Duane Kuiper added a handmade stick-figure portrait of himself beside the San Francisco Giants’ “Atta babe, Kruk” tribute before Mike Krukow’s final broadcast as a Giants announcer, drawing a laugh from his retiring partner on a melancholy day.
Kuiper said during the broadcast that he sneaked onto the field before the game and used a model and duct tape to finish the artwork. The figure had an emoticon head, a “Kuip” caption and a potbelly.
After the first inning, the Giants announced that the home booth had been named the “Kruk and Kuip Broadcast Booth.” Kuiper joked that next year he would change it to the “Kuiper broadcast booth.”
