How much longer will Duane Kuiper and Mike Krukow continue calling games together for the San Francisco Giants? For as long as is humanly possible.
Whether the team is competing for World Series championships or struggling to have a .500 season, the Giants announcers tend to rank at or near the top of most MLB announcer ranking lists. Krukow and Kuiper are a big part of the reason why. The pair have been calling games together since 1990 (excluding Kuiper’s one-year run with the Colorado Rockies in their inaugural 1993 season) and were teammates from the time Krukow was traded to the Giants in 1983 until the end of Kuiper’s playing career in 1985.
The pair were guests of Jayson Stark and Doug Glanville on the Starkville Podcast and the natural question was asked. How long do you plan on calling games?
“I’ll do it as long as Mike does it,” Kuiper said. “For me, it’s all about my relationship with him. And as long as he goes, that’s how far I’ll go.”
“You guys both know Harry Kalas and you remember Richie Ashburn,” Krukow added. “They were a great partnership. In 1982, when I was with the Phillies, I got to know them really well. And the way they went out is how we want to go out.”
For reference, Ashburn died in September of 1997 while Kalas passed away in April of 2009. Both men were announcing games until their respective deaths.
