The Hall of Shame dee-nee-thon

[fightonusc]

BUMP, because Wally Backman's Excellent Adventures in Managing have not been added to the Hall of Shame yet.

[fightonusc]

I know this is someone we already have, but I had forgotten this about Wade Boggs:

From a Boston Globe column

"There were more absurd moments after that. He said the newly constructed 600 Club diminished his power. He said he escaped a knife-wielding assailant by willing himself invisible. He fell out of the family Jeep when Debbie wheeled out of a Winter Haven restaurant parking lot. After the back tire ran over his arm, leaving the imprint of a steel-belted radial, Wade displayed the wound and announced, 'I'm the white Irving Fryar.'"

- What does "the white Irving Fryar" mean? I know who Irving Fryer is, but I don't get the joke.
- Willed himself invisible? Wade Boggs is pretty fucked up...

[Baines]

I know this is someone we already have, but I had forgotten this about Wade Boggs:

From a Boston Globe column

"There were more absurd moments after that. He said the newly constructed 600 Club diminished his power. He said he escaped a knife-wielding assailant by willing himself invisible. He fell out of the family Jeep when Debbie wheeled out of a Winter Haven restaurant parking lot. After the back tire ran over his arm, leaving the imprint of a steel-belted radial, Wade displayed the wound and announced, 'I'm the white Irving Fryar.'"

- What does "the white Irving Fryar" mean? I know who Irving Fryer is, but I don't get the joke.
- Willed himself invisible? Wade Boggs is pretty fucked up...

Fighton, that is classic.  I have an all new respect for Wade Boggs.

[JoeDirt]

...and what exactly is the "newly constructed 600 club?"

[Nails]

I'm pretty sure it's a section of seating behind home plate at Fenway.

[Attezzobal]

Not sure this qualifies as "shame" per se...But I read once that Dwight Evans, while active in MLB, traded himself in a fantasy league because he "Needed pitching help"
The story's on sportsillustrated.com, but you need to be a subscriber to read it, and, I'm not a subscriber...

For what it's worth, from the June 2003 article "and Red Sox outfielder Dwight Evans became a fantasy player and reportedly traded himself for pitching help late in the season."

[JoeDirt]

haha...that's hilarious!

[BeeJay]

Here's some stuff on blank Morris, not that shameful but interesting.  Also, forgive my prose.  I'm trying to condense this stuff from a book, and my brain has clearly given up on me since I finished school.
     
    In 1984, Johnny Mo went to the Dominican Republic for 3 months of winter ball and over the course of a few weeks, things didn't go well.  On top of batting around .150, he was swindled out of 10 pesos by an elderly cab driver and a crooked cop, he got food poisoning that kept him in bed for a week and caused him to lose 15 lbs, and his hotel room was robbed of $3000 cash and a tape player.  After the robbery, he went to manager Felipe Alou and quit winter ball halfway through.

    In August of 1986, Morris made his ML debut with the Cardinals, starting in right field against the Philadelphia Phillies.  In the second inning Mike Schmidt hit a fly ball to the outfield, where in the outfield Morris didn't know.  He thought it was coming his way, so he flailed his arms, begging for help as he heard a loud thud 30 feet behind him.  The ball bounced off the astroturf and went to the wall giving Schmidt a triple.  Besides the embarrassment, the error also caused the normally reserved Busch Stadium crowd to boo their home player mercilessly for the remainder of the game, including a mock standing ovation after a caught fly ball in the fifth.


Finally, here's a chart I found in the book.  I thought it was funny because of all the RBI'ers, especially the guys in the bottom 10.

[Attezzobal]

What am I missing here? How do Aldrete and Mazzilli have the same exact stats across the board, except that Mazzilli has double Aldrete's batting average?

[Stock]

Wierd!
Anyway, Gary Varsho's sister was my typing teacher in High School.

[BeeJay]

He must have been two for nine, or he was 1 for 9 and the .222 was a typo.

[fknmclane]

As first base coach for the Angels in 1999, George Hendrick broke SS Gary DiSarcina's left forearm with a bat.  It was in this week's Sports Illustrated.  Don't know if it's already up.

[TbT]

bumpst.

[ultimate7]

he was swindled out of 10 pesos by an elderly cab driver and a crooked cop

so they swindled him out of 3 cents? 

[BeeJay]

I think it was like a dollar back then.  Now it's a whopping 30 cents to a DR peso.  The point of the story was that they were being accused of theft and a crooked cop was threatening to put them in jail.