[Mick]

Or that is the explanation the Giants publicist used to mitigate a lame excuse.  :-)

Actually, it didn't happen with the Giants, it happened when he was on the Padres, and Brown didn't make the comment, hard-guy manager Larry Bowa did.  Some reporter asked Bowa why Chris Brown wasn't playing and Bowa replied "Oh, he slept on his eye wrong," when in fact Brown had an eye infection and couldn't see well enough to bat.  But no reporter asked Brown about it.

http://www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/Obit....Obit.html

What happened on the Giants was that Brown claimed a sore shoulder, and the initial exam turned up no serious injury.  So the Giants thought he was a malingerer.  During the off-season, it was found by none other than famed orthopedist Dr. Frank Jobe that he did in fact have a serious shoulder injury that required surgery.  The Giants didn't acknowledge the injury when they traded him to the Padres the next season.

https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Ex...756775.php

Funny that Bowa tried to frame Brown as unmanly, yet Brown ended up driving a truck in Iraq.

[Mick]

Or that is the explanation the Giants publicist used to mitigate a lame excuse.  :-)

Actually, it didn't happen with the Giants, it happened when he was on the Padres, and Brown didn't make the comment, hard-guy manager Larry Bowa did.  Some reporter asked Bowa why Chris Brown wasn't playing and Bowa replied "Oh, he slept on his eye wrong," when in fact Brown had an eye infection and couldn't see well enough to bat.  But no reporter asked Brown about it.

http://www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/Obit....Obit.html

What happened on the Giants was that Brown claimed a sore shoulder, and the initial exam turned up no serious injury.  So the Giants thought he was a malingerer.  During the off-season, it was found by none other than famed orthopedist Dr. Frank Jobe that he did in fact have a serious shoulder injury that required surgery.  The Giants didn't acknowledge the injury when they traded him to the Padres the next season.

https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Ex...756775.php

Funny that Bowa tried to frame Brown as unmanly, yet Brown ended up driving a truck in Iraq.