Duane Kuiper slyly responds to Joe Maddon’s ‘insulting’ Tony Vitello take

Tony Vitello’s jump to the Giants’ managerial position, with no prior major-league experience, was “insulting” to former MLB manager Joe Maddon. Giants play-by-play announcer Duane Kuiper, who joined KNBR 680’s “Murph & Markus” on Wednesday, took exception to Maddon’s choice of words. “I was insulted. I was insulted because that word is going to get the headline,” Kuiper explained. “He also said, ‘I’m rooting for the guy.’ Did ‘I’m rooting for the guy’ get in that headline? Absolutely not. So that’s why I thought the whole thing just kind of upset me a little bit…” “…‘Insulted’ is a really strong word. And maybe he wanted to get the [Giants manager] job, who knows. So, look, it kind of got him a lot of publicity, and maybe that’s what he wanted. But ‘insulted’ to me, bothers me.” Kuiper proceeded to give an important piece of context. Baseball is a sport rooted in tradition, and its practitioners can be very stubborn in the face of an unconventional move such as the...