Nick Hundley: Bay Bridge Series "Will Be Missed"

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00:00Major League Baseball veteran. He played for the Giants in 2017 and 2018 and the A's in 2019.

00:07He also won the Willie Mack Award for the Giants in 2017. Nick, thank you so much for joining us. Really appreciate it.

00:15What's up, guys? Yeah, thanks for having me on. It's good to connect.

00:18Absolutely, and Nick comes courtesy of the River Islands Guest Line.

00:22All guests appear on the River Island Guest Lines on 95.7 The Game.

00:27Is it a time for you to discover the islands, River Islands and Lathrop?

00:30Nick, when you were on the Giants and played the A's and when you were on the A's and played the Giants,

00:36was there any

00:38different kind of feeling at all about those games as opposed to the rest of the games you played?

00:45Definitely, and you know, I don't know how far you want to go back, but I was born in Corvallis, Oregon, and for us,

00:53the closest teams to root for were pretty much Bay Area if you didn't want to go up to Seattle, so I grew up a

01:00Walt Weiss,

01:02Carney Lansford, Ricky Henderson fan, a Will Clark and Kevin Mitchell fan.

01:07I love Jerry Rice and Joe Montana and those guys, so I grew up a Bay Area sports fan being from Oregon,

01:15so to be able to play on both sides and kind of come full circle,

01:19that was amazing. It was an incredible rivalry and it's got a great history.

01:25Hey Nick, let me ask you this because as my partner just said, you know what it's like to don an A's jersey and

01:31you know, I'm born and raised here in the Bay Area, grew up in the Coliseum, but when you found this story or

01:37everything that was going on with the A's and the possible move,

01:40but then when you get the finality of it all and they are going to leave Oakland,

01:45can you just share with us some of your thoughts because I'm still bummed out for A's fans and the Bay Area that they are

01:51going to depart.

01:53Me too. I'm right there with you.

01:56Like seeing the clean white jerseys with

01:59Kelly Greens and playing in the Coliseum and knowing that Bo Jackson was

02:05you know, run on that same field and they're gonna play some football there and you walk into the clubhouse and the Raiders locker rooms

02:13up the stairs and you walk out on the field and knowing it's going to be

02:18however many people are going to be there, they're going to be wild.

02:22Yeah, I feel bad for the city.

02:24I wish that it would have worked out better for everybody involved and there could have been a resolution because you know,

02:31the Oakland A's is a marquee cornerstone franchise

02:37for Major League Baseball for all that they've done for the sport and the city.

02:40So I'm right there with you. Nick Hundley joining us on 95.7 The Game.

02:44He played 12 years in the big leagues. He played for both the Giants and the A's.

02:49When you left the Giants in 18 and you played for the Oakland A's in 19,

02:55as a player either on the field, off the field, travel, anything,

02:59what was the biggest difference between playing for the Giants and playing for the A's?

03:05You know, we actually rented the same house.

03:08I didn't have to go across the Bay Bridge.

03:13That was a big one.

03:14You know, going to, playing in San Fran

03:19at what's Oracle now, at AT&T when I was there,

03:24the energy, the atmosphere, the environment.

03:27That's an unbelievable place to play as there is, I think,

03:33playing in San Fran in the National League and then playing in Fenway.

03:37And in Boston are so similar because the fans, the energy,

03:42the atmosphere around the park, you know,

03:45when you're walking in there as a home, as a, as a home player,

03:48and as a visiting player,

03:51you're going to bring it because the fans there are like nowhere else.

03:56And then going across, we had a really good team in 19.

04:01And the A's did a really good job. 18, 19, 20,

04:04had a lot of really good players, Mark Simeon, you know,

04:07Matt Olson, those guys in Chapman.

04:10And knowing that the opposing team probably didn't want to come in

04:15to play at, at the Coliseum,

04:19knowing that the amenities aren't great,

04:22that's not going to be a lot of people. You use that to your advantage. You know,

04:25I think you use both to your advantage. You use the,

04:29the energy at in San Fran and you know how wild it's going to be.

04:33And then, you know,

04:34when you walk into the stadium Oakland and the other teams kind of not really

04:38sure they want to be there and play you.

04:40Especially when you run out of a good team you kind of use that to your

04:43advantage too.

04:44Hey Nick, when it's all said and done and you know,

04:46these two games are over with, if I were to ask you,

04:49what is Bay area baseball going to miss with this rivalry gone?

04:53How would you answer that?

04:55Oh, that's a great question. You know,

04:58I'm not the best historian in the world,

05:01but I know the, the Mark McGuire's, the Canseco's,

05:06the Bonds', the Kevin Mitchell's, the Walt Weiss's,

05:11the types of players that have played each other there. And even going into,

05:15you know, Zito and Mulder and Hudson and Buster and

05:21Craw and, and, and Bum and those guys and Linscombe,

05:25the Bay area has been so blessed and been so fortunate to see

05:30superstar players play in a small area. I mean,

05:34you look across the Bay and some of the best players to ever play the game and a

05:38lot of different sports, which is crazy to say,

05:41and a lot of different sports from, you know,

05:44from Steph Curry and those guys that it is,

05:49it is going to,

05:49it is going to be sad that you can't look across the Bay and say, okay,

05:53we can go over there and we can play.

05:55And that organization is pumping out some of the best players to ever do it.

06:00And we are an organization that have pumped out some of the best

06:04players to ever do it. Yeah. Oh, you missed that for sure.

06:09Nick Hundley joining us on 95.7 The Game,

06:1112 year major league veteran played for both the Giants and the A's.

06:16You're actually a perfect guy to ask this question too,

06:19because there've been a lot of questions about the Giants ballpark, Oracle Park.

06:23So as a, as a player who played in both, you played in both leagues.

06:28So you've played in a ton of stadiums,

06:30but you also played a whole season in San Francisco.

06:34I know righties and lefties can be different,

06:36but how hard is it relative to hit a home run at Oracle

06:41Park as opposed to other parks?

06:44Yeah. You know, I was, I'm not the best,

06:48because I came up with a pod raiser when we played at Petco Park and before

06:53they moved the fences in six different times. And it was,

06:56you had to hit it twice to get it out of Petco. Right.

06:58So going to AT&T, yeah, it's a little colder and you know,

07:02the fog rolls in and you know, you're not really sure what,

07:06what the ball is going to do because the wind swirls.

07:08But you see the ball really well there.

07:12You know that it's going to be a great environment to play.

07:15You know it's going to be a tight game because runs are at a premium.

07:18So you need to, you know, that the fundamentals of the game,

07:21you're going to have to,

07:22you're going to have to really do a good job catching the baseball,

07:24run the bases really well, playing good defense. So to hit,

07:30to hit there, you know, that if you hit a home run, you drive in some runs,

07:34you know, that counts because you know,

07:35you got a chance to win a game based on if you walk up and hit a three on a

07:40homer, you're probably going to win.

07:41So stepping in the box and knowing those things that you're at,

07:44that really counts and every run's at a premium.

07:48It's a special place to play. And I would, like I said, I would put it up,

07:52uh, with any ballpark in, uh, in the country.

07:56Hey Nick, thank you so much for joining us, man. Really appreciate it.

08:00Hey, anytime guys. It's always good to talk, uh, talk about the Bay area and that,

08:04what the, I love it.

08:05All right. We still remember you down here. So thank you very much.

08:09Thanks guys. Yeah. We'll talk to you later.

08:10All right. That's Nick Hundley, all guests on 95.7,

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