Bob Brenly interview on KNBR 680 (San Francisco)

This morning on my drive to work, I was pleasantly surprised to be able to catch a radio interview that the morning San Francisco sports radio show had with Bob Brenly.

They started off the interview with some radio highlights of Bob Brenly hitting homeruns for the SF Giants back during his playing days; one of them coming in 1987, where he gave the Giants their team 205th home run.  When Bob came on, he was pretty humble, stating something to the extent of, "Kudos to your guys for being able to find an offensive highlight from my playing days". 

Some interesting tidbits from the conversation:

1.  Bob made it to the majors when he was 27.  His struggles before that almost persuaded him to take a job teaching at a Fresno, California high school where he would have also coached boy's baseball and girl's basketball.  He said his wife persuaded him to keep working in the minors, otherwise he'd never forgive himself.

2.  The radio announcers were very complimentary of the Cubs and somewhat critical of the Giants lack of hitting prowess. 

3.  They segued talking about the Giants pitching staff to talking about Randy Johnson and Bob Brenly's managing days for the Dbacks.  Bob called that one of, or the best team he's been with, due to their collective desire to win.

4.  They asked Bob if he'd ever consider managing again, and Bob replied with a standard, "I'll never say never, but it would have to be in the right circumstances" type of statement.  Basically, he feels that since he's won a world championship, he wouldn't go manage for a team that didn't have the management's buy-in to spend for the right type of players or that was going to be in a development/rebuilding stage for awhile. 

After Bob had hung up, both of the announcers paused a bit and then basically implied that they'd love for Bob to be managing the Giants.  They made it clear they were trying to be respectful to the current manager, Bruce Bochy, but they both had the wistful sounds in their voices and they both repeatedly said how much they liked Bob Brenly.

Overall, it was great being able to get some Cubs type radio in San Francisco and I'm really looking forward to when they visit SF at the end of September.