Mike Krukow’s baseball life, in his own words

You know, I think I've been accessible and I've been, you know, people know me and they trust me. And I don't take that lightly. And I think it's really served me well, both as a player and both as a broadcaster. We are more accessible as broadcasters than we were. People can be a little bit shy with players, but not me. Kipe and I, John, Dave, you know, we're in the, we're in, we're having dinner with everybody every night. And it's a great relationship. I feel like in the last 37 years, at one point or another, we put every Giants fan that ever came to the ballpark in the history of Giants on TV at some point. You know, and the last day on the 27th of September, I'm going to thank a lot of people for all the help and love that I got along the way. And I really thought that I was going to go to Russ Stanley and say, Russ, can you please get me the list of all the names of everybody at the ballpark? Because I'm going to go right down the list and I'm going to thank them all. Because they were the show for 37 years, and it's so much fun. Because who has more fun than Giants fans? Serious business. Every day is Friday night crowd. And people come in and they dress up. I was thinking about, you know, we've had, you know, we've had Panda people and we've had Gamer Babes and we've had, I mean, all these, we've had Milky, you know, the Milk Men and, I mean, all these different little subcultures within the culture. And everybody's had fun with it. Everybody these last couple of weeks have gone out of their way to tell me thank you. And how much that our broadcasts have meant to them and to their families. And how much a part of their lives that we've been. Beautiful, beautiful testimonies. And it's, I should be telling you this, believe me, you did more for me than I've ever done for you. And it's a fact. And we all feel the same. Our audience is so special. Here's the greatest thing, you know, you should take my walk. You know, I always say, you know, my walk, when Vin Scully told us, he said, after 2010, Giants won for the first time, 53 years. Oh, you went and did it now. Now they're never going to forget you. From now until the day you die, you're going to be the one that told them the story of their beloved team. And they are never going to forget you. And it's true. So I'm never going to retire. Wherever I go, they're always going to come up to me and they're always going to, they're always going to, to give me that love. And you know, we laugh about, we used to call it the Pope's walk. But we thought about it, I mean, we're more popular than the Pope, come on. But you know, we have to figure out, okay, how are you going to wave? Are you going to wave Rose Queen? Or are you going to do the Pope? Nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancta. So I mean, that's the deal. So when I walk into Costco and I'm seeing everybody, it's going to be, yeah, Nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancta. And so I'm not retiring. I'm just going in different directions to touch out and stay in touch with this glorious relationship that we've had.