway came to
Speaker 2: our four and five ITA eight five sixty seven. Is
Speaker 2: that I'm gonna call antext Did you ever watch a
Speaker 2: game in the stands with with your dad and sless
Speaker 2: no nuts?
Speaker 6: I mean maybe I was so young during that time.
Speaker 6: It was I think student started on the beat in
Speaker 6: nineteen ninety nine with the A's, so you were what
Speaker 6: you were, I was eight years old years old. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but I remember, I'm like, yeah, like me and my
Speaker 6: dad go to the ballpark, you know, all the time,
Speaker 6: and you know when he was when he wasn't doing
Speaker 6: baseball games, Like I remember, one of my fondest memories
Speaker 6: is me and my little brother and him going, uh
Speaker 6: Father's Day from going from Oracle Park to the Coliseum.
Speaker 6: We did the double dip of watching the Giants and
Speaker 6: the Ags and the same day.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it's fun. But yeah, I have fond memories.
Speaker 6: Dude, of God, him being the A's broadcaster and that crew,
Speaker 6: like it kind of felt like they raised me a
Speaker 6: little bit, Like I remember Susan Pedro Gomez the legend.
Speaker 3: And and you were like you grew up with Pedro,
Speaker 3: didn't you? And his kids?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Pedro I said all the time, like Pedro be
Speaker 6: sad me all right, pe Man, Yeah that was I
Speaker 6: think about that a lot lately with my father and
Speaker 6: his illness. Uh Pedro, Yeah, that that hit me deep.
Speaker 6: A couple of years ago. I think it was on
Speaker 6: Super Bowl Sunday. Yeah, it was really suck in years
Speaker 6: and the Chiefs and but yeah, I have fond memories
Speaker 6: of my father in Pedro, and I think reading his book,
Speaker 6: I remember who you are. Like, Pedro was about that
Speaker 6: with everybody, so you know, he connected with everybody that
Speaker 6: he worked with.
Speaker 7: He and my dad were so close, so close.
Speaker 6: And yeah, when my you know, my dad and my
Speaker 6: stepmom were, you know, having date night, they dropped me
Speaker 6: out the house and hang out with Pedro and his family.
Speaker 3: Was awesome.
Speaker 2: That's yeah, that's I mean, the the web you've lived
Speaker 2: through and it has been woven around you and the
Speaker 2: connections you've had just from people tied to your dad
Speaker 2: is pretty incredible. Eightaway KMBR is what I'm gonna call
Speaker 2: in tex I'm gonna do something really quick here, Kyle,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take Pete's call. Pete, I'm waiting for a
Speaker 2: long time. Let's do it to get his thoughts in
Speaker 2: on on kruking kite. But I don't want them to
Speaker 2: wait anymore because he's done and slow, dude, And if
Speaker 2: you're in slow, you got to talk, SOMERU. Man, Pete,
Speaker 2: I appreciate you waiting on the line.
Speaker 9: Man, how are you good? Love the show.
Speaker 3: Appreciate you man, Thank you so much.
Speaker 9: So I got to go back to Candlestick when Kuiper
Speaker 9: was doing a Giant's vision and he was interviewing Bob
Speaker 9: Brandley on the field, and I had my young son
Speaker 9: with me. We went over to get his autographed. There
Speaker 9: was a crowd there and everybody's going, what do you
Speaker 9: want Kuiper's autograph for? You know, they're mocking us. So
Speaker 9: my son yells down to Dwayne. He says, hey, sign
Speaker 9: my baseball for me, And Kuyper turns around, looks at
Speaker 9: my son and says, if you can tell me who
Speaker 9: I am, I'll sign your baseball. So my son says, well,
Speaker 9: your kite. So he gets the baseball, he signs it,
Speaker 9: and now, of course everybody.
Speaker 10: Signed my baseball.
Speaker 9: Sign my baseball. He turned around, he walks off. So
Speaker 9: fast forward many years later, I'm in downtown San Louis
Speaker 9: and I run into Kruco at a clothing store that
Speaker 9: he used to advertise for. And that guy, Mike must
Speaker 9: have talked to me and my partner for forty five
Speaker 9: minutes about baseball and he answered every question we asked him.
Speaker 9: And I relayed that story about Kuiper taking the time
Speaker 9: to sign my ball, my son's baseball. He goes, you
Speaker 9: know what, I'm gonna go out to the car. When
Speaker 9: I get through here, I'm gonna call Dwayne and I'm
Speaker 9: gonna tell him about that. Well, now, fast forward to
Speaker 9: last year. Fast forward to last year in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 9: I go, you know, Kuiper's not going to be around,
Speaker 9: or Kruco's not going to be around much longer. I'm
Speaker 9: going to write these guys and relay this to see
Speaker 9: if they remember. So I type them the letter, I
Speaker 9: send it to Kuyper, I send it to Kruco. I
Speaker 9: give him a couple of T shirts, one of Ca
Speaker 9: Candlestick and one of CROYD Candlestick. Kruko texts me on
Speaker 9: my phone and thanks me for the story and bring
Speaker 9: him back the memories. I saw both those guys play
Speaker 9: and they're going to be a part of my memories
Speaker 9: of Candlestick. Both awesome. So I get a picture from
Speaker 9: Kuyper signed, really really awesome, just a great guy.
Speaker 2: Special stuff. They're they're they're very special guys, Pete. Really,
Speaker 2: I mean that's and the crazy thing is that what
Speaker 2: makes me feel special is we all feel so unique.
Speaker 2: I've got a good type story like that too, but
Speaker 2: you all feel so unique. We all do about these
Speaker 2: interactions we've had. And what you get to know after
Speaker 2: hearing all these stories and you guys calling, is they
Speaker 2: had this impact on so many people and it was
Speaker 2: so genuine because you can't fake that. As I said
Speaker 2: on the air, their relationship, the way they relay ball
Speaker 2: to us, Pete. I love that story because it makes
Speaker 2: it makes me feel like my story is special too,
Speaker 2: because we all get to share in those moments.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and then when you tune into anybody else, there's
Speaker 9: nobody compares to No, not.
Speaker 3: Even close, not even close. Appreciate I appreciate you waiting, Pete.
Speaker 3: Thanks so much, man. Yeah, dude, I was on. I
Speaker 3: was coming back from spring training. I think I told
Speaker 3: you this.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: I was coming back from spring training one year.
Speaker 2: I was like two thousand and four, probably twenty four
Speaker 2: or five, and my grandparents were staying with my Mamie
Speaker 2: in Arizona. They were going to stay for like the week.
Speaker 2: I just got to go for the weekend. I had
Speaker 2: to come back for school. I think I was probably
Speaker 2: a freshman or sophomore in high school. And they dropped
Speaker 2: me at the airport, and so I was flying back
Speaker 2: by myself and I'm in the airport. Is a Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 2: The Giants had played that day. We went to the
Speaker 2: game Sunday evening and I hear Dwayne's voice. I hear
Speaker 2: Kype's voice, and I'm sitting there. I was like doing
Speaker 2: math homework in the terminal and I like, here Kype's voice.
Speaker 2: And I look up and there he is. Dude, He's
Speaker 2: like sitting like fifteen feet away. Texted my mom, be like,
Speaker 2: Dwayne Kiper's right here. She said, go say hi.
Speaker 3: So I went up to me. I don't know what
Speaker 3: to say. I was like, hey, Kype, I'm a huge fan.
Speaker 3: I one time. I I don't know why said it.
Speaker 2: I said, I bought your I bought your rookie card
Speaker 2: at a card show for twenty five cents. And dude,
Speaker 2: it was the same card show when I met Jason Schmidt.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: And I asked him as that movie about Schmid about you,
Speaker 2: and he said, I's your hope, not yeah.
Speaker 3: Good line.
Speaker 2: But I said, I bought a rookie card at a
Speaker 2: card show for twenty five cents. Tell kype to this
Speaker 2: and he says, kid, you got ripped off, which is
Speaker 2: And then I ended up get on the plane. He
Speaker 2: was nice to be on the plane. I ended up
Speaker 2: sitting next to you. The people he was talking to
Speaker 2: were Jesse Fappert's like little leagueor high school baseball coach
Speaker 2: or something like that. Anyway, I was talking talking ball
Speaker 2: with another guy that's a present giant, So that was
Speaker 2: pretty cool. But everybody's got stories like this man. Everybody,
Speaker 2: everybody's got special stuff. Anyway, Cambre is a number to
Speaker 2: call and the number to text.
Speaker 3: Come on back.
Speaker 2: We can get some more of your calls and your
Speaker 2: thoughts on my cruco plus. Richard Realia joins us at
Speaker 2: four fifty and we got a lot of fun sound
Speaker 2: to get into a sound swore Cruco. We'll also do
Speaker 2: a sound score Greg a little bit later. Do we
Speaker 2: have just like a standard old sound score a too?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 2: Oh no, we've got some dips, dude, We've got the
Speaker 2: hard lead Danny's double Dips with.
Speaker 3: Kyle Harr but close enough.
Speaker 7: That's a mouthful.
Speaker 3: I don't know what we're calling it. Anyway. We'll take
Speaker 3: a quick break when we come on back. More of
Speaker 3: your calls.
Speaker 2: Plus, we got to tell you on a Thursday head,
Speaker 2: you're spending your weekend oh on the Dirty Work canbr
Speaker 2: unsponsored Bay Area Weekend Sports Calendar.
Speaker 3: It's next on The Sports Leader.
Speaker 1: Oh Copeland and Derek Poppa where no job is too
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Speaker 2: Dirty Work on a Thursday afternoon, Adam copelandepop hanging out
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 3: We do have a there's no night ers night, We donight.
Speaker 3: I believe Kruger on earlier.
Speaker 7: I think it's your sports phone.
Speaker 3: It's your sports phone with Ted Ramy, is what I read.
Speaker 2: Ramy's gonna be on rain Doed tonight and then tomorrow
Speaker 2: we're supposed to be live from fifty eight social I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna start saying supposed to be for everything I was.
Speaker 7: Supposed say, like, well we'll be there.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know, Well I'd be working, is the question?
Speaker 3: Well that is true, who knows?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 7: We got some some good guests tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Who's coming on tomorrow?
Speaker 7: We've got John Morosi?
Speaker 2: How about that talking talking hockey, talking some punt talk.
Speaker 3: I want to talk. I want to go macklim with Morosi?
Speaker 7: Why not? Why not?
Speaker 6: But we'll talk about the post trade deadline with him.
Speaker 7: Ted Winn from The.
Speaker 6: Athletic wrote that article about uh Kyle Shanahan and the
Speaker 6: top ten best play callers in all of the nfls.
Speaker 7: He'll join us as well.
Speaker 3: Good dude. He sits near me at to nighter game sometimes.
Speaker 6: And of course Marcus Thompson. I'll ask him, is Katie
Speaker 6: coming to the reunion?
Speaker 2: See if we can get a hold of Marcus Thompson. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll see see if we can get.
Speaker 3: Him on tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I go back out to the phones. We're talking
Speaker 2: a lot about Creuk and we are going to catch
Speaker 2: up with Richard Willie in about twenty five minutes at
Speaker 2: four point fifty.
Speaker 3: Also, we still got a lot of.
Speaker 2: Good sound we want to get into today before the
Speaker 2: end of the show at six o'clock. So let's go
Speaker 2: back out to the phone lines. Is this the same
Speaker 2: Hank who's always calling Hank's got thoughts? Dude, he's in
Speaker 2: the East Bay, Hank?
Speaker 3: What's U dude? You're on the Sports Leader.
Speaker 12: Hey, I just want to say today the celebration of
Speaker 12: Mike Kruko. Yeah, it is He's dream and I got
Speaker 12: seven facts about Kruko.
Speaker 7: Okay, how about three?
Speaker 12: No, but they're just facts. It's not even elaboration.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, fine, Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3: Okay, just kip him kite.
Speaker 12: When they start out in the early nineties as announcers,
Speaker 12: they were called jocks in the box.
Speaker 3: Nice number two.
Speaker 12: Jocks in the box. Number two, Mike Kruco in his career,
Speaker 12: zero pickoffs. He's a little bit embarrassed by that.
Speaker 3: All right, Hey, that's a lot ofalization here, all right.
Speaker 7: Number three, number three.
Speaker 12: Okay, number three, twenty game winner in nineteen eighty six,
Speaker 12: pitching two hundred and forty five minutes for the San
Speaker 12: Francisco Giant.
Speaker 3: No, okay, I like that, all right.
Speaker 12: Number four, number four. His nickname on the team was
Speaker 12: Otter from Animal House. Due to both their resemblance and
Speaker 12: their way of kind of talking their way.
Speaker 3: Out of things.
Speaker 7: Okay, I like that amazing number five.
Speaker 12: Number Wow, I can't read my writing.
Speaker 7: Uh so we'll.
Speaker 9: Go with five. Okay, number five.
Speaker 12: I can't read five anyway, he's the best, and I
Speaker 12: can't read. I can't read five, six or seven?
Speaker 3: Come on?
Speaker 2: After all that, it hands back of my good graces.
Speaker 2: Bro heck, Henk's been coming in with some wild heads. Man,
Speaker 2: But I like what Henk calls with a list, and
Speaker 2: I liked it he had He said, no, I got seven?
Speaker 7: Really?
Speaker 3: How about three?
Speaker 2: He gives four and he's like, I can't read the rest, dude,
Speaker 2: he was on hold for so long.
Speaker 3: I appreciate the car.
Speaker 7: Can't read your hand running. I can't read my handwriting. No,
Speaker 7: we can't read, but I powered through.
Speaker 3: Dark hand writing? Does look like he wrote it with
Speaker 3: the foot?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you love that.
Speaker 2: Joke because it's pretty true. Could I write nice with
Speaker 2: my foot and Derek over his hands? I think it'd
Speaker 2: be close. What are you going, Daniel day Lewis?
Speaker 3: Does he do that?
Speaker 7: We did that enough?
Speaker 3: Remember people carry him around for that movie?
Speaker 7: Yeah? So I never seen the movie, but I.
Speaker 3: Know I mean either but I know, I know, I
Speaker 3: love this song for family. Guy.
Speaker 7: He's like, yeah, remember when I was on left foot? Yeah,
Speaker 7: I did my own rendition of my.
Speaker 6: Left foot, my left foot always next to the other foot.
Speaker 2: I got to the full LANs go to a mode
Speaker 2: A models in Sebastopol. What's up a mod.
Speaker 8: It's Bob.
Speaker 3: What's up Bob?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm in Sebastiol. You got right.
Speaker 8: Uh Uh.
Speaker 10: I love Krook and uh uh. And I was very
Speaker 10: fortunate being a Giants fan for many, many years of
Speaker 10: listening to Russ Hodges, Lawn Simmons N. Fifty eight, the
Speaker 10: first game ever Giants Dodgers. I was at Seals Stadium.
Speaker 7: You were there.
Speaker 10: I can't tell, sixteen years of age, how I got
Speaker 10: in there is in my book. I just published it.
Speaker 10: It's called The Lucky Fan. Nice and and Bob Samuel
Speaker 10: and it was. That was a great time. Those were
Speaker 10: great announcers. And I put Kruk right in the Kruk
Speaker 10: and Lon Simmons and Russ Hodges was just and Bill King.
Speaker 8: The four of them.
Speaker 10: Would have had a great time with each other. They
Speaker 10: all would have one thing about Krook that I've always
Speaker 10: wanted to ask him why when the camera's on him
Speaker 10: and and he's doing a game, why does he always
Speaker 10: have a ball? Maybe there's the answer for this. He
Speaker 10: always has a ball in his hand. He's rubbing that ball?
Speaker 10: Is he holding it? Is he got a slider? Is
Speaker 10: he holding his fingers on the on the on the
Speaker 10: on the string? What's he doing with's that ball? Why
Speaker 10: does he have the ball?
Speaker 2: I think I think he's talked about him before, Bob.
Speaker 2: I think I look, it's like a comfort thing, like
Speaker 2: if he just holds it, tossed it around, you grip it,
Speaker 2: you put on different grounds. I don't know why I've
Speaker 2: got a baseball in my hand right now. If there's
Speaker 2: a ball around here, I'm holding. Usually I was kicking
Speaker 2: a soccer ball around my feet for the last hour.
Speaker 10: At eight years of age, I slept with a bat ball. Admit,
Speaker 10: Is it the same kind of thing?
Speaker 3: Could be?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Maybe they said, yeah, I know that. That's like an
Speaker 2: old school thing too. It She wish Joe used to
Speaker 2: do that. He'd like sleep with his bat the Black Betsy,
Speaker 2: which is weird because he was like dyed with tobacco spits.
Speaker 3: I was like, that's a little a little much, Bob, Bob,
Speaker 3: where can we get your book?
Speaker 1: Brother?
Speaker 10: What crook leaves?
Speaker 8: I want to miss him?
Speaker 10: He was good, you know. To me, it's like missing
Speaker 10: Gary Radney's I love Gary Raddis. I miss him. Yeah
Speaker 10: a lot.
Speaker 3: No, I hear, I hear you. So your your book,
Speaker 3: Bob is called what the Lucky Fan?
Speaker 10: The Lucky Fan? Yeah, it's Heads of the Street. But
Speaker 10: they got a little problem with Amazon and the publisher.
Speaker 10: They're they're fighting over royalty stuffs. Yeah, I best the hardcover,
Speaker 10: the hard book. The hardcover book is out, but the
Speaker 10: soft the paperback they're fighting over. I don't know what that.
Speaker 10: I can't get involved that. I love writing it. I
Speaker 10: love writing about the forty nine Ers, the Raiders and Warriors,
Speaker 10: the Giants and the A's and all the history of
Speaker 10: that and all my family and friends and all the
Speaker 10: games we watched together and all the fun we had,
Speaker 10: all those great teams, owners, coaches, players, and all those stories.
Speaker 10: I know a lot of those guys. I played a
Speaker 10: lot of basketball with them on the off season, and
Speaker 10: golf with them. A great, great bunch of guys that
Speaker 10: were so talented. And I put kruk, I put kruk
Speaker 10: in that ball game. I think Kruk is has exception
Speaker 10: had exceptional skills in talking about a game that sometimes
Speaker 10: like this year has been horrible, but he has a
Speaker 10: way of saying it that doesn't make it sound like
Speaker 10: it's a real tragedy. It was not a tragedy. It's
Speaker 10: just a lousy season.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 10: And so his and.
Speaker 8: His his, his, his making mentioning that Pride Day was
Speaker 8: so beautif put yep yep, and that I agree with.
Speaker 10: Not many people would have had had the courage to
Speaker 10: come out and say that, including mister Posey, didn't have
Speaker 10: the courage to come out and say something that was
Speaker 10: really important to say. Kruk had the courage to do it,
Speaker 10: and he did it beautifully.
Speaker 2: He did appreciate it to call Bob, thank you so much. Man,
Speaker 2: call anytime. I like saying courage. It just made me
Speaker 2: think of that that Oh the boy that line didn't
Speaker 2: have the courage, didn't have the guts, that didn't call it.
Speaker 7: I did you think of that courage?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: That well he said, he said Buster didn't have the courage,
Speaker 2: didn't have the guts to call it.
Speaker 3: Anyway, came to heurs number to call and a text.
Speaker 2: Look We've had a lot of fun jumping through a
Speaker 2: lot of these memories, and there's some somber stuff in
Speaker 2: there as well. But there's one thing that always rings true,
Speaker 2: and that's that people around the Bay Area they tune
Speaker 2: into Dirty Work for really one reason and one reason only.
Speaker 2: They show up to try to figure out how they're
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Speaker 3: Well, Derek, you know how weekends go.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there Fridays and their Saturdays, their Sunday.
Speaker 3: Sometimes they're Mondays.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but this one's This one's just a Friday, and
Speaker 2: it's okay, Sunday, Friday, August seventh, that's tomorrow.
Speaker 7: It is tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: all the members of the field. Everybody wants to talk
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Speaker 7: Come on down thro tomatoes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let us let us be your pin cushion for
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Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 2: Saturday is, it's the eighth Well, dude, hold on, this
Speaker 2: guy's throwing around, Kyle Harr. I don't know what the
Speaker 2: hell's going on. You're throwing all different sorts of dates
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Speaker 7: Well, what's the problem.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know what happens on the calendar until
Speaker 2: until I read it. Yes, let's stick with Friday, August seventh,
Speaker 2: Also tomorrow the Golden State Valkyrie's face off against the
Speaker 2: Dallas Wings.
Speaker 3: Not at home.
Speaker 2: Oh, he went Saturday with Friday, Saturday, Friday Fridays.
Speaker 7: Oh, it's kind of kind of be an ortant.
Speaker 3: How about this? As he points out, Friday.
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Speaker 3: Young Tony will be there, so you should go.
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Speaker 6: What I always think of that scene when it comes
Speaker 6: to speed dating from forty old virgin when but also
Speaker 6: like Paul Rudd and Mindy Kaling where he's like this,
Speaker 6: so this is so us psycho talking.
Speaker 3: That's so us. It's like psycho.
Speaker 2: All right, Dirty Work rolls on on a Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 3: We'll take a quick break when we come on back.
Speaker 2: How about some of the best Mike cru sounds that
Speaker 2: we could find for our sound swore Kruk.
Speaker 3: We'll do it next on the Sports Leader.
Speaker 4: And I can't read.
Speaker 12: I can't read five, six or seven sound sare No.
Speaker 5: I've whipped up this nasty little sarez the.
Speaker 1: Best sounds you might have missed?
Speaker 3: What honey, I think that means part.
Speaker 2: Would be Sports Leader Your sounds well kind of so
Speaker 2: sounds for Krouk for Thursday August sixth, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: Let's do it and it starts. Sounds were crook with
Speaker 2: Mike Kruco. See what'd you do here? You compiled some
Speaker 2: sounds you thought were great Kruk memories calls.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we got a few.
Speaker 6: Un there's gonna be other ones that fans want to hear,
Speaker 6: but we could do that another time. But yeah, these
Speaker 6: are just ones that came to mind today. Some nice calls,
Speaker 6: best one of this season, and some memories of him
Speaker 6: at parades and doing some hits on cam.
Speaker 11: Here.
Speaker 3: Well, here we go. Here's the first one.
Speaker 2: This is one where somebody texting in about this earlier
Speaker 2: where at one point Kruko tried to do all the
Speaker 2: different home run calls. Yeah, for all the different broadcasters,
Speaker 2: so John Miller, Dave Fleming, Dwan Kayper.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he did any others besides is
Speaker 3: it just those three?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Here here's my Cruco exercising his his skill set and
Speaker 2: doing the home run call as his broadcast partners high drive.
Speaker 3: To last it is.
Speaker 10: Gone.
Speaker 3: Well, I like he throws in theory.
Speaker 7: Yeah gone now that's good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what would your home run call be?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: I don't know, no idea what was your dad's.
Speaker 6: I don't know if he had like a signature home
Speaker 6: run call.
Speaker 2: Run oh Clana, No, but I just did the Niner
Speaker 2: call for I remember, dude, I remember he would like
Speaker 2: mix in like stuff that was funny to me, like
Speaker 2: if I was in the booth with him.
Speaker 6: Miguel ta hat I hit a home run back in
Speaker 6: the day, I think his MVP season in two thousand
Speaker 6: and two, and we.
Speaker 2: Went galloping around smacking his He's happy Gilmore. Do you
Speaker 2: remember that, He's like round of the basis, He's doing
Speaker 2: a happy Gilmour thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So the night before this is back when you know,
Speaker 6: we were watching The Cosby Show on Nick and Night
Speaker 6: and there was a whole there was a whole episode
Speaker 6: about Cosby loving barbecues.
Speaker 7: And go Barbie Cue.
Speaker 6: So then Miguelta Hatta hits a home run near the
Speaker 6: barbecue side the coliseum and my dad goes, well, Magelta
Speaker 6: hot to Barbie.
Speaker 3: Cute that one.
Speaker 7: And he terms of me, he goes, oh you like that.
Speaker 3: And how do you like when I talk Cosby? Dude?
Speaker 2: It's pretty good, dude. Yeah, what was the other thing
Speaker 2: you love? Like the hogis or whatever you'd always eat
Speaker 2: in the Cosby Show.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, he love hooge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we should get off this.
Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, moving on the sound snow for Cosby talk, Moving.
Speaker 3: On to the sounds Wort Kurt not it's not funny anymore,
Speaker 3: It's not funny.
Speaker 2: Ah, here's my crew, go these are Is this the
Speaker 2: speech I was talking about?
Speaker 7: There are two speeches?
Speaker 3: Two speeches here from what twenty ten and twelve?
Speaker 7: Yes? Oh no, sorry, last one maybe twenty fourteen.
Speaker 3: Better have the right one in here, Derek that I
Speaker 3: want to hear.
Speaker 7: You should have been here before the show. It just
Speaker 7: said it.
Speaker 2: I assumed it was the one that I wanted. It's
Speaker 2: the Oh my god, all right, we'll see. Here's Mikrugo.
Speaker 2: A couple of World Series parade speeches.
Speaker 11: And once again they could say it loudly. We are
Speaker 11: the giants, we are San Francisco. Where are the World champions?
Speaker 3: That's twenty ten.
Speaker 13: Your belief, your pride is the backbone of every accomplishment
Speaker 13: they've ever had, and it allows me to stand here
Speaker 13: before you again today for the third time in five years,
Speaker 13: and I could say we are the giants, we.
Speaker 7: Are San Francisco.
Speaker 11: So where are the world champions.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, we were kind nice, Yeah, we were nice.
Speaker 3: It was happier times, yeah, happier times.
Speaker 2: All right, more here from Mike Cruco in the Sounds
Speaker 2: wore Cruk, how about this is one that you mentioned earlier.
Speaker 3: Did you want to set this up? The Pride Night
Speaker 3: comments that he had?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I thought this was powerful, honestly, because I'm fairly new
Speaker 6: with this and I don't know how to talk about
Speaker 6: controversial moments like that, and I think Mike Kruco was unbelievable.
Speaker 6: So we were talking about what happened with Pride Night,
Speaker 6: I just referenced him because he said it best. So
Speaker 6: this is Mike Kruco earlier this year when asked about
Speaker 6: what happened with Pride Night with the Giants this year.
Speaker 4: I obviously respect the right for these guys to voice
Speaker 4: their opinion. I mean, that's that's what a lot of
Speaker 4: men and women gave their lives for leases for these
Speaker 4: ball players to do. Do I agree with it? We'll know.
Speaker 4: And I think that once you've lived in the Bay
Speaker 4: Area for a number of years like we have, you
Speaker 4: understand that the strength of this city is its ethnicity,
Speaker 4: it's its culture, it's it's it's the freedom for people
Speaker 4: and UH, to be able to come to a city
Speaker 4: and be free, and that's a powerful thing. And that's
Speaker 4: the thing about San Francisco that I love the most.
Speaker 4: And I think when you're a player and you come
Speaker 4: into this environment, it's your responsibility to know just how
Speaker 4: sensitive this city is in regards to that cultural freedom
Speaker 4: and religious freedom and just the way that you live
Speaker 4: your life. And I think they were root awakening with
Speaker 4: the response. And it wasn't just from the gay community.
Speaker 4: It was from the Northern California community that supports the
Speaker 4: gay community. This is what has been incredible, the way
Speaker 4: that the reaction has centered around the emotion that Northern
Speaker 4: California has for the gay community. An Killian's article was brilliant.
Speaker 4: It was full of outrage and if you read the
Speaker 4: comments from the people that had written in expressing their
Speaker 4: opinion and their disappointment and the Giants' players, and it
Speaker 4: was impassion And it wasn't just a bunch of trolls
Speaker 4: streaming bs. This was written by people that had deep
Speaker 4: thoughts and it was well written. It was an educated
Speaker 4: opinion and UH, and it was something that I think
Speaker 4: everybody should should read. When you come on and you
Speaker 4: put on a uniform and you represent the San Francisco
Speaker 4: whether it be in football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever, you
Speaker 4: have to be aware of just how impassioned the people
Speaker 4: are here.
Speaker 6: I mean when I heard that, I was like, I
Speaker 6: don't think I could say it better than that, because Mike,
Speaker 6: you know, he feels that and he knows this area.
Speaker 6: And I think that you know, the players can respect
Speaker 6: Mike Cruco, you know, being a former player and knowing
Speaker 6: this game and knowing pitching obviously, but also a guy
Speaker 6: that has a lot more experience than them and knows yeah,
Speaker 6: and knows more about life than them. So I hope
Speaker 6: those players came away having more respect for my Cruco
Speaker 6: and that moment and answering that question there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I heard that comment. I just entered my going
Speaker 3: no notes, nothing else. Let that speak for itself.
Speaker 2: Last one here that we've out for Mike Creger. You
Speaker 2: labeled it as the best call from this season. Here's
Speaker 2: Mike crew going the best call of twenty twenty six,
Speaker 2: maybe more.
Speaker 7: Than Tarp's off the Veldrid's knocked one out of here.
Speaker 11: Well, I'm gonna hold you to it.
Speaker 4: Time to drop trout.
Speaker 6: Hog out, drop trown hogout, and of course it led
Speaker 6: to the Grand Slams.
Speaker 3: He has the.
Speaker 2: Slam dropped trout and it's because they dropped trowing.
Speaker 3: Holo down, drop trout, you hog out, because they didn't
Speaker 3: believe that.
Speaker 7: Now, dude, I mean yeah, like it was.
Speaker 6: It's a goofy moment leading into a great.
Speaker 7: Call, greatest moment of the season so far.
Speaker 3: H that's good stuff there from my cruger.
Speaker 2: We got to take a quick break, Adam coupling t Pop,
Speaker 2: Kylehr hanging out with you. We do have a sound
Speaker 2: swore Greg that we're gonna get into, by the way,
Speaker 2: a little bit later, some great Greg Papa sounds from
Speaker 2: broadcasts and from moments here on KNBR that we just
Speaker 2: make us laugh out loud. We know it'll make you
Speaker 2: guys laugh, so we'll play those a little bit later.
Speaker 2: We've also got our our Danny's double Dips. It's actually
Speaker 2: hardly the dips, but close enough. With Kyle Harm, we'll
Speaker 2: do that at five point fifteen. Before we do that there,
Speaker 2: we got to catch up one of our favorites, number
Speaker 2: thirty five, former Giant shortstop Richaralia.
Speaker 3: He joins us next on d sports leader,