Welcome to the INSIDE CHINA BASIN Baseball Podcast
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Today we step away from Giants baseball talk and focus on a behind-the- scenes aspect of sports broadcasting – Statistics. Ed Sfida serves as the statistician for Joe Buck on FOX NFL games while Ethan Cooperson is Jim Nantz’s personal stats man on the NFL on CBS. They tell stories about how they became two of the best in the business and what it takes to be a “Big Time Stats Guy.” Since they are both Philadelphia natives, Ed and Ethan both have opinions about former Phillies manager turned Giants manager Gabe Kapler.
We also have a special tribute to another stats legend, Chuck Gardner, our good friend who passed away on Sunday.
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Next week we will get back to talking Giants baseball with NBC Sports Bay Area Analyst and former Giants pitcher Shawn Estes! Plus we will discuss the book The Baseball Codes with co-author Michael Duca.
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Welcome to the INSIDE CHINA BASIN Baseball Podcast
Updated once a week on TheSportsVirus.com!
Veteran baseball writer Barry Bloom a senior contributor to Forbes.com and a contributor to Sportbusiness.com joins us to talk about Major League Baseball considering playing the 2020 season in Arizona. Plus, we discuss Barry Bonds and his Hall of Fame candidacy.
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Next week we will go behind the scenes of network TV sports broadcasts when we talk to top statisticians Ethan Cooperson (CBS, Stats Perform) and Ed Sfida (FOX).
Check out our other Podcasts all year long. INSIDE CHINA BASIN is also available on ITUNES.
Welcome to the INSIDE CHINA BASIN Baseball Podcast
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Veteran San Francisco Chronicle baseball columnist John Shea joins us to talk about a new book that he co-authored with the great Hall of Famer Willie Mays! We go in-depth with John about “24, Life Stories and Lessons From The Say Hey Kid” which comes out on May 5.
Welcome to the INSIDE CHINA BASIN Baseball Podcast
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Ray Woodson is our special guest to talk about life in America with the Coronavirus and what it means for the baseball season. We also discuss the Giants 2010 reunion not including Aubrey Huff and we pick out some old games that are worth watching while we pass the time waiting for the 2020 season to begin.
Welcome to the INSIDE CHINA BASIN Baseball Podcast
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For our first Inside China Basin podcast of 2020 our special guest is former Giants LHP Jeremy Affeldt who helped San Francisco win three World Series titles. We chat about life after baseball, the Astros cheating scandal, the new minimum three-batter rule and Aubrey Huff not being invited to the Giants reunion for the 2010 team. We also take a trip down memory lane and reminisce about some of Jeremy’s best moments in the 2012 and 2014 World Series.
The Bucks, Lakers and Clippers are leading the latest NBA Championship odds. Some of the best sportsbooks online reviewed > here odds for all the top contenders and longshots. Even with the 8th-placed Grizzlies sinking like a stone and Steph Curry returning, the Warriors’ odds to win the Western Conference remain a comically long +250000, which amounts to a 0.04% chance. The reality is that they are 17.5 games back of a playoff spot with only 19 games left and seven teams to leapfrog.
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When we’re not golfing at TPC Harding Park for a great prize, we’re podcasting about the Warriors each week throughout the entire season!
Ray and Joe discuss the impending return of Steph Curry (coming up this Sunday vs the Wizards). We also touch on the Giannis Antetokounmpo rumors and in case you missed it, we finish the podcast with Michael Jordan’s moving speech at Kobe Bryant’s memorial.
The Warriors head into the All Star break with the worst record in the NBA at 12-43, but the future is bright. Ray and Joe talk about how Andrew Wiggins is fitting in so far and analyze “keepers” Marquese Chriss and Eric Paschall.
talk and focus on a behind-the- scenes aspect of sports broadcasting – Statistics. Ed Sfida serves as the statistician for Joe Buck on FOX NFL games while Ethan Cooperson is Jim Nantz’s personal stats man on the NFL on CBS. They tell stories about how 
they became two of the best in the business and what it takes to be a “Big Time Stats Guy.” Since they are both Philadelphia natives, Ed and Ethan both have opinions about former Phillies manager turned Giants manager Gabe Kapler.
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Next week Barry Bloom from Forbes.com and SportBusiness.com will be our guest.
Jeremy Affeldt who helped San Francisco win three World Series titles. We chat about life after baseball, the Astros cheating scandal, the new minimum three-batter rule and Aubrey Huff not being invited to the Giants reunion for the 2010 team. We also take a trip down memory lane and reminisce about some of Jeremy’s best moments in the 2012 and 2014 World Series.
