SAN FRANCISCO >> Any suggestion that Duane Kuiper might be ready to step away from calling San Francisco Giants games at the end of this season is complete bunk, his longtime friend and broadcast partner Mike Krukow said Friday.

A report published Wednesday by media blogger Rich Lieberman said Kuiper has been “contemplating leaving for several months” and that NBC Sports’ decision last month to fire his younger brother Glen from his job as A’s play-by-play broadcaster last month might have accelerated the process. Duane Kuiper has also dealt with health issues that caused him to miss several games during the 2021 season.

Krukow, though, told KNBR’s morning show Friday that a Kuiper farewell after this season “is not going to happen.”

“So whoever was responsible for creating that BS, shame on you, because Kuip and I are not retiring,” Krukow said on the “Murph & Mac” show. “We’re both going to retire the same day, and it’s going to be when we drop dead behind the microphone it and not anytime soon.

“So, anybody who believes that, please don’t, it’s not true. We’re not going anywhere. Kuip’s the type of guy that’s going to … he’ll be buggy whipping me to come to work here.”

Krukow said his son sent him the story involving Kuiper during the Giants’ home game Wednesday against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

“I looked at this thing and I looked at Kuip and I go, ‘Hey, did you know you’re retiring at the end of the season?’” Krukow said. “And he goes, ‘Where the hell did you get this?’ Sure enough, we brought up ‘Duane Kuiper retirement’ and there it was, in all its glory. And it was not only there, but there were people responding to it, and they had a little chat going on.”

The report also suggested that both Giants president Larry Baer, and the team’s executive vice president of business operations, Mario Alioto, are aware of Kuiper’s mindset. Efforts to reach Baer on Friday were not immediately successful.

Former longtime Oakland A’s broadcaster Glen Kuiper was fired by NBC Sports on May 22, 17 days after he used a racial epithet on the air leading into a broadcast of an A’s game in Kansas City. He has maintained it was a mispronunciation of the word “negro”.

On May 23, Duane Kuiper said on KNBR that it has been a “tough period right now for Glen and all of us, the whole family. If I want to salvage any kind of relationship with some of the people I work with and for, it would probably be a good idea if I kept my mouth shut.”

Staff writers Evan Webeck and Jerry McDonald contributed to this report.