The pitcher-turned-singer-songwriter's first EP, the self-released No Secrets, marks his Billboard chart debut, new on the Americana/Folk Album Sales (No. 15), Heatseekers Albums (No. 18) and Country Album Sales (No. 39) charts dated Feb. 18, with 1,000 first-week copies sold, according to Nielsen Music.

"I can tell you this right now: If you take some Hall of Fame first basemen and put them in Candlestick Park, I guarantee we'd have about the same stats."

"No, it’s not (okay). It sure isn’t," he said. "You might want to be a little more discreet about that if you’re going to do that kind of thing."

He told me to watch what he does and how he positions himself pitch to pitch and mirror that. Jokingly, I said "Dude! Have you watched me shag balls in BP? Just try and keep up!" In all seriousness, I loved my time playing with @BarryBonds & the advice he gave the younger generations behind him

I was 23 and just up from Double-A. Nobody had ever heard of me. But Hunter Pence had just come up to me and said, "We need you" — and the "we" was the San Francisco Giants. That seemed crazy to me.

Berman and Dilfer announcing? Gold help us all

"But they got away with it during the game and won, so that’s all that matters."

I think eventually he’ll get in, and if he does, I’ll be there to support him. In fact, Pete Rose. If Pete gets in, I’ll be there to support him. But I think it’s going to be awhile.

From what I'm hearing from a personal source down there- it's not good. Broken forearm was mentioned.

"You may have a Dodgers fan who wants to move in," said Callinan, himself a home-builder. "We thought, ‘Who’s not going to be a Giants fan around here?’ It would have been cool to honor them. But if you’re selling $500,000 homes, you don’t want to give people any reason not to buy them."