Being Sid Fernandez

[Willets Point]

Sid was bad ass.

[Elster88]

You spelled fat wrong.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Nah, most of his weight was above the belt.

The giant Sid-like creature was a guest instructor in camp this year.

[Guest sharpie]

You're Sid Fernandez but I'm Joe McEwing, his physical opposite.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Sid was in attendance at a Rangers game I was at earlier this season.

[Guest cooby]

Sid is my all time favorite Met


Did you know his father in law was murdered?

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I didn't know that. How sad!

[Guest cooby]

It was a long time ago. Not that that makes it any better

[Frayed Knot]

He had a lot more good/decent seasons here (hence his high ranking) than most fans will remember.

That said, he was a very frustrating pitcher to watch and root for.
Once he released the ball he had almost no baseball instincts whatsoever. Couldn't move, couldn't field, would throw to the wrong base, and barely seemed to know the rules (although suprisingly he wasn't a bad hitter).

He's also rumored to be one of the dumber muthafuckas who ever walked the earth. Thinking that pro-wrestling was real is bad enough, but the story told in Pearlman's book about his struggle to buy a house is classic: he moped to Davey that he wanted to purchase a dream plot of land back in Hawaii that was going for $200,000 - but that he "only" made 250K at the time and didn't think he could live on $50K for the entire year. He had no inkling of the concept of down payments and mortgages.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Every time Sid was out there I felt that he had the potential to pitch a no-hitter, and that he also had the potential to walk double digit batters. I also felt that he had the potential to do both of those things simultaneously.

I was also amused how Sid's physique would change throughout the season. He came to camp in 1985 looking fabulous, but by the end of the season he was back to his old self.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

He looked fabulous?

Really?

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Seriously. I have a picture in an album from our Spring Training 1985 trip. He looked really fit.

[Guest cooby]

The racing stripe pants were slimming

[Centerfield]

What frustrated me most about Sid was how quickly he would lose it. He would sail along for 6 and a third, then suddenly walk the ballpark and give up a home run without warning.

I liked him though. And I will always appreciate the work he did in the World Series coming out of the pen.