The 2005 Hall of Shame dee-nee-a-thon

[BeeJay]

Those are great, I have a newly found respect for Jeffrey Leonard.  My opinion on Bobby Ojeda pretty much stayed the same though, fkn idiot.

[fightonusc]

Maybe Billy Ripken accidentally borrowed Jeffrey Leonard's "Nasty Bat" for baseball card photo day...

[fknmclane]

Jeffrey Leonard is definitely moreso the man after me having read that.  I can't believe no one else has done the "one flap down" trot.  Shit, wasn't there a forum member with that screen name?  Now I get it.

[TβG]

i remember that 87 series when tom herr made comments to the press how he didn't like leonards one flap down showmanship. 

didn't that knife thrown from the stands that hit wally joyner happen in 86 before the playoffs and he was unable to play or something like that?  see it's not donnie moore's fault.

[Gantry]

Great stuff all, I'll be doing some serious HOS work tomorrow.  Enough for another front page update again.  Dee-Nee!

And welcome aceofspades!

[fightonusc]

More from Baseball Hall of Shame 3:

Doug Corbett

During Corbett's rookie season, he had his jockstrap break and his cup fall down his pants leg during a game against the Brewers when pitching against Paul Molitor. You'll have to read the entire quote to see everything for yourself, but it's pretty classic.

Section on the jock breakage from Amazon.com

Dave Righetti:

Threw a ball over the Yankee Stadium outfield fence from the mound after being pulled from a game after blowing a lead against the Blue Jays.

John Tudor:

After giving up five ER in four plus innings as the Cardinals lost Game 7 of the 1985 World Series, Tudor tried to punch out an electrical fan and had to be taken to the hospital. This came after Tudor had acted snippy to the media before the game, leading one writer to comment that "I guess the shit finally hit the fan."

[BeeJay]

I don't know what you're talking about.  The 1985 World Series never happened.

[fknmclane]

Fuck amazon.com

[Gantry]

All the page 4 updates have been added.  Down to 76 RBI'ers, keep em coming!

[Gantry]

Leonard talks a little bit bout the One Flap Down

[Nails]

Not sure if this has been posted before (read it last night in a book called Tales from the Dugout)

After hitting his first career homerun, LA Dodger Bobby Ojeda asked the fan who caught it if he could have the ball.  The fan told him he wanted 3 autographed baseballs in return.  Bobby agreed, and started looking for a pen.  The fan said:  No, i mean three Orel Hershiser autographed balls.

[fightonusc]

Rick Sutcliffe

October 1981

Rick Sutcliffe was the NL Rookie of the Year in 1979, but that didn't mean Tommy Lasorda liked him. In fact, it was widely known that Lasorda and Sutcliffe got along poorly. After Lasorda left Sutcliffe off the Dodgers' 1981 postseason roster, Sutcliffe burst into Lasorda's office, overturned his desk and smashed chairs. "There was a lot of booming and banging going on in Tommy's office, chairs getting busted up and all," recalled Dusty Baker, a Dodger outfielder at the time. Within a couple months, Sutcliffe was a Cleveland Indian.

Reference: DodgerBlues.com

[fightonusc]

Don Sutton

August 20, 1978

Don Sutton, the ace right-hander, and Steve Garvey, the power-hitting first baseman, were never close. Despite his outgoing personality that made him popular with the fans, Garvey wasn't particularly well-liked by his teammates. Usually players kept quiet, but when Sutton criticized him in a Washington Post story that was picked up across the country, Garvey snapped. He confronted Sutton in the visitors' clubhouse at Shea Stadium and Sutton confirmed he had made the comments. The argument escalated from there, with Sutton enraging Garvey by making a vulgar remark about Garvey's wife.

Garvey recalled the incident: "It was, did you say this? And if you did, why? Then he started to bring her (Cyndy) into it. ... He poked me in the chest and that was it. All of a sudden, we were pushing and shoving. I got scratched in the eye." They were locked together, rolling on the floor for several minutes before teammates pulled them apart. As one player said, "Hey, this team is always hugging (after home runs). Those guys were just hugging on the floor."

Source: DodgerBlues.com

[ultimate7]

Man, I becoming at Don Sutton fan,  I wish he woulda kicked Garvey's ass

[fightonusc]

Jeff Reardon

July 28, 1983

Reardon had fallen into disfavor with Expos fans after blowing several recent games. However, that certainly didn't prepare him for what would happen to his wife Phebe between games of a doubleheader against the Cardinals. Appearing with several other player's wives on-field as part of a food drive for the poor, Phebe was booed loudly as soon as her last name was mentioned. The booing was so bad that she eventually fled the field in tears.

Source: Baseball Hall of Shame

[fightonusc]

If anyone can find a link to this, they would be the Hero of the Week:

Dwight Gooden, Darryl Strawberry, Lenny Dykstra, Rafael Santana, Tim Teufel, Kevin Mitchell and Howard Johnson

Were among the Mets who recorded the "Super Bowl Shuffle" wannabe track "Get Metsmerized" one game into the 1986 season. It is apparently one of the most unlistenable pieces of junk ever recorded. Santana could barely speak English, Dykstra sounded like he was eating rocks, and Strawberry and Gooden were clearly high. Plus, mastermind George Foster had never thought about giving any proceeds to charity. Teufel calls the final result "unlistenable".

Sample rap lyrics include:

"My name is HoJo, I'm here to say
Our team is going all the way
With pitching, power, speed and style
Results guaranteed to make you smile"

However, it didn't stop Straw from recording his own solo rap single, which is enough for another thread.

[fightonusc]

UPDATE:

"Get Metsmerized" lyrics

[BeefMaster]

UPDATE:

"Get Metsmerized" lyrics

Fixed Link

I just read the lyrics - it's some amazing crap.  And how the heck did Rick Aguilera and Rafael Santana manage to get parts in the song?

[Nails]

Because of Kenny Roger's recent incident with camera men, ESPN had top list of these types of incidents.  #1 was Danny Cox, skuffling with a cameraman in what looked like an airport, but I'm not sure, because I missed most of it.  I tried googling for it, but came up empty.  Anyone have any information to back this up?

Also, Gantry:  is there a mod for this software to search within a single thread?

[BDawk]

Not sure if the article was posted, but here's the one describing how Pedro Guerrero's low IQ prevented him from understanding stuff.  It said he can't perform simple tasks , such as writing a check or making a bed, and receives a small weekly allowance from his wife, Hirsch said.
He has an IQ of 70.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/news/2000/06/06/roundup_ap/