San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler says he enjoys going to the Oakland Coliseum and looks forward to managing against the Oakland A’s tonight to open up the first of three games (file photo mercurynews.com)

On the Giants podcast with Marko Ukalovic:

#1 San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler says that the Oakland Coliseum is a cool place and a tough place to play in. One of the Kapler experiences was in his first year as manager of Giants that he managed against the Oakland A’s at the Coliseum in a pre season exhibition game Kapler says you always remember your first game as a manager.

#2 Kapler says while he loves the experience he remembers being with the Texas Rangers when he was a player and he used to take pictures while riding BART to the Coliseum while the team stayed at the Westin St Francis in San Francisco saying Oakland has a rich culture and is really cool city.

#3 The other great memory was when Kapler made the last out of former Oakland A’s pitcher Dallas Braden’s perfect no hitter on Mother’s Day while he wanted to play spoiler it was not be but Kapler got to see another great moment in Coliseum history during his visit there.

#4 Regarding Wednesday’s 6-2 loss to the New York Mets Kapler said, “The loss sucked because we kind of put it all out there, gave everything we had, used every piece of our roster and came up empty”

#5 The Giants will be starting Alex Wood (10-3 ERA 4.14) going for the A’s James Kaprielian (6-4 ERA 3.33) tonight. Can you speak to this match up and how you see this series shaping up?

Marko Ukalovic filled in for Michael Duca who does the Giants podcasts Fridays at http://www.sportsradioservice.com