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Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

Kuip on Posey friendship and if MLB baseballs have been deadened

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Sports, Mlb, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.7824 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Duane Kuiper joins Alex Pavlovic and Cole Kuiper to discuss if the Giants’ numerous injuries are finally catching up to them, his friendship with Buster Posey and if he thinks the baseballs have been deadened this season.  (1:31) Giants’ injuries starting to catch up to them  (6:54) When can we expect Wade Jr.’s return?   (15:14) Joc faces Dodgers for first time as a Giant (23:33) When will injured Giants return?  (34:20) Kuip on changes to the baseballs (45:35) Kuip discusses his friendship with Posey

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast. Here's Alex Pavlovich and Cole Kuiper. I know those guys.

0:17.7

All right, Giants fans. Welcome to another episode of Giants Talk. I'm Cole Kuyper here with

0:22.5

Giants Insider Alex Pavlovich, and we're the hosts of Giants Talk, bringing you new episodes

0:27.2

every Monday and Thursday right here on the NBC Sports Podcast Network available wherever

0:32.5

you listen to your pods. As with most of our Thursday episodes,

0:40.6

Wayne Kuiper is going to be joining us later on in the podcast.

0:41.9

But first, I have to remind you,

0:44.3

Johnny's Talk is presented by Wendy's Breakfast.

0:48.2

Now, get a free drink with any breakfast sandwich purchase.

0:50.0

While you're at it, getting your free drink,

1:01.4

don't forget to subscribe, like, and leave us a review while you're sitting there in the Wendy's drive-thru. Now, Alex, it hasn't been the best string of Giants baseball since you and I last talked. What's going on, dude? Well, the Dodgers, as I often say, are good.

1:10.3

Is that your professional opinion?

1:12.3

That's my professional opinion that they are very good.

1:16.7

Yeah, look, the Giants were overmatched on paper, and I think a lot of times with this

1:23.4

club we've come to kind of throw that out.

1:26.1

You go, they'll find a way.

1:29.2

And Tuesday night, I mean, go, they'll find a way. Uh, in Tuesday night,

1:34.9

I mean, yeah, they, they threatened a little bit in the late innings, but you just kind of look at the lineups and you go through it. And I think if you played that game where you're like,

1:40.1

you know, legitimately would you, I don't know, would you take any of the Giants who started

1:45.5

tonight over any of the Dodgers?

1:48.0

Yeah, that's a great question.

1:49.9

I would always take Crawford's glove over just about anybody in the National League,

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