Useless Info on the Toledo Mud Hens and RBI players

[Ross]

I am thinking about making a rom that would have the greatest team in the world, the Toledo Mud Hens in it.  So I was just looking through my Mud Hens book with year by year rosters and noticed that many of our favorite RBI greats have passed through town while on rehab assignments or actually ending their lousy careers there.  From 1982 to 1994, there was a RBI player in Toledo.  (Note:  Toledo was Minnesota's AAA team from 1978-1986 and Detroit has been there since 1987.)  Here are the players by year...

1982:  Randy Bush, Tim Laudner, TIM TEUFEL, Frank Viola
1983:  Greg Gagne, Tim Teufel
1984:  Greg Gagne, Steve Lombardozzi, Kirby Puckett (only played 21 games and then he got called up for good)
1985:  Steve Lombardozzi
1986:  Mark Davidson

1987:  Kirk Gibson, Willie Hernandez - both rehab of course
1988:  Eric King (started season in Toledo because of "emotional outburst" and Sparky Anderson got pissed at him)
1989:  PEDRIQ!!!  AL PEDRIQUE!!!  (hope nobody soiled their pants on that one), GARY PETTIS
1990:  JIM LINDEMAN, Steve Lombardozzi (back to Toledo to retire perhaps?)
1991:  Curt Ford
1992:  Eric King, GARY PETTIS
1993:  DAN GLADDEN
1994:  Lance Parrish - I was surprised at this one

And that ends the list.  So many crazy teams.  I think i'll use the 1988 Mud Hens since they had Billy Bean and Billy Beane.  And they also had such greats like Jim Walewander (the player who admitted to being a Dead Milkmen fan and paid for it!), Scott Lusader (never heard this mentioned, but to me, he's the minor league equivilant to Billy Ripken.  i was going through my cards and noticed he has "666" written on his bat nob), and there was also that loser Torey Lovullo.  Oh the memories...

[MarquisEXB]

"You got a Methodist coloring book, and you color really well, but don't color outside the lines or God will send you to Hell!"
--
Dead Milkmen

[Ross]

Great line.  That was what Jimmy Walewander did.  He went outside the lines of then conservative baseball and it might have got him out of baseball.  

http://www.deadmilkmen.com/walewander.html


there used to be a really good interview with walewander talking about the dead milkmen but the website doesn't have it up anymore.  damn

[Gantry]

"Do you know what the queers are doing to our soil?" is my personal favorite Dead Milkmen line.  Punk Rock Girl is a quality ditty as well...

Very interesting history of the Mudhens...  Lance Parrish didn't make the RBI roster, an upcoming youngster by the name of Matt Nokes displaced him by that point...

[Ross]

Thanks for pointing out my huge mistake on the Lance Parrish as RBI player.  I'm starting to confuse the hell out of myself with my roms I've made and other new roms.

[TempoGL]

Punk Rock Girl is a good song.  That's how i learned of the Dead Milkmen...that video was on Beavis and Butthead a solid 13 years ago.

EDIT: This Ross guy seemed like he had a good head on his shoulders.  He should come back to dee-nee

[ultimate7]

"Do you know what the queers are doing to our soil?" is my personal favorite Dead Milkmen line.

My favorite is
Jumpin' Jesus on a pogo stick, why the hell do you think they call it a burrow owl anyways.

I like the entire Beelezebubba album.

What the hell happened to MarquisEXB

[Gantry]

He runs a pretty popular Knicks blog IIRC, can't remember the URL though...