Giants legend Will Clark made his thoughts on San Francisco’s outfield celebrations crystal clear.
After some of San Francisco’s recent wins, its outfielders, oftentimes including some combination of Jung Hoo Lee, Drew Gilbert, Harrison Bader and Heliot Ramos, would come together after the final out and perform a coordinated celebration in center field.
Their viral hip-thrusting celebration after a win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on May 11 generated so much buzz, that the team instructed the players not to perform it anymore, which led to slightly tamer celebrations after ensuing wins.
Clark, however, is having none of it, and explained why he is not a fan of the San Francisco outfielders’ celebrations on a recent episode of his and former MLB outfielder Eric Byrnes’ podcast, “Deuces Wild with Eric Byrnes & Will Clark.”
“The dance where they’re doing the f–king pelvic thrust or something like that,” Clark said. “I’m like, ‘What the f–k is this? You’re 20-30,’ you don’t have the luxury of doing that kind of bulls–t out there. It looks chicken s–t. Go back, high-five each other, nice job— we won one. Let’s keep the train running. But the train has been off the tracks a little bit.”
“I hate it because it’s f–king stupid. You don’t do it as a losing team. You haven’t even earned the right to do it, because you’re f–king losing.”
After Tuesday’s loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Giants dropped to 22-33 on the season, which is tied for the fourth-worst record in baseball entering Wednesday’s slate of games.
San Francisco has not had many reasons to celebrate this season, so when it does squeak out a win, its outfielders seemingly will continue to use it as an opportunity to have some fun.
Despite what outsiders might think.