Former Giant Matt Duffy discusses his time in San Francisco, comeback with Cubs

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Former Giant and current Chicago Cub Matt Duffy joins this edition of Giants Talk to discuss his time playing in San Francisco, his comeback with the Cubs and what his return to the Bay will be like this weekend. Plus, Duane Kuiper joins the show to preview the Giants-Cubs series and his thoughts on Matt Duffy. (3:37) Giants split two-game series against Angels (10:04) Kuip on how fans influence the Giants broadcast (15:40) Kuip previews upcoming Giants-Cubs series (20:49) Kuip shares his memories of Matt Duffy (26:30) Duffy talks about the 2021 MLB season (32:37) Is the “Curse of Matt Duffy” real? (41:10) Duffy discusses his return to San Francisco this weekend

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.
0:09.3	Here's Alex Babelovich and Cole Kiper.
0:12.9	I know those guys.
0:15.0	Hi, everyone. I'm Cole Kuiper alongside Giants Insider, Alex Spavlovich, and we are Giants Talk.
0:21.3	Giants talk comes to you every Monday and Thursday right here on the NBC Sports Podcast Network.
0:26.9	Exciting episode today, we have two special guests.
0:30.1	Every Thursday episode, we are joined by Dwayne Kiper, Giants Broadcaster,
0:34.2	and the man who gave me one half of my DNA.
0:37.9	And later on, we have Matt Duffy, Giants Broadcaster and the man who gave me one half of my DNA. And later on, we have Matt Duffy, Giants, all-time, what would you say?
0:43.1	Great giant, good giant.
0:44.6	Yeah, I think he's like, he would have to be pretty high on the list of guys who played,
0:49.6	what did he play, two and a half years with the Giants, less, two years with the Giants.
0:56.3	In terms of popularity for guys who played that few games with the Giants, I mean, people still talk about
0:59.9	them all the time. So, and I brought that up with him, but it feels like he played like five
1:04.8	years for him, but it's crazy. I think he was just a really popular player in 2014, obviously
1:10.1	had a bit of an impact that postseason.
1:12.8	And then, you know, the whole Casey McGee things happens.
1:16.2	And he wipes that away.
1:18.8	He makes sure that's not too big a problem.
1:20.9	So I just think the way he played, the way he enjoyed the game.
1:24.5	And I brought this up with him at the beginning.
1:26.1	And I'll bring it up again here.
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