Comments on: Is This the Worst Cubs Lineup Ever? http://hirejimessian.com/2008/04/11/is-this-the-worst-cubs-lineup-ever/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:05:05 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jon http://hirejimessian.com/2008/04/11/is-this-the-worst-cubs-lineup-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-29344 Jon Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:03:11 +0000 http://hirejimessian.com/?p=1855#comment-29344 Reading these comments and seeing those lineups makes me want to scoop out my eyes with a melon baller.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('29344','Jon'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('29344','Jon','Reading these comments and seeing those lineups makes me want to scoop out my eyes with a melon baller.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Reading these comments and seeing those lineups makes me want to scoop out my eyes with a melon baller.
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]]> By: Oleg http://hirejimessian.com/2008/04/11/is-this-the-worst-cubs-lineup-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-29207 Oleg Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:45:22 +0000 http://hirejimessian.com/?p=1855#comment-29207 I'm not really sure what the lineups would have looked like, but I imagine this Pre-Banks, post-Good Pafko team has some awful ones. http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHC/1951.shtml<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('29207','Oleg'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('29207','Oleg','I\'m not really sure what the lineups would have looked like, but I imagine this Pre-Banks, post-Good Pafko team has some awful ones.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/teams\/CHC\/1951.shtml'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I’m not really sure what the lineups would have looked like, but I imagine this Pre-Banks, post-Good Pafko team has some awful ones.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHC/1951.shtml

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]]> By: CactusMcHarris http://hirejimessian.com/2008/04/11/is-this-the-worst-cubs-lineup-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-28964 CactusMcHarris Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:15:17 +0000 http://hirejimessian.com/?p=1855#comment-28964 Doesn't the Worst Lineup Ever have to result in a game that the Cubs lost? Especially in extra innings? I see a lot of ex-Padres in those Lineups of Suck. You'd be somewhat comforted by the fact that for many of those years, particularly late 80s-early 90s, the Padres were not unlike the Cubs of the same period, only on the West Coast. I could not believe the ways they found to lose games. I remember Chris Brown (who we got for Kevin Mitchell in a trade with SF, I think, before Mitchell had his MVP year) tripping on a foul line and going on the DL for a month.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('28964','CactusMcHarris'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('28964','CactusMcHarris','Doesn\'t the Worst Lineup Ever have to result in a game that the Cubs lost? Especially in extra innings? \r\n\r\nI see a lot of ex-Padres in those Lineups of Suck. You\'d be somewhat comforted by the fact that for many of those years, particularly late 80s-early 90s, the Padres were not unlike the Cubs of the same period, only on the West Coast. I could not believe the ways they found to lose games. I remember Chris Brown (who we got for Kevin Mitchell in a trade with SF, I think, before Mitchell had his MVP year) tripping on a foul line and going on the DL for a month.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Doesn’t the Worst Lineup Ever have to result in a game that the Cubs lost? Especially in extra innings?

I see a lot of ex-Padres in those Lineups of Suck. You’d be somewhat comforted by the fact that for many of those years, particularly late 80s-early 90s, the Padres were not unlike the Cubs of the same period, only on the West Coast. I could not believe the ways they found to lose games. I remember Chris Brown (who we got for Kevin Mitchell in a trade with SF, I think, before Mitchell had his MVP year) tripping on a foul line and going on the DL for a month.

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]]> By: BigFlax http://hirejimessian.com/2008/04/11/is-this-the-worst-cubs-lineup-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-28947 BigFlax Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:26:05 +0000 http://hirejimessian.com/?p=1855#comment-28947 Grace didn't have much power for a first baseman (173 career homers in 16 seasons), but his career OBP was .383, and .386 with the Cubs - only Cap Anson and Stan Hack had a better Cubs OBP in as many or more PAs as Grace had. He also walked more than 400 times more than he struck out in his career. Until this year, it's been a while since we've had that kind of player on the team. But, yeah, I mean, he was never the best player on the Cubs in the final analysis; it was either Sandberg or Sosa for pretty much the entirety of Grace's run.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('28947','BigFlax'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('28947','BigFlax','Grace didn\'t have much power for a first baseman (173 career homers in 16 seasons), but his career OBP was .383, and .386 with the Cubs - only Cap Anson and Stan Hack had a better Cubs OBP in as many or more PAs as Grace had. He also walked more than 400 times more than he struck out in his career. Until this year, it\'s been a while since we\'ve had that kind of player on the team.\r\n\r\nBut, yeah, I mean, he was never the best player on the Cubs in the final analysis; it was either Sandberg or Sosa for pretty much the entirety of Grace\'s run.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Grace didn’t have much power for a first baseman (173 career homers in 16 seasons), but his career OBP was .383, and .386 with the Cubs – only Cap Anson and Stan Hack had a better Cubs OBP in as many or more PAs as Grace had. He also walked more than 400 times more than he struck out in his career. Until this year, it’s been a while since we’ve had that kind of player on the team.

But, yeah, I mean, he was never the best player on the Cubs in the final analysis; it was either Sandberg or Sosa for pretty much the entirety of Grace’s run.

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]]> By: PenFoe http://hirejimessian.com/2008/04/11/is-this-the-worst-cubs-lineup-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-28940 PenFoe Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:04:24 +0000 http://hirejimessian.com/?p=1855#comment-28940 Just to put the icing on the cake in that game, Jason Kendall went 2-4 with a triple.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('28940','PenFoe'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('28940','PenFoe','Just to put the icing on the cake in that game, Jason Kendall went 2-4 with a triple.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Just to put the icing on the cake in that game, Jason Kendall went 2-4 with a triple.
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]]> By: BigFlax http://hirejimessian.com/2008/04/11/is-this-the-worst-cubs-lineup-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-28926 BigFlax Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:54:58 +0000 http://hirejimessian.com/?p=1855#comment-28926 Wow. I don't see any way of topping that one. The fact that it's the second game of a double header (and a late September one at that) is slightly mitigating, but woof. And it wasn't just the starters. How about defensive replacement Terry Shumpert and pinch-hitters Brooks Kieschnick and Ozzie Timmons? (To be fair, Grace and Luis Gonzalez also pinch-hit.) How about the bullpen, with appearances from Jim Bullinger, Kent Bottenfield (pre-his one good year as a starter with St. Louis; I'd forgotten we'd even had him), Turk Wendell and Terry Adams? Not to mention Rodney "Not to be Confused with Randy" Myers. Ye gods. I'm more than a little glad I grew up watching this team from afar.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('28926','BigFlax'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('28926','BigFlax','Wow. I don\'t see any way of topping that one. The fact that it\'s the second game of a double header (and a late September one at that) is slightly mitigating, but woof. And it wasn\'t just the starters. How about defensive replacement Terry Shumpert and pinch-hitters Brooks Kieschnick and Ozzie Timmons? (To be fair, Grace and Luis Gonzalez also pinch-hit.) How about the bullpen, with appearances from Jim Bullinger, Kent Bottenfield (pre-his one good year as a starter with St. Louis; I\'d forgotten we\'d even had him), Turk Wendell and Terry Adams? Not to mention Rodney \"Not to be Confused with Randy\" Myers. Ye gods. I\'m more than a little glad I grew up watching this team from afar.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Wow. I don’t see any way of topping that one. The fact that it’s the second game of a double header (and a late September one at that) is slightly mitigating, but woof. And it wasn’t just the starters. How about defensive replacement Terry Shumpert and pinch-hitters Brooks Kieschnick and Ozzie Timmons? (To be fair, Grace and Luis Gonzalez also pinch-hit.) How about the bullpen, with appearances from Jim Bullinger, Kent Bottenfield (pre-his one good year as a starter with St. Louis; I’d forgotten we’d even had him), Turk Wendell and Terry Adams? Not to mention Rodney “Not to be Confused with Randy” Myers. Ye gods. I’m more than a little glad I grew up watching this team from afar.
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]]> By: Uncle Bouncy http://hirejimessian.com/2008/04/11/is-this-the-worst-cubs-lineup-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-28923 Uncle Bouncy Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:07:32 +0000 http://hirejimessian.com/?p=1855#comment-28923 That's not the same C.Patterson that is playing for Johnny Baker in Cincy, right? right???<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('28923','Uncle Bouncy'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('28923','Uncle Bouncy','That\'s not the same C.Patterson that is playing for Johnny Baker in Cincy, right?\r\n\r\nright???'); return false;">Quote</a></div> That’s not the same C.Patterson that is playing for Johnny Baker in Cincy, right?

right???

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]]> By: Bad Kermit http://hirejimessian.com/2008/04/11/is-this-the-worst-cubs-lineup-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-28921 Bad Kermit Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:51:36 +0000 http://hirejimessian.com/?p=1855#comment-28921 Dur. Of course. Dustin was the shitty pitcher on the South Side. Chad was the shitty hitter up north.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('28921','Bad Kermit'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('28921','Bad Kermit','Dur. Of course. Dustin was the shitty pitcher on the South Side. Chad was the shitty hitter up north.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Dur. Of course. Dustin was the shitty pitcher on the South Side. Chad was the shitty hitter up north.
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]]> By: Fro Dog http://hirejimessian.com/2008/04/11/is-this-the-worst-cubs-lineup-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-28920 Fro Dog Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:47:58 +0000 http://hirejimessian.com/?p=1855#comment-28920 BK, you said it was Dustin Hermanson. It was Chad Hermanson who the Cubs picked up from the Pirates that year for I forgot. He then got traded with Todd Hundley to the Dodgers for Grudzielanek and Karros.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('28920','Fro Dog'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('28920','Fro Dog','BK, you said it was Dustin Hermanson. It was Chad Hermanson who the Cubs picked up from the Pirates that year for I forgot. He then got traded with Todd Hundley to the Dodgers for Grudzielanek and Karros.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> BK, you said it was Dustin Hermanson. It was Chad Hermanson who the Cubs picked up from the Pirates that year for I forgot. He then got traded with Todd Hundley to the Dodgers for Grudzielanek and Karros.
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]]> By: Jarritos http://hirejimessian.com/2008/04/11/is-this-the-worst-cubs-lineup-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-28916 Jarritos Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:21:47 +0000 http://hirejimessian.com/?p=1855#comment-28916 Incidentally, the game when Bellhorn hit a home run from each side of the plate was probably the highlight of that season. Fuck him and everyone else in that shitty lineup.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('28916','Jarritos'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('28916','Jarritos','Incidentally, the game when Bellhorn hit a home run from each side of the plate was probably the highlight of that season. Fuck him and everyone else in that shitty lineup.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Incidentally, the game when Bellhorn hit a home run from each side of the plate was probably the highlight of that season. Fuck him and everyone else in that shitty lineup.
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