It’s back! For a third year in a row, I was invited up to Oracle Park for the San Francisco Giants’ Media Open House where they rolled out the orange carpet to showcase the new promotions, music, shwag, and more. But, the highlight is always the food tasting that closes down the event. I was able to try a bunch of new offerings, including a loaded baked potato, elote hot dog, paradise hot dog, kimchi quesadilla, fuko crispy spicy chicken sandwich, buffalo ranch pretzel, meatball sandwich, a s’mores pretzel, lychee and…well, it was hard to not each all of every item, because I needed room for the remaining items…
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Episode #300: Are You Not Entertained?!
Gerard Butler is excited for our 300th episode!
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Ok. Full transparency. I started the podcast by opening with a clip of Russell Crowe bellowing, “Are you not entertained?!” to honor our 300th episode. I forgot that clip is not from the movie “300.” It’s Gladiator. Eric, Willie, and I talk about the milestone that is our 300th episode, how the podcast got started, and a few interesting podcasting stats. Then we came to visit the hospital that is the current SF Giants clubhouse. Lee, Soler, Conforto, Winn, Slater, Ahmed, Murphy…all injured. There are 7 players on the current roster that were playing for Sacramento less than two weeks ago. And they have to compete with the All Star Dodgers? But hey, they just signed Curt Casali and an outfielder from the Mexican league! This team is certainly not performing the way we expected, and things could get much worse with all of these injuries. The good news is they are only 2.5 games out of the third wild card spot.
From the bottom of our orange hearts, THANK YOU for continuing to listen to TortureCast. We don’t get paid, we do this out of love for baseball and the Giants. If you didn’t listen, we wouldn’t speak.
On to the next 100 episodes!
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Episode #299: Something Snells Around Here
Blake Snell’s ERA is a whopping 11.57 with the Giants before heading to the injured list. Photo by MLB.
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Well, that didn’t take long. Blake Snell gets rocked in his first three outings then goes on the IL with an adductor strain. The boys chat about our biggest surprises and biggest disappointments in the first 26 games of the season, which finds the Giants just under .500. At least they haven’t lost the division in the month of April. Our surprises include Conforto and Hicks, but aside from Snell, our biggest disappointments so far are the bullpen and Austin Slater. Also, the Giants welcome in the Pirates and Joey Bart this weekend after they traded Bart to the Bucs in early April. He’s off to a hot start with 3 bombs in 26 ABs. He hit only 11 homers with the Giants in 5 years. Go figure.
Chad is going out to sea on an expedition for work, but we’ll be back in a couple of weeks for the big 300!
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Episode #298: Confortoable
Michael Conforto blasts a solo homerun (his 3rd in 5 games) at Dodger Stadium in a loss to the Dodgers on April 1, 2024. Photo by MLB.
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The season is officially underway, and Chad and Eric review the first five games of the Giants’ 2024 season. Despite the 2-3 start, there are a lot of positives to take away with the hitting of Lee, Conforto, Chapman, and Wade, and the starts by Webb, Harrison, Hicks, and Winn. However, the bullpen has been the worst in the majors to start the young season, having given up 20 earned runs in just 18 innings. Although there will be a correction to the mean, if the pen doesn’t smooth things out quickly, it could lead to some Pepto nights for Giants fans.
Eric was a guest on “The Cast for….” check it out here!
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Episode #297: 2024 Season Preview
Brand new Giant, Blake Snell, throws at Spring Training on March 24, 2024. Photo by Andy Kuno/San Francisco Giants/Getty Images
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It’s one of our favorite episodes to do every year: the season preview episode!
This also begins our FOURTEENTH season of covering Giants’ baseball.
Everything is fresh as a daisy. Everyone has a 0-0 record (well, except the Dodgers and Padres), and you can just smell the scent of fresh-cut grass in the office. Eric and Chad review what’s happened in Giants’ baseball over the last three weeks, including the bombshell of landing last year’s Cy Young winner, Blake Snell. Then, we get to our picks and prognostications. How many wins? Who will lead the team in ERA? Wins? HR? facial hair rearrangement? (strike that last one). We also solicited win predictions from YOU, our listeners, and we read every single one on air. Vegas has the over/under at 83.5 wins. Where do we land? We also give our divisional and wild card picks, and who will be victorious in the World Series.
Also, don’t forget to check out Chad’s Oracle Park food review video!
Go Giants!
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Food Tasting at Oracle Park!
I had the distinct pleasure of visiting Oracle Park for their Media Open House last week. The Giants’ organization knows that the only reason so many media show up for this is the free food…it’s literally a free lunch. But, many of us pseudo-media (and media) types also share their thoughts on what’s tasty and what’s not, which gets the word out, and potentially hypes up the offerings.
Enjoy this short video where I chomp through eight offerings (mostly new). They include the Crab sandwich, Cove crab noodles, “Baby Bull” sandwich, onion rings, Fuku spicy chicken sandwich and their chicken tenders, bacon cheesburger, a baseball mitt sundae, and strawberry milk tea. I didn’t have the time or stomach capacity to taste the vegan sausage or the go-to Tony’s Pizza, but those were low on my list anyway.
Enjoy! Also, don’t forget about our 2024 Season Preview show coming out on Monday!
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Taste Test of New Food at Oracle Park
“Orlando’s Chimichanga” is a new selection at Oracle Park…I gave it a 4 out of 5.
As we enter our 13th Giants’ season as the longest-running podcast about the Giants, I’ve covered many games, interviewed many players, even gave Matt Cain a tour of Monterey Bay Aquarium. However, I’ve never made it up to the media open house, where not only do you get to sit through an hour of campaign messaging (worth it), but the treat at the end is an hour of essentially a buffet of the new food offerings around Oracle Park for the upcoming season. I know. It was tough.
I did a little taste test for most of the new food in the video below. Some of it was fantastic, some of it was meh. I still splurged at the end and got a traditional hot dog and ice cream cone to wash everything down. And I had been so good on the calorie front.
I’d say the best new foods were the grilled cheese (shockingly amazing), Orlando’s Chimichanga and the new “Churrwaffle,” which embodies the dream of a churro and waffle having a baby in your mouth. Well, not making it IN your mouth…you get my drift.
At the end of the day, as a fan, if I’m close to a Derby Grill (which you are always close to one), and I’m hungry, and I don’t want to miss much of the action, I’m probably opting for a good ‘ole hotdog and soda instead of walking to the other side of the park to lay down 20 bucks for a slightly better food offering. Now, if someone were to get it for me, that’s another story…
We’ll be streaming our season preview live on Monday, March 27 around 1pm PDT over on Facebook. The episode will be available wherever you get your podcasts.
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