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Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

A’s face White Sox in Wild Card Series; Giants fall short of MLB playoffs

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4630 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Balk Talk, Jessica Kleinschmidt is joined by NBC Sports Bay Area writer Dalton Johnson to break down the disappointing end to the Giants' season and detail some positives for the team moving forward. They also preview the A’s Wild Card Series matchup against the Chicago White Sox before wrapping the show by sharing their 2020 MLB playoff predictions. (2:29) Giants fall short of 2020 MLB postseason  (5:20) Is Yastrzemski the future of the Giants organization?  (9:40) Pence announces his retirement (14:06) A’s face White Sox in wild-card round  (20:30) Challenges A’s could face in playoffs  (26:40) 2020 MLB playoff predictions

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Boc Talk podcast on NBC Sports Bay Area.com.

0:11.1

Introducing your host, NBC Sports Bay Area's Jessica Kleinschmidt.

0:16.2

Welcome back to another episode of Bok Talk,

0:18.7

presented by Wendy's new pretzel, bacon, pub cheese cheeseburger at participating Wendy's for a limited time only.

0:26.0

Postseason is finally here. I'm joined by my colleague Dalton Johnson. Dalton, thanks for joining me today.

0:31.1

Of course. So we're here. It's happening. And I totally spaced asking Bob Melvin this question. And I feel like I had to like hype myself up because it doesn't feel like the postseason and because I'm doing everything that I normally would. And however, though, when we had the media availability today, I was like, okay, it kind of feels like the postseason, like the backdrop is there, and it's just insane and it's crazy. But do you feel like we're

1:00.0

like supposed to have a postseason right now? It feels like it went by fast, but it was like a long

1:05.2

season. I don't know. No, it had that kind of, you know, that long feeling of baseball like it's supposed to.

1:12.2

But at the same time, it was 60 games.

1:13.9

It is all of a sudden, oh, it's here.

1:15.6

And, you know, I think that that might have to do with, you know, we at the same time, football's here, basketballs in these weird playoffs, the, you know, the Stanley Cup playoffs that just ended it.

1:26.2

It was like, oh, hockey was going on, all these things, you know, the Stanley Cup playoffs that just ended it. It was like, oh, hockey was going on, all these things.

1:28.5

You know, so we have like such a sports overdrive right now.

1:32.3

And baseball was this weird 60 game season that all of a sudden it's like, oh, yeah, the playoffs here.

1:38.0

And it's 18s in both leagues.

1:40.2

And the Buffalo Blue Jays are in the playoffs.

1:42.2

You're like, what?

1:43.3

So super weird, but we are here and the playoffs are here.

1:47.1

I mean, we made it.

1:48.9

Yeah, we sure did.

1:51.0

And I was thinking just yesterday, like, we had a baseball season, Dalton.

1:53.9

Like, that's, right?

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