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Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

Bold Giants season predictions with Kuip; Gabe Kapler interview

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4630 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Giants manager Gabe Kapler joins this Opening Day edition of Giants Talk to discuss why he's excited for the 2021 season, some players to watch and what the secret to success this season will be. Plus, Duane Kuiper joins the show to share some bold season predictions. (0:00) Alex and Cole discuss the latest Giants news (1:40) Yaz avoids injury in spring training (5:02) Giants finalize Opening Day roster (12:10) Bold predictions for the Giants' 2021 season (22:43) Kapler reveals some players to watch (27:05) Kapler shares the growth of the Giants’ coaching staff (32:45) Kapler explains some of his old tweets

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.

0:09.4

Here's Alex Babelovich and Cole Kiper.

0:12.9

I know those guys.

0:16.8

Hey everyone. I'm Cole Kuiper along here with Alex Pavlovich,

0:20.3

and we're going to talk Giants baseball with you today.

0:23.6

Heading in to opening day. Giants Talk comes to you every Monday and Thursday right here on the NBC Sports Podcast Network.

0:31.4

And as you well know, Giants Talk is brought to you by Wendy's.

0:34.5

Wendy's doesn't just have breakfast. Wendy's has a breakfast worth talking about

0:38.4

don't let your friends miss out. And we have a jam-packed show. I'm just going to clip right along here.

0:45.4

Alex, what's in store? We have Gabe Caport coming up because it's opening day and we wanted to talk to him.

0:50.9

I have, because Dwayne's on the show, I wore my Alex Eats shirt,

1:00.3

which was custom made by Cole Kiper before we were a podcast co-host. So we're getting ready for opening day and getting ready for everything that baseball has. And looking ahead to the

1:06.0

Kapler interview, that interview is going to be brought to you by Toyota. Toyota, let's go places, which is a great slogan as we hopefully head into a post-quarantine world over the next few months to a year.

1:22.7

Up first, I want to talk about the scare we all went through a few days ago with Yaz's hit by a pitch on his hand in the final game of spring training.

1:33.4

Shades of Bumgarner in 2018, who got hit by that comebacker and was out, did your guy's heart just drop?

1:42.2

You talking to me, Cole?

1:44.0

We'll talk to both of you guys all right well you know we were we

1:49.1

weren't there because we had done a game the day before and we were our responsibilities were over

1:54.8

with so i didn't really see it but it is the one thing that everybody worries about the last two or three games of the

2:04.1

spring. Are you going to be able to survive without having anybody get hurt? And Bum Garner at that

2:09.7

point was throwing better than anybody in the Cactus League. I mean, he was just lights out.

2:16.1

And I think it was Whitmerieweether, who hit him on the hand with a line drive. And that

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