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All right. What's up, Giants fans? Welcome to Giant Talk. End of season. Recap. It's been a long giant season.

We were there for some highs. We were there for some lows. And Alex and I are going to break it all down.

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sleepworld.com. All right, Alex, when it's all said and done, the Giants finish five games

out of the wild card below 500 at 79 and 83.

Clearly not what expectations were nor what hopes were going into the season.

But by the time they got to the end, it kind of seemed like that was the best they could do.

They played to where they ended up playing to. What do you, how do you feel

coming out of this season? Yeah, we thought it's probably like a, you know, low 80s roster,

like low 80s wins, roster going into the year and, and a disappointing off season, but still they added enough guys and you

could kind of maybe see a light at the end of the tunnel. And they were confident. I mean,

they said in spring training, it's more talented group than in 2021. So I think the disappointment is

that they were 13 games above 500 at some point. And we saw that roster work for a couple months. It wasn't a

great start to the season, but there was a stretch there where all of a sudden it worked. And I think

even, you know, July and August when they were playing bad baseball, like, I don't know that you

ever thought they were going to end up here. You never thought they would end up to a point where

they fire their manager before

the last year. So that's my takeaway is just really kind of an all-time collapse for them,

nine to 19 over the final month. And we know what that led to. And it reminded me a little bit of

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