Context. (http://www.desipio.com/messageboard/index.php?topic=2918.msg249932#msg249932)
Tim Wallach
Mike Lum
Richie Hebner
Jeff Blauser
Luis Gonzalez (BEFORE he came to the Cubs in '96)
Augie Ojeda
Go.
Quote from: PANK! on January 12, 2012, 01:46:21 PM
Context. (http://www.desipio.com/messageboard/index.php?topic=2918.msg249932#msg249932)
Tim Wallach
Mike Lum
Richie Hebner
Jeff Blauser
Luis Gonzalez (BEFORE he came to the Cubs in '96)
Augie Ojeda
Go.
DPD. Just noticed all but Wallach also played for the Cubs. Oh how humiliating.
Some--like Blauser--maintained their "Cub killer" status even while wearing the blue pinstripes.
Uh, Steve Garvey?
269 games, 78 HR, .985 OPS.
Michael Jack Schmidt, Gentlemen.
Quote from: Fork on January 12, 2012, 02:03:51 PM
269 games, 78 HR, .985 OPS.
Michael Jack Schmidt, Gentlemen.
Yeah Schmidt's a first ballot for career, Garvey of course in a series. Fucking fuckface.
Don't forget Ty Wigginton and his .591 career OPS and 3 HR vs. the Cubs.
Quote from: PANK! on January 12, 2012, 01:47:54 PM
Quote from: PANK! on January 12, 2012, 01:46:21 PM
Context. (http://www.desipio.com/messageboard/index.php?topic=2918.msg249932#msg249932)
Tim Wallach
Mike Lum
Richie Hebner
Jeff Blauser
Luis Gonzalez (BEFORE he came to the Cubs in '96)
Augie Ojeda
Go.
DPD. Just noticed all but Wallach also played for the Cubs. Oh how humiliating.
Some--like Blauser--maintained their "Cub killer" status even while wearing the blue pinstripes.
Wallach's son is a Cubs farmhand thanks to the trade that sent Ted Lilly to LA.
(http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/6829/understandingjoshua053pu.jpg)
Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on January 12, 2012, 02:09:57 PM
Don't forget Ty Wigginton and his .591 career OPS and 3 HR vs. the Cubs.
Too late!
Huey, I hate to disappoint you, but I failed to include two of those guys. And I'm already working on #12, who is neither of them.
Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on January 12, 2012, 02:09:57 PM
Don't forget Ty Wigginton and his .591 career OPS and 3 HR vs. the Cubs.
He ALWAYS KILLS US.
Victor Diaz and Craig Brazell. I am still convinced the 2004 Cubs would have won the Wild Card if they had not lost that fucking Saturday game at Shea Stadium. Austin Kearns and Javier Valentin didn't help matters in the Reds series, but the Cubs weren't ahead in the standings when those games were played.
Quote from: BC on January 12, 2012, 09:48:22 PM
Victor Diaz and Craig Brazell. I am still convinced the 2004 Cubs would have won the Wild Card if they had not lost that fucking Saturday game at Shea Stadium. Austin Kearns and Javier Valentin didn't help matters in the Reds series, but the Cubs weren't ahead in the standings when those games were played.
Valentin and kEARns, yes. Valentin's a nice call, actually, especially as his production against the Cubs was inverse to how well he fared against all teams (unlike Schmidt, who fared well against most teams but
really pounded the Cubs). However, I will not advocate for or defend Clemente HS grad Diaz and his fluky-ass homerun's inclusion. One season-destroying, improbable, opposite field homerun against a habitual pants-shitting late-inning psychopath does not a Cub Killer make, in my opinion.
And why don't I readily recall Craig Brazell?
Quote from: PANK! on January 13, 2012, 12:47:36 AM
Quote from: BC on January 12, 2012, 09:48:22 PM
Victor Diaz and Craig Brazell. I am still convinced the 2004 Cubs would have won the Wild Card if they had not lost that fucking Saturday game at Shea Stadium. Austin Kearns and Javier Valentin didn't help matters in the Reds series, but the Cubs weren't ahead in the standings when those games were played.
And why don't I readily recall Craig Brazell?
Because BC is crazy.
/cue Morph photoshopping him as the Chief in
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestOr WAS he crazy???
Quote from: Kermit IV on January 13, 2012, 12:53:27 AM
Quote from: PANK! on January 13, 2012, 12:47:36 AM
Quote from: BC on January 12, 2012, 09:48:22 PM
Victor Diaz and Craig Brazell. I am still convinced the 2004 Cubs would have won the Wild Card if they had not lost that fucking Saturday game at Shea Stadium. Austin Kearns and Javier Valentin didn't help matters in the Reds series, but the Cubs weren't ahead in the standings when those games were played.
And why don't I readily recall Craig Brazell?
Because BC is crazy.
/cue Morph photoshopping him as the Chief in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Or WAS he crazy???
That does sound like it could use something big...
Quote from: Kermit IV on January 13, 2012, 12:53:27 AM
Quote from: PANK! on January 13, 2012, 12:47:36 AM
Quote from: BC on January 12, 2012, 09:48:22 PM
Victor Diaz and Craig Brazell. I am still convinced the 2004 Cubs would have won the Wild Card if they had not lost that fucking Saturday game at Shea Stadium. Austin Kearns and Javier Valentin didn't help matters in the Reds series, but the Cubs weren't ahead in the standings when those games were played.
And why don't I readily recall Craig Brazell?
Because BC is crazy.
/cue Morph photoshopping him as the Chief in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Or WAS he crazy???
(http://i.imgur.com/dKxd2.jpg)
Quote from: morpheus on January 13, 2012, 10:10:19 AM
Quote from: Kermit IV on January 13, 2012, 12:53:27 AM
Quote from: PANK! on January 13, 2012, 12:47:36 AM
Quote from: BC on January 12, 2012, 09:48:22 PM
Victor Diaz and Craig Brazell. I am still convinced the 2004 Cubs would have won the Wild Card if they had not lost that fucking Saturday game at Shea Stadium. Austin Kearns and Javier Valentin didn't help matters in the Reds series, but the Cubs weren't ahead in the standings when those games were played.
And why don't I readily recall Craig Brazell?
Because BC is crazy.
/cue Morph photoshopping him as the Chief in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Or WAS he crazy???
(http://i.imgur.com/dKxd2.jpg)
I've been at work for roughly 3 minutes and I already know that this is the best thing that's going to happen today.
Quote from: PenPho on January 13, 2012, 10:11:12 AM
Quote from: morpheus on January 13, 2012, 10:10:19 AM
Quote from: Kermit IV on January 13, 2012, 12:53:27 AM
Quote from: PANK! on January 13, 2012, 12:47:36 AM
Quote from: BC on January 12, 2012, 09:48:22 PM
Victor Diaz and Craig Brazell. I am still convinced the 2004 Cubs would have won the Wild Card if they had not lost that fucking Saturday game at Shea Stadium. Austin Kearns and Javier Valentin didn't help matters in the Reds series, but the Cubs weren't ahead in the standings when those games were played.
And why don't I readily recall Craig Brazell?
Because BC is crazy.
/cue Morph photoshopping him as the Chief in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Or WAS he crazy???
(http://i.imgur.com/dKxd2.jpg)
I've been at work for roughly 3 minutes and I already know that this is the best thing that's going to happen today.
This confuses me. Wouldn't that make this the Single Best Thread Ever?
Quote from: PANK! on January 13, 2012, 12:47:36 AMOne season-destroying, improbable, opposite field homerun against a habitual pants-shitting late-inning psychopath does not a Cub Killer make, in my opinion.
And why don't I readily recall Craig Brazell?
Almost every Cubs relief pitcher has been a habitual pants-shitting late-inning psychopath, right??? I mean, the only difference is how brown the back of the pants are at the end of the inning.
Brazell was the guy that won that Saturday game with a homer in the 11th off Mercker, and that was his ONLY career homer. After 2004, his only major league time was a five-game stretch with the Royals in 2007.
Yeah, it was Craig Brazell (wtf is dat french?) that killed the 2004 Cubs season. Forget that the Cubbis lost 5 of 7 to finish the year after Monsieur Brazel caught lightning in an empty Dr. Pepper can.
Who the fuck is Kent Mercker?
Quote from: ChuckD on January 13, 2012, 07:47:02 PM
Yeah, it was Craig Brazell (wtf is dat french?) that killed the 2004 Cubs season. Forget that the Cubbis lost 5 of 7 to finish the year after Monsieur Brazel caught lightning in an empty Dr. Pepper can.
The fact that GREG BRAZIL never hit another HR still does not infuriate me as much as the fact that Eric Valente and JR Phillips never had to even lift the bats off thier shoulders to set up Diaz' heroics.
None of these players mentioned would qualify as Cub Killers, BTW. Ryan Dempster would, though.
If we're talking Cub killers, I think we can all agree nobody had a higher body count as a Cub than Ted Lillly.
Quote from: Fork on January 14, 2012, 12:00:34 PM
If we're talking Cub killers, I think we can all agree nobody had a higher body count as a Cub than Ted Lillly.
Sully confirmed Lilly was crazy