Giant Cocktails: A San Francisco Giants Baseball Podcast

By Ben Henry and Matthew Henry

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Come for the cocktails, stay for the funny alcohol-fueled rants as two lifelong San Francisco Giants fans discuss their favorite baseball team while enjoying homemade cocktails. Published every Monday and Thursday.

Episode Date
Will the Giants sign Framber Valdez, Tatsuya Imai or 3 Joe Schmoes? Plus the Looming Lockout.
Dec 01, 2025
Coaching Staff Hires and Roster Churn
Nov 17, 2025
Fixing Roster Holes & Tony Vitello's News Conference
Nov 03, 2025
REPOST: What Will New Manager Tony Vitello Do First?
Oct 27, 2025
Is Tony Vitello the Guy?
Oct 20, 2025
What Does a Manager Do Anyway?
Oct 13, 2025
The Big Surprises & Disappointments of 2025
Oct 06, 2025
Emergency Pod: Bob Melvin Fired
Sep 30, 2025
SF Giants 2025: The Roller Coaster of Mediocrity
Sep 29, 2025
A Giantless Playoffs Preview
Sep 25, 2025
Giants Biggest Need for 2026
Sep 22, 2025
The Highs and Lows of 2025
Sep 18, 2025
BRYCE ELDRIDGE Promoted After Dodgers Let Down
Sep 15, 2025
The Giants Will Make the Playoffs (1/2 of Us Believe)
Sep 11, 2025
The Exuberent Vibes of Drew Gilbert
Sep 08, 2025
Are the Fightin' Giants Back in the Race?
Sep 04, 2025
What to Look Forward to in September
Sep 01, 2025
Free the (Bryce) Eldridge Knight!
Aug 29, 2025
Giants Battle to a Series Win Against Brewers Because ... Luis Matos?
Aug 25, 2025
Is Heliot Ramos 'against us' because BoMel is too soft?
Aug 21, 2025
Bob Gets Called Up
Aug 18, 2025
What Now? What's Wrong, Who's to Blame, and How to Fix It
Aug 14, 2025
Why You Should Still Listen to Giant Cocktails in 2025
Aug 11, 2025
After 4-2 Road Trip, What do the Giants Have Left in the Tank?
Aug 07, 2025
Goodbye Yaz & Camilo, Hello ... Grant McCray?
Aug 04, 2025
Buster Pulls the Plug as Giants SELL Tyler Rogers, Get SWEPT by AWFUL Pirates
Jul 31, 2025
Is the 2025 Season On Life Support?
Jul 28, 2025
What If They All Get Hot?
Jul 24, 2025
All-Star Hangover, Eh?
Jul 21, 2025
Advice From Bob of Giant Cocktails (Not Melvin ... Or Manfred)
Jul 17, 2025
Buster's First Draft, All-Star Break, and NOTHING ELSE HAPPENED
Jul 14, 2025
And Patrick Bailey Walked It Off
Jul 10, 2025
Three All-Star Aces Over a Pair of Victories
Jul 07, 2025
Guest Alex Pavlovic
Jul 03, 2025
2nd Half Kickoff! - (What White Sox Series?)
Jun 30, 2025
The Old and the Cold
Jun 26, 2025
Schmitt Happens
Jun 23, 2025
Rafael Devers - First Impressions
Jun 19, 2025
BlockBUSTER Trade: Rafael Devers a Giant for Harrison & Hicks
Jun 16, 2025
The Rockies Suck. So Do the Dodgers.
Jun 12, 2025
And They're Good Again!
Jun 09, 2025
Buster Has Had Enough: "It's Time to Go"
Jun 05, 2025
Who's On First? Is a Change Imminent?
Jun 02, 2025
Laughter is Therapy, Come On In
May 29, 2025
1/3 Season Review
May 26, 2025
Where Have You Gone Jung Hoo?
May 22, 2025
The Wins WilFlo
May 19, 2025
Christian Koss & the Slightly Above Average Giants
May 15, 2025
Look, We Didn't Say They Don't Have Problems
May 12, 2025
It's OK to Admit the Giants are Good
May 08, 2025
Adames Levels the Rockies
May 05, 2025
Giants Get Padred & Mystery 1st Inning Woes
May 01, 2025
The First Place San Francisco Giants
Apr 28, 2025
Are the Giants Fielding their Best Roster?
Apr 24, 2025
A Swift Kick to the Pistachios (Not Sponsored)
Apr 21, 2025
Phitzgerald Phells the Phillies
Apr 17, 2025
Jung Hoo Lee Takes New York
Apr 14, 2025
Justin Verlander and the Purple Pushovers
Apr 10, 2025
Are the 8-1 Giants for Real?
Apr 07, 2025
Opening Week Reactions (Do it for Ginny)
Apr 03, 2025
Opening Day & 2025 Predictions
Mar 27, 2025
The Ultimate Episode ... of Spring
Mar 24, 2025
2025 Roster & Lineup Predictions
Mar 17, 2025
Eldridge Demoted, Roupp Lit Up but Optimism Reigns?
Mar 10, 2025
Checking in on the Regulars. So far so good?
Mar 03, 2025
Early Spring (Over)reactions
Feb 24, 2025
Spring Training Position Battles
Feb 17, 2025
Take Your Fangraph Projections and Shove 'Em
Feb 10, 2025
The Giants Could be Good If ...
Feb 03, 2025
Off Season Check In & Justin Verlander Reactions
Jan 17, 2025
The 12,000 Days of Corbin Burnes
Dec 23, 2024
Emergency Podcast: Giants Sign Willy Adames*
Dec 08, 2024
Less Payroll + Less Analytics = More Wins?
Nov 25, 2024
Happy Hour Returns: The Revenge of Turkey
Nov 22, 2024
Off-Season Expectations & The All 2nd Millenium Team
Oct 28, 2024
Can This Offense be Fixed in One Winter?
Oct 22, 2024
2024 Coaching Performance or Lack Thereof
Oct 14, 2024
The Buster Posey Vision
Oct 07, 2024
Zaidi Fired Posey Hired
Sep 30, 2024
Homeostasis: 2024 in Review
Sep 30, 2024
2025 Starting Rotation Preview + Zaidi Decision Already Made?
Sep 26, 2024
2025 Bullpen Preview and Winning When it Doesn't Matter
Sep 23, 2024
2025 Infield Preview & Zaidi Watch
Sep 19, 2024
Posey Takes Charge
Sep 16, 2024
2025 Outfield Preview & Farhan Only Guaranteed Through Next Year?
Sep 12, 2024
Matt Chapman Extension & Grant McCray Arrival
Sep 09, 2024
Young Players Called Up. Will They Play?
Sep 05, 2024
Repost: Defensive Standouts & Roster Updates
Sep 02, 2024
Bob Melvin Roasting and Month 5 Review
Aug 29, 2024
RIP 2024 Giants
Aug 26, 2024
Slightly Better Than the White Sox
Aug 22, 2024
Why the Giants Will Still Make the Playoffs (and A's stuff)
Aug 19, 2024
Tyler Fitzgerald's Weakness & the Giants Softness
Aug 15, 2024
The Giant Surge, Camilo Doval, and the Melvin-Zaidi Disconnect
Aug 12, 2024
Playoff Chances and Revamped Lineup
Aug 08, 2024
Blake Snell Domination, Roster Review and Prospect Failures
Aug 05, 2024
Trade Deadline Aftermath
Aug 01, 2024
Buy or Sell?!
Jul 29, 2024
Laughing is Better than Crying
Jul 25, 2024
Is Farhan Zaidi on the Hot Seat?
Jul 22, 2024
New Predictions & Trade Talk for Selling AND Buying
Jul 18, 2024
All-Star Break Reality Check: Predictions Review & Emotional Venting
Jul 15, 2024
Is Younger Better?
Jul 11, 2024
All-Stars and the Pitching Cavalry Arrives
Jul 08, 2024
Second Half Outlook
Jul 04, 2024
Bivens vs. Ohtani, Mid-Season Awards, & the Baby Bull
Jul 01, 2024
Chirping About Birdsong
Jun 27, 2024
Can the Giants Still Be Good?
Jun 24, 2024
Say Hey
Jun 20, 2024
Angels Steam Roller Stopped by Journeyman
Jun 17, 2024
Brett Wisely's Giants
Jun 13, 2024
The Shaky Starting Rotation & the Wild Card Race
Jun 10, 2024
BoMel Goes Off
Jun 06, 2024
The Last Time We Talk About Blake Snell
Jun 03, 2024
What To Do About LaMonte Wade Jr. & Shortstop
May 30, 2024
2nd Month Awards & Roster Crunch Review
May 27, 2024
Youth Taketh, Youth Giveth
May 23, 2024
Matos and Ramos and Luciano, Oh My!
May 21, 2024
Dodgers + Injuries = Season Over?
May 16, 2024
Injuries and Their Silver Linings
May 13, 2024
Guest Andrew Baggarly
May 09, 2024
Our Best Episode Ever
May 06, 2024
Free Mason Black!
May 02, 2024
First Month Breakdown
Apr 29, 2024
What the Snell?!
Apr 25, 2024
The Giants Are Better Than You Think
Apr 22, 2024
Scrappy Isn't Too Far from Crappy
Apr 18, 2024
Blake Snell's Spring Training Update
Apr 15, 2024
Jordan Hicks to the Rescue
Apr 11, 2024
The Fan Experience & Offensive Woes
Apr 08, 2024
Dodgers (Metaphorically) Suck
Apr 04, 2024
Opening Weekend Reactions
Apr 01, 2024
It's Opening Day!
Mar 28, 2024
Final Off Season Review
Mar 25, 2024
Happy Hour is Moving
Mar 21, 2024
Emergency Pod: Giants Sign Blake Snell (& Ben Drinks a Negroni)
Mar 19, 2024
The 40 Man Roster Crunch
Mar 18, 2024
Long Island Gin Kings
Mar 14, 2024
Trade These Players Now!
Mar 11, 2024
Episode 200 - The Sun Rises Over the Cadillac
Mar 07, 2024
Hello Chapman, Goodbye Crawford
Mar 04, 2024
Leap into the Penguin Mudbath
Feb 29, 2024
The Giants to Watch This Spring
Feb 26, 2024
Baseball Fever
Feb 22, 2024
Farhan "Unlikely" to Sign Anyone Else
Feb 19, 2024
Kitchers and Patchers
Feb 15, 2024
Pitchers and Catchers Reporting
Feb 12, 2024
49er Cocktails
Feb 08, 2024
What the Stripling Trade Means
Feb 05, 2024
Apricot Moon
Feb 01, 2024
The Offseason is Done! Maybe?
Jan 29, 2024
Comfort Martini
Jan 25, 2024
Not Willing to Sign Free Agents?
Jan 22, 2024
Cherries on a Cocktail Pick
Jan 18, 2024
Jordan Hicks and a Quiet Offseason
Jan 15, 2024
Dram Those Bananas
Jan 11, 2024
Analyzing the Robbie Ray Trade
Jan 08, 2024
Zen and the Missing Blood Orange
Jan 04, 2024
Dodgers Suck
Jan 02, 2024
So Ends Our 2023 Sojourn
Dec 28, 2023
Yamamoto Fallout
Dec 24, 2023
Peals of Happiness
Dec 21, 2023
The Jung Hoo Lee Era Has Begun
Dec 18, 2023
Champagne Rain
Dec 14, 2023
Who's to Blame for the Ohtani Miss?
Dec 11, 2023
Gingerbread Greenhouse
Dec 07, 2023
Ohtani, Yamamoto and Soto, Oh My!
Dec 04, 2023
Frosty the Revolutionary
Nov 30, 2023
Is Money Enough To Sign Ohtani or Yamamoto?
Nov 27, 2023
Happy Thanksgiving!
Nov 23, 2023
Thanksgiving Brawl (and Cocktails)
Nov 16, 2023
When Will Shohei Ohtani Sign?
Nov 13, 2023
It's Me, the Aperitif Bar!
Nov 09, 2023
Option Day & "Breaking Even"
Nov 06, 2023
Sweet Sweet Spirits
Nov 02, 2023
With Zaidi Extended are Trades Imminent?
Oct 30, 2023
The Fall of Bitterness
Oct 26, 2023
Emergency Pod: Bob Melvin is the Guy (Pending Physical)
Oct 25, 2023
Bob Melvin is the Guy
Oct 23, 2023
Curse of the Highlander
Oct 19, 2023
2024 Roster: Fixing a Middling Muddle
Oct 16, 2023
Fall in Manhattan
Oct 12, 2023
2023 Rookie of the Year & MVP
Oct 09, 2023
Orange and Black Bitters
Oct 05, 2023
Relieved It's Over
Oct 02, 2023
Throwing the Fig Over the Fence
Sep 28, 2023
A Boring Lack of Accountability
Sep 25, 2023
A Clearly Complicated Simple Pearl
Sep 21, 2023
"Still In It"
Sep 18, 2023
The Heartless Horseman
Sep 14, 2023
Fire Up the Hot Seats?
Sep 11, 2023
The Fall of Summer
Sep 07, 2023
How 'Bout Them Niners?
Sep 04, 2023
Gin Kir Summer Haze
Aug 31, 2023
Thairo Takes Charge
Aug 28, 2023
The Sour Duel
Aug 24, 2023
xDEBUT of Kyle Harrison
Aug 21, 2023
Cold Brewed Grapefruit Soda
Aug 17, 2023
It's Not that Bad
Aug 14, 2023
A Sweet Punch in the Face
Aug 10, 2023
A Playoff Team?
Aug 07, 2023
The Devilmelon
Aug 03, 2023
What Trade Deadline?
Jul 31, 2023
Bubbles of Fun
Jul 27, 2023
Giant Frustrations
Jul 24, 2023
Rolling Up on Summer
Jul 20, 2023
A Stellar Start
Jul 17, 2023
Daisy and the Farmer
Jul 13, 2023
All Star Break Round Up
Jul 10, 2023
Pretty In Pink Gin Drinks
Jul 06, 2023
Some Guy Named Bailey
Jul 03, 2023
The Frisky Monkey!
Jun 29, 2023
Padres Padre'd And Answering Mail
Jun 26, 2023
The Old Man in the Sidecar
Jun 22, 2023
Dodgers Suck But Matos Doesn't
Jun 19, 2023
Paper Cuts & Vodka
Jun 15, 2023
Nothing Else Matos
Jun 12, 2023
The Elders
Jun 08, 2023
Flashes of Competence
Jun 05, 2023
A Bitter Unholy Wind
Jun 01, 2023
You Gotta Like These Optimists
May 29, 2023
Red Headed Killer
May 25, 2023
Rising Prospects
May 22, 2023
The Banana Flip
May 18, 2023
A Schmitty Team
May 15, 2023
Banana Mints for Mom
May 11, 2023
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
May 08, 2023
Artichoke Smoke
May 04, 2023
The One Where Matthew is Right
May 01, 2023
Heaven in a Collins Glass
Apr 27, 2023
A New Hope
Apr 24, 2023
The Scofflaw and the Peach
Apr 20, 2023
Offensive Defense
Apr 17, 2023
A Fernet Shower at Vespers
Apr 13, 2023
Waiting for Patrick Bailey
Apr 10, 2023
Orange & Black Scorpion Attack
Apr 06, 2023
41Ks. Nothing Like It
Apr 03, 2023
Orange You Glad It's Opening Day
Mar 30, 2023
2023 Roster Breakdown
Mar 27, 2023
100 Scorpions with Switchblades
Mar 23, 2023
Giant 2023 Predictions
Mar 20, 2023
The 4% Irish Lunar Fiesta
Mar 16, 2023
Awash in Injuries
Mar 13, 2023
Commandos in the Fog
Mar 09, 2023
Intense Vibes, Intense Crushes
Mar 06, 2023
Eight Pineapples
Mar 02, 2023
On the Clock
Feb 27, 2023
Spicy Hurricanes
Feb 23, 2023
Not That Invested
Feb 20, 2023
Introducing Happy Hour
Feb 16, 2023
Non-Roster Invitees Are Not Boring
Feb 08, 2023
Let's Ride This Monkey
Feb 02, 2023
The Giants Don't Suck. Much.
Jan 26, 2023
Minor Disagreements
Jan 19, 2023
Kapler: 12th Best Manager?
Jan 12, 2023
It's the Crappy Season
Jan 06, 2023
The Lost Episode: Pre-Correa Drama
Jan 02, 2023
Blowing Smoke
Dec 27, 2022
The Giants Have a Small Johnson
Dec 22, 2022
Carlos Correa Cocktails
Dec 14, 2022
99 Problems and a Mitch Hangover
Dec 08, 2022
Awaiting Judgement
Dec 01, 2022
Happy Judgegiving
Nov 24, 2022
Karen's Infamous Tequila
Nov 17, 2022
Judging If The Giants Hate Their Fans
Nov 08, 2022
Taking Our Curtain Calls
Nov 03, 2022
A Million Face Palm Emojis
Oct 27, 2022
It's a Raw Autumn
Oct 20, 2022
Torches Lighting Up the Night
Oct 13, 2022
Stuck in the Middle
Oct 06, 2022
Episode 69. Nice.
Sep 29, 2022
Judge or Bust(er)
Sep 22, 2022
Smells Like Grandpa's Closet
Sep 15, 2022
Should we be excited about Lewis Brinson?
Sep 08, 2022
RIP 2022
Sep 01, 2022
Webb of Despair
Aug 25, 2022
Look at those Tatis
Aug 18, 2022
Turns Out 2021 WAS a Fluke
Aug 11, 2022
It's Been a Ruf Road
Aug 04, 2022
We’re Soto Over This
Jul 28, 2022
Game of the Year
Jul 21, 2022
Signs of Life
Jul 14, 2022
Make It a Double
Jul 07, 2022
Waiting For An Old Guy To Get Hot
Jun 30, 2022
Waiting For An Old Guy To Get Hurt
Jun 23, 2022
Now with Double the Austin
Jun 16, 2022
Free Camilo
Jun 09, 2022
Lineup Cards Are No Slapping Matter
Jun 02, 2022
Who's Jocing Now?
May 26, 2022
Cocktails for Bestie Renel
May 19, 2022
Creepy Umpires & Fake Mustaches
May 12, 2022
Will the Real Giants Please Stand Up?
May 05, 2022
(Mostly) The Best Team In Baseball
Apr 28, 2022
Shaking off the Cobb-Webb
Apr 21, 2022
Unwritten Rules for 2nd Rate Teams
Apr 14, 2022
Plastered Predictions of Prodigious Performances
Apr 07, 2022
The Esteemed Railroad Job
Apr 04, 2022
Fluke it Till You Make It
Mar 29, 2022
You Must Be Jocing
Mar 22, 2022
Shaking Off the Rusty Mechanical Man
Mar 14, 2022