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Speaker 1: All right, well, here we are. It's post-game wrap time. And, you know, one thing about these post-game wraps over all these years, all these years, we have never one time ever scripted out what we're going to say. We don't talk about what we're going to say before it comes. And I have resisted the temptation to plan it out and say, this is Mike's last post-game wrap, and we're going to have a, you know, I... We're just going to do our rap like we always do our rap, but we are going to make it a lot about you, Mike. Did you enjoy the day?
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Speaker 2: I did.
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Speaker 1: It was quite.
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Speaker 2: Emotional for a number of reasons. I mean, coming into the ballpark, you were saying goodbye to a lot of people that you've known for many years, a lot of fans that have been so special this last six weeks especially. But, you know, emotion is part of the Giants. where it's all about torture and about feelings. And over the years, there have been so many moments where they're just so memorable, and you don't forget them. And when you become part of a broadcast team that brings these moments to people, they constantly remind you when you see them. And there are things that I've forgotten. And then they start telling and start crying, and then I start crying, and it's like, oh, gosh, here we go. I was kind of melancholy coming into the ballpark today. And if you look in the right center field side of this ballpark, you see the Atta Babe Crook sign, and there's a painting out there. Well, it ticked off my partner. He goes, we've been Crook and Kipe forever, and now it's just a Crook sign up there. So today he got to the ballpark early. And he said this about a month ago. He said, you know what, I'm going to go out there and I'm going to paint a stick figure with a boiler and it's going to be me.
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Speaker 1: So today he goes out there and.
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Speaker 2: That's exactly what he did. He put up a stick figure with duct tape and he said putting duct tape and making a circle out of it was the hardest thing he ever had to do. But that kind of took the feeling out of the day and made me laugh and we laughed a lot. We shed tears and it It really felt good to come into this booth. We're all four here together again. And, Dave, you were kind of questionable as to whether or not you were going to make it, coming back from doing a college football game yesterday in Pennsylvania. But you did. And I love you for it. And I love all you guys. The moments we've all had, it's just something I will never forget, and I'm so proud to have been part of it. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: I have resisted. Feeling sorry for myself this whole time. This isn't about us. This is about you. You're not going away forever. We're going to see you. Yeah, you've got a partner for next year.
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Speaker 3: What the hell are you talking about?
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Speaker 1: Anyway, I'm sorry, Dave. No, no, no. But here's the one thing that I have been thinking a lot about. We're going to– Kipe's going to be ticked at me for saying this. The post-game wrap is going to go on, right? Next year we're going to have the post-game wrap, presumably. Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: A two-person wrap is great.
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Speaker 1: We'll have some laughs. We'll have some fun. I'm really talking to all three of you, but the four of us together, this has been 25 years of the four of us together. I don't know if that's ever happened. in baseball where you got four guys calling games for this long together and that is going to be different and so we're going to carry on with our post game rap and our hijinks and our fun and we'll have all the laughs and we'll tell the story of the Giants but I am savoring these last few minutes in here with the four of us together.
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Speaker 3: Yeah you know look no one bitched about their rap more than I did.
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Speaker 1: Yes, you did.
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Speaker 3: I want to go home.
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Speaker 2: Well, you had to drive the farthest to get home.
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Speaker 3: I know.
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Speaker 4: We did.
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Speaker 1: We all lived here in the city.
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Speaker 3: But there's something about the rap that has really kept all of us close where every game we get to work together. You know, the only time the four of us have ever worked together is for the World Series playoff run. And we cherish that like you can't even imagine.
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Speaker 1: Heck yeah.
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Speaker 3: So as much as I bitch about the rap, it really has been essential to this relationship between the four of us. And each and every one of us adds a little something different. And it'll be different next year without Mike, no doubt about it.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 4: Now, I don't want to just go back to the golden oldies here a little bit, but There was a moment where the Giants, at least for a few seconds, took the lead in this game. Christian Koss hit one down the left field line. The umpire said home run. He rounded the bases. The Giants were ahead 2-1. And I heard that you had sort of an interesting comment when they went to the replay review.
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Speaker 3: Well, I thought it was a home run. I thought it hit the foul pole. I didn't realize it missed the foul pole. So I was that excited. 100% sure that it was a home run. I said, if they say this is not a home run, one of us is going to have to quit.
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Speaker 2: That's what he said on TV. I was having second thoughts. And then they said it wasn't a home run. I know, and he's still going to quit, for crying out loud. Now, if, let's say.
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Speaker 4: In a perfect world, we thought the Giants had gone ahead 2-1. We had visions of a 2-1 Giants win in the finale. And we would have started the wrap with a 2-1 win. And, Mike, this is sort of a hallmark of the wrap.
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Speaker 2: Well, we'd have walked in here and Dave said, Mike. And I would say, just another.
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Speaker 5: Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha- We're pretending in here that you did.
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Speaker 1: That I'm going to miss. And I'm glad, Kipe, you brought up the playoff broadcast. I think we all agree. Look, all of us have been lucky enough to do a lot of cool things in our careers, professionally, on the field, in the booth. I am most proud of our playoff broadcast together with the Giants. No question. No question. I just love.
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Speaker 2: that you and John invited Dwayne and I into the booth. It doesn't get done, and I think everybody here needs to know that. When the season ends, usually because the television games go to networks, and all the local television broadcasters, they sort of drop into oblivion. Maybe you do a pre and post or some sideline stuff, but you're done.
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Speaker 1: But you and.
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Speaker 2: John invited us in. The four of us got to do these things together, and boy, did it define our careers. It was wonderful.
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Speaker 1: We didn't always give you the best seat in the house. No, you didn't, Dave. People have encouraged me this week because I don't have like an Instagram and people are saying, well, you need that because I want to have my own little thank you to you. And I have some photos that I love of the two of us together, the four of us together. So people have said you should start an Instagram account. If I do that this week, the first picture I'm putting up there is Mike. You remember this picture?
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Mike in Cincinnati, this little radio broadcast booth where the four of us were all there. There's a post in the middle. Did they find it? That's it. How'd they find it? How did they know? That's Mike's scene. It was kind of cool. And we'd say, Crook, what happened on that play?
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Speaker 2: I don't know. But it was great because we were guests. You guys invited us in. So the booth in Cincinnati in the radio side was really small. And they had like framed windows. Well, the three of us were sitting there. Well, I couldn't take your seats. And that's what I got. And I did not complain. I was just happy to be there.
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Speaker 1: I know you saw Posey's home run against Latos from that seat. Yes, I did.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I did.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: And I saw the Romo duel with Jay Bruce to end it.
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Speaker 1: And it was.
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Speaker 2: Just one of those things I'll never forget.
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Speaker 1: As there are many. We have a lot of those memories, don't we?
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Speaker 2: Good ones, too. A couple that are weird, but most of them are good.
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Speaker 1: A couple weird ones, most of them good. All right, we're going to come back, and ordinarily we would say pick players of the game. We'll see what we do. We'll come back for part two after this. Okay, we're back for part two of our final post-game wrap, and this is where we ordinarily pick players of the game. I'm just going to go around the horn and let everybody have a minute to share their thoughts with Mike. But I told D.C. I was going to start with him. Darren Chan, people don't get to hear his voice very often, but he's a huge part of our team on our Giants broadcast. And so, D.C., you get to go first. Thanks, Dave.
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Speaker 6: And, well, Mike, you knew I was born and raised in San Francisco, grew up a Giants fan all my life. I was 15 years old when you won 20 games. A year later, I watched you stick it to the Cardinals in game four of the 87 NLCS.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I've watched your career go from an all-star pitcher to a legendary broadcaster. And one day, my friend, sure as I'm sitting here, you and your best friend are gonna travel to Cooperstown, New York and be in the Hall of Fame. It is truly, truly my honor to have been your producer and engineer on the radio. But even more so, it has been my true honor to have been considered your friend. Thank you, Mike.
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Speaker 3: Good words, D.C.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, D.C. How'd he do?
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Speaker 3: He did pretty good.
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Speaker 2: Hell, he could have taken one of our jobs about ten years ago.
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Speaker 1: Good job, D.C. Alright, my turn. Look, we got a whole ceremony on the field, Mike, and you're going to hear lots of nice things said about you. I just want to say thank you. I was a D.C. was a young kid watching the Giants. You remember what I was like. I was 25 years old when I showed up with the Giants. I didn't know anything about anything. And the Giants fans didn't know anything about me. And I'm saying this about all three of you guys, but the things that you did to make me feel like I was a part of this team, like I was a part of this crew, part of this family, the things you did to make the fan base... appreciate me, and welcome me in as a part of the Giants family. I will never, ever be able to repay you for that. So I thank you for that. But more than that, more than that, you have been a friend, a role model. I've learned more about how to treat people, how to look them in the eye, how to make people feel like they're important, how to treat your friends, how to treat your family, how to treat your kids, and your grandkids. I've learned more about that stuff from you than I've probably learned about from anybody ever. And I just can't thank you enough. You're the toughest guy that I've ever met. You are the toughest dude that I've ever come across. And I think it is a gift that you've given us these last many years. And I just, you're going to hear it from me a lot over the next many years. But I want to tell you how much I love you, because I do. I do. You have changed my life, and I'm never, ever going to forget that.
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Speaker 4: Ever.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, brother. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 5: Well said, Dave.
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Speaker 3: Go ahead, John.
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Speaker 1: Beautiful. Beautiful.
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Speaker 4: I just, we're here doing the rap. I think at any time, you and Dwayne, could have said, I don't think I want to do the rap anymore. Especially after Vin Scully walked in and said, you guys must make a fortune doing that show. And we all kind of looked at each other and said, oh, we don't make anything. And then Euchre came in. Bob Euchre, same thing. He says, you guys are still on? Well, man, you must get the big bucks for this show.
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Speaker 1: It was the same thing.
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Speaker 3: So.
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Speaker 1: But you still are in here.
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Speaker 4: And I think we look at that, I look at it as that we were, you were in the TV booth, we were in the radio booth, only together in the postseason as Dwayne's mentioned. But we were still the Giants broadcast team. And I appreciate the teamwork.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you, John. Thank you. Well said.
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Speaker 3: Well said. Well, I I started last night to figure out what I was going to say today on the field. And I think my topic was, what am I going to miss about him?
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Speaker 2: And I.
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Speaker 3: Wrote down about 10 things. You know, you only have about 150 things to choose from, or maybe even 200, or maybe even 1,000. And then I woke up at 4 in the morning where I had a whole new idea of what I wanted to do.
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to roast him.
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Speaker 3: You know, and tell people that he is kind of a jerk sometimes. And then I thought, well, there actually might be some people that would believe that, right? So I stuck with my plan.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 3: I figured out the ones I wanted to use, and it'll come from the heart when we get on the field. But as I said to him when we left the TV, the broadcast, we can all see him in the 775, which is the Reno area code. I know, I watched him. He invites everybody over to his house.
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Speaker 1: All these people out here. All of them. Every one of them. You're invited.
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Speaker 3: And he'll set you up, trust me. So, anyway, I can't wait until we get on the field, Mike, and you know I love you.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Smooth.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. And, by the way, before I let you talk, Mike, for a second, the booth is now named after you guys. You walked out of the Crooked Kite Broadcast booth. That's kind of cool.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: That was so cool.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Had no idea.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's so cool. I always said, I mean, as a player, you play in this game. I mean, you want to leave a mark to where you're remembered. And you don't even dare go there mentally as a broadcaster because, I mean, it just doesn't happen very often. And when we saw that today, it hit home that we– had a career where we would be remembered, and it felt really good. Well, can I tell them? Everybody take a good look at that sign, because when I get through with a Sharpie, it's going to be the kite broadcast booth. That from the stick man with the boiler. But I do want to say, and we've got a lot to say once we get on the field and whatnot, but being in here, being in this room, I mean, even after games were really difficult because the Giants had lost them, we always found the joy of what this great game is. We always found the joy that what our fans bring to this stadium every day. It never fails. And I am going to miss sitting here in this ballpark, broadcasting a game, but the post-game rap has been so good to us and so good that we said we didn't want any money for this. Sure. Liar.
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Speaker 1: But it has been.
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Speaker 2: Really a special way to where we really became part of our fans' trust. I mean, we could let our hair down here. We could talk about the things that bothered us, and most of the times it bothered them, too. So I loved every minute of it. And I'm going to thank the engineers because we've been blessed with Lee Jones and Lee Hammer and Raul Velez. But Darren Chan just carries the legacy of this broadcast booth, being responsible to not just be the engineer, to produce the show. And Darren, I want to say thank you for all that you do and all that you are.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. Did you save some stuff for the field?
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Speaker 2: I got some stuff for the field.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I am.
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Speaker 1: All right, well, here we are. It's post-game wrap time. And, you know, one thing about these post-game wraps over all these years, all these years, we have never one time ever scripted out what we're going to say. We don't talk about what we're going to say before it comes. And I have resisted the temptation to plan it out and say, this is Mike's last post-game wrap, and we're going to have a, you know, I... We're just going to do our rap like we always do our rap, but we are going to make it a lot about you, Mike. Did you enjoy the day?
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Speaker 2: I did.
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Speaker 1: It was quite.
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Speaker 2: Emotional for a number of reasons. I mean, coming into the ballpark, you were saying goodbye to a lot of people that you've known for many years, a lot of fans that have been so special this last six weeks especially. But, you know, emotion is part of the Giants. where it's all about torture and about feelings. And over the years, there have been so many moments where they're just so memorable, and you don't forget them. And when you become part of a broadcast team that brings these moments to people, they constantly remind you when you see them. And there are things that I've forgotten. And then they start telling and start crying, and then I start crying, and it's like, oh, gosh, here we go. I was kind of melancholy coming into the ballpark today. And if you look in the right center field side of this ballpark, you see the Atta Babe Crook sign, and there's a painting out there. Well, it ticked off my partner. He goes, we've been Crook and Kipe forever, and now it's just a Crook sign up there. So today he got to the ballpark early. And he said this about a month ago. He said, you know what, I'm going to go out there and I'm going to paint a stick figure with a boiler and it's going to be me.
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Speaker 1: So today he goes out there and.
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Speaker 2: That's exactly what he did. He put up a stick figure with duct tape and he said putting duct tape and making a circle out of it was the hardest thing he ever had to do. But that kind of took the feeling out of the day and made me laugh and we laughed a lot. We shed tears and it It really felt good to come into this booth. We're all four here together again. And, Dave, you were kind of questionable as to whether or not you were going to make it, coming back from doing a college football game yesterday in Pennsylvania. But you did. And I love you for it. And I love all you guys. The moments we've all had, it's just something I will never forget, and I'm so proud to have been part of it. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: I have resisted. Feeling sorry for myself this whole time. This isn't about us. This is about you. You're not going away forever. We're going to see you. Yeah, you've got a partner for next year.
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Speaker 3: What the hell are you talking about?
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Speaker 1: Anyway, I'm sorry, Dave. No, no, no. But here's the one thing that I have been thinking a lot about. We're going to– Kipe's going to be ticked at me for saying this. The post-game wrap is going to go on, right? Next year we're going to have the post-game wrap, presumably. Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: A two-person wrap is great.
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Speaker 1: We'll have some laughs. We'll have some fun. I'm really talking to all three of you, but the four of us together, this has been 25 years of the four of us together. I don't know if that's ever happened. in baseball where you got four guys calling games for this long together and that is going to be different and so we're going to carry on with our post game rap and our hijinks and our fun and we'll have all the laughs and we'll tell the story of the Giants but I am savoring these last few minutes in here with the four of us together.
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Speaker 3: Yeah you know look no one bitched about their rap more than I did.
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Speaker 1: Yes, you did.
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Speaker 3: I want to go home.
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Speaker 2: Well, you had to drive the farthest to get home.
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Speaker 3: I know.
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Speaker 4: We did.
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Speaker 1: We all lived here in the city.
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Speaker 3: But there's something about the rap that has really kept all of us close where every game we get to work together. You know, the only time the four of us have ever worked together is for the World Series playoff run. And we cherish that like you can't even imagine.
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Speaker 1: Heck yeah.
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Speaker 3: So as much as I bitch about the rap, it really has been essential to this relationship between the four of us. And each and every one of us adds a little something different. And it'll be different next year without Mike, no doubt about it.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 4: Now, I don't want to just go back to the golden oldies here a little bit, but There was a moment where the Giants, at least for a few seconds, took the lead in this game. Christian Koss hit one down the left field line. The umpire said home run. He rounded the bases. The Giants were ahead 2-1. And I heard that you had sort of an interesting comment when they went to the replay review.
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Speaker 3: Well, I thought it was a home run. I thought it hit the foul pole. I didn't realize it missed the foul pole. So I was that excited. 100% sure that it was a home run. I said, if they say this is not a home run, one of us is going to have to quit.
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Speaker 2: That's what he said on TV. I was having second thoughts. And then they said it wasn't a home run. I know, and he's still going to quit, for crying out loud. Now, if, let's say.
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Speaker 4: In a perfect world, we thought the Giants had gone ahead 2-1. We had visions of a 2-1 Giants win in the finale. And we would have started the wrap with a 2-1 win. And, Mike, this is sort of a hallmark of the wrap.
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Speaker 2: Well, we'd have walked in here and Dave said, Mike. And I would say, just another.
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Speaker 5: Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha- We're pretending in here that you did.
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Speaker 1: That I'm going to miss. And I'm glad, Kipe, you brought up the playoff broadcast. I think we all agree. Look, all of us have been lucky enough to do a lot of cool things in our careers, professionally, on the field, in the booth. I am most proud of our playoff broadcast together with the Giants. No question. No question. I just love.
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Speaker 2: that you and John invited Dwayne and I into the booth. It doesn't get done, and I think everybody here needs to know that. When the season ends, usually because the television games go to networks, and all the local television broadcasters, they sort of drop into oblivion. Maybe you do a pre and post or some sideline stuff, but you're done.
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Speaker 1: But you and.
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Speaker 2: John invited us in. The four of us got to do these things together, and boy, did it define our careers. It was wonderful.
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Speaker 1: We didn't always give you the best seat in the house. No, you didn't, Dave. People have encouraged me this week because I don't have like an Instagram and people are saying, well, you need that because I want to have my own little thank you to you. And I have some photos that I love of the two of us together, the four of us together. So people have said you should start an Instagram account. If I do that this week, the first picture I'm putting up there is Mike. You remember this picture?
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Mike in Cincinnati, this little radio broadcast booth where the four of us were all there. There's a post in the middle. Did they find it? That's it. How'd they find it? How did they know? That's Mike's scene. It was kind of cool. And we'd say, Crook, what happened on that play?
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Speaker 2: I don't know. But it was great because we were guests. You guys invited us in. So the booth in Cincinnati in the radio side was really small. And they had like framed windows. Well, the three of us were sitting there. Well, I couldn't take your seats. And that's what I got. And I did not complain. I was just happy to be there.
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Speaker 1: I know you saw Posey's home run against Latos from that seat. Yes, I did.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I did.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: And I saw the Romo duel with Jay Bruce to end it.
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Speaker 1: And it was.
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Speaker 2: Just one of those things I'll never forget.
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Speaker 1: As there are many. We have a lot of those memories, don't we?
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Speaker 2: Good ones, too. A couple that are weird, but most of them are good.
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Speaker 1: A couple weird ones, most of them good. All right, we're going to come back, and ordinarily we would say pick players of the game. We'll see what we do. We'll come back for part two after this. Okay, we're back for part two of our final post-game wrap, and this is where we ordinarily pick players of the game. I'm just going to go around the horn and let everybody have a minute to share their thoughts with Mike. But I told D.C. I was going to start with him. Darren Chan, people don't get to hear his voice very often, but he's a huge part of our team on our Giants broadcast. And so, D.C., you get to go first. Thanks, Dave.
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Speaker 6: And, well, Mike, you knew I was born and raised in San Francisco, grew up a Giants fan all my life. I was 15 years old when you won 20 games. A year later, I watched you stick it to the Cardinals in game four of the 87 NLCS.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I've watched your career go from an all-star pitcher to a legendary broadcaster. And one day, my friend, sure as I'm sitting here, you and your best friend are gonna travel to Cooperstown, New York and be in the Hall of Fame. It is truly, truly my honor to have been your producer and engineer on the radio. But even more so, it has been my true honor to have been considered your friend. Thank you, Mike.
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Speaker 3: Good words, D.C.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, D.C. How'd he do?
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Speaker 3: He did pretty good.
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Speaker 2: Hell, he could have taken one of our jobs about ten years ago.
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Speaker 1: Good job, D.C. Alright, my turn. Look, we got a whole ceremony on the field, Mike, and you're going to hear lots of nice things said about you. I just want to say thank you. I was a D.C. was a young kid watching the Giants. You remember what I was like. I was 25 years old when I showed up with the Giants. I didn't know anything about anything. And the Giants fans didn't know anything about me. And I'm saying this about all three of you guys, but the things that you did to make me feel like I was a part of this team, like I was a part of this crew, part of this family, the things you did to make the fan base... appreciate me, and welcome me in as a part of the Giants family. I will never, ever be able to repay you for that. So I thank you for that. But more than that, more than that, you have been a friend, a role model. I've learned more about how to treat people, how to look them in the eye, how to make people feel like they're important, how to treat your friends, how to treat your family, how to treat your kids, and your grandkids. I've learned more about that stuff from you than I've probably learned about from anybody ever. And I just can't thank you enough. You're the toughest guy that I've ever met. You are the toughest dude that I've ever come across. And I think it is a gift that you've given us these last many years. And I just, you're going to hear it from me a lot over the next many years. But I want to tell you how much I love you, because I do. I do. You have changed my life, and I'm never, ever going to forget that.
00:12:50
Speaker 4: Ever.
00:12:51
Speaker 1: Thank you, brother. Thank you.
00:12:54
Speaker 2: Thank you.
00:12:54
Speaker 5: Well said, Dave.
00:13:00
Speaker 3: Go ahead, John.
00:13:01
Speaker 1: Beautiful. Beautiful.
00:13:03
Speaker 4: I just, we're here doing the rap. I think at any time, you and Dwayne, could have said, I don't think I want to do the rap anymore. Especially after Vin Scully walked in and said, you guys must make a fortune doing that show. And we all kind of looked at each other and said, oh, we don't make anything. And then Euchre came in. Bob Euchre, same thing. He says, you guys are still on? Well, man, you must get the big bucks for this show.
00:13:36
Speaker 1: It was the same thing.
00:13:37
Speaker 3: So.
00:13:39
Speaker 1: But you still are in here.
00:13:41
Speaker 4: And I think we look at that, I look at it as that we were, you were in the TV booth, we were in the radio booth, only together in the postseason as Dwayne's mentioned. But we were still the Giants broadcast team. And I appreciate the teamwork.
00:14:00
Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you, John. Thank you. Well said.
00:14:06
Speaker 3: Well said. Well, I I started last night to figure out what I was going to say today on the field. And I think my topic was, what am I going to miss about him?
00:14:24
Speaker 2: And I.
00:14:27
Speaker 3: Wrote down about 10 things. You know, you only have about 150 things to choose from, or maybe even 200, or maybe even 1,000. And then I woke up at 4 in the morning where I had a whole new idea of what I wanted to do.
00:14:41
Speaker 1: I just wanted to roast him.
00:14:45
Speaker 3: You know, and tell people that he is kind of a jerk sometimes. And then I thought, well, there actually might be some people that would believe that, right? So I stuck with my plan.
00:15:04
Speaker 2: Uh.
00:15:05
Speaker 3: I figured out the ones I wanted to use, and it'll come from the heart when we get on the field. But as I said to him when we left the TV, the broadcast, we can all see him in the 775, which is the Reno area code. I know, I watched him. He invites everybody over to his house.
00:15:32
Speaker 1: All these people out here. All of them. Every one of them. You're invited.
00:15:38
Speaker 3: And he'll set you up, trust me. So, anyway, I can't wait until we get on the field, Mike, and you know I love you.
00:15:48
Speaker 2: Thank you, Smooth.
00:15:49
Speaker 1: Thank you. And, by the way, before I let you talk, Mike, for a second, the booth is now named after you guys. You walked out of the Crooked Kite Broadcast booth. That's kind of cool.
00:15:58
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:15:58
Speaker 2: That was so cool.
00:15:59
Speaker 5: Yeah.
00:15:59
Speaker 1: Yeah. Had no idea.
00:16:02
Speaker 2: I mean, it's so cool. I always said, I mean, as a player, you play in this game. I mean, you want to leave a mark to where you're remembered. And you don't even dare go there mentally as a broadcaster because, I mean, it just doesn't happen very often. And when we saw that today, it hit home that we– had a career where we would be remembered, and it felt really good. Well, can I tell them? Everybody take a good look at that sign, because when I get through with a Sharpie, it's going to be the kite broadcast booth. That from the stick man with the boiler. But I do want to say, and we've got a lot to say once we get on the field and whatnot, but being in here, being in this room, I mean, even after games were really difficult because the Giants had lost them, we always found the joy of what this great game is. We always found the joy that what our fans bring to this stadium every day. It never fails. And I am going to miss sitting here in this ballpark, broadcasting a game, but the post-game rap has been so good to us and so good that we said we didn't want any money for this. Sure. Liar.
00:17:44
Speaker 1: But it has been.
00:17:45
Speaker 2: Really a special way to where we really became part of our fans' trust. I mean, we could let our hair down here. We could talk about the things that bothered us, and most of the times it bothered them, too. So I loved every minute of it. And I'm going to thank the engineers because we've been blessed with Lee Jones and Lee Hammer and Raul Velez. But Darren Chan just carries the legacy of this broadcast booth, being responsible to not just be the engineer, to produce the show. And Darren, I want to say thank you for all that you do and all that you are.
00:18:25
Speaker 1: Thank you. Did you save some stuff for the field?
00:18:28
Speaker 2: I got some stuff for the field.
00:18:30
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00:18:43
Speaker 2: Yes, I am.
00:18:44
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