Monday was a rare good day for the San Francisco Giants, even though it threatened early on to turn into another gloomy one. A Fox Sports report came out early in the day, alluding to new closer Mark Melancon as the reason for declining clubhouse morale because he overstepped his boundaries and came to an agreement with his fellow relievers to change the pregame stretching routine.
Manager Bruce Bochy was quick to defend his closer and the clubhouse, stating that the article in question was a non-story. As he so eloquently put it, it was “pole vaulting over mouse turds”.