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Speaker 3: Do you know he knows?
Speaker 1: This was one of Greg Silver's favorite songs.
Speaker 3: Yesterday, Dude, Today's not Silver's day. Today's Crucos day.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 1: I thought we made that clear.
Speaker 3: Uh cry again, Derek, it's all misty when you play
Speaker 3: this song.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, he doesn't want to hear the lyrics here.
Speaker 3: I don't really get him.
Speaker 5: No, man, Silver, Uh god, this is oppressive. I think
Speaker 5: he flew to MetLife during the summer last year to
Speaker 5: go see them live when they were reuniting.
Speaker 1: So the man loves his music, love him, love it?
Speaker 1: Greg Silver, Hey three.
Speaker 3: One, says a coach. Can you do an entire show
Speaker 3: impersonating Greg Papa?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: I think it's funnier in doses. Yeah, funny man would
Speaker 3: just think of funny situations.
Speaker 1: That he's in now, say you know what I mean? Now?
Speaker 5: Doing an am pressure for too long sometimes it's like,
Speaker 5: all right, you're losing steam.
Speaker 1: I will say this, I can do a whole show
Speaker 1: like Trump. I don't think anybody wants to that. No,
Speaker 1: probably not, probably not. We love the.
Speaker 3: Firings we do. Frankly, these guys we have. We've got
Speaker 3: to move phones.
Speaker 1: I mean that four hours show doing an impression that's rough.
Speaker 3: We've got to make canb are great again? We say, frankly,
Speaker 3: these guys too much money, these guys. Frankly, we're saving billions,
Speaker 3: maybe trillions, even by firing. Perhaps it'll be great again.
Speaker 3: It will be great again, Frankly, these guys.
Speaker 1: Trusty note on the commercial, Dude, you know we can't
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Speaker 3: Uh talking to our favorite Cruco memories of him as
Speaker 3: a broadcaster. He's announced today that he's gonna retire at
Speaker 3: the end of the season. And seriously, I can pinpoint
Speaker 3: moments of my life with the sounds of his voice,
Speaker 3: and uh, and how I seriously with it and everyone
Speaker 3: that I do. It makes me smile like naturally, which
Speaker 3: is what the point of this whole thing is. Right,
Speaker 3: So let's go out to Steve Steve's and Healsburg Steve,
Speaker 3: what's going on, man, appreciate you waiting on the line.
Speaker 1: You're on the Sports Leader.
Speaker 6: Afternoon, guys, just to prefaces. I've never called in a
Speaker 6: sports show before, but I have. Everybody likes to show
Speaker 6: their greatest baseball memory. There was no sports in my family,
Speaker 6: and I found baseball back in nineteen eighty and I
Speaker 6: listened to Hank Greenwald and Mike Cruco, and I was
Speaker 6: heartbroken after all those years of learning about baseball from
Speaker 6: that wonderful man, Hank Greenwald, And when I already was
Speaker 6: going to retire, I just about gave up. And one
Speaker 6: night I was working in a kitchen and I went
Speaker 6: over and I made a phone call to the Giants
Speaker 6: and I said, can I leave a message for Hank Greenwald?
Speaker 6: And this lady says, Hey, what do you want to say?
Speaker 6: I said, well, I just need to tell him that
Speaker 6: I've been on a radio broadcaster before. He made a
Speaker 6: huge difference in my life presenting baseball to me, and
Speaker 6: I would really love to come in and visit him
Speaker 6: in the booth before I before he goes. And she said, okay,
Speaker 6: I'll give him a message and I hung up. My
Speaker 6: wife goes, you do that helmets. Thanks God, why do
Speaker 6: you do that? And I said, well, this is me.
Speaker 6: And the next night I'm in the kitchen working in
Speaker 6: the phone rings and my wife answers it and she
Speaker 6: says it's for you, and I said, who is it.
Speaker 6: She says it's Hank Greenwald.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 6: And so I said, hey, could I come in just
Speaker 6: sit on one game with you. I told him a
Speaker 6: little bit about myself, and he said, yeah, just tell
Speaker 6: me the game you want to come to. So I
Speaker 6: knew that he and Mike both enjoyed cigars. So I
Speaker 6: went out and bought a fifth full of nice cigars.
Speaker 6: And I went and I went into the booth and
Speaker 6: Lee j was the Yeah. So I got to see
Speaker 6: all with these guys, and and then I bring out
Speaker 6: this handful of cigars and I said, I brought these
Speaker 6: for you guys. And Mike turns around and goes, Hank
Speaker 6: only smokes Dunhills, And I go, oh, okay, Mike's I've
Speaker 6: got huge. He goes, I'll take them. So I had
Speaker 6: a pretty amazing That's that is my baseball story, and
Speaker 6: I'll never forget it as long as I live.
Speaker 3: Steve, that's a great story, man. Yeah, I mean do
Speaker 3: that's that's just hit the right. It's it's really that's
Speaker 3: what it's about. And you said you've done some broadcasting.
Speaker 3: We're in broadcasting in the past. Like the fact that
Speaker 3: in your your your wife heard you do that and
Speaker 3: she's like, well, you're crazy, that's nuts. And most of
Speaker 3: the time we do stuff like that and we think, ah, whatever,
Speaker 3: maybe I'll hear back, maybe I won't. But really, to me, Steve,
Speaker 3: it's about the connection you felt, because with baseball, we
Speaker 3: let these guys into our lives seemingly every day, and
Speaker 3: I feel that's a responsibility we carry even on this
Speaker 3: show a little bit. But it's that's a true connection.
Speaker 3: That that's the tell of a great broadcaster. That you
Speaker 3: even felt you could reach out and connect that way,
Speaker 3: I think is the magic of what this thing is.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like I said, it affected me because I know
Speaker 6: he wouldn't have called back if it didn't touch him.
Speaker 6: Way to hang out with those guys for a game
Speaker 6: was a uh, you know, a treat that anybody in
Speaker 6: baseball would like to have if you like you guys
Speaker 6: have been saying about those those people that have meant
Speaker 6: so much and you know, hey, not sure and cancer
Speaker 6: with this. But we're sure you're creating some memories and
Speaker 6: we're making a difference to one another, and for some reason,
Speaker 6: that's the entertainment of sports. Is I'm just a baseball fan.
Speaker 6: I don't do other sports. Yeah, like I said, those
Speaker 6: sports in my family. But that was what I found
Speaker 6: by accident, and I'll never give it up.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad you did, Steve, and I appreciate the
Speaker 3: call man. Thanks so much about that. I mean, seriously,
Speaker 3: that's what that is. A guy who has never called
Speaker 3: a sports radiatorship before said, I got to tell a
Speaker 3: story about my Kirk. That's what That's what that means.
Speaker 3: That's what that's about.
Speaker 1: And that's an amazing story. That's a great story. I
Speaker 1: love that. No, I mean I hear stories all the time.
Speaker 3: You to play the high schools like prison, but it
Speaker 3: is a good story.
Speaker 1: No, I like that, But no, like I hear that
Speaker 1: all the time.
Speaker 5: Like, uh, you know broadcasters that got their start is
Speaker 5: you know, being inspired by my father, Like you know,
Speaker 5: I think I forgot the name of the guy. But
Speaker 5: he used to be the play by play voice of
Speaker 5: the Chargers back in the day. He used to be
Speaker 5: the voice of the used to be the voice of
Speaker 5: the New York Mets, and he met my dad when
Speaker 5: he was twelve years old and he was so inspired
Speaker 5: that he became a broadcaster.
Speaker 1: And those stories, uh from my coaching trade day exactly.
Speaker 1: I found him my disciple. Yeah, he's from my staff.
Speaker 1: Real cool. I'll tell one more story about Kruco behind
Speaker 1: the scenes.
Speaker 5: So we're in Colorado and Dave Fleming this is early
Speaker 5: in his career and he got a bloody nose during
Speaker 5: a game in Colorado. Yep, so he calls the game
Speaker 5: with a piece of toilet paper in his nose the
Speaker 5: entire time.
Speaker 1: Now he's not on TV, so no one cares.
Speaker 5: And then when they do the rap, it's John Miller's
Speaker 5: Dave Fleming, it's Kruco. Actually, maybe John Van Miller wasn't
Speaker 5: there because.
Speaker 3: It was probably it was probably Dwayne Greg Dwayne, Papa
Speaker 3: Flem and Krug.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so of course those guys would raz Flem all
Speaker 5: the time, early in his career.
Speaker 1: And they come in and I was never forget this
Speaker 1: Cruco going. You gotta be kidding me. You did the
Speaker 1: whole damn game with a tampoo in your nose.
Speaker 2: Chris A.
Speaker 3: Rioty just the way he says, Oh, that's hysterical. Anyway,
Speaker 3: came guards never to call. Let's go back out to
Speaker 3: the phone line. How about I got Pat H. He
Speaker 3: said yesterday he called in. We didn't get to him
Speaker 3: and said his location was the YouTube chat, which I
Speaker 3: like about, dude, Pat H.
Speaker 1: What's up, Dude H? On a Thursday, You're on the
Speaker 1: Sports Leader.
Speaker 8: What's up?
Speaker 9: Guy?
Speaker 8: I got a It's quite a time to be calling
Speaker 8: into this show.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 8: I'll tell you what. I got a lot to say,
Speaker 8: but I'll try and squeeze it all in here.
Speaker 1: Squeeze.
Speaker 8: One of my first ones was my dad and I
Speaker 8: were driving back from camp near Tahoe and we got
Speaker 8: CAMBI are on, dude, and it's the Kevin Millwood No Hitter,
Speaker 8: also known as Dave Fleming's first Game four Memories. My
Speaker 8: dad and I driving back in the eighty five Chevy
Speaker 8: from Tahoe. Man from my childhood. It was Joe Starkey
Speaker 8: calling Niners game again, my dad and I driving around.
Speaker 8: You know, yeah, Owens, you know stuff like that. Nationally.
Speaker 8: I love Keith Jacksons Dude ABC Saturday. Oh yeah, and
Speaker 8: then your dad, man, we got to talk about him
Speaker 8: for a second. I don't know if I've ever laughed
Speaker 8: harder than him and Jake the Snake Plumber eating the
Speaker 8: mushrooms that radio road that might.
Speaker 1: Make an appearance in the sounds for Gregor later, dude.
Speaker 8: And then, uh, you ever tried breast milk?
Speaker 2: John?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't have that one better in the hall.
Speaker 1: We gotta we got it to in the classics pattage.
Speaker 8: John Cruco Crewco earlier this year, saying drop trou and Hogg.
Speaker 3: All yeah, dude, that it might be his last great
Speaker 3: original stamp.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think so, I think so.
Speaker 8: Jesus. All right, brothers, Well, thanks for letting me call
Speaker 8: in here.
Speaker 1: We're gonna see you tomorrow.
Speaker 8: You coming out, of course, dude. Oh so we got
Speaker 8: a bunch of guys coming out tomorrow, dude.
Speaker 1: Okay, so where's the deal? Here's the deal page.
Speaker 5: When you're ordering your food, though, be a little more
Speaker 5: uh less loud, i'd say.
Speaker 8: Okay, I I uh, I won't be there till a
Speaker 8: little bit later though.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, we'll see page on the patio tomorrow,
Speaker 3: if you know, if the show is still on, we'll
Speaker 3: be there tomorrow, dull pat we'll see at the ballpark.
Speaker 3: He'd appreciate the call. Were you pointing out to the
Speaker 3: time last time when patt Ah was there and he
Speaker 3: was like he was ordering his lunch. Yeah, he was, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, starting right close to the states in front
Speaker 3: of us doing the show, and.
Speaker 1: He was like, hey, hey, also onion rings, onion rings.
Speaker 3: I was like, we're right here, we're on the air. Yeah,
Speaker 3: let's go to Rick. Rick is in pacifica at anyway,
Speaker 3: cambire Rick, what's up, dude, You're on the sports later.
Speaker 10: Hey, fellows, thanks for taking my call, and.
Speaker 1: Of course I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Rick.
Speaker 10: So so when Kuco first got on the air, he
Speaker 10: was briefly paired with Lawn Simmons and he was, you know,
Speaker 10: nervous expectedly and he was, you know, kind of chit chattering,
Speaker 10: didn't quite have the pattern of speaking way or whatever
Speaker 10: how it plays out with you guys, and he was
Speaker 10: he talked over Lawn and what he meant to say
Speaker 10: was go ahead, but what came out was goat head.
Speaker 10: Lawn just busted up, couldn't stop. It was just a
Speaker 10: hilarious moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that, man, That's a good memory.
Speaker 2: Rick.
Speaker 10: And then years later. Now we got, of course the best.
Speaker 10: There is one thing that I will say that in
Speaker 10: terms of memories of the broadcast team in general, but
Speaker 10: you know, specifically Kruke. We were watching, you know, bomb
Speaker 10: Gard to come out and save our World Series. We
Speaker 10: couldn't watch Joe Buck. It was unwatchable. Yeah, and my
Speaker 10: son and I my wife were sitting there listening, were
Speaker 10: watching the game, and you know, when it came down
Speaker 10: to that inning at the very end of the game,
Speaker 10: it was out to out, pitch to pitch, bad to bad.
Speaker 10: It was just nuts. I couldn't take it. I shut
Speaker 10: the TV off. My wife goes, what are you doing.
Speaker 10: I were turning on the radio. We're gonna win this game.
Speaker 10: You listen to our own guys.
Speaker 1: I know the feeling, right, I know the feeling.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 3: This happened to me in two thousand and three when
Speaker 3: the Giants were playing the Marlins. In that game, I
Speaker 3: should have been Game four in Miami, dude, a Player
Speaker 3: Stadium or wherever the whatever the name of the ballpark
Speaker 3: was at the time, and I remember my Mama Susie
Speaker 3: were about to leave to go somewhere. I was going
Speaker 3: to referee a Cyo game. And I was standing at
Speaker 3: the edge of like the pool table and are living
Speaker 3: there like waiting, like like anxiously, and she's like, I'm
Speaker 3: going to the car. She said, I'm gonna go listen
Speaker 3: to the car said I can't watch. And that's how
Speaker 3: she wish how she is too. She's like, I get
Speaker 3: too stressed. I want to hear my guys call it.
Speaker 3: So even in a loss, that's the things you want
Speaker 3: to be comforted. If you're gonna lose, you want to
Speaker 3: lose with your guys. I know the feeling because because
Speaker 3: the national guys are going to do it different. Hey thanks,
Speaker 3: n yeah, man, appreciate the car. Appreciate you so much, dude,
Speaker 3: anyway can be R four one five eight, awight five
Speaker 3: six two seven is the number to call in the
Speaker 3: number of text Did you do that in the in
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl? And O two?
Speaker 1: Did you go turn it off in the second half
Speaker 1: and try to catch your dad? No? No, no, I want
Speaker 1: to I want to hear from the jump it was.
Speaker 3: I want to hear my dad call these last three
Speaker 3: interceptions again.
Speaker 5: And I want to I want to hear if my
Speaker 5: dad's excited that Gruden got the first championship.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wonder how he feels about this product. Feel
Speaker 3: good for John to day, I kind of feel good
Speaker 3: for for Gruden.
Speaker 1: Really. By the way, did you see Bouten Joviy up there?
Speaker 1: It's my life, is what he said.
Speaker 3: Remember Gruden says, I'm gonna look up and there's bon Jovin.
Speaker 1: It's one hell of a day. He's singing about me.
Speaker 5: Tim Brown years later and we Love Tim Brown came
Speaker 5: on the show with us as a surprise with Steve Young.
Speaker 1: Jerry ro Savor memory of me and you. Of course.
Speaker 5: But years later, after the Super Bowl, Tim Brown, I
Speaker 5: think did an interview where he was like, you know what,
Speaker 5: I always thought that Bill Callahan wanted to lose that
Speaker 5: game intentionally just so John got a championship.
Speaker 1: I was like, are you insane? That's that's that? That
Speaker 1: that No, of course, he.
Speaker 3: Just didn't have his own ideas. He was like, we're
Speaker 3: just gonna run the same playbook he ran.
Speaker 1: The whole year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and John and John was smart enough to be
Speaker 5: like they're running this play I know all this, so yeah,
Speaker 5: that always made me laugh.
Speaker 3: Anyway, came to us number to call and the number
Speaker 3: to tax. Let's go back out to the phone lines.
Speaker 3: Mike is in San Francisco. What's up, Mike, you're on
Speaker 3: the Sports Leader.
Speaker 11: I'm doing fine. I just had three cuckoism good. First
Speaker 11: one when a guy would throw a curve inside and
Speaker 11: Almo hit the guy. You go, that was a Dukie dropper.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's Dukie dropper.
Speaker 11: Number two when the guy was not Hudson, Jimmy jacketting around.
Speaker 3: He does always Jimmy jacket.
Speaker 11: And number three win at three two squeaker and he goes.
Speaker 11: Just another effort.
Speaker 3: For appreciate the call of mind. Thanks so much, and
Speaker 3: there's so many Yeah, eliminad me Kruk. We talked about
Speaker 3: gamer Babe. We talked about as Patty's just said, dropped round,
Speaker 3: hogged out, maybe maybe his last Great's that's where you're like, dude,
Speaker 3: Kirk still got the fastball.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: That's really like And I gotta tell you, like brod like,
Speaker 3: just like in anything, I think broadcasters can lose a step.
Speaker 1: I don't think Kirk's lost a step. No, I don't
Speaker 1: think Kirk has at all.
Speaker 3: I think Kirk's been honest a game, and as difficult
Speaker 3: as it's been, I'm sure for him, because that's the
Speaker 3: thing is crooks. He grew up in big league clubhouses, right.
Speaker 3: He was a minor leaguer who went to a couple
Speaker 3: of different teams, the Cubs first and the Phillies. Then
Speaker 3: he ends up coming to the Giants and winning twenty
Speaker 3: games with the Giants. And one of my other favorite
Speaker 3: moments is is in two thousand and two, I remember
Speaker 3: listening to the postgame rap after they won the pennant
Speaker 3: and Kruko, I just remember this. He told a story,
Speaker 3: and I remember it said, because now it is like this,
Speaker 3: this series will end or whatever, and teams will like
Speaker 3: fly out that night, or you know, you lose a
Speaker 3: series and you just leave, just go, Kruk said when
Speaker 3: they lost the pennant the Giants in nineteen eighty seven
Speaker 3: to the Cardinals, he said they stayed in Saint Louis
Speaker 3: that night, and he said it was miserable. He said,
Speaker 3: they drove around all night around the team hotel, celebrating, honking,
Speaker 3: making sure we knew the Cardinals were going to the
Speaker 3: World Series. And he said in two thousand and two,
Speaker 3: and the Giants wanted, he said, I want you to
Speaker 3: pay that back tonight if you're in San Francisco, you
Speaker 3: drive around, you honk, you make sure that the Saint
Speaker 3: Louis Cardinals who are here and lost the pennant, that
Speaker 3: they know we want payback for nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 1: And that was one where I'm like, this guy knows,
Speaker 1: he gets it. He feels what we as fans are feeling.
Speaker 3: And that's something that was always uniquely special to me
Speaker 3: and something I really don't think he ever lost. And
Speaker 3: so as hard as it's been, I'm sure for him
Speaker 3: to not get to travel to all these ballparks, to
Speaker 3: have to sometimes call these games from a booth where
Speaker 3: he's not sitting next to his partner in Dwayne Kuiper
Speaker 3: and still do the job that he does, it's it's incredible,
Speaker 3: It really is what he's been able to do, and
Speaker 3: I commend him for it. I thank him for it
Speaker 3: because he did it for you know, I don't know,
Speaker 3: I don't know exactly how difficult that is, but it's
Speaker 3: not the same way he was calling games for a
Speaker 3: long time. So I'm I'm appreciative that he's done for
Speaker 3: as long as he has in the way that he has.
Speaker 5: No absolutely, and I think that fans have a connection
Speaker 5: to the local broadcasters, you know, like for me doing
Speaker 5: this radio show, I know we're on locally, but I
Speaker 5: don't want to be a homer win anything because I'm
Speaker 5: not a fan of these teams. But when you want
Speaker 5: to play by play guy or an analyst for a team,
Speaker 5: then yeah, you got to be a homer. I think
Speaker 5: that people love that. That's why they want to hear
Speaker 5: their guys during the postseason. Like Bob Costas when he
Speaker 5: came on with us, he was talking about I think
Speaker 5: Apple TV gives you the option to listen to the
Speaker 5: radio call if you have it on your TV, but
Speaker 5: he's doing Sunday Night Baseball now and he wants there
Speaker 5: to be an option in all broadcasts where it's on
Speaker 5: streaming that you can do that because fans want to
Speaker 5: hear the emotion.
Speaker 1: They want to hear that. And yeah, I mean also
Speaker 1: to Bob Costas.
Speaker 5: I remember him being coming on with us and saying
Speaker 5: like he doesn't want to do play by a play
Speaker 5: anymore because he thinks he lost his step a little bit,
Speaker 5: which is crazy to me. But my Kruco has been
Speaker 5: unbelievable in the all thirty six years. He's thirty six
Speaker 5: seasons he's done played by our analyst sports Yeah, Virgiants Baseball.
Speaker 5: He's he's been unbelievable. And there's only one person I
Speaker 5: want to hear when it's a weekend after a series
Speaker 5: and he's on with Murphy Marcus and giving the breakdown,
Speaker 5: and you know he's captivating even when the team gets
Speaker 5: swept or whatever happens.
Speaker 1: You want to hear from Kruco. So now we'll miss him.
Speaker 1: We'll miss him, and he'll be on tomorrow.
Speaker 3: No, not tomorrow, not tomorrow. So next week, Monday, Monday,
Speaker 3: he'll be on with Murph and Marcus seven thirty a
Speaker 3: Monday morning. Anyway, came to ours, I'm going to call
Speaker 3: in the text's go to Betty. Betty's in Benetia. Betty,
Speaker 3: how are you? You're on these sports Leader.
Speaker 9: Thanks for taking my call and I just want to
Speaker 9: be weeps because everybody's hitting the right what you got, Betty.
Speaker 9: I just like to say I always admire Mike when
Speaker 9: he would, you know, talk about various games and hitting
Speaker 9: and addressing the youth on what plays and what to
Speaker 9: pay attention to. That was so important and he took
Speaker 9: the time to do that. And also who bring up attitude.
Speaker 9: Your attitude is so important and even with pictures or
Speaker 9: anybody else out there, you know, you know, don't get mad,
Speaker 9: you know, be good and be good for your teams
Speaker 9: and put your energy into that. And he gets stressed
Speaker 9: that And those are important things and important factors and
Speaker 9: you'd be greatly missed for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: And also I just want to stress something that even
Speaker 9: though it's old news, the COVID, when that came around,
Speaker 9: if it wasn't for your station, I wouldn't be going.
Speaker 9: I that helped me keep going because you brought you
Speaker 9: were sharing the feelings that we were feeling, not you know,
Speaker 9: no games, no this you know that until later, And
Speaker 9: that was so important and I'll never forget it.
Speaker 1: Well, Betty, I Betty really quick.
Speaker 3: I got to tell you, like for us here at
Speaker 3: the station, and I was with Murph and Mac at
Speaker 3: the time, Legitimately we felt the exact same way that
Speaker 3: while we didn't have games to talk about, I don't
Speaker 3: know what we would have done. I mean, seriously, it
Speaker 3: was it was a sanity thing. It was a bit
Speaker 3: of normalcy thing, and we were lucky enough to get
Speaker 3: to keep coming in and doing our jobs every day.
Speaker 3: But I'm with you, Betty, and I've heard that from
Speaker 3: other people, but you got to know it meant as
Speaker 3: much to us during that time.
Speaker 1: As it meant to you.
Speaker 3: And I really appreciate you saying that, and I really
Speaker 3: appreciate your your your focus on Mike Crouco talking to
Speaker 3: younger players.
Speaker 1: Because when I was a kid, that's something I paid
Speaker 1: attention to.
Speaker 3: And Mike said, if you're a young ballplayer out there,
Speaker 3: take a look at how this guy's doing X, Y
Speaker 3: and Z. Take a look at and how he's setting
Speaker 3: his feet here. He definitely You're absolutely right. That's something
Speaker 3: I didn't think about, but I always listen for that
Speaker 3: as a kid. So but I really appreciate the call.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
Speaker 9: Yeah, thank you, bye, all right bye.
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Speaker 3: number to text. It's dirty work. It's a Thursday. I
Speaker 3: see the lines. We still out some lines open, Matt Freddy, Tony,
Speaker 3: Josh Francisco. As you guys all waiting on the line,
Speaker 3: We'll get to your calls and your thoughts. In some
Speaker 3: of the best Mike Cruco moments and We are going
Speaker 3: to catch up with Susan's lesser at three fifty and
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Speaker 1: The number to call. We'll take a quick break.
Speaker 3: You'll probably hear some more Greg Papa spots on the
Speaker 3: Sports Leader.
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Speaker 1: time to drop trout and hould.
Speaker 3: Out one of the great micro co lines. And it
Speaker 3: was it was just author this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this season man. And then it is a grand.
Speaker 3: Slim from Bryce Sudbridge, which is pretty incredible. Anyway, came
Speaker 3: to our four one five eight, five six seven the
Speaker 3: number of callin Texas. We've been reacting all afternoon long
Speaker 3: to Mike Cruco's announcedment this morning that he's going to
Speaker 3: retire at the end of the season. We'll go back
Speaker 3: out to the phone lines, get your guys' thoughts, your
Speaker 3: memories and uh and on the really the Voice of
Speaker 3: so many of our childhoods, some of our adulthoods, but
Speaker 3: for thirty six years, one of the guys who has
Speaker 3: carried the flag of Giants baseball, I think better than
Speaker 3: almost anybody in history. Let's go to Matt. Matt is
Speaker 3: in Middletown. What's up, Matt, You're on the sports leader.
Speaker 8: Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 10: Coach? You're doing?
Speaker 12: Just remembering a memory. It was probably in two thousand
Speaker 12: and eight, I guess I was about twenty five years old,
Speaker 12: never caught a foul ball, never got an autograph, but
Speaker 12: to hundreds of games. Sitting club level with my wife
Speaker 12: girlfriend at the time, saw the seats open right up
Speaker 12: in front of Kruk and Kuipe and as you'd say,
Speaker 12: you know, I'm gonna go shoot my shot. So looked
Speaker 12: at my lady, she said, go ahead, went over.
Speaker 13: I was sure.
Speaker 12: Immediately shut me down, said, you know, you got to
Speaker 12: have a seat, young man, you got to get out
Speaker 12: of here. But Kuke gave me the one finger and
Speaker 12: the pointer finger, not the middle finger, okay, and kind
Speaker 12: of kind of told me just hang on for a moment.
Speaker 12: But it was right after the eighth inning, getting ready
Speaker 12: to start the ninth and as soon as they recorded
Speaker 12: it out in the eighth inn or at the top
Speaker 12: of the ninth inning, he signaled my way and threw
Speaker 12: me down a baseball and it was signed by both
Speaker 12: Kucko and Kuyper. I still have it to this day,
Speaker 12: and I just remember that being like my chair first moment.
Speaker 12: I've never got a foul ball as a kid, been
Speaker 12: to one hundred games, and and I just thought how
Speaker 12: human of him it was, And even in the workplace
Speaker 12: when I was probably being a little bit out of line,
Speaker 12: I just thought it was super genuine and pretty cool
Speaker 12: and uh, definitely a memory. I'll I'll always cherish and
Speaker 12: still have the ball, still have the pictures.
Speaker 1: So that's awesome. Matt.
Speaker 3: I appreciate the call. Yeah, go ahead, Thanks, Yeah, I
Speaker 3: appreciate the call, man, Thanks so much. The part of that, too,
Speaker 3: is like you sort of feel like, ah, that's a
Speaker 3: little kid thing. But it's like if you haven't had
Speaker 3: one before, you've never done that before. And if it's
Speaker 3: Mike Cruker. That's the thing is how many other teams
Speaker 3: broadcasters are are as big of names to the team
Speaker 3: as Mike Croco and Dwyn Kuyper are.
Speaker 13: Here.
Speaker 3: Oh, I mean seriously, like you see people in Kype
Speaker 3: jerseys outside of like you know, for Hall of Fame players,
Speaker 3: of course you get that. You know, you got John Kruck.
Speaker 3: I'm sure there's Cruck jerseys all over Philadelphia's been there.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you've got I'm sure you've got KEITHR. And
Speaker 3: Anders jerseys in New York for the Mets because he's
Speaker 3: been there forever. But in terms of you know, all
Speaker 3: Star selections, hall of Fame status like things like that
Speaker 3: with with Crook and Kuype, that doesn't exist in spades,
Speaker 3: But for the impact they've had on the fan base
Speaker 3: and the people you see in those jerseys most of
Speaker 3: the time are not people who saw them play, people
Speaker 3: who are affected by their broadcast.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, So that's I think that's that's a great story
Speaker 1: from that.
Speaker 5: No, I would agree, And also, like you know, these
Speaker 5: guys kind of transcend the game. Like I think they
Speaker 5: were doing shows during like the Comedy Festival in San Francisco.
Speaker 5: It is just Crook and Kype talking about baseball, but
Speaker 5: people want to see them because were.
Speaker 3: They they were doing like during the comedy fest, I think.
Speaker 1: Like sketch Fest or whatever it's called.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like they were doing shows and also like how
Speaker 5: many local broadcasters do MVP Baseball?
Speaker 1: For years, Krook and Kuype were the voice of that
Speaker 1: video a couple of seasons.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they were the voice of MVP Baseball for EA Sports.
Speaker 3: It was two thousand and three and four, maybe five,
Speaker 3: I think for a few years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was great. I forgot they did this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my dad I think, was the voice of not
Speaker 5: not NBA Live, but another like knockoff one.
Speaker 3: Did he did he do like ESPN Basketball or something.
Speaker 1: Something like that.
Speaker 5: It was it was in the late nineties. I remember
Speaker 5: him doing a recording session for that.
Speaker 1: We got to find.
Speaker 5: And I'll never forget his voice over for that, just
Speaker 5: over and over again he tickles the twine.
Speaker 3: We gotta find who that existed. Dude, I'm gonna do
Speaker 3: some work on this. I'm gonna see if we can
Speaker 3: find the video game. Yeah, let's go to Fetti's and
Speaker 3: mil Peter's.
Speaker 9: What's up?
Speaker 1: Fetti are on these sports leader?
Speaker 14: Hey, what's going on? Man's Derek shout out the dirty work?
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 14: I just want to give my Cruco his flowers.
Speaker 7: Man, you know, longtime giants.
Speaker 14: Man watch the games all the time with my dad,
Speaker 14: as a kid.
Speaker 3: You know, we had not we had a nine.
Speaker 14: O'clock curfew, but unless we were watching the Giants games
Speaker 14: of Magnum p I, we can stay up late.
Speaker 3: Ye.
Speaker 14: So you know, I still remember crewp being in the
Speaker 14: All Star Game. He didn't get the pitch, but I
Speaker 14: still remember him warming up, you know what I mean.
Speaker 14: I remember the fight with I want to say it
Speaker 14: was the Cardinals.
Speaker 10: That they got in the fight with, you know what
Speaker 10: I mean.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I still were the twenty and nine season, you
Speaker 14: know what I mean, and all the good calls, all
Speaker 14: the good stories, you know what I mean. I felt
Speaker 14: I felt like he should have been a pitching coach
Speaker 14: or at least a pitching consultant probably, Yeah, you know
Speaker 14: what I mean. And I just want to give him
Speaker 14: his flowers and shout out to Croup and Kipe. And
Speaker 14: I got two things I want to say your cud go.
Speaker 14: One is grab some pie meat and the second one,
Speaker 14: Kevin Durant, is flash from the five part Beats.
Speaker 7: I'll have a good day.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you man, Thanks for the call. Uh.
Speaker 5: I kind of know that reference a little bit. It's
Speaker 5: over my head, the five heart beats. It's like this,
Speaker 5: I wish rain would fall? Is that he's talking about.
Speaker 5: I think so. I vaguely remember the movie, but I
Speaker 5: know the song a little bit more. And uh yeah,
Speaker 5: Kevin Duran and his feelings lately about the Warriors back
Speaker 5: of the day.
Speaker 3: I'm really upset. I can't find any great Papa video game.
Speaker 3: You think what system you think it was?
Speaker 1: You think it was one? It was on PlayStation one. Oh,
Speaker 1: I remember it well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he tickles the twine Tony.
Speaker 1: Tony's in Dublin. Gonn have Tony. You're on the Sports Leader.
Speaker 13: Hey, hey there, Adam, Hey, Derek. Wanted to talk share
Speaker 13: a little bit about kook Is the player because I'm
Speaker 13: an old timer and I remember these moments vividly. We
Speaker 13: talked about the twenty and nine season in nineteen eighty,
Speaker 13: forty years ago. People may not know the nineteen eighty
Speaker 13: five Giants. This year's Giants put the eighty five Giants
Speaker 13: put him in shame. They lost one hundred games. They
Speaker 13: were a complete laughing stock. And what the team did
Speaker 13: was they bought in a new manager, Roger Craig. They
Speaker 13: had a phenom rookie Will Clark, a scrappy surprise rookie
Speaker 13: in Robbie Thompson. But the holdover to eighty five to
Speaker 13: eighty six was the grizzled veteran starter Mike Kruco, and
Speaker 13: that team contended from the start. They were a complete
Speaker 13: surprise in MLD. They played great all summer. Kruco led
Speaker 13: the way with the number one starter in the rotation,
Speaker 13: and then towards the end they faltered. They lost out
Speaker 13: to the Astros. Kruko took the mound on the last
Speaker 13: day of the season at Dodger Stadium with nineteen wins,
Speaker 13: and he went out there on the last day and
Speaker 13: showed his professionalism and his dignity and pride as a player,
Speaker 13: and he pitched his ass off and he won his
Speaker 13: twentieth game in the season at Dodger Stadium on the
Speaker 13: last day. And I remember watching on KTVU seeing him
Speaker 13: walk off the mound at the end of the seventh
Speaker 13: I think and just thinking, man, that's the man among
Speaker 13: boys right there. Fast forward one year to nineteen eighty seven,
Speaker 13: this team won the division for the first time in
Speaker 13: sixteen years, and Kruko's year was not as stellar as
Speaker 13: it was the year before. He was now number three
Speaker 13: in the rotation by the time the playoffs came behind
Speaker 13: the Russell and I forget who else, but he started
Speaker 13: Game three, the first game at Candlestick Park, playoff game
Speaker 13: at Candlestick Park in sixteen years, and they had split
Speaker 13: the first two games in Saint Louis. He took the
Speaker 13: mound and he struggled early. He was down two to
Speaker 13: nothing and the top of the second men on base
Speaker 13: won out and he coached a ground ball and Robbie
Speaker 13: Thompson made a great turn and they got a double
Speaker 13: play to get out of that inning. And then the
Speaker 13: Giants started to slowly come back and Kruke settled down.
Speaker 13: They had won four to two. Game three, Robbie hit
Speaker 13: a homer, Jeff Leonard hit a homer, and hit a homer,
Speaker 13: and if I remember correctly, I think Kruco sailed down
Speaker 13: enough that he went the distance. I might be wrong
Speaker 13: about that, but again, he pitched his butt off in
Speaker 13: a great game. I was in the leftfield Bleefer for
Speaker 13: that game. I'll never forget it. I remember Mike Cuco
Speaker 13: the picture and what he brought to the Giants, and
Speaker 13: those are special memories for me.
Speaker 3: Apreciate they call Tony, thanks so much. I like going
Speaker 3: to the to the to the playoffs as well. I
Speaker 3: was thinking about Kirk as the picture we did that.
Speaker 3: We had Betty call in a little while ago from
Speaker 3: Benicia saying that in COVID that was such a big
Speaker 3: deal to get to listen to K and br all
Speaker 3: those days and still have companionship there. So I felt
Speaker 3: that way on the other side of the coin, like
Speaker 3: from where we were sitting. But we did these we
Speaker 3: called them the vintage game rewatches, where we would find
Speaker 3: a game and it's entirely on YouTube. And one of
Speaker 3: them that we did was like a Giant's Cardinal playoff
Speaker 3: game from like eighty seven or whatever, and then we
Speaker 3: had Kruk on to talk about the game.
Speaker 1: That's all these players from the game.
Speaker 3: See, that's how you produced a show, Derek with no
Speaker 3: sports by all means coaches.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I wasn't the producer, but I just I watched it happen.
Speaker 1: You know, don't you make any like to say on
Speaker 1: this run?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 3: I don't know, I can't hear. Let's get back to
Speaker 3: the phone lines. Josh and said, what up, Josh? You're
Speaker 3: on these sports later?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 11: How you doing good?
Speaker 10: How are you guys?
Speaker 8: I love the show great.
Speaker 4: I listened to you guys all the time.
Speaker 1: Thanks.
Speaker 4: Uh my cucko.
Speaker 10: Story is I played.
Speaker 4: I went to cal Pauly and I was playing my captain.
Speaker 4: My fraternity wanted to play ful pitch softball. Said okay,
Speaker 4: let's go, and they said what division? They said Division one.
Speaker 4: I said, all right, so we go play Division one
Speaker 4: softball and lo and behold, we're playing against Kuko's son.
Speaker 4: And my buddy turns to me, who's a Padres fan,
Speaker 4: and he says, hey, that's Mike Kruco over there watching
Speaker 4: his son play.
Speaker 7: Go up and talk to him.
Speaker 4: And this is in two thousand and three. So right
Speaker 4: after the two thousand two World Series and I walked
Speaker 4: up to Kruco and I said, hey, man, like I
Speaker 4: can't believe what happened. He goes, he never should have
Speaker 4: given the ball to Red Ortiz, and I'm like, oh
Speaker 4: my gosh, said I know, but he goes, they'll be back,
Speaker 4: don't worry about it. The nicest man ever. Yeah, second,
Speaker 4: only two, mister Papa, Greg Papa. So I started a
Speaker 4: tradition with my two children. I have a fifteen year
Speaker 4: old and a nine year old, and my fifteen year
Speaker 4: old or my nine year old loves watching the Niners
Speaker 4: games and listening to Papa, and I said, hey, that's
Speaker 4: the guy. And so we went to a Giants game,
Speaker 4: the last Giants home game of the year, day game
Speaker 4: at the Public House or whatever it's called now, and
Speaker 4: they're out there broadcasting and stuff. And I printed a
Speaker 4: letter saying, hey, please excuse my kids from school. They
Speaker 4: have a case of orange fever. And I put there
Speaker 4: John Lund and Papa's names on there. And I walked
Speaker 4: up there and I said, can you guys sign it?
Speaker 4: And they signed it, and my kids walked up and
Speaker 4: they said.
Speaker 8: Bring him on the air.
Speaker 4: Bring him on the air, and so they talked in
Speaker 4: Your dad was so nice to my kids that he started.
Speaker 4: He goes, well, what math are you doing? My son goes,
Speaker 4: I'm in geometry. He goes, can you drop plays for
Speaker 4: Kyle Shanahan And if you know angles, he can do this.
Speaker 4: And then I was like, after they were done on air,
Speaker 4: he came back over to the table. He said, hey,
Speaker 4: thank you very much.
Speaker 7: That was really great.
Speaker 4: I said, Lucy, this is my daughter, Lucy. I said, Lucy,
Speaker 4: this is the guy that you you listen to on
Speaker 4: the radio and you love his call and he goes, oh, well,
Speaker 4: you do it on air, and she goes no because.
Speaker 7: She was very shy.
Speaker 4: And I said, but he'll go back on. She'll go
Speaker 4: back on and do this other stuff if if, if
Speaker 4: she if, I can rite her with cotton candy. So
Speaker 4: I did, and she went back on and she did
Speaker 4: a canby R thing for for them. But I just
Speaker 4: want to say that both of them means so much
Speaker 4: to not only myself but to my family.
Speaker 7: It's it's amazing.
Speaker 4: I still have the letters signed by your dad and
Speaker 4: John Lund and I gave.
Speaker 13: It to the principal.
Speaker 4: I gave it to my parents who my dad is
Speaker 4: a Giants fan forever. I grew up listening to canby R.
Speaker 4: And so I really appreciate everything that you guys are doing.
Speaker 4: And I just want to say.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you so much. Man. Now,
Speaker 1: that's that's great to hear because.
Speaker 3: He ever signed you out of school for stuff? No,
Speaker 3: you know, like John Lunn did, but not him.
Speaker 1: John want me up all the time from school. It's
Speaker 1: kind of weird actually him and your dad's driver.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly, I forgot, bardon dude, I forgot.
Speaker 5: But no, I love hearing that stuff because my dad
Speaker 5: connected to so many different Bay Area fans, you know,
Speaker 5: like it shows also all the teams that fired him.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, but bro like, well we've
Speaker 3: talked about it, like I have that story with your dad. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I've told you that story where he came into Boulevard
Speaker 3: when I was an employe there and uh moved him
Speaker 3: to a better table. I was like, oh, you need to. Like,
Speaker 3: I was like, this is Greg Paba, right, it was
Speaker 3: like coming off a chronicle Live or something like that,
Speaker 3: and like he's a legend. So we moved him to
Speaker 3: a better seat. He said, I'd like to go to
Speaker 3: the radio game on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was like sure, I love that.
Speaker 3: I think I told you this. It was like a
Speaker 3: Friday night or a Thursday night. He's like, I leave
Speaker 3: you the tickets, blah blah. I took my number and
Speaker 3: my name and everything. Yeah, never heard from I told you.
Speaker 3: We were like on bart almost to the coliseum.
Speaker 1: Stop.
Speaker 3: Well, my buddy was like kept talking about how there
Speaker 3: was there was no way this was truly, this was fake.
Speaker 3: And I really started sweating, like I'm an idiot. This
Speaker 3: guy's not gonna just leave me ticket. We don't even
Speaker 3: talk since then, sure enough, dude, two tickets under my name.
Speaker 1: Sitting at the box office. No, I mean, I just
Speaker 1: I mean it's incredibly he just met me as a
Speaker 1: dude who worked at a restaurant. You want to go
Speaker 1: to the game on Sunday. I just said hi and
Speaker 1: moved him to a nice table.
Speaker 3: And so that's you hear stories like this Like I
Speaker 3: know that because I felt that too.
Speaker 1: But he but did you give him a check? Though?
Speaker 1: Did Did I drop a chat? Yeah? I wasn't the server.
Speaker 13: I was.
Speaker 1: I was like a major. See that's probably the way
Speaker 1: he got out of it. Was just like I'll leave
Speaker 1: him some Raider tickets and I don't have to pay then. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was like a host. So I didn't know. No, no,
Speaker 1: either way. No, I mean, I love hearing those stories.
Speaker 3: He dropped the bill, these will be in then Die
Speaker 3: will be up in Mount Davis. Then exactly enjoyed Davis.
Speaker 5: I know, like A's fans, Raider fans, giants, fans, forty
Speaker 5: nine er fans now, like they all gravitate towards my father.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I always appreciate that because he was the
Speaker 5: voice of the Bay Area to me.
Speaker 3: Four times Bay Area Sports Broadcast or California Broadcast for
Speaker 3: the year sports casts.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and he always likes to say like I had
Speaker 5: to do all these sports and Vince Scully just did
Speaker 5: one whatever.
Speaker 3: But like Fosse spots to get the fall, why does
Speaker 3: that get so many?
Speaker 4: We know?
Speaker 5: Like, uh yeah, Like to me, he will always be
Speaker 5: the voice of the A's and the Raiders.
Speaker 1: That's the way I grew up. But yeah, I love that.
Speaker 5: Giants fans and Niner fans like, Okay, I appreciate the greatness.
Speaker 1: That is great Papa the voice of the Niners and
Speaker 1: the Raiders.
Speaker 3: But I think even Spurs, frankly my favorite, my favorite
Speaker 3: stop of Papa.
Speaker 1: Loved the Spurs.
Speaker 3: Also the Pacers, even eight away Cambyond that's deep popping knowledge. Yeah,
Speaker 3: knowing that he did so well done Trump, Acers and Spurs. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of the Pacers. We love the
Speaker 3: we love playoff pe. All right, we'll quick break. I
Speaker 3: don't know why what about it in weeknees?
Speaker 1: I don't know why.
Speaker 3: I like Tree a weekdays. You can't be a week
Speaker 3: in the days. I like talking frum during during Pacer talk.
Speaker 3: Oh man, do you've have pace the guy in your
Speaker 3: show better, Frankly, Jimmy Chetwood, he could shoot it beg
Speaker 3: of Hoosier. All right, we'll take a break anyway, can
Speaker 3: be our four and five anyway sixty seven, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: call Francisco, James, Chris, Bnbido, Petez. You guys went in
Speaker 3: on the line. We got plenty more time to get
Speaker 3: to your calls. Also, Susan Slesster at three pot fifty.
Speaker 3: We'll talk to her about the Giants, really, my croco,
Speaker 3: I mean and dude for the years she covered the
Speaker 3: Giants or the A's we get talk about not just Greg,
Speaker 3: but we can talk krouk with her.
Speaker 1: So oh yeah, we will the story.
Speaker 3: Of the week, the changing and ever changing broadcast landscape
Speaker 3: specifically in sports around the Bay Area, and some other
Speaker 3: elements as well. But we'll talk to slus at three fifty.
Speaker 3: We'll talk to Rich Arelia at four to fifty, and
Speaker 3: we'll talk to you guys next on the Sports Leader.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dirty Work. Adam Copeland and Derek Papa
Speaker 2: on KNBR one oh four to five and six eighty
Speaker 2: am V Sports Leader.
Speaker 5: Dirty Work on a Thursday, Derek Papa, Kyle Harr will
Speaker 5: be joined by Susan Slusser in about ten minutes, and
Speaker 5: then rich Arelia at four fifty.
Speaker 1: We're reacting to the news today of Mike Cruco.
Speaker 5: I'm going to retire after the season, after thirty six
Speaker 5: seasons Colin Giants baseball. And uh, if you're watching on
Speaker 5: the YouTube stream, Adam Copeland isn't back from break yet,
Speaker 5: so I'll do it again. We were informed just a
Speaker 5: couple of minutes ago that I'm Copeland's no longer here
Speaker 5: at cambr Look if you're mad that I'm had that joke. Sorry,
Speaker 5: it was a good joke and I'm doing again. This
Speaker 5: man does not know when to come back from break.
Speaker 1: Good lord.
Speaker 5: Anyway, We're taking your calls all day long. Four one, five,
Speaker 5: ate away, five six, two seven. Reacting to the news
Speaker 5: of my Kruco. Let's go to the phone lines. Let's
Speaker 5: go to James in the east. Bade James around with
Speaker 5: dirty work. What's going on?
Speaker 7: Hey, hey guys, this is say James. Uh, I'm when
Speaker 7: they put my toe in the water of the filth
Speaker 7: for the first.
Speaker 1: Time, calling in jip away my friend.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm in the corner east the welling and East
Speaker 7: fourteenth coach knows it very well.
Speaker 1: Well, hey, what if he was here?
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, if he was here, you know about the
Speaker 7: jack in the box and so forth. The thing I
Speaker 7: wanted to talk about would touch on a few subjects
Speaker 7: is with Pop Senior and Tim Ryan working together. I
Speaker 7: have outdied when they did the first time they did
Speaker 7: Ayuka's on Fire. When they when they sang that together, Yeah,
Speaker 7: that just cracked me up. That's an all timer and
Speaker 7: all the other ad libs, uh that that coop would
Speaker 7: come on just you know mister football broadcaster and Barry,
Speaker 7: I mean, what what a what a gem uh? I
Speaker 7: love him. And then with Kruk and Kype as a team,
Speaker 7: of course, you know, people already sold a lot of
Speaker 7: the thunder ahead of me, like the horse laugh stories
Speaker 7: and all that. And then Krooke would always push Kype
Speaker 7: a little bit to tell a story and and and
Speaker 7: finally he'd get him to talk about something that he
Speaker 7: had done. And the funniest one I remember was when
Speaker 7: when Kype was playing ball in Venezuela and uh summer
Speaker 7: league I guess it was, and he was introduced by
Speaker 7: the announcer, the PA announcer, and I guess the guy
Speaker 7: couldn't pronounce you know, Dwayne's name in English, so he
Speaker 7: called him Dwannee queep a.
Speaker 1: Creepy right, Yes.
Speaker 6: That was it.
Speaker 7: And another thing they would take personal. If you're if
Speaker 7: you're listening to the game, either watching it or listening,
Speaker 7: and there was a you know, important game or close,
Speaker 7: you know, near the end of the game whatever, and
Speaker 7: the opposing picture would come in high and tight or
Speaker 7: hit one of our guys. The booths would go silent.
Speaker 7: They'd take it personal. Man, they would be like they
Speaker 7: were getting thrown at themselves. You could just feel it.
Speaker 7: You could just feel it. And then they'd come up.
Speaker 7: They'd be kind of salty talking about it and stuff.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: It was just fantastic broadcasting by silence, you know.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: One other thing if I made, if I could tell
Speaker 7: her John Madden's.
Speaker 1: Story, Sure, absolutely, Yeah.
Speaker 7: I was on a train. There was a wedding party.
Speaker 7: There used to be a thing called the Skunk Train
Speaker 7: that ran out of Oakland up to Reno, Okay, And
Speaker 7: it was basically a party train. And my friend was
Speaker 7: getting married. So the whole wedding party, we took the
Speaker 7: train right to go to Reno and come back after
Speaker 7: the wedding. So we're on the train. Me and another
Speaker 7: buddy went up to the club car and our girls
Speaker 7: went with us. We were sitting there having a few
Speaker 7: and then the lady said, you know, we're gonna go
Speaker 7: mingle with the rest of the party. So we hung
Speaker 7: out in the club car. Next thing, you know, this
Speaker 7: gentleman from the back says, hey, is there any room
Speaker 7: in that big seat, because we had like a circular
Speaker 7: seat there in the club car. I turn around and
Speaker 7: it's Coach Madden. He said, yeah, sit down, of course,
Speaker 7: you know. So he sits down with us, and then
Speaker 7: we started talking a little bit and he was signing
Speaker 7: autographs the whole time, you know, just boom boom boom
Speaker 7: signed autograph and we told him we're going to a
Speaker 7: wedding and stuff, and I asked him what are you
Speaker 7: doing on the train. Where are you go? And Coach
Speaker 7: he said he was off to do his first Miller
Speaker 7: like commercial, that he was going to Chicago, he wasn't
Speaker 7: going to fly, never going to fly again, and that
Speaker 7: he was in to do a miller like commercial. So
Speaker 7: we started talking just general. I didn't want to start
Speaker 7: jamming him up with football stuff. Right off the bat,
Speaker 7: and he asked what I was doing, and I told
Speaker 7: him the kind of work I was in and that
Speaker 7: I was also an after school wrestling coach at Tennyson
Speaker 7: High School as a varsity wrestling coach. And he said,
Speaker 7: my god, he goes, my son's are wrestling. I can't.
Speaker 7: I can't watch him because I can't watch wrestling. It
Speaker 7: scares the hell out of me, you know. And I said,
Speaker 7: your boys played football. I assume yeah, and I go,
Speaker 7: you go to those games? Yeah, I can watch football.
Speaker 7: I just can't watch wrestling. So, you know, we talked
Speaker 7: about that for a while and I couldn't help myself.
Speaker 7: I said, so, coach, can I ask you a little
Speaker 7: bit about football? And he said sure. I said what
Speaker 7: was like? What was your I said, you know, congratulating
Speaker 7: they had won the Super Bowl against Minnesota. I think
Speaker 7: it was so. I said, you know, after you guys
Speaker 7: won the game, what was that like? He goes, oh,
Speaker 7: it was great and da da da dah. And then
Speaker 7: I couldn't help I said, who's the best quarterback you
Speaker 7: ever saw?
Speaker 4: Just?
Speaker 7: You know, boom, That's all I could think of. He goes, oh,
Speaker 7: for just raw power. Steve Bartkowski, and I was like, what,
Speaker 7: he goes, Yeah, he goes. I saw him stand at
Speaker 7: one hundred yard or at the one end zone and
Speaker 7: fire the ball one hundred yards on a line to
Speaker 7: the other end. And I think Bartkowski was playing for
Speaker 7: the South at the time.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And then the last thing I asked him, and I
Speaker 7: didn't think he'd answer this question. I said, who's the
Speaker 7: who's the who's the biggest asked in in the NFL.
Speaker 7: He goes, let me tell you a story. He goes.
Speaker 7: After the after the Minnesota game, I went over to
Speaker 7: their locker room and I was I was congratulating Bobby Moore,
Speaker 7: who became mud or shot and yeah. And I went
Speaker 7: up to the other players and I was congratulating them,
Speaker 7: you know, for a good season and stuff, and he goes.
Speaker 7: And I went over to uh Fran Tarkenton and I shook,
Speaker 7: you know, put my hand out, and he looked at me.
Speaker 7: He goes, we have five more minutes. We would have
Speaker 7: taken you down. And coach goes, did you see the scoreboard?
Speaker 6: Friends?
Speaker 7: And he just goes, he wouldn't, he wouldn't shake my hand.
Speaker 7: Was like this as anyway, I didn't think he'd answer
Speaker 7: that question, well, we got.
Speaker 1: To run, gens, we gotta run. I appreciate the call man,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Yeah, thank you, brother. Way. Speaking
Speaker 1: of Mad, and you see the Mad moves to come out.
Speaker 3: With uh November eighteenth, I believe, by the way, I
Speaker 3: saw a note today he said, dude, the new Mad
Speaker 3: movie is gonna skip all theatrical release and goes straight
Speaker 3: to Amazon Stream.
Speaker 1: And I was like, that's what all the great movies do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's just let'll just blow past any theatrical release
Speaker 3: and go directly.
Speaker 1: We know that. Do we know that? I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I well because I does.
Speaker 3: Uh, Like you know, like Adam Sandler's got that deal
Speaker 3: with Netflix. Yeah, all these guys have deals, so like that,
Speaker 3: so all their movies. Now he's got a production company.
Speaker 3: Of course, Happy Madison has signed out with Netflix or whatever.
Speaker 3: So they're like announcing grown Ups three. Oh yeah they
Speaker 3: announced that. Yeah, because so many unanswered questions from the
Speaker 3: first two. I never seen grown Ups anyway, it's not
Speaker 3: it's not for I don't think it's for us, but yeah, whatever,
Speaker 3: But I like now I'm seeing Nick Cage.
Speaker 1: I mean, he just did the Spider No War. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he has any tire. I kind of
Speaker 1: want to see that.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he has any tire contract to
Speaker 3: Netflix or Amazon Prime. No, but that movie is gonna
Speaker 3: be released there, so it's Prime Studio Video, which is
Speaker 3: I think is mg AMA?
Speaker 6: Is that right?
Speaker 1: I believe so?
Speaker 5: But yeah, he was doing like I guess a trailer
Speaker 5: for Today where he comes out as Nicholas Cage like
Speaker 5: I'm playing the iconic broadcaster John Madden.
Speaker 1: Yeah, boom tough acting to acting. Dude.
Speaker 5: I cannot wait for it because I think I think
Speaker 5: Christian Bale will not gonna have the park as Al Davis.
Speaker 1: Steve Barkowski is the best I ever saw. I'm never
Speaker 1: going on a train, dude.
Speaker 5: That's the part I want to see with as Nicholas
Speaker 5: k Nicholas Cage as Jean Madden and he's like, get
Speaker 5: maybe off of this train or no, it's just our plane.
Speaker 5: Like he's definitely he was definitely afraid of planes.
Speaker 1: He's like, I can't fly anymore. Damn it. I need
Speaker 1: to get on these trains. This should be to Pat
Speaker 1: Summer all now, it's not Caught Air, it's my Madden train. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm playing Madden. It's so odd, it's crazy.
Speaker 3: It I feel like you'd be a better Davis. But
Speaker 3: they got Bail playing Davis.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think the facial structure of Nicholas
Speaker 5: Cage fits Al Davis. But yeah, if you've seen the
Speaker 5: you know, the earlier trailer, the teaser trailer for this
Speaker 5: Madden movie, Christian Bale sounds exactly like Al Davis.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic.
Speaker 3: Like I said, I don't know what these with these
Speaker 3: like method actors do to it to get into roles
Speaker 3: that they couldn't.
Speaker 1: Like, you can't method act being an owner of an
Speaker 1: NFL team, No, you can't.
Speaker 5: By the way, you were talking about doing impression for
Speaker 5: four hours of a radio.
Speaker 3: Should you do Nick Cage?
Speaker 5: No, because that's hard to do and it's honestly sounds
Speaker 5: like I'm doing kunt of Reeves after a little.
Speaker 1: Bit of times. Yeah, it sounds the same. Yeah.
Speaker 5: But I will say this, back in the day when
Speaker 5: they did the Halloween episodes on Around the Horn, Tim
Speaker 5: Callashaw would always dress up and be Al Davis best
Speaker 5: Al Davis and pression one.
Speaker 1: Tim Klashaw's Al Davis is amazing.
Speaker 3: Fantom I would I've heard me that we should get
Speaker 3: some of that arden because when the movie comes.
Speaker 5: Out, because he would like wear like his jumpsuit and
Speaker 5: be like, you know, Tony Rally was the host, he'd
Speaker 5: be like, Anthony, Anthony, speak up, when you talk.
Speaker 3: Speak up, Anthony. Back down to the phone line. Just
Speaker 3: go to Chris and sack Chris. You're on these sports later.
Speaker 1: What's up, dude, how's it going?
Speaker 8: Can you guys hear me?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Perfect, Yeah, I know. I just wanted to, uh, you know,
Speaker 8: shout out uh Kruco here.
Speaker 4: I actually just realized that he retired just from you guys,
Speaker 4: just driving home.
Speaker 11: With your guys.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: Anybody you know who's been around baseball for a long time,
Speaker 4: played baseball at a high level, you just know that
Speaker 4: Kruco just be that guy who's been.
Speaker 15: In the the spot. They've been in the spot at
Speaker 15: the pitch. We can really give you a kind of
Speaker 15: an in depth breakdown, and like not many anas can
Speaker 15: do that these days. You know, like it's really is
Speaker 15: a dying breed. And I really wanted to say one thing.
Speaker 15: You know, whenever they wash go through the lineup at
Speaker 15: the end of the game, you know when he says
Speaker 15: Rivers just beyond the play.
Speaker 8: Is in the squad.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's gonna that's.
Speaker 8: Gonna be missed. I mean that that's something I remember.
Speaker 15: Like said the kid, watching it with my dad. But anyways,
Speaker 15: just wanted to come on here and you know, say
Speaker 15: a few things.
Speaker 8: I love you guys, show keep it up.
Speaker 11: I love what you guys are doing for camb.
Speaker 3: Are much love, Chris. We appreciate you, man, Thank you
Speaker 3: so much. Somebody else texting and I forgot to get
Speaker 3: this one earlier is whenever.
Speaker 1: They do a cool giveaway, I want to get down.
Speaker 1: I want to get that.
Speaker 3: I want to get that.
Speaker 1: I want to get that.
Speaker 3: I want to get that. He does have a bunch
Speaker 3: of times quickly it's got a bambino. Bambino's in the
Speaker 3: five five nine, Miro, A great bambino. You're on the
Speaker 3: Sports Leader. What's up dude?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 13: Can you guys hear me?
Speaker 10: All right?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 16: So yesterday I woke up with all the Greg Papa
Speaker 16: stuff on the interwebs and obviously.
Speaker 13: Was taken back by that.
Speaker 16: And I don't know what's up can v are, But goodness,
Speaker 16: gracious man, that was not a good look.
Speaker 13: We're praying for him.
Speaker 8: We love him.
Speaker 16: I mean, we like this country.
Speaker 13: This especially the Bay Area of all of us, and
Speaker 13: we deeply love him. He is a part of a
Speaker 13: fabric of not only.
Speaker 16: Football, but baseball, basketball all three.
Speaker 13: I don't think he's talked enough about basketball. His knowledge
Speaker 13: of basketball deep yep so and then getting I just
Speaker 13: we love him Number two.
Speaker 16: Yeah, it's been Kruco and Kais have been background noise
Speaker 16: in my house and watching games for years.
Speaker 13: Dude, cooking steaks, swimming.
Speaker 16: In the pool there on twenty four seven, I mean,
Speaker 16: just every game. It's a hard one, man, because when
Speaker 16: my dad passed away about ten years ago, we finally
Speaker 16: got to watch the Giants World Series game together. And
Speaker 16: this is kind of hard to do without crying, man,
Speaker 16: But yeah, dude, he's been a part of the fabric
Speaker 16: of the baseball community, especially with the relationship between me
Speaker 16: and my dad.
Speaker 13: He had a stroke and when he came.
Speaker 16: Back to it, Uh, we watched a lot of ball
Speaker 16: together and uh that was his favorite dude. Man, Kruco,
Speaker 16: the in depth knowledge and all that was just beyond special.
Speaker 13: And one more thing.
Speaker 16: If I could say this, it's the travesty that they're
Speaker 16: not in the Ford. See Frick Hall of Fame, both
Speaker 16: him and Kuyper. I think I speak for many many
Speaker 16: fans out there, and not just giant fans. But if
Speaker 16: you're a fan of baseball, you've ever heard their broadcast
Speaker 16: one time, these guys are beyond deserving.
Speaker 13: Just love him.
Speaker 11: I love your dad, dude.
Speaker 13: And by the way, hook line and sync.
Speaker 16: Bro, when you had the whole.
Speaker 13: Thing about Adam fired, I was like, what the he
Speaker 13: can't be true?
Speaker 16: Well, I use me like going and it was honestly good.
Speaker 13: That comedy bit was great.
Speaker 1: Thank you man, Thank you ro vaan Vedo van Bido.
Speaker 1: I swear to god, I didn't know he was gonna
Speaker 1: do that. I didn't even know.
Speaker 6: The show was going to do that.
Speaker 3: You didn't even know the show it actually started. I
Speaker 3: still haven't even heard what he said. I just heard
Speaker 3: Kyle Chung, one of our other producers out here. He
Speaker 3: just he's just out in the other room and he goes,
Speaker 3: ha ha coax is gone. Yeah that's what he said.
Speaker 3: I said what and he goes, oh.
Speaker 1: Your show is.
Speaker 3: That's literally how I found out what was happening. I
Speaker 3: was like, what are you talking about? He's like, I said,
Speaker 3: you're gone.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, the show's on kinds of brankster
Speaker 1: like that sometimes.
Speaker 11: Bro, I was like, Candy, are.
Speaker 13: Just absolutely trashed my day.
Speaker 11: I don't know if I'm listening again.
Speaker 1: Ever, WHOA, You weren't gonna keep me company for four
Speaker 1: years because me so.
Speaker 3: As I said earlier, Benvid, I would have been crazy.
Speaker 3: Not as crazy as firing a guy with cancer, but
Speaker 3: still crazy. Nonetheless, dude, vaan bino, we appreciate the call.
Speaker 3: Thank you, dude so beautiful because the great stuff is
Speaker 3: due the stuff with these dad And that's that's exactly
Speaker 3: what I mean about Kruko saying somebody taught you the
Speaker 3: Book of Giants Baseball and then you get to have
Speaker 3: that connection he said, watch a World Series game and
Speaker 3: hear him taught.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's magic stuff. Dude. You can't replace that, No,
Speaker 1: you can't.
Speaker 5: And I hear that all the time, where I mean,
Speaker 5: people connect to sports in that way where it's like, oh,
Speaker 5: my dad, my memories of my dad. Are me listening
Speaker 5: to K and b R or am me listening to
Speaker 5: your father or something else? So that is a getting
Speaker 5: lost on me because that's a special moment. And obviously
Speaker 5: I have gray moments watching my dad in person doing
Speaker 5: play by play. Because of my dad, I got to
Speaker 5: see my Kruco call games. So yeah, I totally understand
Speaker 5: what you guys are saying today.
Speaker 3: Pete, Bob, Hank, and Pete, I know you've been waiting
Speaker 3: for like twenty five minutes, and I'm sorry we got
Speaker 3: to take a break because we're gonna talk to Susan
Speaker 3: Sluster on the other side, but we do have time
Speaker 3: for more calls after. I really appreciate you guys calling
Speaker 3: in and we will get to him. Pete and Slow,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry we didn't have a chance to get to
Speaker 3: you've been waiting for a while, but if you give
Speaker 3: us a call back, we will get to your calls
Speaker 3: after we catch up with Susan Sluster.
Speaker 1: It's dirty work. It's a Thursday.
Speaker 3: Susan Sluster, of course, covers the Giants for the San
Speaker 3: Francisco Chronicle. Kind of feels like this isn't a day
Speaker 3: where we talk a lot of baseball and talk more
Speaker 3: about what we've been discussing for the last couple of days.
Speaker 3: One of the other anchors of Bearing Media, Susan Slusser,
Speaker 3: covered the A's cover the Giants and has worked with
Speaker 3: both of the guys closely that we're going to talk
Speaker 3: about next it. We'll talk some Kruk, we'll talk some Papa,
Speaker 3: and we'll talk to Susan Selester. That's all next dirty
Speaker 3: work on a Thursday. It's the greatest show in America
Speaker 3: and it's only here. I'm the sports Leader.