This Is The Last…

After spending 12 years with the San Diego Padres, manager Bruce Bochy signed a three year deal with rival San Fransisco Giants.

Overall Bochy spent 24 years with the Padres organization as a player, coach and manager. That’s pretty much my whole lifetime. I’ve never known any other manager than Boch. He’s like my dad. Nine-hundred fifty one career wins, four National League West titles, a World Series appearance. He coached us through the tough years and gave us our very best years as a ball club. It’s so rare that a manager will have such a history with one team such as Bruce Bochy had with the Padres.

I was shocked when I read the news that he was leaving for the Giants. The Giants!?! I hate the Giants! I don’t think I can stomach seeing him in a black SF ball cap. Was I so naïve to think that Bochy would never leave the Padres? That he was married to San Diego? My chin started to quiver and my eyeballs felt squishy with liquid. I needed consolation, but my beautiful Australian curly-headed counterpart didn’t understand my American grief and was no source of solace. So I woke up Daniel Grant, who at the time, was somewhere in Ireland, sleeping. He didn’t really care either, and only grumbled, ‘it’s dark outside’.

I didn’t feel this bad when my dad left.