mlbblogs.com: The Giants - Back Together Again

Jeremy Affeldt emerged, as he always does in these things, as a natural entertainer. He got everyone laughing with pointed barbs at manager Bruce Bochy for making him pitch to a guy “who hit about .900’’ off him. When, a few minutes later, Kuiper asked the relievers to name their all-time favorite player,  Affeldt deadpanned, “Bruce Bochy.’’ (The next morning at the team meeting, Bochy said he was ready to name his Opening Day pitcher: Jeremy Affeldt.)
• Asked what position he would play if he got to choose, Pablo Sandoval didn’t hesitate. “Hitting!’‘
• Sergio Romo showed off the T-shirt he had bought earlier in the day. It was pure Sergio who, besides Pablo, is the most playful guy on the team. The design on the front of the shirt lit up whenever he talked, which meant - as his teammates will tell you - it blazed all night.
• Dan Runzler, who played at every minor-league level last year before making it to San Francisco in September, was asked what it was like to pitch to players he had only seen on TV. “I was in more shock going into the locker room (of the Giants),’’ he said. “I had never been to a major-league spring training, so I was completely star-struck.’’
• When the pitchers were asked when they knew they wanted to be pitchers, Runzler said,  “I knew I wanted to be a pitcher when they took the bat out of my hands and told me to pitch.’‘

They weren’t kidding about Eli Whiteside. Wow, he’s 30 going on 50.