Welcome to the INSIDE CHINA BASIN Baseball Podcast
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Today we talk about baseball team chemistry with Joan Ryan, who authored the book Intangibles. Ryan is a former sport columnist who interviewed a lot of players and managers on the subject and drew some interesting conclusions. We discuss how team chemistry had a great impact on Giants teams over the last 30 years.
Former KNBR Radio Giants post game show host Ray Woodson also gives his take on the subject.
Welcome to the INSIDE CHINA BASIN Baseball Podcast
Updated once a week on TheSportsVirus.com!
Today former Giants LHP Shawn Estes joins us to talk about his career as an analyst for NBC Sports Bay Area and he tells some great stories from his playing career. Michael Duca, who is the co-author of the book The Baseball Codes is also our guest.
Welcome to the INSIDE CHINA BASIN Baseball Podcast
Updated once a week on TheSportsVirus.com!
Today we have a special edition of our podcast as we catch up with the great Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt. We chat about Mike’s illustrious career which included 3 MVP awards, 12 All Star Games, 10 Gold Glove awards and 548 career home runs. He talks about the emotions of facing retirement (he played his last career game in 1989 in San Francisco at Candlestick Park), his 500th career home run and winning the 1980 World Series MVP.
We also discuss the Hall of Fame candidacies of Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens and we get to hear Mike’s thoughts on new Giants manager Gabe Kapler and the Astros cheating scandal.
Watch this podcast as a Webcast on our YouTube channel too! Live every Tuesday then archived later in the week.
Join us again Tuesday when NBC Sports Bay Area Analyst and former Giants pitcher Shawn Estes is our guest! Plus we will discuss the book The Baseball Codes with co-author Michael Duca.
Check out our other Podcasts all year long. INSIDE CHINA BASIN is also available on ITUNES.
Welcome to the INSIDE CHINA BASIN Baseball Podcast
Updated once a week on TheSportsVirus.com!
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.
Watch this podcast as a Webcast on our YouTube channel too!
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.
Check out our other Podcasts all year long. INSIDE CHINA BASIN is also available on ITUNES.
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.
Watch this podcast as a Webcast on our YouTube channel too!
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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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.
Welcome to the INSIDE CHINA BASIN Baseball Podcast
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For our final Giants podcast of 2019 we review the season by playing some interesting conversations that we had during the summer at Oracle Park and on the phone.
We hear from Bruce Bochy in his final season as San Francisco skipper and listen to comments from opposing manager Bud Black and former Giants pitcher Ryan Vogelsong.
Vogey also let us in on the chats that he’s had with Tyler Beede, who we also sat down with. Kevin Pillar, Mike Yastrzemski, Farhan Alex Dickerson and 2019 draft picks Logan Wyatt and Tyler Fitzgerald are also featured here.
Welcome to the INSIDE CHINA BASIN Baseball Podcast
Updated twice a week on TheSportsVirus.com!
Today we chat with former Baseball Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson and baseball photographer Jean Fruth, co-founders of Grassroots Baseball, which promotes and celebrates the amateur game around the globe.
Jeff and Jean have collaborated on a new book – Grassroots Baseball: Where Legends Begin. It’s a photographic tribute to how ballplayers get their start with memories from Nolan Ryan, Hank Aaron, Randy Johnson, Ichiro Suzuki, Vladimir Guerrero, and more. With an Introduction by Cal Ripken, Jr. and an Afterword by Johnny Bench.
In Grassroots Baseball: Where Legends Begin, photographer Jean Fruth features more than 250 of the best images from all levels of the amateur game in various US cities, as well as several hotbeds of baseball around the world.
Each chapter opens with a portrait of a baseball legend and a first-person essay recounting his early memories of playing the game. Some of the stars highlighted in this full-color book include Whitey Ford, Vladimir Guerrero, Hank Aaron, Randy Johnson, Nolan Ryan, and Ichiro Suzuki.
Jean and Jeff will be signing their book in the Bay Area next week: Wednesday, Sept. 25 at Mrs. Dalloway’s in Berkeley and Saturday, September 28 at Book Passage in Corte Madera. 100% of the proceeds from every book sold ($60/book) during each of two events will be donated to Oakland Little League.
Today we talk about baseball team chemistry with Joan Ryan, who authored the book Intangibles. Ryan is a former sport columnist who interviewed a lot of players and managers on the subject and drew some interesting conclusions. We discuss how team chemistry had a great impact on Giants teams over the last 30 years.
Former KNBR Radio Giants post game show host Ray Woodson also gives his take on the subject. 
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Today former Giants LHP Shawn Estes joins us to talk about his career as an analyst for NBC Sports Bay Area and he tells some great stories from his playing career. Michael Duca, who is the co-author of the book The Baseball Codes is also our guest.
Today we have a special edition of our podcast as we catch up with the great Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt. We chat about Mike’s illustrious career which included 3 MVP awards, 12 All Star Games, 10 Gold Glove awards and 548 career home runs. He talks about the emotions of facing retirement (he played his last career game in 1989 in San Francisco at Candlestick Park), his 500th career home run and winning the 1980 World Series MVP. 
candidacies of Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens and we get to hear Mike’s thoughts on new Giants manager Gabe Kapler and the Astros cheating scandal. 
Join us again Tuesday when NBC Sports Bay Area Analyst and former Giants pitcher Shawn Estes is our guest! Plus we will discuss the book The Baseball Codes with co-author Michael Duca.
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.
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.
For our final Giants podcast of 2019 we review the season by playing some interesting conversations that we had during the summer at Oracle Park and on the phone. 
season as San Francisco skipper and listen to comments from opposing manager Bud Black and former Giants pitcher Ryan Vogelsong.
Vogey also let us in on the chats that he’s had with Tyler Beede, who we also sat down with. Kevin Pillar, Mike Yastrzemski, Farhan Alex Dickerson and 2019 draft picks Logan Wyatt and Tyler Fitzgerald are also featured here. 
Jeff and Jean have collaborated on a new book – Grassroots Baseball: Where Legends Begin. It’s a photographic tribute to how ballplayers get their start with memories from Nolan Ryan, Hank Aaron, Randy Johnson, Ichiro Suzuki, Vladimir Guerrero, and more. With an Introduction by Cal Ripken, Jr. and an Afterword by Johnny Bench.
In Grassroots Baseball: Where Legends Begin, photographer Jean Fruth features more than 250 of the best images from all levels of the amateur game in various US cities, as well as several hotbeds of baseball around the world.
recounting his early memories of playing the game. Some of the stars highlighted in this full-color book include Whitey Ford, Vladimir Guerrero, Hank Aaron, Randy Johnson, Nolan Ryan, and Ichiro Suzuki.