Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.

Here's Alex Babovich and Cole Kuiper.

I know those guys.

We have an emergency podcast here on Giants Talk,

and it's not the kind of topic I wanted to do an

emergency thing about because I'm low-key devastated as the resident Giants fan. I'm Cole Kuyper here

with Alex Pavlovich and Dwayne Kuyper, ready to bring you some off-day, off-season content

as we discussed the official retirement of Buster Posey. Don't forget to like and subscribe wherever you get your podcast. Go ahead and leave us a review. And I'm also going to remind you that Giant Stop is brought to you by Wendy's. Right now, Wendy's, try our brand new fries for yourself with fries that are guaranteed to be hot and crispy or will replace them at participating U.S. Wendy's.

Before we get into Buster Posey, I will say a lot of these fast food places kind of sleep on their fries.

They don't put the effort the fries need in.

So I appreciate that Wendy's is going the extra mile here.

Well, actually, given what happened today, I could go for a square burger, to be honest with you.

A few of them.

A few of them.

Duane, we had you on a couple weeks ago to talk about the end of the regular season.

And I asked you at the time because I was sitting right next to Buster after game five in the dugout.

And I asked him about 2022 and it just struck me sitting next to him that

you know it wasn't automatic that he would keep coming back season after season and and I asked

you that question and I think you felt the same way that one year he was just going to retire and go

be a dad and go live live a normal life I did not expect it to be next year. Did you expect it to be

next year? Absolutely not. But if you think about Buster and his style and in his commitment to

his family, maybe this shouldn't surprise all of us. I guess the thing that surprises us is it's

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