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Willard and Dibs share their favorite Mike Krukow memories on the day that he announces his retirement at the end of the season.
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00:00So I just put this up on, I want to go to the phones, I just put this up on
00:05my Instagram feed, if anybody wants to go check it out.
00:09This is my favorite Kruko thing, and he'll never remember it, even if I showed him the picture of it,
00:16he would never remember it.
00:17But when I was probably circa, I don't know, 11, 12 years old, go to a game at Candlestick Park,
00:26and we were invited by a friend of my parents who was like an executive schmuckity-muck at Safeway, right?
00:35So we'll see you in the aisles.
00:39And we're having a pregame meal up in some, you know, like I'm like, I don't even know where I
00:45am.
00:45I was probably up in some suite or whatever.
00:48And the Giants come to the Safeway executive, and they go, hey, we need someone from Safeway to throw out
00:55the first pitch of the game.
00:57And the guy, the Safeway exec is like not a, he's not that much of a sports guy.
01:02He's like, I'm not going out there to throw a baseball.
01:05But my good friend Tom Willard here, I bet would.
01:08Nice.
01:09Hey, Tom, you want to go out there and throw out the first pitch courtesy of Safeway group?
01:12Even though you don't work for Safeway, you work for Burlingame High School?
01:15My dad's like, are you kidding?
01:17I would love it.
01:19So next thing you know, we didn't arrive at the ballpark that day thinking that that was going to happen.
01:24But next thing you know, I'm 11 years old.
01:25I'm in the stands, and my dad is out on the field.
01:28And back then, the first pitch, they let you like go up on the mound.
01:32And so he goes up there and puts the toe on the rubber, man.
01:36Bob Brindley behind the plate, and Tom Willard gets the ball, and he's about to throw out the first pitch.
01:42And they do the whole announcement.
01:43Now for the Safeway group.
01:45I direct your attention to the mound, Tom Willard.
01:50And I'm like, I'm out of my mind in the stands.
01:53But then here goes my dad.
01:55My dad grabs the ball and then leans in to look at Brindley for the sign.
02:02I mean, no pitch calm?
02:03No pitch calm.
02:04Okay.
02:05And then he comes to the set.
02:07Make sure you come to a complete set.
02:09Come on, Tom.
02:10We want someone to call a balk.
02:12Right.
02:12And then this is where he really got me.
02:14He comes to the set.
02:16And before he delivers, he checks the runner at first.
02:20There was no runner.
02:21Correct.
02:22There's not a game going on.
02:24But there is in my dad's mind.
02:26Then it's the high leg kick, and he throws right down the pipe.
02:31Strike one.
02:32Bob Brindley grabs the ball, walks out, meet my dad halfway out to the mound, says,
02:38way to throw it in there, Tom.
02:39The reason I bring that up today is because the pitcher who had to sit there and wait for
02:44my goofball dad to go through all of this was none other than Mike Kruko.
02:48And I just put a picture on my Instagram, MT Willard.
02:51I think the station may share it as well, where my dad is in full action motion, getting ready
02:58to throw the ball.
02:59His name is on the scoreboard behind him.
03:01And Kruko is standing right behind him with his hand on his hip, very much with a look
03:06on his face like, today, Junior, we've got a baseball game.
03:11Jose Uribe's in the background, getting ground balls, warming up for the first inning.
03:17But that was Kruko.
03:18He didn't tell my dad, hey, Tom, get off the mound.
03:21We've got a baseball game.
03:22Get off my mound, exactly.
03:23Get off my mound.
03:25Was it 86 or 87?
03:2686, 87, I feel like.
03:28Could have been 88.
03:29I don't know.
03:30One of those.
03:31One of those.
03:32It's so good.
03:33But such a good dude.
03:34And that poster had been in my dad's office the rest of my childhood after that.
03:41It's still up in his home today.
03:43He's 83 years old.
03:44As it should be.
03:45I mean, that's an amazing moment to be able to throw out a first pitch at any ballpark.
03:48I mean, I've been lucky to do three of them, but never one at Candlestick.
03:53But to have those moments, and I still have the framed one that I threw out at, it must
03:57have been SBC Park back in 2009 or 10, back when they were pretty desperate to have people
04:05show up and do it before they got good.
04:08Um, let's go to the phones.
04:10888-957-9570 is the number.
04:14Uh, let's go to, uh, Skills in Vallejo.
04:17Skills.
04:18What's going on, man?
04:19Thanks for the call.
04:22Namaste.
04:23Konnichiwa.
04:23And what's up, Dillard and Wibbs.
04:25Yo.
04:25What's up, kid?
04:26Yo.
04:26The news of Kruko.
04:28Uh, my Kruko retirement, I mean, yeah, it's sad news, but the lesson I try, like I always
04:34try to teach my daughter is to not be sad that something's ending, but to try to be grateful
04:38that you had it for as long as you did.
04:40And that's what I'm trying to do here.
04:42I'm trying to be just grateful that he was here for what?
04:4435, 36 years, however many years it was.
04:46And I mean, I just feel like that now maybe, I don't know what this deal is going to be
04:50with the other station going forward, but maybe now you guys can have him on once in
04:53a while.
04:53He'll talk ball.
04:54Who knows?
04:55I guess we just have to have to wait and see with that.
04:57But I got to baseball during that short period between when Kruko finished up as a player
05:02and right before he started broadcasting full time.
05:05So that's practically my whole Giants fandom that he's been right there.
05:08And he's, and he was partnered with Dwayne Kuyper for most of that, that when you're
05:12quite kipping off to Colorado, when they look like the Giants are moving, we're not going
05:15to talk about that.
05:17But what it is, is I think about, cause I'm somebody whose life has been defined by upheaval.
05:23I've gone through in my life so much, so many residences, so many jobs.
05:27So many different friends, medications.
05:29I mean, the Kruko and Kike tandem is one of the few constants I've had throughout my life.
05:33And now, you know, I know they've had health problems in recent years, they're in their
05:36mid seventies.
05:37And I knew they were getting closer and closer to the end of their time with the Giants,
05:41Kruko and Miller.
05:42And that they've dialed back their workloads a little bit, which allowed us fans to kind
05:46of get mother voices in the booth.
05:48And that's going to make it a little bit easier to transition, but still not easy.
05:52I've said this many, many, many times before that whenever those three are all retired,
05:56hopefully Flynn will still be around with the Giants to kind of lead that next generation
06:00of Giants voices.
06:01So I guess we'll see what happens with Flynn.
06:02I hope he sticks around for a long time, as long as they did.
06:04And let me just close with the funniest thing I ever heard Kruko say.
06:07And then I'll close with this.
06:08And he didn't even really say this.
06:10What happened was my now, my then girlfriend in the early 2000s, she watched the Giants
06:15games with me and she would try to catch on to things that Kruko would say or different
06:18things people would say.
06:19And you know, he has that catchphrase, grab some pine meat.
06:22So there's one game, somebody strikes out on the other team.
06:25And my then girlfriend says, go out and grab that meat.
06:29And I was just like, okay.
06:32That's awesome.
06:32I mean, that's close, but no cigar.
06:35And thank you for the phone call.
06:36The whole thing about, you know, grab some pine meat and good morning, good afternoon
06:40and sit your butt down.
06:41There's so many Kruko-isms and we did a thing that was playful.
06:45I don't know if he took it as such back when I was on with the Rise guys, but we
06:49did a
06:49thing about Kruko-cade where, you know, everything would be seen in a positive light if you had
06:54a sip of the Kruko-cade and, you know, they could lose seven in a row and you'd take a
06:58sip and you'd be like, I got to tell you, I think they look good.
07:00I mean, the bullpen look good, even though they lost nine to one.
07:03I got to tell you exactly a lot of out of babes and all the rest of it.
07:06You want to hear a few?
07:08Yeah.
07:09Let's see.
07:09We got a fan taking a huge bite of a hot dog.
07:12See, look at this guy.
07:14He's got a hot dog.
07:15He's the happiest guy in the world.
07:17He had a napkin.
07:18Dude, what?
07:19You think I'm messy?
07:20Yeah.
07:20Plus, he's the only one without a date.
07:23So you're going to miss.
07:25That means one thing.
07:26He's got onions on his hot dog.
07:29Savor it.
07:29You only got a little, you only got either one large bite left or, oh, yes.
07:35Oh, man.
07:36Good job.
07:37Seriously.
07:37He had to milk that a little bit.
07:39That was like two small bites or just one big one.
07:42He went for it.
07:45So good.
07:47I could do this.
07:48I could do this all day.
07:51I think for a lot of people, it's one of the first things that comes to mind, which is also,
07:56in a way, kind of another compliment.
07:58You know how I love stand-up comedy.
08:00And there's sort of two styles of stand-up comedy.
08:03There's the very produced kind, which is I'm going to come in and I've got material and I've got a
08:07bit.
08:07And then there's other people who do what's called crowd work, which is they'll come in and maybe they've got
08:13a couple of lines here or there or some stuff they want to do.
08:15But then they just start talking to the crowd.
08:17And off the top, they're going to be able to turn those conversations into laughs and laughter and making fun
08:25of and twisting people's words and all of the things that they do.
08:29Kruk and Kuype were the ultimate in they brought the baseball game, but then they also did a lot of
08:34crowd work.
08:34I think, I don't know about you, it's one of the first things that comes to mind, which is the
08:39two of them sort of narrating the stuff that's when the cameras catch somebody in the crowd.
08:44And it can be a mom and a dad dealing with a kid or somebody going after a huge bite
08:50or somebody who's wearing something funny or whatever it is.
08:54And they were brilliant with that stuff.
08:55Right, right.
08:56And this was obviously before nowadays where anything that happens in the crowd, it gets immediately put on social media
09:02and then everybody else weighs in.
09:03But part of it, too, is the fact that Dwayne Kuyper's brother, Jeff Kuyper, has been the producer of the
09:09broadcast for so long that it's not only Kruk and Kuype,
09:12it's Kruk and Kuype and Kuype, and now there's another Kuype in there as well.
09:16But the fact that Dwayne's brother, Jeff, was the producer, had them all kind of in lockstep on what to
09:21do.
09:22And all this before the pitch clock era, where now you can't really do as much of what they used
09:26to do because the game is so much faster now,
09:29where you used to be able to go to the crowd and, you know, sit on a person for 15,
09:3320 seconds.
09:34You might have the pitcher, you know, behind the mound, getting the rosin bag, or you might have the batter
09:38out of the box trying to, you know, pick and adjust.
09:41And remember Nomar with like the one wrist and the other wrist and then the glove and the glove and
09:45the bat, the helmet, the bat, the bat and the helmet.
09:48And now you don't have that same amount of time.
09:49And so the broadcasts have changed because of the pace and the tempo of the game.
09:54Did I ever tell you about the time that I did the, remember that little digital golf show thing that
09:58I did?
09:59Did you know that Nomar was one of the guys that we did it with?
10:02I never knew.
10:02Nomar was one of the guys.
10:03And this was like celebrities and golf carts, right?
10:05Celebrities and golf carts, yeah.
10:06Yeah, look at you.
10:08Look at you.
10:09I didn't think that I'd get it right, but that's what I thought it was, yeah.
10:12It was a takeoff on comedians in cars getting coffee.
10:15We did six episodes and Nomar was one of the celebrities.
10:18And we had him on the tee playing golf doing the glove thing that he used to do at the
10:27plate, which was,
10:28I mean, he sort of explained it.
10:30He's like, it was just a complete, it was like a tick.
10:33Like he just, I don't even know to what level he knew that he was doing it, but he had
10:37to do it before every,
10:40like before every pitch.
10:42It was a lot.
10:43And I get that because that is kind of my whole day.
10:46And I don't even know if you've picked up on it and I probably shouldn't point it out because I
10:50have this similar kind of ticks.
10:51Like if I do that, I'll do this.
10:53For those of you in the YouTube audience, it's like, it's a right eye scratch and it's a left eye
10:57scratch.
10:58And it's like, I don't have to do it, but I kind of have to do it.
11:02I think we all have those things.
11:04We've all got those things a little bit, a little bit, but I mean, I see like when I see
11:10the Nomar and I see other people,
11:11like you can't step on the chalk line and all the rest of it.
11:14There are many, many things.
11:15Have you ever watched our station on YouTube and noticed that you're looking at Guru, but Stiney's stomach?
11:21No.
11:22No.
11:22Because he has to stand up.
11:24Gotcha.
11:25That's one of his, like he's not, he gets uncomfortable and then he's got to stand up.
11:30Willard's bugging me.
11:31Well, I mean, you're not the only one.
11:33And then the camera doesn't go up to his face.
11:35Right.
11:35It's like all in his torso.
11:36I mean, sometimes it does, but you know, these things are like AI cameras.
11:39They're supposed to follow you.
11:41Sometimes they do.
11:42Sometimes they don't.
11:43Um, how about this one?
11:46He hits a high drive and it's deep in the left and it is off the wall.
11:56The Giants are saying it went over the wall and the umpires now are maybe going to get together.
12:01They are.
12:04Yep.
12:04It's gone.
12:06They're showing it on the board here.
12:08Home run.
12:09It is gone.
12:16Out of here.
12:18And what would Dave's call be?
12:21Gone.
12:23And what would John's be?
12:27Adios, pelota.
12:29There you go.
12:33There's Krook doing all three.
12:35Right.
12:35Home run calls.
12:36It's so great.
12:37I mean, those guys now with phlegm is what?
12:4020 years in.
12:41Is that too many years?
12:42Which is odd because he's 28 years old.
12:45But yes.
12:45I mean, is it 20?
12:46If it's not 20, whatever it is, those four have been together for that long.
12:51And, you know, Dave used to be the fresh face guy that they all kind of ragged and they gave
12:55it to him and he took it and he took it.
12:56And then he got to a spot where.
12:58He was the baby and he just had his 50th birthday.
13:00He still is the baby.
13:01Yeah.
13:01But I mean, when he was the baby, they gave him all kinds of grief.
13:04And then eventually he kind of, you know, earned, quote unquote, his way through.
13:07But the fact that Krook and Kuyper both ballplayers, they kind of gave him a little bit of the hazing
13:12treatment.
13:13That's how it works.
13:13Right.
13:14I love that you just brought that up.
13:16It brings to mind another.
13:18You know how earlier I was talking about the pinch me stuff that happens?
13:20Yep.
13:21Because, again, what year did they start?
13:23What year did Krook and Kuyper start as actual broadcast team for the Giants?
13:29Because they were obviously playing through the late 80s, right?
13:33I'm just doing this off the top of my head.
13:35I don't know exactly when they played till.
13:37But when did they start doing broadcast?
13:39Was it not until the 90s?
13:41The full duo, I'm sorry, 94?
13:43Is that what you're seeing?
13:44I'm seeing they first started appearing together in 1990, but full time in 1994.
13:49Okay, so 1990 is when they first start cracking the mics.
13:53I'm only 15 years old.
13:56To me, I know people hate when you say this.
14:00Oh, I grew up listening to you, and it makes you feel so old.
14:04So I wasn't like a baby, but I wasn't even driving yet when these two started cracking mics.
14:11And so I've been listening to them forever,
14:15and I think there have been a lot of those moments like what you just talked about.
14:21And then this was kind of another pinch-me moment for me
14:24because my first year back in the Bay when I get to come home is 2019.
14:30And over at Oracle Park, they had that bunker studio
14:34where you could do broadcasts if, obviously, you were working at KMBR,
14:39and nobody is using that studio anymore.
14:41But the point is, is my job was to come on after the games at night,
14:45and I was like, I'm going to use that studio all the time.
14:49Like, what, are you, crazy?
14:50Yep.
14:51Like, I'm going to be there every single night.
14:53So I'd go to the game, and then you'd go downstairs.
14:55Point is, is I was at the ballpark every night.
14:57And after about, I don't know how many months into the season it was,
15:01but there is a dining hall on the, is it the fourth floor, I think, of the press box.
15:08There's an area where there's the pregame media dining.
15:12There is one table that is Krook and Kipes.
15:16That's their table.
15:18You don't go sit there.
15:19You just don't sit there no matter what.
15:22And they often are doing in that dining room before games the same thing that you just talked about
15:29that they would do to Dave Fleming for years on the broadcast.
15:32It kind of becomes a little bit of a mini-roast sometimes
15:36because it's the same group of people up there,
15:38and they just start cracking jokes and making fun of people,
15:41and it's not on the air, and it's not for show.
15:44It's just because that's who these two best friends are.
15:47And there was a number of months into the season when the target, for the first time, was me.
15:55And it was brief.
15:56It wasn't a big deal.
15:58I'm sure that they would never even know that they were doing it in that moment.
16:02But to me, that was absolutely unequivocally, like people always ask athletes,
16:10like, what's your welcome to the pros moment?
16:11That was my kind of welcome to the Bay Area media moment
16:19when I'm just sitting there having a pregame meal
16:21and Krook and Kuyper sitting there kind of taking shots at me
16:25and making fun of stuff that I said after the game the night before or whatever.
16:29I'm like, y'all can just make fun of me for the rest of the night if you want.
16:33This is the best thing I've ever heard.
16:34You've never eaten more slowly in your life.
16:36Like taking slow bites and just, you know, trying to savor it
16:39because that is like a rite of passage.
16:41And it's honestly kind of like a stamp of approval.
16:44And I got the same thing from both of them in individual ways
16:48when I was doing the show with Gary Radnich
16:49because they would call in or they'd pop on.
16:51And, you know, Gary would be doing his usual routine
16:54about Zito and his contract or bonds in the home run chase or whatever.
16:58And they would come in and, you know, try to get me to chime in more against Gary
17:04or, you know, trying to like prop me up.
17:06And then I'd see him in person and they'd tear me down.
17:08And that was the whole kind of the rhythm of the thing.
17:11And the more that they gave you a hard time, the more they liked you was the thing.
17:15I mean, that's, I think that's, that's normal, especially for,
17:19I don't want to make this about gender, but that's normal for guys.
17:23Right.
17:23When you have people of that stature who at that point they're 20 years in
17:27and by the time you got here is 25 years in.
17:29It's like they don't need to like anoint anyone or make anyone feel comfortable,
17:33but it's their natural comfort zone.
17:35Yeah.
17:35I mean, that's like, you know, how guru is always talking about every time
17:39anybody has a hot conversation here at the station, his phone will blow up
17:43with people being like, are they okay?
17:45Like are Willard and dibs okay?
17:46Are you and Stiney okay?
17:48It's like, this is how, this is how we talk to each other.
17:53This is, this is what dudes do.
17:55And if I'm not talking to you that way, then it probably means I don't,
17:59I don't care enough.
18:01And that's another one of the things that they kind of,
18:04that they kind of captured.
18:05So Bob Costas is going to be on the air with us in 10 minutes.
18:10There is no other or better baseball historian out there.
18:14And so the specifics of stories and memories with Krook and Kite,
18:19but also sort of the larger sort of vibe and state of the game and broadcasting
18:24and what's captured by Krook and Kite.
18:26We'll get into all of that with him coming up here in just 10 minutes.
18:29And I wonder what he would think about the notion of this kind of being
18:32a dying breed of broadcasters, not only because of the pace of game,
18:36but now we have so many of these games that are not all shown locally.
18:42You've got, you know, the different Amazon, you've got games on Peacock,
18:45you got games here, you have games there.
18:47And it doesn't seem like the audience is as tied to it as it was when,
18:51you know, Krook and Kite got started in the mid to late nineties where like,
18:55Oh my God, I get to see every game of my team.
18:57Cause you remember being a kid where not all the games were on TV.
19:00You'd get some games on channel to the local broadcast.
19:04Maybe you'd catch a national game,
19:05but you didn't get every game on a dedicated channel with your dedicated duo.
19:10Where's your,
19:10where's your brain go when I say most iconic sports duo Bay area history,
19:17where's your brain go?
19:18Like any sports duo.
19:19You can do whatever you want with it.
19:20I just want to know where your brain goes.
19:22When I say that I think about the splash brothers and you know,
19:25Draymond is certainly a part of it, but he was not one of the splash brothers.
19:28So I think about Steph and clay.
19:29I think about Joe and Jerry.
19:31I think about Joe and Dwight and, but also Steve and Jerry,
19:34and I'm not going to pick between all of them and football is different
19:38because you can't do any of this without talking about Ronnie Lott and Roger Craig
19:42and you know, so many other greats.
19:44And so football's a little bit different about duos than, well,
19:48basketball is only about duos because of the splash brothers.
19:51Right.
19:51But I mean, yes,
19:52Steph and clay aren't winning a ring without some of those,
19:54you know what I mean?
19:55Draymond and they are a duo.
19:57Like if you think about run TMC, well, it's not T and M.
20:00It's not M and C.
20:01It's not T and C.
20:02It's the three of them.
20:04So as far as duos go, yeah.
20:06Krook and Kite would have to be damn near the top.
20:09And even like the giants run of the players.
20:12Well, it was, you know, Mad Bum and Buster, Kane, Buster.
20:15It was, you know, Voguey, Timmy and Buster.
20:19I mean, there's so many different people, you know,
20:21you can set up a bunch of different duos.
20:23One year it was John Burkett and Bill Swift.
20:27Remember when they both, I think they both won 20 games.
20:30Yep.
20:31Burkett and Swift or Krook and Kite.
20:33And Jason Schmidt in there.
20:35I mean, there's so many, but just the pure duo of Krook and Kite.
20:38And I think the thing that strikes me, not above all else,
20:42but one thing that really hits me is the fact that they're both former players.
20:45But if you didn't know that Dwayne Kiper was a player,
20:48you would think that he's just, you know,
20:49a kid who came up and racing Wisconsin and always wanted to be a broadcaster
20:53and tried like heck.
20:55And he rose the ranks and you know what?
20:56He's a good broadcaster.
20:57No, he's a pro baseball player who happened to become an elite play-by-play guy.
21:03And that's what makes that duo to me so unique is that he is a play-by-play guy.
21:08He could have been an analyst like Krook,
21:10but he was a play-by-play guy and that allowed Krook to be Krook.
21:14Yeah.
21:14I mean, they're very good ball players.
21:15Krook was an excellent ball player.
21:17Kite was a very good ball player.
21:20You know, that happens sometimes.
21:22And this is a terrible kind of example of the moment,
21:24but if people would kind of bear with it for a second,
21:27there is an attachment there.
21:29It's kind of like, I remember just telling,
21:31I think one of my kids last week,
21:34something came up on the Pat McAfee show and I'm like,
21:37yeah, he used to be a punter.
21:39They're like, what?
21:40He played?
21:41I'm like, yeah.
21:42Yeah, Pat McAfee played.
21:44They didn't pay him $60 million a year back then,
21:47like what he's doing now.
21:49But it's always fascinating to me when there are people who play,
21:52but then they become even more known and better in the media or broadcasting game
21:59than they were as players.
22:01That's absolutely true for Krook and Kite,
22:04even though they were not punters.
22:06They were very, very good.
22:07Right.
22:07They were better than McAfee in their sports.
22:09Certainly.
22:10And, you know,
22:10better than Stephen A.
22:11Smith in his sport,
22:12reportedly,
22:13if you believe that he was a,
22:14whatever,
22:15D2 basketball player or whatnot.
22:17And so,
22:18yeah,
22:18I think about Krook and Kite,
22:20but I also can't help but think about Greg Papa in this day where,
22:24you know,
22:25Papa had bad news come to him professionally yesterday.
22:28And now you've got Mike Kruko who's going to step away.
22:31And Greg Papa spent,
22:32I think three years with them doing Giants broadcasts.
22:35And so when you look at the list of people who actually worked with them
22:38during their time together,
22:40Greg Papa is one of them.
22:41And so that kind of hit me today.
22:43Like,
22:43you know,
22:44first it was Papa and his news.
22:46And then week,
22:47and now Mike Kruko is going to step away.
22:49And you just think about like those careers separate,
22:53but also together because Papa's an institution.
22:55And so is Mike Kruko.
22:57And,
22:57and want to keep reminding everybody,
22:59if you're just coming in and out on,
23:00on the show that Mike Kruko will retire effectively end of the year.
23:04So this is not immediate.
23:06You know,
23:07there's nothing imminent going on here.
23:09You're going to have the rest of the month of August.
23:11You're going to have the rest of the month of September.
23:13And like,
23:15I'd have no problem saying this directly to him in a moment where it has been
23:20for my money,
23:21the most frustrating and disappointing giant season that I can remember in
23:26recent memory and maybe even not so recent memory.
23:30But this announcement has just made me want to watch all of the games for the
23:39rest of the season.
23:40All of them that,
23:41that,
23:42that was not really on,
23:43on my to-do list.
23:46The game is always on,
23:48but it kind of had reached a spot where it's like,
23:52yeah,
23:52if I got nothing else going on,
23:54but the giants are struggling.
23:56And now I'm like,
23:57Ooh,
23:57I'm curious.
23:58Let's check out this Basabe guy or whatever.
24:01That was kind of the vibe,
24:02but not now.
24:03Now I'm back.
24:05I'd like,
24:06now I want to,
24:06I want to,
24:07I want to get every single inning that we've got left.
24:11Yeah.
24:12I mean,
24:12this is going to be it.
24:14And you've got like what,
24:1550 games left to go.
24:16And I don't even know if he'll do all 50 of them because his schedule has been a
24:19little bit,
24:20you know,
24:20pieced meal throughout the course of the last few years.
24:23You mentioned health and,
24:24you know,
24:25travel restrictions and all the rest of it,
24:26but you might not get that many opportunities to hear Krook and Kipe.
24:30And certainly when they get to that last game,
24:33they do together.
24:34That one's going to be the opposite of a laugher.
24:38That one's going to be emotional.
24:39That one's going to be,
24:39there'll be tears from like everybody.
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