Buster Posey Sucks, But Don’t Take My Word For It

There was a very awkward moment in the July 16 episode of The Executive Show, on KNBR in San Francisco.

The hosts, Brian Murphy and Markus Boucher, were talking with Giants executive Buster Posey, making his first appearance on the show since May 21.

According to SFGate, that May interview was "testy," and Posey subsequently bailed on the episode scheduled for June 25, possibly due to hurt feelings but also possibly because he was too busy making a huge mess of https://defector.com/putting-the-buster-in-buster-posey">the team's stupid Pride Night meltdown. So his return to the show Thursday was a bit of a delicate matter.

It did not go well.

Posey is a huge drag on the radio.

The Giants stink, and as the architect of this mess, Posey is probably not in a great mood these days.

What's particularly deflating is his way of inflecting his voice so that it sounds like he's just speaking plain truths, just being square with you, and then you listen closely to what he's saying and there's just nothing of substance to it.

It's like listening to a lecture on home warranties, but somehow delivered in platitudes, by Eeyore.

During the show's middle segment, Posey was asked to evaluate his team's first-half performance and to share his impressions of what has gone right and what has gone wrong so far this season.

The Giants are presently 41–55, fourth in their division and third from the bottom in the National League.

They are a plodding, weary, strikingly juiceless team: The Giants are last in walks and stolen bases, but don't do nearly enough slugging to make up for it, and as a consequence have scored fewer runs than all but one NL team.

Also, they have the league's third-worst fielding percentage.

Hell, while we're here, Giants rookie skipper Tony Vitello has the National League's worst overturn percentage https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/2026-managers.shtml">among managers.

It's a bad baseball team.