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Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

Kuip discusses Marco Luciano's bright future, takeaways from Giants' first spring training games

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4630 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Cole Kuiper and Alex Pavlovic, along with Duane Kuiper, discuss what the future holds for Giants prospect Marco Luciano, the impact of having fans in the stands on the upcoming season and how the delay of the Triple-A season will affect the Giants moving forward. (2:10) Takeaways from Giants latest spring training games  (10:12) When will Ramos be on the Giants roster?   (13:50) Does Triple A’s postponed start affect the MLB?  (17:30) Kuip discusses having fans in the stands at spring training (25:02) Kuip details the oddity of playing with small crowds (28:30) How good can Luciano be?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.

0:09.0

Here's Alex Babelich and Cole Kiper.

0:13.0

I know those guys.

0:15.0

Hi everyone, welcome to Giants Talk.

0:18.0

I'm Cole Kiper along here with Alex Pavlovich, and we're going to talk Giants with you every Monday and Thursday right here in the NBC Sports Podcasting Network.

0:27.3

Giants Talk is brought to you by Wendy's. Try the new jalapeno Popper chicken sandwich and salad today at participating U.S. Wendy's.

0:35.1

I know the chicken sandwich wars are a big thing in the fast food game,

0:38.6

and I have to say, Wendy's has a solid chicken sandwich. That's my go-to chicken sandwich. I mean,

0:43.8

there's a few good ones now, but that when I was growing up was like the go-to chicken sandwich place.

0:48.6

Yeah, I'm a big Wendy's chicken sandwich fan. My Wendy's is like a mile further than my other fast food places, and I make that extra

0:57.0

drive just for that.

0:58.5

It's a good chicken sandwich.

1:00.0

Definitely.

1:00.8

We have an exciting show today because we have what felt like spring training opening day.

1:07.0

I know it was not game one, but it was the first televised game, which feels a little more

1:10.7

special, like we said earlier than just watching the games on Twitter like most of us do these days.

1:17.8

Yeah, maybe this is different for you because Dwayne's your dad and he's coming up in a few minutes.

1:23.5

We talked to him about being in Scottsdale and his impressions of having fans back.

1:29.1

But, you know, for me, I grew up watching Mike and Dwayne.

1:32.6

And so I think I'm like a lot of people who grew up here that you see him on TV for the first time.

1:38.0

And it's like, okay, this is baseball season.

1:40.1

So last night, I mean, a one-to-one game or on Tuesday night a one-to-one game, but to see them in the studio and to hear them, you know, cracking jokes about umpires and backup catchers, it felt normal.

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