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Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

Kuip returns to discuss Joey Bart's potential; bold predictions for 2022

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Alex Pavlovic and Cole Kuiper are joined by Duane Kuiper to discuss some bold predictions for the Giants' upcoming season, what impact Evan Longoria’s injury has on the start of the season and if fans should be worried Brandon Belt hasn’t played in spring training yet. (3:30) Longoria has surgery, out for start of season   (9:11) Should fans be worried about Belt?  (15:17) What kind of season will Yaz have this year?  (21:54) How good can the Giants' rotation be?    (28:22) Kuip on getting to meet the Giants players   (33:13) Kuip shares who has stood out during spring training

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast. Here's Alex Pavlovich episode of Giants Talk. I'm Cole Kuyber here with

0:22.3

Giants Insider, Alex Pavlovich, and we are creeping closer and closer to opening day.

0:29.0

Giants are wrapping up down in Scottsdale, and we're bringing you some more Giants content.

0:34.3

Giant Stock is presented by Wendy's Breakfast now with a free drink with any breakfast sandwich purchase.

0:40.7

And with the regular season coming up, we're coming back to our original schedule of new episodes dropping every Monday and Thursday available wherever you listen to your podcast.

0:51.1

Go ahead and hit subscribe and it'll be ready for you when you wake up and eat your Wendy's breakfast and walk the dog. And part of that regular schedule,

0:58.6

our guest today, the man, Dwayne Kiper, you can get to talk to him probably every day, right?

1:04.2

Yeah, this is old news. This is like the least interesting person I talk to. I just get excited

1:08.2

every time he pops on the Zoom. So every time he's in the ballpark. So I was, that was like a, we have him coming up a little bit later and he's in

1:15.4

Scottsdale. But whenever I see him and Mike, it's like, okay, baseball's here. We're ready.

1:21.5

So that'll be the first thing I screen grab or make an image out of the entire season will be those two

1:29.0

in the broadcast booth on Friday. So good to have them back. I'm looking forward to them seeing

1:35.0

each other because they just bring each other's energy up so much. You know, it's obviously been

1:40.2

a tough off season for my family and I just know being around anyone with the last name

1:47.2

of Kruko improves the spirits of anyone with the last name of Kuiper. There's some sort of synergy

1:52.3

there. Maybe scientists need to take a look at it, but it's going to be great. And look,

1:57.3

there's a lot of people right now and we'll get to some of this with Longoria

2:01.4

and all that, a lot of people who are freaking out. But next Friday, you will tune in at, what,

2:06.4

1 o'clock, 1.30. And you'll see those two and it'll be baseball season. And you'll be fine.

2:10.5

Right. That's right. We'll see what happens over nine innings until Alcantara no hits the Giants. But no, you'll be fine.

2:19.8

Whatever happens over those nine innings,

2:23.2

it couldn't be uglier than the Cardinal spring training game that happened today.

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