WEBVTT - F.P. Santangelo talks Giants push, Eldridge call-up, Devers impact 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:02.800 FP. 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:06.600 Santangelo what up? You can find him on X on 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:09.480 a Fight and Hydrant. We appreciate you being on. Proud 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:13.920 Father too, proud son of two San Francisco Giants, broadcaster 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:17.239 at KNBR Radio, the show host. It's great to have 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:18.960 you here. I don't know if I can handle all 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.920 the San Francisco Giant stuff that you've got going on FP, 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:22.959 but I love this. 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:25.159 We're going to do this. We're going to do this. 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:27.479 How worried man? What a wild ride it has been 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:30.640 for the San Francisco Giants. What's been the greatest thing 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:31.680 that you've noticed this year? 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:33.960 Well, first of all, thanks for having me on you guys. 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:35.720 It's really cool to be on with you guys always. 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:38.800 And yeah, I'm not a homer as a broadcaster at all, 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:40.240 as you can tell. 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:42.000 By the attire. I mean, I'm into it. 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:44.000 We're all into it in San Francisco right now. Like 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:45.839 the last two games against the Dodgers were kind of 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:48.680 a buzzkill. But you're not going to win every game 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:50.000 the rest of the year. You're not going to run 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:51.640 the table. There's still a game and a half out 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:53.760 of that last wild card spot. So now I go 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:56.440 to Arizona and get to work today, and then you 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.760 know how they've turned it around. You guys have all 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:02.120 been there and been in the clubhouse where they just, 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.520 all of a sudden, you know they weren't having fun 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.080 playing baseball. You walk in every day and it's kind of, 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.400 you know, stagging in a little bit. 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:10.240 You're losing a lot. 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:11.680 Then all of a sudden, you have a good series 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:13.680 against the Brewers in Milwaukee. You had the best home 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:15.520 record in baseball at the time. You take two out 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:17.920 of three there. Then you come home and sweep the Cubs, 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:19.560 and all of a sudden, you're starting to think we 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:23.000 can do this. And you know, the big guys Raffi 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:26.000 and Willie Damas and Matt Chapman are hitting. 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.640 And then you sprinkle in the psychopath in right field, 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:29.640 Drew Gilbert, who's. 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:33.120 Out of this total college atmosphere to the clubhouse, and 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.480 you know, hats off. You guys, know when you're a 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:37.520 veteran and you have some crazy kid come in a 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:39.280 lot of times, back in the old days, it was 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.320 be seen and not heard, but they've embraced this guy, 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.680 the veterans, and you've seen all the antics in the 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.840 dugout but he's playing well too, so that holds a 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.360 lot of credibility to what he's doing. So you just 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.880 talk about the energy they have and you're hoping they've 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:55.560 been resilient all year. And they lost two out of 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:57.840 three of the Dodgers, and they got spanked Saturday, and 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:01.560 they got spanked yesterday, But like hopefully, you know, with 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:04.200 the resiliency they've had this year, they're on the plane, 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:07.440 they're in Arizona, and with Bryce Eldridge coming up today, 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:08.520 you never know what's gonna happen. 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.120 You talk about all the different storylines and everything, but 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.200 obviously the Dodgers scored a lot of runs against them, 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.640 and these in those last two games this series. My 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:22.240 thing is Web gave up six runs, Ray gave up 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.520 five runs. Two guys we talk about all the time 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:27.720 here your closer comes in when you're winning and gives 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:31.080 up the lead and you lose. How deflating that is 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:36.919 when your two come in and do that against the team. 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.680 Not even talking about Dodgers Giants rivalry here, just talking 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:42.880 about the fact that when those two guys, when they're 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.680 on the hill, you're like, we're not win one of 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:49.160 these two them. We're gonna take this series. How deflating 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:52.480 was that for you and your positive vibes. 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.080 I mean, we're obviously expecting, like Friday night was sick, 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:00.200 you guys. The atmosphere at the ballpark was insane. You know, 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:02.639 forty thousand people. It's been a lot of Dodger fans 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:05.360 at Oracle Park in the past, but the Giants fans 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.120 showed up and they showed out. When we were just 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.880 hoping for Patrick Bailey to hit a sack fly, and 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:11.480 as soon as it left his bat, you knew the 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:12.040 game was over. 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:13.320 No idea it was going to be a walk off 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:13.880 Grand Slam. 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:18.120 So you score four off Kershaw first ending Game two, 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.320 and you're thinking, logan web on the mound. We got this, 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:22.120 But you guys would know. I want to defer to 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.679 the catchers. You know, when guys start to get toward 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.560 thirty starts a year, did you see a difference in 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.960 some of the aces stuff late in the season. Was 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:34.400 it flatter? Were they tired? Because like I'm just a 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.840 position player, I wasn't in the squad behind there. Did 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:39.960 you notice the difference of some guys' stuff in their 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.720 later starts because you're thinking adrenaline will take you right 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:46.200 now with that atmosphere I'm talking about. But that Dodger lineup, 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.840 they don't swing at balls, they swing at strikes. They 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.520 make you work, they make you grind. And if you 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:54.119 put free base runners on, which Logan web did, which 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.240 Robbie Ray did, that team's going to eat you up. 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:58.640 But I don't know. Guys never liked. 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:00.440 To hear they're tired, Like if you say that on 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:01.560 the air, they're like, I'm not tired. 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.160 I'm fine. But did you guys ever see starters late 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.360 in the season get tired starters? 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:10.880 Yes, aces, No, that was one of the traits. Maybe 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.440 AJ has a different answer to it. That was one 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.080 of the traits where it almost looked like whether they 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.000 were tired or not, they were going on a cruise 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.520 control and they were like soaring into the end of 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.240 the season. And that's like, that's when I think about 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.679 an ace, not a number one an ace. 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:33.400 Yeah, And obviously you have to turn the page quick, right, 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:35.240 There's no time to sit in the locker room and 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:36.200 go like what happened? 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:37.479 Like you got to turn the page. 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:40.679 Every game is so huge right now, Arizona's only two backs, 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.440 so this is a huge series coming up Monday, Tuesday, 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.560 Wednesday in Arizona. Then they go back to they go 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.839 to Los Angeles to play the Dodgers again. So it's 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.159 gonna be a tough road and you just can't you 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.400 can't let the vibe in the momentum get derailed by 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.440 a couple of a couple of boat race losses. But 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:58.520 I think it'd be tougher if they lost three to 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.200 two on both days then getting beat like they did. So, 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:03.839 Like I said, I've never seen a more resilient group. 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:08.680 I've never seen a group play bad baseball for a 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:10.200 good month and a half and then all of a 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.240 sudden turn it around and play some of the best 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:14.239 baseball we've ever seen around here in a long time. 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:17.080 Effie, you just mentioned it. It's a huge weekend. It's 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.000 a huge series against the Arizona Diamondbacks, two teams very 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.400 much clinging to get into that NL West picture as 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.520 far as the wildcard race is concerned, when you look 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:28.599 at the Diamondbacks, Zach Gallen obviously going tonight against the 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.280 Giants at Chase Field, what do you need to do 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.640 against this club to at least take two of three 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.599 to continue to force the issue well. 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.240 I mean pitching in defense has been the key through 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.920 this whole thing, and then you know situational hitting on offense, 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:44.760 which they got away from. They couldn't move a lead 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.440 off double, they couldn't pick up a runner from third 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:48.599 with less than two outs. 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:50.760 So just keep playing good baseball. 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:52.719 I think when you talk to a lot of players 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.160 that have won championships, they would tell you. And when 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.279 I was with Brian Zimmerman and DC, he would say, like, 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.400 we're not trying to win tonight. We're just trying to 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:01.640 play good base and if we play good baseball, that'll 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.120 take care of itself. So if you put that enormous 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.160 amount of pressure that we've come this far and if 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.520 we win tonight, we're this. You just got to go 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.760 pitch to pitch to ending, try to win every pitch, 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:12.839 try to win every ending, and play good. 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.719 Baseball like they have been. They got to Zach Gallon 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.720 a little bit last time. But we'll we'll see how this. 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:20.240 We'll see how this matches up. 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:21.720 It's a good place to hit, you guys know that 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:24.159 it's a good place to rake in Arizona. So the 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.839 bats have been stymying a little bit the last couple 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:28.800 of days, but you know, they faced some pretty good 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:29.520 Dodger pitching. 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:34.200 Effie, Can they really do this? Because I mean, I mean, honest, 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.080 the Giants are a five hundred team for me, They've 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.479 been five hundred for the last five hundred games. They're 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:42.440 two fifty and fifty okay, So can they get into 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.200 the postseason with where they're at? I know they're a 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:46.880 game game and a halfhind. I always look at the 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.239 lost column, as you know, lost column is what really matters. 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.560 They're really a game back. But can't are they a 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.080 good enough team to And I hate to say this 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:58.600 because but did they deserve to make the playoffs? I 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.280 mean as as a team that where they're at right now. 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:03.120 And I know it doesn't matter you're record, but there's 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:06.840 seventy five and seventy four, So if they finished eighty 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:09.800 four and seventy eight, they make the playoffs or Giants 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:11.400 fan's gonna be like, oh, what a hell of a 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.560 year and then they losing the Wildcard round to the Dodgers. 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:16.760 I think so based on where they were this year, 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.400 and it's not where they are right now or where 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.520 their record was. You know, they were seven eight games 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:24.920 out of this thing a few about a month ago, 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:26.720 maybe three weeks ago, and all of a sudden because 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.040 the Mets have faltered and they can't win, all of 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:32.320 a sudden, even though they won yesterday, there's excitement in 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.120 the fan base, there's excitement around the team, and it's 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.080 the system. AJ Like when the third wild card came out, 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.040 I was like, well, you know, when I was in Oakland, 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.840 we were one hundred and two and sixty and we 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.000 were the wildcard when there was only one wildcard because 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:46.840 the Mariners won one hundred and sixteen games. And when 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:50.000 this third wildcard first came out, I was totally against them, 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.240 like you're gonna have a five hundred team make the playoffs. 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:54.400 But like when you're in the middle of it and 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:56.880 you were left for dead a couple of months ago 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.000 and playing bad baseball, and all of a sudden, you're 0:07:59.000 --> 0:07:59.840 playing great baseball. 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:00.800 Have momentum. 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:02.960 You guys both know, it's the team that gets hot 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.360 toward the end that wins it. It's not the team. 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:07.000 How many times we've seen a team in one hundred 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:08.600 and seven games and they're out in the first round. 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:13.160 So if they can reload here and stay hot, I 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:16.240 think the records are relevant. Getting into the postseason, you've 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.280 got momentum, and then everybody gets tight in those short series, 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.760 right the teams that want one hundred bay We've seen 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.440 the Dodgers do it. We've seen the Astros do it. 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:25.240 We've seen a lot of teams that have had these 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:27.480 great regular seasons, even the Mariners when they won one 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.040 hundred and sixteen games. Anyone in the World Series, it's 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:33.360 always the team that's hot at the end and the 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.640 team that's playing playoff games for a month, and then 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:37.360 you just get to the playoffs and it's just another 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:39.839 game because you've been playing, in essence, playoff games to 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.439 get into the playoffs, and you've already had these high 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:46.200 pressure situations where your every ground ball, every ball strike, 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:47.280 just like the playoffs. 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:48.920 And you get in there and you just keep doing 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:49.720 what you're doing. 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.600 And maybe the teams that have cruised and have won, 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:55.720 they take a deep breath, they start to go spring 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:57.439 training mode, and then all of a sudden, you get 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:58.880 those days off and you've got to gear up in 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.360 the playoffs. 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:00.640 Just not there. 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:04.200 So yeah, I honestly, aj, I get your point that, 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.280 like now we're having five hundred teams to get to 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.720 the playoffs. 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That's 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:14.400 made for fall. 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.160 Did they sell too soon? I know this is the 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.760 you can't you can't question Buster Posey because Buster walks 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:24.280 on water. But that's the reality of the situation. Did 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:28.000 they sell too soon? Could they have used a closer 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.800 while Walker's done great? And Duvall was you know, up 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.400 and down, good bad? Who knows what you're gonna get? 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:36.200 Did they sell too soon? 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:39.920 I would say no, because they've played better after the 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:43.080 trade deadline. I mean, so how can you argue with 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.560 the moves that were made and it you know, Jordan 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.839 Hicks hasn't done well in Boston and Kyle Harrison just 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.160 got called up the other day, and you look at 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:54.640 you know, the trade for Bhuteaux for Tyler Rodgers, that 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:56.439 straight up was a good trade. Then you get Dude 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.560 Gilbert on top of it from the Mets, who's trying 0:10:58.600 --> 0:10:59.400 to chase the Mets. 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:02.280 Yeah, the back of. 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.880 The bullpen has been you know, young guys in big 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.640 roles and sometimes you know, you look at Duran in Philadelphia. 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.600 That's why I think they're the best team in baseball. 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:12.760 You guys know that the closer that comes in and 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.360 it's just one, two, three every time. That's such a 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:19.600 luxury to have, especially in October. But Ryan Walker has 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:21.440 been better lately. He had he had a hiccup in 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.080 Saint Louis where he had a two to nothing lead 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:24.920 and it was three to two before we could all 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:25.480 blink an eye. 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:27.199 But he was good the other night. 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.959 And like I said, they're just piecing it together right 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:34.040 now at the back end of the bullpen. But as 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:37.360 far as selling too early, I think you know, the 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.040 Dever's trade was way before the trade deadline, and when 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:41.440 you look at that trade and what they gave up 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:43.319 for Raffie Devers, and I know it didn't start out 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:45.960 all great, but you know, baseball players are human. There's 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.680 adjustments coming to the West Coast, new team, new fan base. 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.320 You still got drama back in Boston. Second team you 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:53.760 play is a Red Sox. You're learning a new position. 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:56.800 It takes time to adjust when you're a new player 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:58.320 in a new city and you've been with one city 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:00.760 your whole career, and all of a sudden, he's been 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.319 contributing big time and he's the Raffie Devers that the 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:04.439 Giants thought they were getting. 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:06.600 That's exactly what I was going to ask you FP. 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:10.000 What has the Dever's effect been in San Francisco, and 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.600 I probably think the Red Sox would like to send 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:14.679 Jordan Hicks back to you guys, what's it been like 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:15.920 Kevin Raffie there. 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.199 It's been great. Man. He's so nice to be around 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.040 every day. He's always got a smile on his face. 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.960 It kills me that he gets a bad rap and 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.040 that he has gotten a bad rap. And I know, 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.800 as players, you know you're supposed to play wherever they 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.960 want you, but there's ways to handle that with superstar players. 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.480 Right when you got a guy that's the face of 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:36.480 the franchise and all of a sudden you ambush him, 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:38.240 maybe you take him out to dinner and have a 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:41.440 bottle of wine in a casual setting and tell them, hey, 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.199 for us to get to the World series this, we're 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.240 thinking about doing this, and then all of a sudden 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.440 that things has a different ending. But I'm kind of 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.360 glad how it panned out because it's fun to watch 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:51.280 him play every day. 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:54.880 He's the only hitter you guys in recent. 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.199 Memory that every time he comes up when I'm doing 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.280 a game, I think he's going deep, Like his swing 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:03.440 is so violent, and it's just it's unfair expectations. But 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:05.400 we all think it when he comes up that he's 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.720 going to hit a tape measure shot. It hasn't happened 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.040 recently for him, but man, he's such a threat in 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.000 the lineup. But I think he's the first real threat 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.760 offensively that the Giants have had since Barry Bonds. 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:18.400 Maybe, and that could be a bold statement, but yeah. 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.720 And he's been a pleasure to be around. The guys 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.040 love him. They're joking with him every day. He has 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.480 a fantasy football team and he knows nothing about football. 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.559 I mean, he's just he's part of it right now. 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.040 And the guys love him. Drew Gilbert talks about him 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:33.520 every single day and what a great teammate he is. 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.280 In the times I've been around him, he's just smiling 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:37.360 all the time and he's a fun. 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:37.920 Guy to be around. 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:42.440 Rarely can you you can trade let alone at the 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:46.040 trade deadline, but in May or June for a superstar 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:50.080 bat And so hats off to br to Buster for 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:54.160 getting RAFFI like that. Rarely can you with thirteen games left, 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.880 call up a six, seven, two and forty pound back 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:01.720 to back twenty three home run league seasons. You know, 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:06.199 super prospect. What outside of San Francisco, because San Francisco, 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:10.880 even maybe even all of California knows about Bryce Eldred, 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:14.880 But the Giants calling him up at this point, what 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:19.160 can national fans expect to see besides an Aaron Judge 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:22.360 type of hulking figure in the box. 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:23.760 From the left side too. 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.480 I think you know you know who, like the sneaky 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:29.480 guy that I've left out and all this is Dom Smith. 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.960 Like I didn't know Dom Smith was gold Glove quality 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:33.880 at first base, and a lot of people with the 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.480 Giants that our broadcast team were like, we feel bad. 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:37.480 We didn't know he's as good. 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:39.600 And then he gives you a grade at bat he's sitting, 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:42.360 I don't know, around two seventy. He has two strike 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:44.840 adjustments where he chokes up, spreads out, and just puts 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.760 the ball in play. He has been one of the 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.120 most valuable players for this team since the Giants got him. 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.680 So he stretches for that ball from Chapman the other 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:54.800 night and blows out, and it's going to be like, 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:57.000 I think it's a Grade two Hammy. Don't quote me 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:58.360 on that, but it's gonna be a couple of weeks 0:14:58.360 --> 0:14:59.960 and there's only a couple of weeks left in the season, 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.920 so you have a deficiency from the left side, and 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:05.960 you know Wilmer's not going to do it every day, 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.000 and you need a left handed bat. And I don't know, 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.000 man in a pennant race against the Dodgers coming up 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:12.920 in Dodger Stadium. 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.280 But this kid's supposed to be mature beyond his years. 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:17.840 And I just watched the videos like you guys do 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.600 on the Internet of his opposite field home. He's pulled 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.480 a pole line to line with just Opo Pop and 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.440 he's sitting mammoth tanks. 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:28.480 In triple A. The one thing he has to like. 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:30.680 And I'm sure he'll be told this by Bob Melvin 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:32.560 is like, Hey, this isn't all on you, dude. We 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:34.040 just want you to do your thing. He wants you 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.320 to play. But I don't know about the fan base. 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.320 The fan base is probably thinking, come on, Bryce, we're 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:41.320 getting the playoffs because of you. And I hope he 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.160 doesn't put that kind of pressure on himself. But he's 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.280 supposed to be real mature. He's probably gonna dh I 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.320 haven't watched him play first base. JT Snow, who's a 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.360 good friend of mine has gone down there and worked 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:53.160 with him in Triple A and said he's getting better 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:56.320 at first base. But this was a guy growing up 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:59.520 that just pitched in DH. He never really played a position. 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.240 So I would imagine, and I don't know anything, that 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.000 the Giants are probably just going to have him DH 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.600 against right handers and let him do his thing and 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.680 hopefully he doesn't put too much pressure on himself and 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:10.920 just plays baseball. 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.240 Effie, what about the dirt? What's going on with the dirt? 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.000 And just listen, by the way, just for Alana's we 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.960 can I play for the Giants too. 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:24.480 But Alana's disgusting with me right now with all the 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:25.840 orangin But I know, I. 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:27.640 Know she hates me now because I have a Giants 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:32.160 babble hit him? Oh good, Well, what's going on with 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.160 the dirt at third base? Matt Chavit's calling out the 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.520 groundskeeper and he's I mean, does he not know how 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:37.080 to slide? 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:39.080 Because he keeps getting like these holes in his hand? 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.120 What the heck is going on with the dirt over there? 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:44.120 I always thought San Francisco, heck, anywhere in California, the 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:45.760 field was always perfect. 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:49.400 Yeah, man, every time he dives, he's got these like 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:52.320 quarter scabs on both hands. The other night he dove 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:55.040 for a ball and he was like patting his pants 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.520 with it, AJ and there's blood all over his pants. 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.400 And this has happened like six or seven times to 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.440 him this year. And it's always at home. And I 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.639