George Kontos discusses his Giants years, joining NBC Sports Bay Area

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Alex Pavlovic is joined by former Giants pitcher and newest NBCSBA analyst George Kontos to discuss George’s time with the Giants, the transition into a broadcasting career and how the former reliever would approach this unique season.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Giants are world champions.
0:08.5	Welcome to the Giants Insider podcast on NBCSports Bay Area.com.
0:14.2	Introducing your host, San Francisco Giants Insider, Alex Pavlovich.
0:19.5	Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Giants Insider podcast.
0:22.4	A couple of updates for you right off the bat today.
0:25.8	First of all, you probably know us to guest today, George Contos.
0:28.8	He is with us now.
0:29.9	He is with NBC Sports Bay Area.
0:31.6	We announced it today.
0:33.1	He's going to be doing pregame shows, postgame shows.
0:36.0	I'm really excited about it.
0:37.2	George is somebody who always had a really good way of viewing the game when he was with the Giants.
0:42.5	And I always enjoyed interviewing him.
0:44.3	And just really, I think you can see in this interview the excitement he has for this role and the passion he has for it.
0:51.0	And I think he's going to do great.
0:52.7	So I was really excited they joined us. And really,
0:55.6	you know, a younger generation guy, he was with Crawford, he was with belt, he was with Posey,
1:01.1	he knows these guys. We talked about it a little bit. He still talks to these guys all the time.
1:05.3	He still golfs with them. He still texts with them. So I think it'll bring a different
1:08.4	perspective. And I'm excited to have them on board.
1:12.7	The second announcement is something completely different. The George Contos interview will be
1:16.9	the last one I do for this podcast. This is going to turn into something different for us.
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