Pitchers Park Podcast - A San Francisco Giants Podcast

Last week's excellent Chroncast with Bryan Srabian went so well that it was over two hours! So, I cut this section in hopes of saving it for a day like today.  Listen to us go through the Giants' schedule week by week and guess their W-L record. It's April Fool's Day, so it's up to you, dear listener, to figure out if Doug's sensible measure of the Giants' Spring Training results and Bryan's illog...

Doug is back! I give him an overview of everything he's missed, Giants-wise, over the past three weeks. And then we try to figure out exactly what the Giants' Spring Training *means* for the upcoming season and if it's time to start panicking. Sure, they're just Spring Training numbers... but what if they're not? In this week's "Know Your Foe" segment, we talk to Eric Stephen of SB Nation's Dodger...

Grant Brisbee takes a moment out of his busy schedule to talk about the present state of the Giants. Sure, it's Spring Training, and only just last week did Bryan talk about how much he "doesn't care" about Spring Training results, but the Giants haven't really lit the world on fire and neither of their huge offseason investments have yet to show much of anything positive... so is it time too care...

If you're looking for an escape from the Madison Bumgarner injury news, then you've come to the right place. Reuben and I had so much content from last week's episode that we needed to split it in two.  There's a lot of #synergy with upcoming pop culture releases, too. We try to put together All-Star teams managed by Batman and Superman as well as play a Game of Thrones-related game where we decid...

This week's co-host is our own Reuben Poling. He and Bryan talk about Spring Training, Sergio Romo developing a beef with Bryce Harper, and bring in special guest Mike Ferrin from MLB Network Radio and the Arizona Diamondbacks to discuss the Arizona Diamondbacks. How will Paul Goldschmidt devastate the Giants this season? Download and listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad...

Jen Mac Ramos fills in for Doug as we look back at the totally forgettable and somewhat regrettable 2006 Giants team. It's that team's 10-year anniversary, you know. And who wouldn't want to celebrate the 60 games of Shea Hillenbrand, Steve Finley's last full season, and Armando Benitez? Oh, you wouldn't? Well... that's okay!  There's a new segment called "Know Your Foe", where we breakdown the NL...

Baseball Prospectus editor and ESPN Sweet Spot network writer... and... YOOOGE A's fan Jason Wojciechowski (@jlwoj) Skypes in to talk about the joy and pain of statistical projections, the fun parts of baseball even when the odds are against your favorite squadron, the possibility of a better labor deal, and the edibility of stadium sushi. Now, the official position of The Chroncast is that there'...

You know Carmen Kiew from her many .gifs and "The Social Media Minute" on KNBR and now from this week's McCovey Chroncast. Among the many topics covered: Spring Training and the many golf carts in Arizona, last weekend's Fan Fest, Madison Bumgarner's contract, Brandon Belt's friendship with Carmen, Willie Mays and mortality, and Kurt Manwaring for some reason. Trust me: it will all makes sense whe...

DISCLAIMER: I (Bryan) really, really blew it with our record this week. I didn't use headphones meaning the computer mic captured the audio from the speakers, which in this case the sounds were the wonderful voices of our own groug and our own Jen Mac Ramos. An attempt was made to repair the audio but, alas, I wasn't able to improve it very much. No excuses: I suck. Truly sorry about this, but if...

Is Hunter Pence going to leave the Giants to become a professional gamer? What is Hearthstone and is it contagious? Dan Szymborski answers the important questions for us. This week's Chroncast chronicles everything from baseball to trolling to Skynet to Bill Murray-led heists and to Star Trek. Perhaps a smidge too much about Star Trek, in fact, as we play a game where we try to figure out which St...

This week's Chroncast deals with a very sensitive subject: the designated hitter. Many points are made by me, but none of them are coherent. Meanwhile, Doug and our guest this week -- my buddy Joe -- both pitch their cases as to why it should never sully the National League and makes sense for the National League, respectively. There's also a general discussion of the collective bargaining negotia...

The Internet's own Wendy Thurm stops by and talks Giants, but also the Mets, Minions, and your Twitter questions. We also play a new game, "State of the Union", and get an update on our old AAV game. This episode is also now our longest episode.  There was some consideration about breaking it into two parts, but I opted not to do that because I'm a big believer in integrity. No DH in the NL, and n...

It's finally happened: Grant has come down to the basement to check on us to make sure we haven't flooded the place or otherwise embarrassed the family. It's our longest chroncast and also our most ambitious. Or should we say... Grantbitious? No, no, definitely just ambitious. Forget I ever said Grantbitious. This week's game is called Oscar Names. Someone throws out a Giants player, the other two...

Episode 9 of the McCovey Chroncast drops with a discussion of the newest Giant, Denard Span, but also a frank and explicit examination of Angel Pagan and his dreaminess effectiveness. Will two injury-plagued outfielders add up to one stellar outfield? Or will the Giants going all in on high risk/high reward free agents betray them like a hanging breaking ball? Also, with the Hall of Fame in the ne...

Merry Christmas! There's no chance you're reading this right now, but if you're not celebrating the holiday or just wanting to listen to something while making pie or taking a walk after eating pie or just got some new earphones and want to test them out, then you should consider giving the latest McCovey Chroncast a listen! This week, I share my mixed emotions over the departure of Ryan Vogelsong...

EPISODE VII - The Force Awakens Johnny Cueto has joined the Giants. With the approval of Giants' ownership, recently installed GM Bobby Evans has coordinated a strong offseason plan to bolster the Giants' most glaring weakness: its pitching. After agreeing to a 6-year deal, Cueto joins Madison Bumgarner and Jeff Samardzija, making the Giants competitors again in the NL West. The moves have excited...

Why won't the top free agents take the Giants' money? Does Buster Posey have something to do with it? Bryan and Doug investigate. They also talk about the oddness of the GM meetings, the uncertainty of Jeff Samardzija, the promise of Jason Heyward, Justin Upton's likely price tag, and play a game called "James Brown or Record Scratch"... what's it all about? You'll just have to listen. Also, a sco...

An eventful week of Giants news and potential news has led to the longest Chroncast yet! But don't fret, it's a good one. This week, Bryan (@Every6thDay) and Doug (@moonwalkmcfly/groug) tackle the big stuff: Hunter Pence proposes to his long-time girlfriend... AT DISNEYWORLD!!!Willie Mays receives the Medal of Freedom... AT THE WHITE HOUSE!!!Yusmeiro Petit and Hector Sanchez aren't tendered contra...

The McCovey Chroncast is an unstoppable content machine that demands to be made and consumed. This week's podcast was recorded earlier in the week and early in the morning and while Bryan was on the east coast. In it, Doug and Bryan attempt to do better than Grant's fake offseason plan posted last week. The results are... sorely lackeying. And the sound quality of this podcast is similarly bad bec...

Doug Bruzzone (groug) and Bryan Murphy (NOT KNBR's Brian Murphy) are back for an all-new McCovey Chroncast. This week's podcast talks about the biggest news of the week (so far)... And with Thanksgiving coming up, the guys play a game called "Thanks or No Thanks", which puts 2015 Giants in their crosshairs. They also go off on tangents that rope in non-Giants subjects like Roger Clemens, Jose Fern...

Welcome to yesterday's news! If you're still catching up on the week that was for the San Francisco Giants, filled with a Gold Glove and Wilson's Defensive Player of the Year award and due diligence on Ben Zobrist, then most of this podcast will be new to you! If, however, you're living in the present, then the Silver Slugger and David Price of last night and today are nowheeeeeeeere to be found....

Hi, this is Grant. Just wanted to let you know there's a McCovey Chronicles podcast now! I know, I'm surprised too. On Wednesday, Bryan emailed me and said, "Hey, would you want me and groug to do a podcast?" And I was like, "Oh, sure," and then on Thursday, he emailed me a podcast.  In this podcast, there is talk about Bruce Bochy and Dave Righetti spooning. It comes before the talk of Angel Paga...