Not all of us remember what it was like to watch Bruce Bochy hitting as an MLB player. His days wielding a baseball bat ended in 1987.
Or did they ... ?
The former Giants manager once lost his cool and took it out on a clubhouse TV, as former Giants infielder Kevin Frandsen explained.
"My locker was right there, right when you walked into the clubhouse, straight on," Frandsen said in an interview with KNBR. "Bochy walks in … he's not graceful when he walks, he just kind of lumbers in there and he was pissed. And we knew he was pissed. We were playing bad."
Frandsen spent five total seasons across his nine-year career with the Giants, including 2007-2009 with Bochy at the helm. Frandsen admitted he had "screwed up" a couple of games before, but this tirade didn't appear to be related to that, making him wonder why Bochy was as mad as he was.
"I'm like ‘Man, I'm good, what's he all pissed about' -- he's walking towards me," Frandsen added. "This is not good. He just goes right by me, into my locker and there's my bat that's sitting right there, and he looks at it and gives me like a grunt, the old grunt that he does."
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"He walks over to the TV and he gives it one whack. It doesn't go. It pisses him off even more, and he obliterates the next screen. He walked back over (to Frandsen's locker), said maybe one little thing, puts the bat back in the locker and walks right to his office."
So what was the reason that Bochy was so upset? Golden Tee, the golf arcade game.
Frandsen, now an announcer for the Philadelphia Phillies, admitted that the players were playing the arcade game in the back until 7:00, for a 7:15 game. All TVs were supposed to be off starting around 6:30 - 6:45.
The Giants didn't have a ton of rules, but this rule was one that clearly couldn't be broken, Frandsen added.
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After the fiasco, they heard Bochy loud and clear.
"Everyone's sitting there like, ‘Oh yeah, we got the message! Hey, TVs off 6:45 here we go fellas!' I mean it was frightening. That's Boch. There you go."
