San Francisco Giants great Will Clark is, to put it kindly, a traditionalist. He is as old school as they come. No nonsense would be another way to describe him.
So, every time the Giants outfielders come together following a win and perform some nonsensical, sometimes inappropriate celebration following a win, it rubs him the wrong way. Big time.
Making it even worse for Will Clark is that these coordinated celebrations come during a season when the San Francisco Giants are 22-34 and in fourth place in the National League West, 14 games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Will Clark isn’t the only one to take issue with the Giants outfielders’ celebrations. Major League Baseball reportedly banned the one in the video above. The day after the ban, they instead just gathered, took off their caps and bowed. However, a few games later, the coordinated celebration returned, albeit slightly toned down.
None of it has been sitting well with Will Clark, though, as he made very clear this week on the No Filter Network.
“I told you before, you know, we talked about it a few weeks ago about tightening up the screws on the ship. That’s a screw that’s loose. We need to tighten that sumb—- up, you know,” Clark began his rant.
“And then here’s another thing. All right, I’m, hey, look, when you go out there and you do your thing and you win a ball game or whatever, all right, high fives or whatever. But to be 20 and 30 and then, me watching out there and they’re they got some sort of dance where they’re doing a f—— pelvic thrust or something like that. I’m like, what the f— is this, dude?! You’re 20 and 30! You don’t have the luxury of doing that kind of bulls— out there. It looks chicken-s—! All right? You know, go back, high five each other. Nice job. We won one. Now, let’s keep it going. Let’s keep the freaking train running. But the train has been off the tracks a little bit.”
“It certainly has. Yeah. I don’t think I hated it nearly as much as you. I mean, just for the fact that…” Will Clark’s co-host Eric Byrnes tried to interject.
“Oh, I hate it. I hate it just because it’s f—— stupid! You don’t do it from a losing team. You haven’t even earned the right to do it because you’re f—— losing!”