Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's around the park with Crook and Kipe
Speaker 1: and gorgeous Saturday afternoon. A lot going on here at
Speaker 1: the park today, and I'm going to ask my partner
Speaker 1: why this day and this ceremony is so important and
Speaker 1: you'll hear his response right after this. Hey, We've got
Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon baseball here at Oracle Park. It's around the
Speaker 1: park with Crook and Kipe, and today is more than
Speaker 1: just the baseball game. It's a day where the Giants
Speaker 1: are going to honor a really select group of players
Speaker 1: that had everything to do with the three World championships.
Speaker 1: And Mike, the question I'm going to ask you is
Speaker 1: is why are these ceremonies in these days important.
Speaker 2: Well, for the player's perspective, it's your being acknowledged and
Speaker 2: you're being remembered, and you're being enshrined with an organization
Speaker 2: that's one hundred and forty five years old. You are
Speaker 2: part of it. And in San Francisco Giants history, you
Speaker 2: have been one of the best players. And that goes
Speaker 2: up on a wall and people walk by this ballpark
Speaker 2: every day and they see those plaques. And since they've
Speaker 2: built this ballpark and they've started the Wall of Fame.
Speaker 2: There has never been one plaque that was ever defaced
Speaker 2: or spray painted on. There's just a certain reverence about
Speaker 2: this ballpark that goes beyond being a ballpark. It's a
Speaker 2: museum and it's a place of honor. And this is
Speaker 2: what's going to happen today. These five guys are going
Speaker 2: to be enshrined for the careers that they've had, for
Speaker 2: the teams that they gave this city, and for the
Speaker 2: flags that they gave this city. And that's the importance
Speaker 2: of today. And that's the importance of this organization. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: And I also think it's important for the current players
Speaker 1: who will be watching all of this from the dugout
Speaker 1: that they recognize the fact that they are part of
Speaker 1: an organization that is going to take care of their
Speaker 1: players and this is one way of doing it. And
Speaker 1: obviously this is important for our fans. Our fans get
Speaker 1: a chance to maybe take a deep breath and forget
Speaker 1: about a season that has gone sideways and now they
Speaker 1: can enjoy some of the happier times when this franchise
Speaker 1: was on top of the world, and when they didn't
Speaker 1: go to the postseason, everybody was shocked and then believe
Speaker 1: it or not. If they didn't win a World sivers,
Speaker 1: they were like, what's going on? Jeez. And that's why
Speaker 1: it's important that our fans be able to come to
Speaker 1: the ballpark on a day like today. It's going to
Speaker 1: be a great day and see these players being honored,
Speaker 1: so all around, this is just going to be a
Speaker 1: really special day in the Bay Area.
Speaker 2: Well it is. You are acknowledged as an athlete, you're
Speaker 2: humbled that somebody would remember you, and then you find
Speaker 2: out how much of your career that they remember, and
Speaker 2: they remember moments, games, they remember what you look like
Speaker 2: when you roll down Market Street and you were in
Speaker 2: a parade celebrating a World championship. But the other thing
Speaker 2: that's very cool about something like this is you look
Speaker 2: over into the other dugout and you look today and
Speaker 2: the Detroit Tigers are going to be there watching this.
Speaker 2: I mean, there are storied franchises as well, and they've
Speaker 2: got a great history of their own. But every player
Speaker 2: who's in the game today, whether you're with a long
Speaker 2: tenured franchise or you're with one of the newer franchises,
Speaker 2: every guy aspires to have the same thing that they
Speaker 2: are going to acknowledge. Today when Brandon Crawford and Brandon
Speaker 2: Belt and Buster Posey and Joe Panic and Pablo Santoval
Speaker 2: stand up and hear the applause, they're going to be remembered.
Speaker 2: And every player wants to do that very thing. And
Speaker 2: today this organization will applaud what these guys did, and
Speaker 2: that is powerful.
Speaker 1: And they're also a group that beat the Tigers. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's around the park. Enjoy the ball game.