Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.

Here's Alex Pavlovich and Cole Kuiper.

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What's up, Giants fans?

Welcome to another episode of Giants Talk. I'm Cole Kuiper here with

Giants insider Alex Pavlovich. This episode, we're going to talk Sasaki in the Dodgers,

if we must. Plus, we're going to preview the pitching rotation, do some mailbag questions,

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All right, Alex. Let's talk Dodgers.

Roki Sasaki, I think nobody surprised, chose the Dodgers.

And we're still kind of just dealing with the fallout of that on the national baseball scale,

but especially here within the Giants fandom.

Nobody expected him to be a giant. At least nobody with both feet rationally on the ground, I think, within this fan base.

But another name like this landing in Los Angeles, it hurts.

You know, raises up red flags for what the future of the National League West looks like.

It's another piece to the Death Star.

They're running over there.

Do you have a rational take on this as I continue spiraling?

It felt like a tipping point like nationally where everyone, you know, all of a sudden,

we're like, okay, Otani was one thing.

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