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Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Sports, Baseball, San Francisco Giants, Mlb

4.7 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On the latest "Giants Talk" podcast, Alex Pavlovic and Cole Kuiper break down San Francisco's recent middling play as they continue to edge closer to the MLB All-Star break. They also discuss Alex Cobb's tremendous year and preview the Giants series against the Rockies. Then Alex is joined by John Brebbia for an exclusive interview where they discuss his collegiate baseball career and highlight some of the most remarkable players he's ever pitched to. (0:56) Looking at the Giants recent form (5:03) Doval’s struggles vs. the Mariners (7:00) Cobb has been a “shining light” for the Giants (9:55) Looking at the versatility Sabol provides (16:25) Discussing Estrada’s hand injury (21:21) Looking ahead to Rockies series (28:36) How Brebbia ended up pitching at Elon in college (31:53) What made San Francisco a good fit (32:50) Recovering from Tommy John during COVID-19 (37:50) What are mound visits with Brebbia like? (41:24) What it's like pitching to Molina, Posey, & Bailey

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.
0:09.0	Here's Alex Pavlovich and Cole Kuiper.
0:13.0	I know those guys.
0:15.0	Hey there, Giants fans. What's up and welcome to Giants Talk.
0:20.0	I'm Cole Kuiper here with Giants Insetter, Alex Pavlovich.
0:24.2	We're going to talk Giants Mariners today. Giants dropped the series, but it could have been worse.
0:29.5	But much more importantly, Alex sat down with John Brebria. Those who know, no, John Brebria is one of the funniest and most interesting San Francisco
0:38.3	Giant, so really stoked.
0:40.5	We're able to get this for the podcast.
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0:59.3	All right.
0:59.9	The momentum has slowed.
1:01.3	Alex Giants went from being the hottest team in baseball who couldn't do anything wrong
1:04.9	to start to make those mistakes, get punished by those mistakes.
1:08.1	They dropped two of three to the Mariners, but narrowly miss a sweep, which would have been
1:14.4	disastrous and put them at like five straight losses.
1:18.2	Yeah, they're not scoring runs.
1:20.8	Even Wednesday night, I mean, you know, they scored one run because Wilmer's ground ball
1:26.3	hits third base.
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