"It does bother me, some comments that are made from other managers, to be honest. Because now, you start getting a little personal and disparaging other players. I don't think that's what this game's about," Bochy said. "I heard from a lot of managers — I did — but the two that are complaining, I've known them for 25 years. I didn't hear from them."

One of the Yahoo! commenters had the best take — "if he needed Clint Hurdle to call him and tell him McCutchen is one of the best players in the league, he's a bigger idiot than I thought he was."