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Hi everyone. I'm Cole Kuiper along here with Giants Insider Alex Pavlovich.

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Giants may have taken the series two to one versus the Padres, but man, did Sunday's game take the wind out of my sales?

Yeah, you were there, right? You were at the ballpark? I was there,

so I'm willing to take the blame. That was the only game I went to this series. Was that the

only game you weren't at this series? It was the only, it's the first game I've taken off in like

a while. So it was Mother's Day. It's my brother's birthday. Shout out to my brother

Andre. It was his birthday. So we were doing a whole celebration and check my phone as I get

to his house. It's five nothing already. And it got worse from there. So I was fully prepared just

to like be glowing about the Giants and winning the first two games. And then you go to the ballpark

and this happens. So,

yeah, not a great way. You know, if you're going to take two out of three, this is not the way

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