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Today's guest is Joe Ritzow. He is the play-by-play announcer of the San Jose Giants. He's been doing it forever.

He's seen everybody. He has seen Buster Posey come through. He's seen Madison Bumgarner, Crawford

belt. So it was fun talking to him, and we talked quite a bit about those guys and some of his

memories of those guys as they were younger, and then also got into the current team, and some of the

guys just seen recently come through there. So Joe knows as much, I think, about the Giants

prospects is really probably as much as some of the people who work in the front office, because

he sees these kids every single day and sees some of them for a work in the front office because he sees these kids every

single day and sees some of them for a couple seasons.

So I think he's very in tune with what they can do.

And to me it was an interesting talk, not just about past San Jose giants, but current

San Jose Giants and guys that you might see up in San Francisco at some point.

We were there for Madison Baumgartner's first rehab

started in San Jose. His first start in San Jose in eight years, it didn't go well, but I think he

wasn't too concerned. And watching him, watching his body language, he didn't seem too bothered.

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