Inside China Basin: San Francisco Giants Podcast http://thesportsvirus.com/blog Catch It! Joe Castellano, TheSportsVirus, podcasts three times a week during the baseball season focusing on the San Francisco Giants with the show INSIDE CHINA BASIN. The discussion includes players, managers, coaches, executives, broadcasters and writers. Joe has been covering sports for the past 28 years, working as a network play-by-play announcer and host of his own national baseball talk show. He has covered the NFL and NCAA Basketball for CBS Sports for the past 15 years. What you won’t hear: Yelling, unsubstantiated claims, inaccurate proclamations and bombastic statements. What you will hear: Insightful commentary, opinionated discussions, humorous stories and well researched facts and information. Sat, 18 May 2013 23:54:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 2010 thesportsvirus@gmail.com (TheSportsVirus) thesportsvirus@gmail.com (TheSportsVirus) Sports 1440 http://thesportsvirus.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Inside-China-Basin-Logo-SQ-1400x1400.jpg Inside China Basin: San Francisco Giants Podcast http://thesportsvirus.com/blog 144 144 http://thesportsvirus.com/blog/?feed=rss2 Catch It! Joe Castellano,TheSportsVirus, podcasts three times a week during the baseball season focusing on the San Francisco Giants with the show INSIDE CHINA BASIN. The discussion includes players, managers, coaches, executives, broadcasters and writers. Joe has been covering sports for the past 28 years, working as a network play-by-play announcer and host of his own national baseball talk show. He has covered the NFL and NCAA Basketball for CBS Sports for the past 15 years. What you won’t hear: Yelling, unsubstantiated claims, inaccurate proclamations and bombastic statements. What you will hear: Insightful commentary, opinionated discussions, humorous stories and well researched facts and information. Sports, Major League Baseball, NFL, NBA, NHL, College Sports, San Francisco Giants TheSportsVirus TheSportsVirus thesportsvirus@gmail.com no no PODCAST: Ballpark Bonus Feature, Brandon Crawford, Part 2 http://thesportsvirus.com/blog/2013/05/18/podcast-ballpark-bonus-feature-brandon-crawford-part-2/ http://thesportsvirus.com/blog/2013/05/18/podcast-ballpark-bonus-feature-brandon-crawford-part-2/#comments Sat, 18 May 2013 04:15:55 +0000 TheSportsVirus http://thesportsvirus.com/blog/?p=2623 Welcome to an INSIDE CHINA BASIN

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Giants Shortstop Brandon Crawford

is our guest from AT&T Park.

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Share ]]> http://thesportsvirus.com/blog/2013/05/18/podcast-ballpark-bonus-feature-brandon-crawford-part-2/feed/ 0 PODCAST: Gary Brown, Giants Prospect OF in Fresno http://thesportsvirus.com/blog/2013/05/17/podcast-gary-brown-giants-prospect-of-in-fresno/ http://thesportsvirus.com/blog/2013/05/17/podcast-gary-brown-giants-prospect-of-in-fresno/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 22:33:07 +0000 TheSportsVirus http://thesportsvirus.com/blog/?p=2696 Welcome to the INSIDE CHINA BASIN Giants Podcast

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Today Joe Castellano visits with Giants Prospect Outfielder Gary Brown from the Fresno Grizzlies. He talks about his early struggles in the PCL.

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Giants Catcher Guillermo Quiroz joined us at AT&T Park.

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Share ]]> http://thesportsvirus.com/blog/2013/05/17/podcast-ballpark-bonus-feature-guillermo-quiroz/feed/ 0 PODCAST: Jerry Howarth, Blue Jays Announcer http://thesportsvirus.com/blog/2013/05/15/podcast-jerry-howarth-blue-jays-announcer/ http://thesportsvirus.com/blog/2013/05/15/podcast-jerry-howarth-blue-jays-announcer/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 17:42:40 +0000 TheSportsVirus http://thesportsvirus.com/blog/?p=2681 Welcome to the INSIDE CHINA BASIN

Giants Podcast on TheSportsVirus.com!

Today’s guest is the Radio Voice of the Toronto Blue Jays, Jerry Howarth, who joined us before the second game of the series in Toronto against the Giants.

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Share ]]> http://thesportsvirus.com/blog/2013/05/15/podcast-jerry-howarth-blue-jays-announcer/feed/ 0 PODCAST: Michael Duca, MLB Official Scorer and Author http://thesportsvirus.com/blog/2013/05/13/podcast-michael-duca-mlb-official-scorer-and-author-2/ http://thesportsvirus.com/blog/2013/05/13/podcast-michael-duca-mlb-official-scorer-and-author-2/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 23:24:53 +0000 TheSportsVirus http://thesportsvirus.com/blog/?p=2667 Welcome to the INSIDE CHINA BASIN Giants podcast on TheSportsVirus.com!

Today’s guest is Major League Baseball Official Scorer and Author Michael Duca, who joined us at AT&T Park in San Francisco to talk about the Giants recent homestand. Duca also works for MLB.com and co-authored the highly acclaimed book The Baseball Codes.



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Today Joe Castellano visits with Giants Announcer Mike Krukow. He tells us why Hunter Pence got hot and explains the early season struggles of Matt Cain and Ryan Vogelsong.

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Giants LHP Jeremy Affeldt joined us Tuesday at AT&T Park.

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Share ]]> http://thesportsvirus.com/blog/2013/05/09/podcast-ballpark-bonus-feature-jeremy-affeldt-part-2/feed/ 0 PODCAST: Tom McCarthy, Phillies TV Play-By-Play Announcer http://thesportsvirus.com/blog/2013/05/08/podcast-tom-mccarthy-phillies-tv-play-by-play-announcer/ http://thesportsvirus.com/blog/2013/05/08/podcast-tom-mccarthy-phillies-tv-play-by-play-announcer/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 07:14:07 +0000 TheSportsVirus http://thesportsvirus.com/blog/?p=2631 Welcome to the INSIDE CHINA BASIN Giants podcast on TheSportsVirus.com!

Today’s guest is Phillies Television Play-By-Play Announcer Tom McCarthy, who joined us at AT&T Park in San Francisco. McCarthy also calls NFL games for Dial Global Radio Network.

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Today Joe Castellano talks to Umpire Supervisor for Major League Baseball Ed Montague. Ed umpired 4,369 games from 1974 to 2009, 8th most in Major League history. He is one of only three umpires to serve as crew chief for the World Series four times. The San Francisco native joined us at AT&T Park.

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