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Welcome to the Giants Insider podcast on NBCSports Bay Area.com.

Introducing your host, San Francisco Giants Insider, Alex Pavlovich.

Hey, everybody, before I get to the baseball today, I just wanted to mention, I know we have a lot of people who watch our games and read our stuff and listen to this who live in Northern California and the areas that are affected by the fires.

I've met a lot of them at games.

I've talked to a lot of you guys on Twitter and met you over the

years and just want to say our thoughts are with you. My thoughts are with you. I hope everybody

up there is okay and gets through this and comes out of this okay. And just again, thoughts are

with everybody up there. Moving on to the podcast this week, no easy way to transition.

But this week's guest is actually an interview that we taped last week for our Giants'

season recap show and kind of preview of the offseason.

Ahmed Fried and I sat down with Larry Bear.

And I'm going to run the full thing here because we didn't get the full thing on TV on on that show that we did and so I wanted people to have a chance

to listen to that. We talked a little bit about what happened this year, his reaction to that,

some financial stuff where they go with that. You know, I asked him about Madison

Baumgartner and his thoughts on maybe having to make

a difficult move there and got into some other stuff, got into ticket sales a little bit

and how they're doing in that department.

So that is the interview this week.

Here's Larry Bear.

All right, Larry, thanks for taking the time to talk with us and be accountable on a year that wasn't what you were expecting. The fans were expecting for sure. So I just guess from an ownership standpoint, first of all, your assessment of what exactly went wrong in 2017.

Look, it was a rough year and you can't, it's funny because every year we sort of do these

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