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Here's Alex Pavlovich and Cole Kiper.

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Hey, what's up, Giants fans?

Welcome to another episode of Giants Talk.

I'm Cole Kuiper here with Giants Insider, Alex Pavlovich. We're going to be talking All-Star break today. A little bit about

the game, a little bit about the home run derby. It was a nice, well-deserved break for the team.

The second half is here. So, of course, we'll be doing some second half bold predictions going in to the rest of the season.

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All right, Alex.

Before we get into the All-Star break and all the fun stuff that happens around that,

I feel like we should take a step back to the last game before the All-Star break.

There's been a lot of discussion, including from John's broadcaster, Mike Kouko, and KMBR about Camilo Doval and what that game looked like, what he has looked like in general this year.

And maybe, I don't know if it's time for the Giants to shake things up a little bit in the closer

position. I think we've had, we've like, edge, we've gone on the edge of this discussion a few times

including like two three weeks ago and part of it was like a Ryan Walker discussion and

then it was interesting because uh you know I hosted the pre and post game show last Sunday and

obviously most of post game is about Blake Snell and how impressive he was. And,

you know, the whole time I'm sitting there and kind of thinking in the back of my head, like,

that was kind of a big deal in the ninth inning. And it's one of those things you don't get a

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