WEBVTT - Hour 3: Susan Slusser provides her reaction, details to Mike Krukow's retirement 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:03.079 Now back to dirty Work with Copes and d Pop 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:07.000 on one oh four five FM and six eighty AM 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:09.440 b sports Leader. 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:19.320 Starty Work on a Thursday afternoon, Adam Copelande Pop, Kyle 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:21.200 Horror hanging out with us today. We're being joined on 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:23.279 the UMA guest line by Susan Selester. She covers the 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.640 Giants for the San Francisco Chronicles. Susan is sponsored by 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:29.480 SERFSID It's not a Seltzer, it's Surfside, proud partner of 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:30.040 the Giants. 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:31.400 We do it with Susan each and every week. 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:33.440 And Susan we were just talking before he came on, saying, 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:35.600 I don't think this is a day where we really 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:38.120 talk much about what's happening on the field for the Giants. 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:40.120 In the last couple of days, with all the news 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:44.000 between Cambre changes and Mike Kruco on his own terms 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.880 announcing his retirement today, we kind of thought this a 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:47.760 better subject to. 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:48.400 Talk about with you. 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.920 Somebody who's known both of these guys and even Greg Silver, 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:52.960 three of these guys and been around the Bay area 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:54.000 media scene for so long. 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:55.080 Susan, how are you today? 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.760 On a Thursday afternoon, hy Susan's great. 0:00:57.840 --> 0:00:58.280 Hi guys. 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:00.800 Yeah, I was once an on the air called even 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.320 like I've got a and I and as you you 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:05.920 probably know, I did Stanford baseball and football right now, 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:11.720 So I'm I feel very strongly about many of these things, 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.280 but especially Kruko. You know, Kruko is near and dear 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:18.640 to all Giants fans, I mean all baseball fans, like 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:20.800 some of the response I'm hearing from people in other 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.000 parts of the country who are like, you know, I'm 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.039 a fan of this team, but I try to listen 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:27.840 to Kruk and Kite because they're so great, which of course, 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.759 of course they are. And everyone knows what Crook's been 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.959 going through physically. It is, it is not. It's so 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:37.560 commendable what he's been doing, and he would never say 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:41.399 it ever, he'd never complain. He's got the best attitude, 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:43.759 he has upbeat at all times. But it is a 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.400 massive effort for him to have been doing games the 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:49.960 way he's been doing, especially when he's coming to the ballpark, 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:53.280 and I you know that is he wants to be 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.560 doing this. He would never retire early. And my you know, 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:58.680 I talked to him briefly today and obviously I talked 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:02.160 to to Dwayne at length, But when I talked to Kruk, 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:04.280 I said, you know, Dwayne and I were kind of 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:07.120 kicking around, like there's all these kind of fill in analysts, 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:09.200 and obviously somebody is going to wind up being kind 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.560 of the primary partner, we would assume, and there's many 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:13.920 good choices. But I was like, you know, could you 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:17.240 maybe be a guy that would be an occasional fill 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:20.919 in like there's that happen sometimes, or even just come 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.320 like guest turninning or two. And he said, oh, hell yeah, 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.960 Well okay, you know this is the happiest thing I've 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:28.480 been all day. 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:29.119 Yeah. 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.520 I mean, that's very cool. I mean I remember when 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:33.560 Lon Simmons came. I remember as a kid getting to 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.400 hear Lon Simmons call some games because he would come 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.560 back periodically and sit in and be there for five 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:39.880 or six games of a home stand or something, and 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:41.320 he would call a couple of innings and he'd be 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.760 on the postgame rap. I mean, that's that's really the 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.760 beauty of what this is is he can continue to touch. 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.119 People and have impacts on so many different lives. 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.919 And we've been taking calls all day season about it's 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.480 really like the voices of summer, the voices of your childhood. 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:56.840 I said, I can pinpoint moments in my life and 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:00.280 hear Mike Cruco's voice, and I think for generation he's 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.160 touched people. But really I love broadcasters that one do 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.480 it in a unique way. They do it absolutely wholeheartedly 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:11.079 with as most ingenuity as they can or being as 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:14.240 genuine as they possibly can. And then also you learn 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.760 stuff from him, and he's funny, like there's I don't 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:18.400 even know which button you'd want to hit on or 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.640 which topic you'd want to hit on, because you can't 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:22.639 even you can't sum it all up into one sentence. 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:24.680 Just like he said in his statement, he doesn't think 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:26.240 he could sum up how grateful he is for his 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:27.320 time to everybody. 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.120 Right, Oh, he's great at everything. You're right, a one 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:33.560 hundred percent right, And I mean, find the humor, the warmth, 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.360 the you know, when you write a story like you know, 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.920 I talk to a bazillion people when I when this 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.880 news broke, and when you write a story about this, 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:45.080 like you put out a ton of calls and he usually, 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:46.640 you know, you're lucky if you get maybe half the 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:52.560 people responding. Everyone people just write like everyone understands how 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.600 important Mike Kruco is. But beyond that, everyone loves Mike 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:01.280 Kruco there, it's just impossible not to. So he's just 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:03.760 special and amazing. And you know what, I don't I 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:08.440 don't think that what he's dealing with in body inclusion, 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:12.360 body mitosis, I don't think it gets enough mentioned, because 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.240 this is another one where we talk about you got 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.240 to you know, get rid of cancer. You know that 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:21.680 MLB has lots of initiatives about that. There are all 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.160 the things about als. Look, this isn't This is one 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:29.640 where it's not fatal. That this is a vibrant, healthy 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.640 man with so much to give, and this has made 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.080 it really you know, it's limited in him the past 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:39.600 two years. And now he's got something of an early retirement. 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.880 Yeah he's seventy four. Sure, that's past you know, regular 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:46.800 retirement age, but broadcasters go forever and ever, and that's 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.440 what we all wanted to see. So yeah, let's let's 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:54.160 strike out this and body inclusion body mitosis. 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:54.479 No. 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.080 Definitely talking to Susan Sluster on the UMA guest line 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.760 in talking to former players today about this news with 0:04:59.880 --> 0:05:02.359 my cruco and your opinions us and just covering the 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.520 game of baseball for so long? Now, what do you 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:08.360 think makes players respect broadcasters and like, you know, when 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.240 it comes to my Kruco, obviously he played the game, 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.760 but you talked to everybody today and everybody got back 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:13.200 to you. 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:14.080 What do you think makes it? 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.279 What do you think makes players respect broadcasters and the 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:21.200 way that my Cruco has well when it. 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:23.719 Comes to the players specifically, just Kent said, it's his 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:29.479 loyalty to the players and his ability to describe players 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:35.920 in real terms that make listeners understand their point of view. 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:39.560 You know, he is always rushing to give here's what 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.200 a player might be thinking on this and that, and 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.400 in a way that makes you understand what they're going through, 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.880 what their options are, you know, in a in a 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:52.120 very human way, you know, just not sort of nuts 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:55.600 and bolts that the empathy is so much it comes through, 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:59.159 and that's I think the players hear that, they see 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:02.480 that they know him. You know, he's even still he's 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.800 going out on the field and talking to players as 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.000 often as he can. We see him out there, you know, 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:10.240 as he can do it, and I think that goes 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:14.159 a long way too. So he's just it's remarkable what 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:14.560 he's done. 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:16.919 Really, No, it has and in a lot of this news, Susan, 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.440 I know a lot's been made of Krook and Kype 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:23.400 get into Cooperstown together with him retiring. Do you think 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.000 that maybe they would rethink this whole thing, because I 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.679 think they've been against it. But to get the Ford 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:32.280 Sea Frick Award together and Krook and Kype in tandem, 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:33.320 you think that could happen. 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:36.000 Imagine being against that as the Hall suits, He's still like, no, 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:37.479 there's no chance we're not doing that. 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.000 People in the Bay Area have been pushing this idea 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.080 for quite some time, probably going back maybe you know, 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:47.080 close to a decade. They're not on the ballot this year. Sadly, 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:48.960 I would love there was one year they were both 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.600 on the ballot, and I think everybody said at that 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:53.240 point like do it, do it, do it, do it, 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.360 And I don't look okay. I think they're worried about 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.120 setting your precedent and then you got to put in 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:00.800 this pair and then you to put in that pair. 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.440 It doesn't have to be you know, the Hall is 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:08.839 running the show. They can make votes essentially whatever, you know, 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.000 whatever they want, the parameters, whatever, they want this, I 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:15.840 think is a special case and I would love it now. 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:17.560 I talked to John Miller, and John Miller said, you 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:20.080 know what, I think they both are worthy of their 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:23.800 own inclusion and they should be considered separately and go 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.600 in separately. And I can see that, like don't you know, 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.440 you don't dilute it or whatever. But it's Crook and 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:33.040 Kuype Like it's hard to get away from the idea 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:36.040 they do need to go in together. They're they're almost 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.160 more than a team. They're like, you don't think of 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:39.840 one without the other, You just don't. 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:42.480 There is something to that that it might be kind 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:43.760 of cool if like one of them got in and 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:45.720 you got Kruk to do the speech for Kaype or 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:48.040 vice versa, like to do the like that's see, that 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:49.160 would be pretty sweet, you. 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:50.640 Know what I mean? Like having having one and then 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:52.320 the other would also be amazing. 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:57.080 And funny, probably the funniest. Susan Slesser joins us on 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.280 the on the UMA guest line. We've been we've been 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.440 just it's really sort of forthcoming and true to ourselves 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.800 season and talking about all these changes that have happened. 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:06.600 I said, it's really special to me, the crew gets 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.200 to go out on his own terms, that he gets 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:10.920 to put this statement out, that he gets to enjoy 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:13.720 these these final couple of months of Giants baseball. But 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:15.760 we haven't shot away at all from what happened here 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.440 at a cambr yesterday. And for many years you were 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.160 covering the A's and Greg Papa the voice of the A's, 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.120 and you are Chronicle Live and all that stuff. I 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.440 just wanted to give you an opportunity, if you'd like one, 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.000 to comment on any of that or your relationship with 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:29.520 Greg over the time you were in Oakland. 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:34.200 Well, absolutely, I mean Greg Greig is you talk about 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.520 one of the all time greates that Greg is one 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.520 of the all time and grades in multiple sports and 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.000 as good a guy as you'll know, I mean great 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:45.560 to young journalists, and the loads of fun. You know, 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.240 when I first started on the A's, maybe the first 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.840 ten or twelve years, he was still doing the A's 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:55.120 broadcasts and the Chronicle didn't have the Sunday paper. Then 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.920 when initially you know, the Examiner used to be the 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:01.480 Sunday paper. So he's had saturdays off on the road, 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:04.600 and there is nothing more fun than sitting in the 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.400 stands and watching a game as a fan with Greg 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.679 Papa because we had the opportunity, and that opportunity that 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:12.640 a few times when there wasn't a broadcast or something 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:16.320 on Saturday National broadcast or what have you, and like, 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:18.800 I learned a lot and it was an awful lot 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.920 of fun. And he's just you know, he's he's great 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:25.040 to be around. So I was sad when he stopped 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.520 doing the A's games, and I am this makes me 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.720 even sadder because we all know what he's going through, 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:34.880 we know what he's dealt with. What an absolute warrior 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:39.440 he is. I mean, he's just indestructible and the force 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:44.240 of will is just amazing. Yeah, he's an inspiration. I mean, 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.400 I'm sure he probably would hate to hear somebody say that, 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:49.040 but he's really an inspiration for this to happen on 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.720 the heels of my colleague Garrett Branch's incredible story about 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.720 Greg and what he's been dealing with is just astonishing 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.640 to me. It's a yeah, I was a ghast. I've 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.679 never used that word before, but I was a guest. 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:04.000 No when it calls for it. And I appreciate all 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:05.040 that you said, Susan. 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:06.760 I have fond memories of that, you know, going to 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.600 the coliseum with my pops and meeting you guys on 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:13.360 the beatback then you Michael Urban Pedro Gomez like I 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.080 have fond memories, yeah, Murpher a. 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:21.920 Season, yeah, Ryan absolutely yeah no, So fond memories of that. 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.080 And thank you all for the kind words. 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.280 I do want to move over to baseball just real quickly, 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:29.760 Buster Posey and his reaction to the trade deadline, just 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:32.720 you know, him saying in the press conference or just 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.760 the the the media zoom that happened after the trade 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.800 deadline saying that you know, everybody was on the table. 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.480 We did tell the other teams about that, so you know, 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:43.600 we think that a lot of moves were made, but 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:45.199 still a lot of guys are still on the roster. 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.280 Do you think that maybe we could revisit some of 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:49.800 you know, the speculation as far as Logo Web or 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:50.920 Jung Hulei, like, these. 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:52.560 Things could still be on the table in the off season. 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:57.280 You know, Logan is the one guy that Buster said 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.840 was not really available on it, and I think that's 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:03.760 probably going to continue to be the case unless they 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.280 got blown away. I mean, if somebody comes to them 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.840 with a package that says, like, you know, here's two 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:10.960 or a top three prospects, maybe you got to consider it. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.319 I don't know. I still I think even well, I 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:18.760 don't know anybody else probably is a little available. Jung 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:20.600 Who Lee might bring a little bit more because you know, 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:22.800 he's got that South Korean market with him too. And 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.880 the Giants definitely, you know, they value Jungu Lee of course, 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:29.360 but they like having you know, an into an important 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.040 market that they didn't have before. 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:31.679 Uh. 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:33.559 And they you know, obviously they sent a ton of 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:35.960 executives to South Korea in the off season and this 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.480 is uh, this does mean something to them. And it's 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.920 been really fun kind of seeing that whole relationship open 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:44.400 up a little bit too, the Jung Hu Ju Junghu 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.840 crew and all of that kind of stuff, and having 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:51.360 South Korean reporters following Jung Who in our media corps. 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:54.840 That's all been a blast. But yeah, I think, you know, 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.280 when you talk about kind of the big three contracts, 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.640 I think we'll probably be talking about that every dread 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.640 deadline every off season. It's just going to be awfully 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.000 hard to move any of those deals because they are 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.679 big and two guys have no non trades, but I 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:13.160 think devs there's I think there was some interest. I 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:14.800 think there was a little bit of interest, and some 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.200 people kick the tires. I just don't think the Giants 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.320 want to pick up, you know, half of a two 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.640 hundred million dollars left contract just to move a guy, 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.280 you know what. I think he's more valuable where he is, 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.120 even if you're paying him, like, you may as well 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.000 get something for that amount of money, you know what 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:29.319 I mean? 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.280 Yeah, absolutely, last one for you, Susan. 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:33.360 Is it fair to say that it's probably not likely 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:34.840 that Matt Shaman will return the season. 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.480 I don't think so, and I don't know why you would. 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.120 I don't think that the circumstances of the Giants are 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:44.440 in Like if if they were in some sort of 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.959 playoff push and there was a chance he could get 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:48.960 back with rest and rehab, I know he would do 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:52.000 everything he could. I just think that you want to 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.520 knock this out and if it's you know, we certainly 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.199 her hope it's not surgical unless that is the way 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.520 that absolutely fix it, and which guy is great and 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.240 then you know he's missing it. But if he needs 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.680 rest and rehab, take all of the time you want, 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:08.080 and then then he's like Casey Schmidt. Then you have 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.719 a healthy off season, you can have your full workouts, 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.360 be one hundred percent ready to go next season. I 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.640 think you know either way is probably good, but there's 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:18.520 just no reason to push it. And plus you can 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:22.079 keep seeing all these guys, keep rotating through all these 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.559 young guys and taking a look at everybody you can. 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.440 They're going to be constrained a little bit by the 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.600 potential labor stoppage and maybe not wanting to put guys 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.160 on the forty man and keep them playing, so we 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.400 might not see somebody like Parks Harbor as much as 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.760 we would like to. But they've got a lot of 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:38.839 really good options, and some of these young kids are 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:43.360 really fun or good stories like Eddie's, Leonard's that's been great, 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.440 and my gosh, what Bessabi's been doing. So I hope 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:49.280 people are still paying attention because there's some interesting, fun 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:52.280 stuff that will have repercussions in future years going on. 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.520 Susan Slusser the Voice She Heard, covers the Giants for 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:56.880 the San Francisco Chronicles. She joined us every week here 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:59.240 on Dirty Work. Susan, we appreciate the time as always 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:00.760 thank you so much. Joined the rest of the off 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:01.559 day and we will talk to you. 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:04.040 Shoot. Thank you, Susan, fantastic, thanks us. 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.319 Good stuff there from from Susan Selester. Itaway came to 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.320 our four and five ITA eight five sixty seven. Is 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:09.959 that I'm gonna call antext Did you ever watch a 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:12.720 game in the stands with with your dad and sless 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:13.640 no nuts? 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.319 I mean maybe I was so young during that time. 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.800 It was I think student started on the beat in 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:21.960 nineteen ninety nine with the A's, so you were what 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:23.680 you were, I was eight years old years old. Yeah, 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:25.120 but I remember, I'm like, yeah, like me and my 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:27.200 dad go to the ballpark, you know, all the time, 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:29.160 and you know when he was when he wasn't doing 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.400 baseball games, Like I remember, one of my fondest memories 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.880 is me and my little brother and him going, uh 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:38.040 Father's Day from going from Oracle Park to the Coliseum. 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:39.800 We did the double dip of watching the Giants and 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:40.680 the Ags and the same day. 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:44.200 Yeah, yeah, it's fun. But yeah, I have fond memories. 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:48.320 Dude, of God, him being the A's broadcaster and that crew, 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:49.680 like it kind of felt like they raised me a 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:54.160 little bit, Like I remember Susan Pedro Gomez the legend. 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:55.880 And and you were like you grew up with Pedro, 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:56.840 didn't you? And his kids? 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:00.160 Yeah, Pedro I said all the time, like Pedro be 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.880 sad me all right, pe Man, Yeah that was I 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.200 think about that a lot lately with my father and 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:09.120 his illness. Uh Pedro, Yeah, that that hit me deep. 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.000 A couple of years ago. I think it was on 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.000 Super Bowl Sunday. Yeah, it was really suck in years 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.920 and the Chiefs and but yeah, I have fond memories 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.720 of my father in Pedro, and I think reading his book, 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:22.560 I remember who you are. Like, Pedro was about that 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.800 with everybody, so you know, he connected with everybody that 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:26.520 he worked with. 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.440 He and my dad were so close, so close. 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:31.800 And yeah, when my you know, my dad and my 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.360 stepmom were, you know, having date night, they dropped me 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.600 out the house and hang out with Pedro and his family. 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:37.080 Was awesome. 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:41.840 That's yeah, that's I mean, the the web you've lived 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:43.800 through and it has been woven around you and the 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.520 connections you've had just from people tied to your dad 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:48.960 is pretty incredible. Eightaway KMBR is what I'm gonna call 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:51.240 in tex I'm gonna do something really quick here, Kyle, 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.120 I'm gonna take Pete's call. Pete, I'm waiting for a 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:54.760 long time. Let's do it to get his thoughts in 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:56.680 on on kruking kite. But I don't want them to 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:58.800 wait anymore because he's done and slow, dude, And if 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:00.960 you're in slow, you got to talk, SOMERU. Man, Pete, 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:02.120 I appreciate you waiting on the line. 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:05.400 Man, how are you good? Love the show. 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:06.960 Appreciate you man, Thank you so much. 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.040 So I got to go back to Candlestick when Kuiper 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.680 was doing a Giant's vision and he was interviewing Bob 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:17.840 Brandley on the field, and I had my young son 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.360 with me. We went over to get his autographed. There 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:23.800 was a crowd there and everybody's going, what do you 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:28.440 want Kuiper's autograph for? You know, they're mocking us. So 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.640 my son yells down to Dwayne. He says, hey, sign 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.240 my baseball for me, And Kuyper turns around, looks at 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:36.320 my son and says, if you can tell me who 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:40.200 I am, I'll sign your baseball. So my son says, well, 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.560 your kite. So he gets the baseball, he signs it, 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:45.760 and now, of course everybody. 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:46.200 Signed my baseball. 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.120 Sign my baseball. He turned around, he walks off. So 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:53.320 fast forward many years later, I'm in downtown San Louis 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:56.000 and I run into Kruco at a clothing store that 0:16:56.040 --> 0:17:00.600 he used to advertise for. And that guy, Mike must 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.440 have talked to me and my partner for forty five 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:09.320 minutes about baseball and he answered every question we asked him. 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.920 And I relayed that story about Kuiper taking the time 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:16.600 to sign my ball, my son's baseball. He goes, you 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:18.680 know what, I'm gonna go out to the car. When 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:20.800 I get through here, I'm gonna call Dwayne and I'm 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:24.159 gonna tell him about that. Well, now, fast forward to 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.000 last year. Fast forward to last year in twenty twenty five, 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:28.920 I go, you know, Kuiper's not going to be around, 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.680 or Kruco's not going to be around much longer. I'm 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.600 going to write these guys and relay this to see 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:37.280 if they remember. So I type them the letter, I 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.480 send it to Kuyper, I send it to Kruco. I 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:41.119 give him a couple of T shirts, one of Ca 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:48.120 Candlestick and one of CROYD Candlestick. Kruko texts me on 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:52.280 my phone and thanks me for the story and bring 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.440 him back the memories. I saw both those guys play 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.960 and they're going to be a part of my memories 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.040 of Candlestick. Both awesome. So I get a picture from 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:07.040 Kuyper signed, really really awesome, just a great guy. 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:10.320 Special stuff. They're they're they're very special guys, Pete. Really, 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.480 I mean that's and the crazy thing is that what 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.359 makes me feel special is we all feel so unique. 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:17.080