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00:00Bryce Eldridge, the present, the future, everything for the next 15 years.
00:06Now, back to Will and Dibby on 95.7 The Game.
00:10So I get this in sort of a temporary form, right?
00:14Like Bryce Eldridge wants to be the face of the Giants.
00:19For the moment, isn't he already?
00:21I mean, right now, today, sure.
00:25The future, the present.
00:27What makes you the face?
00:29Is it just an organic thing that people kind of know?
00:33How do we define it?
00:35He's already the at-bat that we look forward to the most.
00:38Yeah, that's part of it.
00:39There's no question about it.
00:40I think that you're somebody who is going to be here.
00:44I mean, you're him.
00:45You're here.
00:47And, I mean, and that's, I think, the example of, like, Adamas or Devers or Chapman.
00:52You've been elsewhere.
00:54And, I mean, you're going to be here, but you're not ours.
00:57And I think about Steph Curry.
00:59He's probably the ultimate face.
01:01And he started here.
01:02And even when he was here in the beginning, he wasn't yet the face.
01:06And then they traded Monte Ellis.
01:08And it's like, oh, because Monte was kind of the face at the time.
01:12Yep.
01:13Yeah.
01:13And he was the face, and he was the guy, and you weren't that good.
01:17And then once they traded him, it's like, oh, okay.
01:20Is it Stephan?
01:21Is it Steven?
01:22What do we call you?
01:23And then he got good, and it's like, oh, yeah, you're the face.
01:26So, this would be my only question.
01:30And we'll play it for you again.
01:32Here's Bryce after the game.
01:33This is like, that's like moments you dream of as a kid.
01:36Like, I've always, I think about it every day.
01:39I'm just going to keep working hard because I want to be the face of this franchise.
01:42And that's something that motivates me every day.
01:44And like I said, like, I want to be in that moment.
01:47I want to be that guy.
01:48So, having my first kind of big moment like that is very special.
01:54You know, I don't know what other word to use for this.
01:57Okay.
01:58So, yeah, this is not Pods because he didn't say, I'm going to be better than Barry Bonds.
02:05And also, he's currently coming on to the Giants at a time where I don't think that they have a
02:13clear-cut face.
02:15I don't know about anybody else.
02:17But if you're a Giants fan, I don't know how that can't land well with you.
02:21That has to fire you up.
02:23That has to excite you.
02:25Particularly because it's coming at a time, and this isn't just about the Grand Slam.
02:29I trust that most of you have been watching.
02:32This guy's been awesome every night for weeks.
02:36That doesn't mean that he gets two hits every single game.
02:39But you understand.
02:40Like, if you're watching the game and you understand the game,
02:44Bryce has been doing not just big things, but little things.
02:47It's been rapidly improving.
02:50He's been fantastic.
02:52And so, it's coming on the heels of that.
02:54I guess the only question, and there's no way for us to sit here and answer this right now,
02:59this isn't really how did this land with all of us.
03:03It's how did it land with the rest of the clubhouse.
03:06That's the only question I would have.
03:09And honestly, I'd be almost kind of mad at any player who had a problem with it,
03:13but that doesn't mean that there wasn't a player who had a problem with it.
03:17Like, how did that land with Rafi Devers?
03:20How did that land with Willie Adamas?
03:23And I get it.
03:24I know the fans can be like, I don't care.
03:26Fine.
03:26But how did it land with those guys?
03:29They think that they're going to be here for seven years.
03:32Right.
03:33And that they're really good.
03:34And that they're leaders.
03:36And they're making big, big dollars.
03:39How did it land with them?
03:41That's my question.
03:41I would imagine it landed fine because when you talk about the face of a franchise,
03:47you have to be really good.
03:49And I think you also have to be homegrown.
03:51And if you think about the 49ers, who's the face of the 49ers franchise right now?
03:56And I know it's a little different because the quarterback is always going to be the face.
04:00But if you want to go through like the faces of the franchise,
04:04you've got Brock Purdy, your guy.
04:06You've got McCaffrey.
04:08You've got Trent Williams.
04:09You've got Kittle.
04:10And you've got Warner.
04:11And if you think about like who the actual face is, it starts with the quarterback.
04:16And then I think you'd go to George Kittle next.
04:19And then you might go to either Fred or Christian.
04:22But for me, there's a certain amount of like of a nod to the homegrown.
04:27And like George and Fred and Brock, they're from here.
04:32They're homegrown.
04:33Totally get you.
04:34But I think especially in baseball, I can come up with a bunch of examples where the opposite is true.
04:39Who's the face of the Dodgers?
04:41It's Joey Otani.
04:42Okay.
04:43But who's the face of the Phillies?
04:45Probably Bryce Harper.
04:47Okay.
04:48No homegrown.
04:50Right.
04:50But they've done like amazing things.
04:52I do think here it might be a little bit different.
04:54Maybe.
04:55Like I hear that.
04:56I really do.
04:57I think I look at it more like that's ideal.
05:00That's ideal.
05:01But in the absence of that availability, then the job is open for someone else.
05:10Especially in baseball, I think.
05:13But you could say it's Willie Adamas.
05:15Like he is a fun, popular, like really great, easy to root for player.
05:20But I don't think that he's yet sunk his anchor into that spot yet.
05:25And maybe that's part of it with the Giants where you've got Devers who is coming up on his one
05:29year anniversary.
05:30I think it's Monday when it'll be an actual, it'll be a year.
05:33It is.
05:34Yeah, it is Monday.
05:35And I mean, Adamas has been here now for a year and a third.
05:39And, you know, Casey Schmidt is on the rise.
05:42And Matt Chapman has been here for a little bit of time.
05:45Yet he's getting death threats on Twitter.
05:48So I don't think that the job has been filled here for so long to where, you know, Bryce Eldridge
05:54can come up and say,
05:55I want to be that because the job's kind of open.
05:58Try to bounce around sports now and think about this.
06:01Like who is the face of the Detroit?
06:05The Lions.
06:06Hang in there, big guy.
06:08Is it?
06:09It's probably Almond Ra.
06:10See, like, it's interesting because this is also one of those things where we're not there.
06:14And I don't even know if we're qualified to tell the Lions fan base who their face is.
06:19But I do know.
06:21You remember that game we went to, I think.
06:23Didn't you go to?
06:24The Lions were here a couple years ago.
06:25Not last year, but the year before over the holidays.
06:27It was December 30th and I had RSV.
06:31I couldn't go.
06:32It was my sister's birthday.
06:33Oh, that's right.
06:34The Caner.
06:35You couldn't go.
06:36The Caner turned 60.
06:37Sorry, Gail.
06:38But she had gotten eight tickets and I was supposed to go.
06:41I remember that.
06:42But I was so sick.
06:43Yes.
06:43I couldn't make it.
06:44Okay.
06:45Like the Lions.
06:46So sick.
06:46The Lions fan base at Lions games.
06:49They chant Jared Goff's name.
06:52They don't chant Amon Ra.
06:54They don't chant Jameer Gibbs.
06:57They don't.
06:59Hutchinson.
07:00Yeah.
07:00Like they chant Jared Goff's name.
07:02Panay Su.
07:03Panay Su.
07:04Maybe and maybe this is not fair because he's a quarterback and that's just different.
07:09But I'm trying to think about the rule that you've sort of thrown out there.
07:13I mean, is is Matt Stafford the face of the Rams?
07:17They were traded for each other and sort of became these respective faces of the other
07:22franchise.
07:23I would say Puka Nakua.
07:25Is he?
07:26I mean, he's in rehab right now.
07:29He said, no, no, no.
07:32I mean, it's your Friday.
07:33I'm going to try to make you laugh today because you're off tomorrow.
07:36So we're going to do this.
07:37But it's hard to tell when you're not in the market.
07:40And you had me thinking about Philadelphia and the Eagles.
07:43Like, who's their face?
07:45It's me.
07:45It's Big Dom.
07:46Who is the face of the Philadelphia Eagles?
07:50Yeah, I mean, the candidates.
07:51It might be Saquon Barkley, right?
07:53Barkley's a candidate.
07:54Jalen Hurts is a candidate.
07:55Sirianni is a candidate.
07:59Is there any other candidate?
08:01Probably not.
08:02I mean, there's a lot of good players.
08:03Yeah.
08:04I don't know if any of them else.
08:05And maybe you're right.
08:06Maybe this isn't fair because in football, it's just the quarterback.
08:10What about the NBA?
08:12We got any faces that didn't start with their team?
08:14Who's the face of the Knicks?
08:16It's probably Jalen Brunson.
08:18Okay.
08:18I mean, none of them started with the Knicks.
08:19Exactly.
08:19Who's the face of the Lakers?
08:21I was thinking the same thing.
08:22It's either Luka or Ron.
08:24Yeah, it's not Austin Reeves.
08:26We don't even know if he's still on the team.
08:27It's not Rui Hachimura.
08:29No.
08:29Who was drafted there, I believe.
08:31So, yeah.
08:32I don't know.
08:33Maybe.
08:33I don't think he was.
08:33What?
08:34He was drafted by Washington?
08:35Don't get bogged down, Randy, in the details.
08:37Who's the face of the Thunder?
08:41Probably one of the various teams.
08:43I don't think this is going to be one of the biggest teams in Belize.
08:45There's no probably involved.
08:47Yeah, and he didn't start there.
08:48Who's the face of the Clippers?
08:51That's Steve Ballmer.
08:53Steve Ballmer.
08:53Yeah, definitely.
08:54I don't think he was drafted there either.
08:56No, he wasn't.
08:57He was a crazy person.
08:58So, that's fun.
09:00But, yeah, I don't think that's in a perfect world it is that.
09:05But it doesn't have to be that.
09:07So, I'm going to put Rafi Devers and Willie Adamas in the eligibility pool.
09:12I don't think they are.
09:13I don't think they've earned that yet.
09:14I don't think they've played well enough yet.
09:16I don't think they're well-liked enough yet.
09:19And maybe that's not fair.
09:21Kevin Franzen thinks we're an angry fan base.
09:24I don't know.
09:26Are we?
09:27I mean, right now, yeah.
09:29Are we?
09:29And look at the record since they got Rafi Devers.
09:32Like, since they got Rafi Devers.
09:34It's very bad.
09:34It's really bad.
09:35Very bad.
09:36And he hasn't been as good as he normally has been.
09:39And, you know, the other one is Adamas.
09:4130 home runs last year, which never happens.
09:44And yet, he still is not as beloved as he maybe should be.
09:47From a shortstop.
09:48Yep.
09:49From a shortstop.
09:50Hit 30 home runs.
09:51Took our free agent dollars.
09:53And we're ticked because he talks to Mookie Betts.
09:56And throws Gatorade.
09:57And then, let's go.
09:57Bye.
09:57Bye.
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