Speaker 1: FP.
Speaker 2: Santangelo what up? You can find him on X on
Speaker 2: a Fight and Hydrant. We appreciate you being on. Proud
Speaker 2: Father too, proud son of two San Francisco Giants, broadcaster
Speaker 2: at KNBR Radio, the show host. It's great to have
Speaker 2: you here. I don't know if I can handle all
Speaker 2: the San Francisco Giant stuff that you've got going on FP,
Speaker 2: but I love this.
Speaker 1: We're going to do this. We're going to do this.
Speaker 2: How worried man? What a wild ride it has been
Speaker 2: for the San Francisco Giants. What's been the greatest thing
Speaker 2: that you've noticed this year?
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, thanks for having me on you guys.
Speaker 3: It's really cool to be on with you guys always.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I'm not a homer as a broadcaster at all,
Speaker 3: as you can tell.
Speaker 1: By the attire. I mean, I'm into it.
Speaker 3: We're all into it in San Francisco right now. Like
Speaker 3: the last two games against the Dodgers were kind of
Speaker 3: a buzzkill. But you're not going to win every game
Speaker 3: the rest of the year. You're not going to run
Speaker 3: the table. There's still a game and a half out
Speaker 3: of that last wild card spot. So now I go
Speaker 3: to Arizona and get to work today, and then you
Speaker 3: know how they've turned it around. You guys have all
Speaker 3: been there and been in the clubhouse where they just,
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, you know they weren't having fun
Speaker 3: playing baseball. You walk in every day and it's kind of,
Speaker 3: you know, stagging in a little bit.
Speaker 1: You're losing a lot.
Speaker 3: Then all of a sudden, you have a good series
Speaker 3: against the Brewers in Milwaukee. You had the best home
Speaker 3: record in baseball at the time. You take two out
Speaker 3: of three there. Then you come home and sweep the Cubs,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, you're starting to think we
Speaker 3: can do this. And you know, the big guys Raffi
Speaker 3: and Willie Damas and Matt Chapman are hitting.
Speaker 1: And then you sprinkle in the psychopath in right field,
Speaker 1: Drew Gilbert, who's.
Speaker 3: Out of this total college atmosphere to the clubhouse, and
Speaker 3: you know, hats off. You guys, know when you're a
Speaker 3: veteran and you have some crazy kid come in a
Speaker 3: lot of times, back in the old days, it was
Speaker 3: be seen and not heard, but they've embraced this guy,
Speaker 3: the veterans, and you've seen all the antics in the
Speaker 3: dugout but he's playing well too, so that holds a
Speaker 3: lot of credibility to what he's doing. So you just
Speaker 3: talk about the energy they have and you're hoping they've
Speaker 3: been resilient all year. And they lost two out of
Speaker 3: three of the Dodgers, and they got spanked Saturday, and
Speaker 3: they got spanked yesterday, But like hopefully, you know, with
Speaker 3: the resiliency they've had this year, they're on the plane,
Speaker 3: they're in Arizona, and with Bryce Eldridge coming up today,
Speaker 3: you never know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: You talk about all the different storylines and everything, but
Speaker 4: obviously the Dodgers scored a lot of runs against them,
Speaker 4: and these in those last two games this series. My
Speaker 4: thing is Web gave up six runs, Ray gave up
Speaker 4: five runs. Two guys we talk about all the time
Speaker 4: here your closer comes in when you're winning and gives
Speaker 4: up the lead and you lose. How deflating that is
Speaker 4: when your two come in and do that against the team.
Speaker 4: Not even talking about Dodgers Giants rivalry here, just talking
Speaker 4: about the fact that when those two guys, when they're
Speaker 4: on the hill, you're like, we're not win one of
Speaker 4: these two them. We're gonna take this series. How deflating
Speaker 4: was that for you and your positive vibes.
Speaker 3: I mean, we're obviously expecting, like Friday night was sick,
Speaker 3: you guys. The atmosphere at the ballpark was insane. You know,
Speaker 3: forty thousand people. It's been a lot of Dodger fans
Speaker 3: at Oracle Park in the past, but the Giants fans
Speaker 3: showed up and they showed out. When we were just
Speaker 3: hoping for Patrick Bailey to hit a sack fly, and
Speaker 3: as soon as it left his bat, you knew the
Speaker 3: game was over.
Speaker 1: No idea it was going to be a walk off
Speaker 1: Grand Slam.
Speaker 3: So you score four off Kershaw first ending Game two,
Speaker 3: and you're thinking, logan web on the mound. We got this,
Speaker 3: But you guys would know. I want to defer to
Speaker 3: the catchers. You know, when guys start to get toward
Speaker 3: thirty starts a year, did you see a difference in
Speaker 3: some of the aces stuff late in the season. Was
Speaker 3: it flatter? Were they tired? Because like I'm just a
Speaker 3: position player, I wasn't in the squad behind there. Did
Speaker 3: you notice the difference of some guys' stuff in their
Speaker 3: later starts because you're thinking adrenaline will take you right
Speaker 3: now with that atmosphere I'm talking about. But that Dodger lineup,
Speaker 3: they don't swing at balls, they swing at strikes. They
Speaker 3: make you work, they make you grind. And if you
Speaker 3: put free base runners on, which Logan web did, which
Speaker 3: Robbie Ray did, that team's going to eat you up.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. Guys never liked.
Speaker 3: To hear they're tired, Like if you say that on
Speaker 3: the air, they're like, I'm not tired.
Speaker 1: I'm fine. But did you guys ever see starters late
Speaker 1: in the season get tired starters?
Speaker 4: Yes, aces, No, that was one of the traits. Maybe
Speaker 4: AJ has a different answer to it. That was one
Speaker 4: of the traits where it almost looked like whether they
Speaker 4: were tired or not, they were going on a cruise
Speaker 4: control and they were like soaring into the end of
Speaker 4: the season. And that's like, that's when I think about
Speaker 4: an ace, not a number one an ace.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And obviously you have to turn the page quick, right,
Speaker 3: There's no time to sit in the locker room and
Speaker 3: go like what happened?
Speaker 1: Like you got to turn the page.
Speaker 3: Every game is so huge right now, Arizona's only two backs,
Speaker 3: so this is a huge series coming up Monday, Tuesday,
Speaker 3: Wednesday in Arizona. Then they go back to they go
Speaker 3: to Los Angeles to play the Dodgers again. So it's
Speaker 3: gonna be a tough road and you just can't you
Speaker 3: can't let the vibe in the momentum get derailed by
Speaker 3: a couple of a couple of boat race losses. But
Speaker 3: I think it'd be tougher if they lost three to
Speaker 3: two on both days then getting beat like they did. So,
Speaker 3: Like I said, I've never seen a more resilient group.
Speaker 3: I've never seen a group play bad baseball for a
Speaker 3: good month and a half and then all of a
Speaker 3: sudden turn it around and play some of the best
Speaker 3: baseball we've ever seen around here in a long time.
Speaker 2: Effie, you just mentioned it. It's a huge weekend. It's
Speaker 2: a huge series against the Arizona Diamondbacks, two teams very
Speaker 2: much clinging to get into that NL West picture as
Speaker 2: far as the wildcard race is concerned, when you look
Speaker 2: at the Diamondbacks, Zach Gallen obviously going tonight against the
Speaker 2: Giants at Chase Field, what do you need to do
Speaker 2: against this club to at least take two of three
Speaker 2: to continue to force the issue well.
Speaker 3: I mean pitching in defense has been the key through
Speaker 3: this whole thing, and then you know situational hitting on offense,
Speaker 3: which they got away from. They couldn't move a lead
Speaker 3: off double, they couldn't pick up a runner from third
Speaker 3: with less than two outs.
Speaker 1: So just keep playing good baseball.
Speaker 3: I think when you talk to a lot of players
Speaker 3: that have won championships, they would tell you. And when
Speaker 3: I was with Brian Zimmerman and DC, he would say, like,
Speaker 3: we're not trying to win tonight. We're just trying to
Speaker 3: play good base and if we play good baseball, that'll
Speaker 3: take care of itself. So if you put that enormous
Speaker 3: amount of pressure that we've come this far and if
Speaker 3: we win tonight, we're this. You just got to go
Speaker 3: pitch to pitch to ending, try to win every pitch,
Speaker 3: try to win every ending, and play good.
Speaker 1: Baseball like they have been. They got to Zach Gallon
Speaker 1: a little bit last time. But we'll we'll see how this.
Speaker 1: We'll see how this matches up.
Speaker 3: It's a good place to hit, you guys know that
Speaker 3: it's a good place to rake in Arizona. So the
Speaker 3: bats have been stymying a little bit the last couple
Speaker 3: of days, but you know, they faced some pretty good
Speaker 3: Dodger pitching.
Speaker 5: Effie, Can they really do this? Because I mean, I mean, honest,
Speaker 5: the Giants are a five hundred team for me, They've
Speaker 5: been five hundred for the last five hundred games. They're
Speaker 5: two fifty and fifty okay, So can they get into
Speaker 5: the postseason with where they're at? I know they're a
Speaker 5: game game and a halfhind. I always look at the
Speaker 5: lost column, as you know, lost column is what really matters.
Speaker 5: They're really a game back. But can't are they a
Speaker 5: good enough team to And I hate to say this
Speaker 5: because but did they deserve to make the playoffs? I
Speaker 5: mean as as a team that where they're at right now.
Speaker 5: And I know it doesn't matter you're record, but there's
Speaker 5: seventy five and seventy four, So if they finished eighty
Speaker 5: four and seventy eight, they make the playoffs or Giants
Speaker 5: fan's gonna be like, oh, what a hell of a
Speaker 5: year and then they losing the Wildcard round to the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: I think so based on where they were this year,
Speaker 3: and it's not where they are right now or where
Speaker 3: their record was. You know, they were seven eight games
Speaker 3: out of this thing a few about a month ago,
Speaker 3: maybe three weeks ago, and all of a sudden because
Speaker 3: the Mets have faltered and they can't win, all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, even though they won yesterday, there's excitement in
Speaker 3: the fan base, there's excitement around the team, and it's
Speaker 3: the system. AJ Like when the third wild card came out,
Speaker 3: I was like, well, you know, when I was in Oakland,
Speaker 3: we were one hundred and two and sixty and we
Speaker 3: were the wildcard when there was only one wildcard because
Speaker 3: the Mariners won one hundred and sixteen games. And when
Speaker 3: this third wildcard first came out, I was totally against them,
Speaker 3: like you're gonna have a five hundred team make the playoffs.
Speaker 3: But like when you're in the middle of it and
Speaker 3: you were left for dead a couple of months ago
Speaker 3: and playing bad baseball, and all of a sudden, you're
Speaker 3: playing great baseball.
Speaker 1: Have momentum.
Speaker 3: You guys both know, it's the team that gets hot
Speaker 3: toward the end that wins it. It's not the team.
Speaker 3: How many times we've seen a team in one hundred
Speaker 3: and seven games and they're out in the first round.
Speaker 3: So if they can reload here and stay hot, I
Speaker 3: think the records are relevant. Getting into the postseason, you've
Speaker 3: got momentum, and then everybody gets tight in those short series,
Speaker 3: right the teams that want one hundred bay We've seen
Speaker 3: the Dodgers do it. We've seen the Astros do it.
Speaker 3: We've seen a lot of teams that have had these
Speaker 3: great regular seasons, even the Mariners when they won one
Speaker 3: hundred and sixteen games. Anyone in the World Series, it's
Speaker 3: always the team that's hot at the end and the
Speaker 3: team that's playing playoff games for a month, and then
Speaker 3: you just get to the playoffs and it's just another
Speaker 3: game because you've been playing, in essence, playoff games to
Speaker 3: get into the playoffs, and you've already had these high
Speaker 3: pressure situations where your every ground ball, every ball strike,
Speaker 3: just like the playoffs.
Speaker 1: And you get in there and you just keep doing
Speaker 1: what you're doing.
Speaker 3: And maybe the teams that have cruised and have won,
Speaker 3: they take a deep breath, they start to go spring
Speaker 3: training mode, and then all of a sudden, you get
Speaker 3: those days off and you've got to gear up in
Speaker 3: the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Just not there.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I honestly, aj, I get your point that,
Speaker 3: like now we're having five hundred teams to get to
Speaker 3: the playoffs. But I just think it's how you're playing
Speaker 3: late that matters most that not the actual overall record.
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Speaker 4: Did they sell too soon? I know this is the
Speaker 4: you can't you can't question Buster Posey because Buster walks
Speaker 4: on water. But that's the reality of the situation. Did
Speaker 4: they sell too soon? Could they have used a closer
Speaker 4: while Walker's done great? And Duvall was you know, up
Speaker 4: and down, good bad? Who knows what you're gonna get?
Speaker 4: Did they sell too soon?
Speaker 3: I would say no, because they've played better after the
Speaker 3: trade deadline. I mean, so how can you argue with
Speaker 3: the moves that were made and it you know, Jordan
Speaker 3: Hicks hasn't done well in Boston and Kyle Harrison just
Speaker 3: got called up the other day, and you look at
Speaker 3: you know, the trade for Bhuteaux for Tyler Rodgers, that
Speaker 3: straight up was a good trade. Then you get Dude
Speaker 3: Gilbert on top of it from the Mets, who's trying
Speaker 3: to chase the Mets.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the back of.
Speaker 3: The bullpen has been you know, young guys in big
Speaker 3: roles and sometimes you know, you look at Duran in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: That's why I think they're the best team in baseball.
Speaker 3: You guys know that the closer that comes in and
Speaker 3: it's just one, two, three every time. That's such a
Speaker 3: luxury to have, especially in October. But Ryan Walker has
Speaker 3: been better lately. He had he had a hiccup in
Speaker 3: Saint Louis where he had a two to nothing lead
Speaker 3: and it was three to two before we could all
Speaker 3: blink an eye.
Speaker 1: But he was good the other night.
Speaker 3: And like I said, they're just piecing it together right
Speaker 3: now at the back end of the bullpen. But as
Speaker 3: far as selling too early, I think you know, the
Speaker 3: Dever's trade was way before the trade deadline, and when
Speaker 3: you look at that trade and what they gave up
Speaker 3: for Raffie Devers, and I know it didn't start out
Speaker 3: all great, but you know, baseball players are human. There's
Speaker 3: adjustments coming to the West Coast, new team, new fan base.
Speaker 3: You still got drama back in Boston. Second team you
Speaker 3: play is a Red Sox. You're learning a new position.
Speaker 3: It takes time to adjust when you're a new player
Speaker 3: in a new city and you've been with one city
Speaker 3: your whole career, and all of a sudden, he's been
Speaker 3: contributing big time and he's the Raffie Devers that the
Speaker 3: Giants thought they were getting.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what I was going to ask you FP.
Speaker 2: What has the Dever's effect been in San Francisco, and
Speaker 2: I probably think the Red Sox would like to send
Speaker 2: Jordan Hicks back to you guys, what's it been like
Speaker 2: Kevin Raffie there.
Speaker 1: It's been great. Man. He's so nice to be around
Speaker 1: every day. He's always got a smile on his face.
Speaker 3: It kills me that he gets a bad rap and
Speaker 3: that he has gotten a bad rap. And I know,
Speaker 3: as players, you know you're supposed to play wherever they
Speaker 3: want you, but there's ways to handle that with superstar players.
Speaker 3: Right when you got a guy that's the face of
Speaker 3: the franchise and all of a sudden you ambush him,
Speaker 3: maybe you take him out to dinner and have a
Speaker 3: bottle of wine in a casual setting and tell them, hey,
Speaker 3: for us to get to the World series this, we're
Speaker 3: thinking about doing this, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 3: that things has a different ending. But I'm kind of
Speaker 3: glad how it panned out because it's fun to watch
Speaker 3: him play every day.
Speaker 1: He's the only hitter you guys in recent.
Speaker 3: Memory that every time he comes up when I'm doing
Speaker 3: a game, I think he's going deep, Like his swing
Speaker 3: is so violent, and it's just it's unfair expectations. But
Speaker 3: we all think it when he comes up that he's
Speaker 3: going to hit a tape measure shot. It hasn't happened
Speaker 3: recently for him, but man, he's such a threat in
Speaker 3: the lineup. But I think he's the first real threat
Speaker 3: offensively that the Giants have had since Barry Bonds.
Speaker 1: Maybe, and that could be a bold statement, but yeah.
Speaker 3: And he's been a pleasure to be around. The guys
Speaker 3: love him. They're joking with him every day. He has
Speaker 3: a fantasy football team and he knows nothing about football.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's just he's part of it right now.
Speaker 3: And the guys love him. Drew Gilbert talks about him
Speaker 3: every single day and what a great teammate he is.
Speaker 3: In the times I've been around him, he's just smiling
Speaker 3: all the time and he's a fun.
Speaker 1: Guy to be around.
Speaker 4: Rarely can you you can trade let alone at the
Speaker 4: trade deadline, but in May or June for a superstar
Speaker 4: bat And so hats off to br to Buster for
Speaker 4: getting RAFFI like that. Rarely can you with thirteen games left,
Speaker 4: call up a six, seven, two and forty pound back
Speaker 4: to back twenty three home run league seasons. You know,
Speaker 4: super prospect. What outside of San Francisco, because San Francisco,
Speaker 4: even maybe even all of California knows about Bryce Eldred,
Speaker 4: But the Giants calling him up at this point, what
Speaker 4: can national fans expect to see besides an Aaron Judge
Speaker 4: type of hulking figure in the box.
Speaker 1: From the left side too.
Speaker 3: I think you know you know who, like the sneaky
Speaker 3: guy that I've left out and all this is Dom Smith.
Speaker 3: Like I didn't know Dom Smith was gold Glove quality
Speaker 3: at first base, and a lot of people with the
Speaker 3: Giants that our broadcast team were like, we feel bad.
Speaker 1: We didn't know he's as good.
Speaker 3: And then he gives you a grade at bat he's sitting,
Speaker 3: I don't know, around two seventy. He has two strike
Speaker 3: adjustments where he chokes up, spreads out, and just puts
Speaker 3: the ball in play. He has been one of the
Speaker 3: most valuable players for this team since the Giants got him.
Speaker 3: So he stretches for that ball from Chapman the other
Speaker 3: night and blows out, and it's going to be like,
Speaker 3: I think it's a Grade two Hammy. Don't quote me
Speaker 3: on that, but it's gonna be a couple of weeks
Speaker 3: and there's only a couple of weeks left in the season,
Speaker 3: so you have a deficiency from the left side, and
Speaker 3: you know Wilmer's not going to do it every day,
Speaker 3: and you need a left handed bat. And I don't know,
Speaker 3: man in a pennant race against the Dodgers coming up
Speaker 3: in Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: But this kid's supposed to be mature beyond his years.
Speaker 3: And I just watched the videos like you guys do
Speaker 3: on the Internet of his opposite field home. He's pulled
Speaker 3: a pole line to line with just Opo Pop and
Speaker 3: he's sitting mammoth tanks.
Speaker 1: In triple A. The one thing he has to like.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure he'll be told this by Bob Melvin
Speaker 3: is like, Hey, this isn't all on you, dude. We
Speaker 3: just want you to do your thing. He wants you
Speaker 3: to play. But I don't know about the fan base.
Speaker 3: The fan base is probably thinking, come on, Bryce, we're
Speaker 3: getting the playoffs because of you. And I hope he
Speaker 3: doesn't put that kind of pressure on himself. But he's
Speaker 3: supposed to be real mature. He's probably gonna dh I
Speaker 3: haven't watched him play first base. JT Snow, who's a
Speaker 3: good friend of mine has gone down there and worked
Speaker 3: with him in Triple A and said he's getting better
Speaker 3: at first base. But this was a guy growing up
Speaker 3: that just pitched in DH. He never really played a position.
Speaker 3: So I would imagine, and I don't know anything, that
Speaker 3: the Giants are probably just going to have him DH
Speaker 3: against right handers and let him do his thing and
Speaker 3: hopefully he doesn't put too much pressure on himself and
Speaker 3: just plays baseball.
Speaker 5: Effie, what about the dirt? What's going on with the dirt?
Speaker 5: And just listen, by the way, just for Alana's we
Speaker 5: can I play for the Giants too.
Speaker 1: But Alana's disgusting with me right now with all the
Speaker 1: orangin But I know, I.
Speaker 5: Know she hates me now because I have a Giants
Speaker 5: babble hit him? Oh good, Well, what's going on with
Speaker 5: the dirt at third base? Matt Chavit's calling out the
Speaker 5: groundskeeper and he's I mean, does he not know how
Speaker 5: to slide?
Speaker 1: Because he keeps getting like these holes in his hand?
Speaker 5: What the heck is going on with the dirt over there?
Speaker 5: I always thought San Francisco, heck, anywhere in California, the
Speaker 5: field was always perfect.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, every time he dives, he's got these like
Speaker 3: quarter scabs on both hands. The other night he dove
Speaker 3: for a ball and he was like patting his pants
Speaker 3: with it, AJ and there's blood all over his pants.
Speaker 3: And this has happened like six or seven times to
Speaker 3: him this year. And it's always at home. And I
Speaker 3: don't know anything about being a groundskeeper. It looks like
Speaker 3: one of the better playing surfaces in all of baseball.
Speaker 3: But when your third basement's a platinum glover and one
Speaker 3: of the best defenders in all of baseball in any position,
Speaker 3: and he's I mean, like, I don't want to get
Speaker 3: in the middle of any controversy, but you shouldn't.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't cut your hands.
Speaker 3: At the big leagues when you dive, right, that's like
Speaker 3: a ball, or maybe even in like Legion ball, when
Speaker 3: you're playing on tough fields that I don't know. I
Speaker 3: never dove and broke my hands open consistently on dirt.
Speaker 1: And I do some fantasy batting practice.
Speaker 3: This is there in the mornings where I say, a
Speaker 3: corporational buyout Oracle Park and we put a pitching machine
Speaker 3: on the mound and everybody takes batting practice, and you
Speaker 3: know the old washed up giants go out there in
Speaker 3: the uniforms and we shag with them.
Speaker 1: The field seems sometimes at a little bit hard.
Speaker 3: And I know that they've had concerts and they've had
Speaker 3: soccer games, but yesterday they poured a bunch more dirt
Speaker 3: on there. I guess there's something called conditioner with the
Speaker 3: dirt if you see Susan Sluster's article in the chronicle,
Speaker 3: And they tried to like put softer dirt on there.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean obviously was frustrated enough to go
Speaker 3: public with it. And you know, when a platinum glover speaks,
Speaker 3: I think you got to listen right.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: By the way, I want you to look at my hands.
Speaker 5: See there's no there's nothing but was a handmade scar.
Speaker 5: But there's no other holes because I wouldn't fast enough
Speaker 5: to dive, so I always had a slight fee first.
Speaker 5: So I don't even know how this would where this
Speaker 5: would come from. Plus I had never played the infield,
Speaker 5: but I don't know, I've never seen I've never heard
Speaker 5: of this, And I mean again, I played there was
Speaker 5: a long time ago, but I always thought the grounds
Speaker 5: were wet and moist and just the way most guys
Speaker 5: like it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, apparently, according to Matt, it's not that way
Speaker 3: we used to get those.
Speaker 1: We used to get those in Montreal on the turf, right.
Speaker 3: You go flying for a ball in the gap in
Speaker 3: the late and then you get the turf burns on
Speaker 3: your hands where it's like blisters and your elbows are scraped,
Speaker 3: and then you know everyone's been spitting tobacco juice on
Speaker 3: the turf, and you got to worry about staff infection.
Speaker 1: You go on the trainer, which scat.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean, yeah, this is out of nowhere.
Speaker 3: But I can't swear on this because I was told
Speaker 3: not to. But he dove for that ball the other
Speaker 3: night and they zoomed in on his face and he said, unffing,
Speaker 3: believable and while he was looking at both of his hands.
Speaker 3: So obviously this frustrated him enough that he felt like,
Speaker 3: you know, he need to open up about it. But
Speaker 3: there's only like six home games left.
Speaker 2: He'll be all right, Well, let's get some shag carpet
Speaker 2: out there over my third base. Let me ask you
Speaker 2: this before I let you go there. FP is Buster
Speaker 2: in the clubhouse a lot?
Speaker 1: Is he?
Speaker 2: Is he more of a president of baseball ops? Or
Speaker 2: is he a guy that is not that far removed
Speaker 2: from being behind the plate.
Speaker 1: No, he's there. He goes on road trips. I think
Speaker 1: he's in the dugout for batting practice.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure about the clubhouse thing, because you know,
Speaker 3: I get there on the lazy bus at four o'clock
Speaker 3: with the broadcasters. But he used to call everybody out.
Speaker 3: He said, oh, lazy buses here when the four o'clock
Speaker 3: bus and players got off it. But that's the broadcaster bus, right.
Speaker 3: But you know, I've wrote in with him a couple
Speaker 3: of times. He's around man, and I think that's really cool.
Speaker 3: And he showed face when the team was playing poorly.
Speaker 3: You know, you could just you know, you could just
Speaker 3: hide when the team's playing bad. But he's been there,
Speaker 3: he's talking to guys. He's really involved. And this isn't
Speaker 3: me just kissing Buster Posey's ass. Like the first year
Speaker 3: as a as a president of Baseball Operations, he's done
Speaker 3: a really good job of just sitting back watching everything unfold,
Speaker 3: taking notes, being very humble, asking questions, trying to learn.
Speaker 3: And I would think after this year, you know he's
Speaker 3: done his homework. But if you come in as a
Speaker 3: new president Baseball operations, and you're firing this guy and
Speaker 3: DFA and this guy and the music and then this
Speaker 3: and you're changing everything now all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 3: that's not good leadership. But the trades that he's done,
Speaker 3: signing Raffie Devers, when you talk about, you know, getting
Speaker 3: the two guys from the Mets and then the kid
Speaker 3: in Triple A, that's supposed to be good. It's arms
Speaker 3: parking right now. And the catcher they got for Camilo
Speaker 3: d'aval and Triple A is supposed to be really good too.
Speaker 3: So all in all, the way he's handled everything and
Speaker 3: the way he's been present when things aren't going well
Speaker 3: and not like a front runner will almost say you're
Speaker 3: playing well, like here I am. And he's had conversations
Speaker 3: with coaches and players, he's involved just the right amount
Speaker 3: and he's really learning on the job and learning on
Speaker 3: the fly.
Speaker 1: And to me, that's what good leadership is be.
Speaker 5: How much weight is he lost? Because I saw him
Speaker 5: this year he looks like he never played baseball. I'm like, Buster,
Speaker 5: you've lost what happened? He's lost like twenty thirty pounds
Speaker 5: from not playing. He looks amazing me. I was like, whoa.
Speaker 5: I'm like, is this what being in the front office
Speaker 5: does to you?
Speaker 4: Sign me up.
Speaker 3: No, he was like that before he became president of
Speaker 3: Baseball Ops. Him and Barry they're reverse aging. Every time
Speaker 3: you see him. They look younger, very skinny too.
Speaker 5: Have fun with that. I love Barry. Listen, I love Barry.
Speaker 5: So I have no Look look what else I have here?
Speaker 5: Just for a lont I have a Barry. I hit
Speaker 5: a lot of homers off you in your Dodger's territory.
Speaker 3: Hut.
Speaker 1: Dude.
Speaker 3: Barry was in the cage the other day and Joe Montana,
Speaker 3: Joe Montana was coming to the field, and he's like my.
Speaker 1: All time hero, favorite athlete.
Speaker 3: My daughter's name is Summer Joe Santangelo after Joe Montana.
Speaker 3: And so I've never met him. I've interviewed him on
Speaker 3: cambr before, but I've never met him. So I was like, dude,
Speaker 3: I fanboyd so hard. And so I told Barry he
Speaker 3: was coming, and Barry called Joe Montana and they were
Speaker 3: talking right in front of me about oh, you didn't
Speaker 3: tell me you were coming today, blah blah blah, and
Speaker 3: then they hung up, and I'm like, that was like
Speaker 3: such a power call, Barry Bonds talking to Joe Montana
Speaker 3: right in front of me, and then I finally met
Speaker 3: him before the game, and I think I blacked out
Speaker 3: and said something stupid.
Speaker 1: But it was really cool.
Speaker 3: It was really cool to me my hero and my
Speaker 3: favorite athlete ever this weekend and he was at the ballpark.
Speaker 2: So that is very very cool. Who's your Who's the
Speaker 2: coolest person in your phone?
Speaker 1: FP?
Speaker 2: It's obviously not Joe Montana.
Speaker 3: I would say Barry probably, I guess. I mean I
Speaker 3: could maybe, yeah, maybe a Supreme Court justice. But you know,
Speaker 3: when you're in DC, you meet all the politicians and
Speaker 3: all that stuff too, So yes, yes.
Speaker 1: So f be good luck.
Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to see if the Giants can make
Speaker 2: this run get into the postseason. We appreciate the information
Speaker 2: as much as you're a Giant fan, my friend, I
Speaker 2: still like you appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, guys. Thanks for happing me on.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna wear I'm gonna eye black next time, and
Speaker 3: I'll be all set.
Speaker 1: It has to be backwards hat.
Speaker 2: In order to be on the show, you have to
Speaker 2: have the backwards hat.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll see you guys, care Thanks for happing on.