“I mean, look, it wasn’t like I didn’t know this was coming,” Kuiper said on KNBR’s The Murph & Markus Show on Tuesday. Duane Kuiper told @knbrmurph & @MarkusBoucher he knew Krukow’s retirement was coming soon, but it still “hit him like a ton of bricks.” And we shouldn’t be sad… pic.twitter.com/3LJCCPtdpL — KNBR (@KNBR) August 11, 2026Krukow, 74, publicly disclosed his inclusion-body myositis diagnosis in July 2014, though he had been privately diagnosed with the degenerative muscle disease eight years prior. “I mean, look, I look forward to seeing him every day. “I know life isn’t perfect, but I kind of wanted this one to be close,” Kuiper said.