Will Clark is Returning to the Giants

And I've been waiting my whole freakin' life for this to happen! :^)

As reported by the Mercury's intrepid Andy Baggarly, here and here, the Giants have scheduled a media conference call for tomorrow, January 28th, with Will Clark, who is expected to hold a special assistant position, much like JT Snow currently does. Will the Thrill will serve as instructor in spring training, as well as perhaps also doing front-office work and broadcasting. He had been in a similar position with the Arizona Diamondbacks where his former agent was serving as club president until he resigned to lead a group that is seeking to acquire the San Diego Padres. Bill Neukom will be on the conference call as well.

Giants Thoughts

It's about time!!! Nuschler should have been back with us ages ago, but perhaps it was a matter of pride (for either side) that it took Peter Magowan's retirement for this to happen. Hopefully this will last a long while, he really should be one of those celebrated because he helped the team finally get out from the malaise that enveloped the team from 1972 to 1985. He helped lead us, charging, out from the Dark Ages and into the light of his incandescent talents.

I was glad when the Giants didn't resign him because his health seemed to preclude the contract working out so well. However, Robby Thompson contract was even worse, and if I could chose in hindsight, I would have rather they signed him and not Thompson. But that's water under the bridge now.

I think it's interesting that they bring him in now, because we have a plethora of left-handed power hitters who could use some of that ol' Nuschler death stare and black eye paint at the plate: Fred Lewis, John Bowker, Travis Ishikawa, even Pablo Sandoval. One of the greatest hitters in San Francisco Giants history, he had that smooth swing that you just had to watch. That he could man up and hit homers on his first professional AB and his first MLB AB (was it also first pitch?), well, that is something special and hopefully he can impart some of that to our young hitters. As well, he was always a clutch hitter, delivering the big hit, time and again.

Now we just need to hire Jack "The Ripper" Clark to cover the the Dark Ages; I hated when he was the batting coach for the D-gers. He could also teach our hitters a thing or two about hitting in the clutch as well.