Amy Gutierrez, better known as Amy G., is a multi-Emmy award winning television sports journalist on NBC Sports Bay Area. In 2018, she begins her 11th season as the San Francisco Giants in-game reporter on NBC Sports Bay Area. She also hosts GMAG and is a contributing reporter to Giants Pre and Post-Game Live.
In her broadcasting tenure, Amy has covered a variety of teams including the Oakland A's, San Jose Sharks, Oakland Raiders,San Francisco 49ers, PAC-12 and WCC football and basketball and the San Jose SaberCats.
She is the best selling author of Smarty Marty’s Got Game, a children’s book that teaches kids to love baseball through scoring the game. In 2015 she released Smarty Marty’s Official Gameday Scorebook for baseball fans across the nation and this year released the first of a series in chapter books titled Smarty Marty Steps Up Her Game, as well as a Spanish version of Smarty Marty’s Got Game.
Amy G. is a graduate of UC Davis where she majored in Communications and played volleyball. She resides in her hometown of Petaluma, CA with her husband Paul and two children, Zachary and Grace.
Follow Amy on social media @AmyGGiants on Twitter and @AmyG on Instagram.
Probably the other way around. I take a lot of parenting skills to my job. It helps me be more patient and understanding, but I also have a great bulls*% meter and am at a point in my career that I don't mind using it, LOL.
I would tend to repeat my answer above - basically you need to work harder than everyone else. I think one reason I've been able to last is that I really understand my role with the broadcast and the players. Giving space when needed and jumping in at appropriate times. A long time ago I learned the players, coaches, management - they are not my "friends", they are my colleagues. Approaching the job that way every day has really helped established trust and a very strong working relationship with the Giants organization.
It's a program for Seniors. You contact Sue Peterson with the Giants Community Fund. It's a fun job, but hard to get because it's so popular. And you need to have a very good sense of humor because Kruk and Kuip will definitely make fun of you! Good luck.
Outwork them. Outlast them. It's my motto. You also have to have very thick skin. I'm not talking leather. I'm talking you need to wear the whole cow! It's tough, but challenges motivate me. I've never been one to listen when someone's tells me "you can't".
I think I'm just noisy, LOL! I also love to write. I thoroughly enjoy hearing someone's story and sharing it with others who may find it inspiring. Sports stories are chalk full of motivation, inspiration and various ways of overcoming obstacles. I never tire of these.
Great question! I have several inspirations behind the books. The main character, Marty is named after my Grandmother who LOVED baseball. The concept, of learning to score baseball may lead to loving baseball is something that happened to me when my mother taught me to score at my brother's games. AND I think it's high time we create a strong young GIRL as the main character of a book.
I'm for it! This may not be a popular answer, but it's an honest one. I believe anyone in this country has the right to protest ANYTHING and I'm especially supportive of a peaceful protest of which this is. I feel people are quite misinformed about what Colin Kaepernick began. It is NOT an anti-American movement, it's a human rights movement. There is no disrespect meant by taking a knee to the military, the flag or this country. It's taking a knee to violence and racial injustices.
Hi Danica! Wow, great question. There are so many ups and downs being a female in the male-dominated sports industry. I believe the hardest part about my gender is simply that I do not have ANY margin for error. If I make the same mistake as a man it is criticized on a much larger scale.
Hi everyone!!! Who's out there? Looking forward to your questions and hope I can answer them with some humor and wit! Always fun to see what people would like to know. So let's get started....
