Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.

Here's Alex Babovich and Cole Kuiper.

I know those guys.

Hey everybody, welcome to Giants Talk, a very special edition of Giants Talk.

This is Alex coming to you live from Rick Woodfield in Birmingham, Alabama.

Willie Mays played here in 1948.

He was 17 years old.

He immediately went to center field, told the left fielder and the right fielder,

you guys have everything to the line, I have everything else.

He was Willie from the very beginning.

And this week, as you all know, we unfortunately got the sad news that he passed away at the age of 93.

I think without a doubt, the greatest baseball player of all time, one of the great storytellers

of all time as well, he was around the Giants quite a bit. And really one of the highlights

of my career, watching him just interact with guys and

and you know be out there in spring training giving advice he was still giving advice in his

late 80s he still wanted to talk baseball he just truly loved the game so someone we can all learn from

and today we have some special interviews for you guys Laura Britt and I have been out here in

Birmingham all week,

and we talked to some former giants and some people you all know very well.

We talked to Jake Peavy, Randy Wynn, Hunter Pence,

Brandon Crawford, third baseman tonight of the St. Louis Cardinals, Brandon Crawford,

and Dave Fleming, who I think just did a wonderful job on the broadcast the other night,

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