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Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

Exclusive: Jung Hoo Lee on his ‘dream' to play for Giants, first-season goals

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, Baseball, San Francisco Giants

4.7824 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Laura Britt is joined by new center fielder Jung Hoo Lee to discuss why it always has been a "dream" to play for the Giants, explain his father’s influence on his love for baseball and share how he plans to prepare for spring training. He also sends a message to all Giants fans. (1:35) Lee introduced as a Giant on Friday (5:36) Lee says it has been a “dream” to play for the Giants (9:40) Lee reveals his first goal with the Giants (15:36) Lee shares his message to Giants fans

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.

0:09.4

Here's Alex Babovich and Cole Kuiper.

0:12.9

I know those guys.

0:17.8

On Friday, December 15th, the Giants officially announced Zhang Huli as the newest member of the San Francisco Giants.

0:25.3

Welcome into another edition of the Giants Talk podcast.

0:28.6

It's brought to you by Mancini's Sleep World.

0:30.6

You can visit Mancini's Sleep World during the year-end clearance event.

0:34.3

Over $7.4 million in mattresses and bedroom furniture must go.

0:38.9

Hurry in now or visit online at sleepworld.com. So the Giants welcomed Zhenghu Lee to Oracle

0:45.0

Park. His family was there, his parents, his mom and his dad. And he was very funny in his

0:50.3

press conference with the media there in San Francisco.

0:55.1

There were a couple of funny moments that he had during his introductory press conference.

0:59.7

The very first thing he did, he did this funny little mic check moment when he first got

1:04.3

started.

1:05.1

Then he was asked about his dad, and if he had learned anything, through the translator, he said,

1:10.3

no, I've learned nothing from my father.

1:12.3

He was also later asked about Shohei Otani being a rival,

1:16.7

since Otani, of course, signed with the Dodgers.

1:19.1

He said, I'll try really hard and then went on to say no comment in kind of a joking manner.

1:24.8

So he's definitely got a good personality and that was on display as the

1:29.2

Giants introduced him to their fan base and the media got the chance to talk with him. I also got

1:33.8

the chance to sit down with him in the Giants dugout and here's our conversation.

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