Giant Cocktails: A San Francisco Giants Baseball Podcast

It's opening weekend! We find out that Bloody Colons come from Opening Day gut punches. The boys also relish in their accurate predictions, breakdown the rest of the opening series and look ahead to the Padres and Rockies.

In this episode Matthew sups a Very Special lemonade while Ben gets blown away by a French gun. Then the benighted and besotted brethren reluctantly bumble through a breakdown of the bullpen. They also talk about the National League Central for some reason before moving on to the East and finishing with some ridiculous predictions.

Three episodes? Folks, we might have a podcast on our hands. Today our drinkers are talking defense, the starting rotation, and horrible sounding surgeries. Also, Ben and Matthew have their first shouting match. Will Gabe Kapler be serving crow sandwiches? Is "trade bait" a slur? Can you finish a full episode without falling asleep? Listen now to find out!

0:31 - Smooth one, Ben. Smooth one.

1:21 - Matthew is drinking a "Limoncello Mule"

2:34 - Ben is drinking a "Whiskey Sour"

5:06 - Ben is not trying at all

7:01 - The best defense is hitting the snot out of the ball

11:45 - Wilmer and his invisible Technicolor glove

14:30 - Kapler makes a mess with his toys

15:21 - Crow sandwiches for everyone!

17:48 - The defense is gonna be Ruf and Dickerson out there

20:05 - Ablation isn't torture, it just sounds like it

26:50 - Matthew is a cold hearted monster

28:45 - Matthew isn't prepared

31:51 - Madison Bumgarner makes an appearance

34:18 - Positive trade bait, man!

36:30 - The 2013 Astros were not as bad as Ben implies, they only lost 111 games

37:58 - Wow, Ben is really going this time

39:21 - Goodbye, pitchers who rake

41:51 - No one misses loogies

47:19 - Sleep soundly sweet listener, we'll see you next week

Well, the boys are back for a second episode. This time Ben lets Matthew talk. Listener, I'll let you decide if that's an improvement or not. They also break down the infield and the outfield. They debate the merits of Mauricio Dubon, the lack of big free agent signings, and how many games the Giants will win.

0:25 - Ben has an existential crisis

1:30 - Um, uh, you know

3:00 - Ben drinks a "Bloody Colon". Yup.

5:05 - Matthew enjoys a "Whiskey Smash"

6:30 - Matthew asks "who's at third?"

8:45 - Ben makes a bad problem worse

11:30 - A very Brandon off season

14:00 - The infield plays musical deck chairs

18:00 - The outfield hobbles around on question marks

19:50 - A super sub is born

21:00 - Farhan Zaidi is a sorcerer

24:35 - Matthew thinks it's 2024

25:55 - The Giants are better off without Bryce Harper, apparently

28:00 - And Manny Machado too. Apparently.

30:15 - Ben was a .500 hitter in Little League

33:57 - Sounds like indentured servitude to me

35:15 - Matthew hates energy sucking sharks

37:05 - Matthew guarantees 85 wins and a Wild Card spot

39:55 - Thou shalt not face more than 18 batters

41:05 - Ben is also positive about the Giants, he guesses 79 wins

45:50 - Matthew puts us out of our misery

The brothers Henry introduce themselves and their podcast. Matthew waxes eloquent about his love of the Giants. Ben humble brags about all of the playoff games he's been to. They talk about what they're going to talk about including meta talk. Yes, it's meta meta talk. Also, they like Farhan Zaidi and they agree Gabe Kapler is the manager.

0:00 Hello!

1:15 Ben is a podcast star

3:24 Old Old Fashioned

7:10 A professional Margarita

9:47 They're finally done with the intro

11:21 Matthew romanticizes eating ice cream with a wooden spoon

13:07 Ben gets a new jacket

16:30 Ben is still talking

20:00 Matthew makes fun of Ben not being able to count

22:30 Ben is still complaining about 1993

25:25 Matthew finally gets a word in and mistakenly asks Ben a question

27:00 Farhan Zaidi makes an appearance

29:05: Gavin Lux makes an appearance

31:25 Cyborg players do not exist

33:00 The plan is the plan and they're sticking to the plan because that's the plan

36:09 Ben isn't a professional baseball player

38:40 Matthew and Farhan Zaidi are on a first name basis

40:16 They accept reality then hang a huge asterisk on it

End: So that happened

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