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Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

Kuip on the Giants' NL West battle with the Dodgers, comparing Jake McGee to past San Francisco closers

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Duane Kuiper joins Alex Pavlovic and Cole Kuiper to discuss the Giants-Mets series, which past closers Jake McGee compares to and how the Giants' success from a decade ago is affecting this season. Plus, hear from Giants manager Gabe Kapler on his process for pinch hitters and when he decides to go off plan. (2:05) Discussing the Giants-Mets series  (8:02) Belt homers twice during emotional day    (13:56) Kapler discusses the Giants' success with pitch hitters (18:04) Kapler reveals when he trusts his gut while making decisions  (27:34) Kuip shares his thoughts on McGee’s performance this season   (34:50) Kuip on how the Giants' World Series victories impacts 2021

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:17.2

Hey everyone. Welcome to another episode of Giants Talk. I'm Cole Kuyper along here with

0:21.7

Alex Pavlovich, and we're your two co-host. We got a really exciting episode as with every

0:28.2

Thursday, we're joined later on by Dwayne Kiper. But first, I got to remind you that right now

0:33.8

at Wendy's, you can get two breakfast sandwiches for just four bucks.

0:38.0

I love me a breakfast sandwich, and I highly recommend that deal.

0:41.3

Alex, are you a breakfast sandwich kind of guy?

0:44.7

Yeah, I think I contractually have to say, on breakfast sandwich slash breakfast burrito.

0:50.2

Okay, fair, fair.

0:52.0

I am a fast food breakfast guy. I think fast food breakfast is the peak of fast food. So I love that this is a whale of a deal from our friends at Wendy's. Let's talk some Giants versus Mets. I cannot believe what is happening with the Mets right now. Do you think this just has to do with having the worst two-week schedule a major

1:14.7

league baseball team could ever dream of having playing against the Giants, then the Dodgers,

1:19.2

then the Giants, then the Dodgers?

1:21.0

We talked about this last week, how difficult this is for them, and it does suck that they

1:25.2

have to play.

1:25.8

Like, I think these two teams have gone like clear of the pack.

1:30.1

Like they maybe Milwaukee's right there, but like they've put San Diego 14, 15 games behind them.

1:35.6

Like they have cleared the pack here.

1:37.9

And New York has to play them for two straight weeks, which is not ideal.

1:40.6

But at the same time, like the Giants team that we saw on Wednesday night was not a

1:44.5

105 win team. That was a 70 win team that was on the field, maybe. And the Mets couldn't do

1:51.7

anything with it. So I kind of, you know, hard to feel sorry for him because it was right there

1:57.8

for him. Like it was, they literally put that game on a platter, not just in the ninth inning,

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