Hey, Giant Fans. Welcome to The Giant Insider podcast. My name is Jerry Foley. I'm the senior editor of the Giant Insider. And with me as always, as Chris, Visignano, the beat writer of The Giant Insider. And Chris, a little congratulations for you, buddy. You were on Patty Traina's locked on podcast. And for those of you who know Patty Trana, who follow her,

she's very engaged with a Twitter follower. She's been doing this for about 20 years as far as

covering the Giants, one of the best in the business. And she invited Chris on her podcast. And she

told me that there were 3,500 downloads in the first night.

So, Chris, congratulations, buddy.

A little time to glow.

I mean, you got the Red Sox, you got Patty Trainus podcast.

Yeah, yeah, it was nice.

Very, very nice of Patty.

To bring me on, you know, a lot of respect for her.

I know you do too. Jerry, she's been around a while. I think she says 2,000 Coventer Giants and well respect to writer. And it was a pleasure to be on her show. Yeah, she asked me if you could come on, which I thought was both awesome and ridiculous. Like, yeah, I mean, yes, of course he could go. Are you kidding me? So I thought that was very nice of her, totally unnecessary. And she invited me on next week, buddy. So we'll see how those downloads go. Not that I'm competing, but I would like to see what I bring to the table. But, you know, congrats to you and and a nice job by patty again she's uh

i think she's what at patty trainer on twitter and yeah at patty trainer yeah and locked on

podcast is locked on giants so good uh good for you guys and good for her so yeah it was good time

good time so tonight i want to discuss the the the jerry reror. That's not a Queens accent, not era, error, E-R-R-O-R. Right. And then we'll get into the job that, Hal Hunter's doing, and you wanted to go into that. And then we'll make our weekly picks. But before you do that, I was listening to the fan before.

And Francesa, I admit, I'm a Francesa fan. I listen to him. Not every day, but if I'm in the car, I'll turn him on. And a lot of it's because he's just on the air. He's been on the air for years. But also, to be honest, he's more fair to the Giants than a lot of guys on that station. And for all of his faults, he is fair to

the Giants, but man, he said something around quarter after six that I thought was ridiculous.

Someone called up and wanted to talk about Dr. Z, Paul Zimmerman, who passed away. It was a ridiculous,

awesome sports writer for Sports Illustrated. And when I got into him, it was when I was older,

I used to love his power rankings on Wednesdays on Sports Illustrated.com. I got into him, it was when I was older. I used to love his power rankings on Wednesdays

on Sports Illustrated.com.

So that's kind of where I know him. And then as I look back, my old Sports Illustrated, it's like, oh yeah, Paul Zimmerman, that's the same guy. But he wanted to call up and talk about him passing away. And Francesus says, oh, I wasn't aware he passed away.

And then he proceeded to say,

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