Sometimes, you just have to go.
San Francisco Giants and NBC play-by-play announcer Duane Kuiper let the world know of his plans for the middle of the eighth inning during a hot-mic moment Wednesday.
“We’ll continue this conversation when we get back, D-Backs are coming up,” Kuiper said.
After a short pause, Kuiper said, “I gotta pee.”
In fairness to Kuiper, his remark is on the laughable end of hot-mic moments.
There was nothing incendiary about his remarks, like the time Suzyn Waldman ripped the Yankees for being “boring.”
Kuiper likely thought the commercial break had started, and wanted to make a pit stop before he and his crew had to focus on wrapping up the Giants’ 7-1 loss.
The 73-year-old is a long-established media figure in the Bay Area, alongside his partner Mike Krukow, and also played in the majors for 12 years.
Kuiper, a second baseman, hit a respectable .271 during his time with Cleveland and San Francisco, but had just one home run spanning 1,057 career games.
Krukow and Kuiper recently told former Bay Area baseball writer Dave Newhouse they plan to call games for as long as possible.
“If we can do it,” Kuiper said, “we’ll do it until we can’t.”
This Giants season provided some high moments for Kuiper to chronicle but seemingly is headed toward another disappointing ending without postseason play.
Wednesday’s loss dropped the Giants three games behind the Cubs for the final wild card spot.
The Giants supposedly entered Wednesday with a 5.3 percent chance of making the playoffs, per Fangraphs.com, and that is now down to 2.2 percent as of Thursday morning.
Kuiper told Fangraphs where it can stick its statistics.
“I do want to make a comment about Fangraphs,” Kuiper said. “Fangraphs has never one time stepped on a major league field. They’ve never been knocked down, they’ve never had to get out of the way of turning a double play. Fangraphs, you can a hike.”
San Francisco can only blame itself for its predicament since it lost three of four to the NL-worst Rockies in Colorado preceding this two-game sweep by Arizona that dropped the Giants to 76-76.
Now, the Giants must try to pass the Reds, Marlins and Cubs in these final 10 games, which features seven against the NL West champion Dodgers and three with the dysfunctional Padres.
The Giants are set to miss the playoffs for the sixth time in seven years, and last won a postseason series in 2016 when they beat the Mets in the one-game wild card.
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