{"id":478059,"date":"2026-09-28T07:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T07:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/478059\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T07:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T07:02:39","slug":"sharks-broadcasters-say-farewell-to-long-time-colleague-mike-krukow-ahead-of-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/478059\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks Broadcasters Say Farewell to Long-Time Colleague Mike Krukow Ahead of Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For more than three decades, baseball fans have listened to Mike Krukow and his broadcast partner Duane Kuiper at every <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/teams\/san-francisco\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Giants<\/a> game. This weekend, Krukow is in the Giants&#8217; booth for the final time as he prepares to retire from the game that he&#8217;s been around for all of his life. San Jose Sharks broadcasters Randy Hahn and Drew Remenda joined their long-time NBC colleague on Friday night to say farewell.<\/p>\n<p>Hahn shared the following image on social media as the duo presented Krukow with a signed Sharks jersey:<\/p>\n<p>Krukow has been dealing with inclusion-body myositis (IBM) for two decades, making his illness <a data-ylk=\"slk:public back;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;public back&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/nevius\/article\/Giants-broadcaster-Mike-Krukow-fighting-through-5637622.php#page-1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">public back<\/a> in 2014. Due to his condition, he&#8217;s been utilizing a motorized wheelchair which restricted his ability to travel to away games. Last month, he announced that he was going to <a data-ylk=\"slk:be retiring;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;be retiring&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/mike-krukow-announces-retirement-at-end-of-2026-season\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">be retiring<\/a> at the end of the 2026 season, which concludes on Sunday as the Giants host <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/teams\/la-dodgers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hahn and Remenda have worked with Krukow at NBC for more than two decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For more than three decades, baseball fans have listened to Mike Krukow and his broadcast partner Duane Kuiper&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[33766,187620,77323,52841,4820,88,90,89,98],"class_list":["post-478059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-drew-remenda","tag-duane-kuiper","tag-mike-krukow","tag-randy-hahn","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}