Club Cub

[batmagadanleadoff]

[smg58]

Dave Magadan played for the Cubs?

Ah yes, Mel "the Smell" Rojas...

[seawolf17]

There's always someone in these threads, usually from the mid-90s, who I'm surprised by too. Don't remember Magadan as a Cub either. Or Randy Myers, for that matter.

[Edgy MD]

Funny that they have Henderson in bunting practice.

Does anybody rotate the back foot forward and square their hips anymore? It's seems that when I was young (and Steve Henderson was a cardboard god), that this was the gold standard leaving your back foot where it is was considered bad form.

I have to say, these teams having a long history of cross-pollination before the mettalic ink era leaves us with a much handsomer set of cards.

[Edgy MD]

There's a lot of generous chins here.




You figure, "Surely those last two can't be outchinned," and then... BAM!

[metirish]

Love the Burnitz picture



it's his golf pose

[G-Fafif]

seawolf17 wrote: There's always someone in these threads, usually from the mid-90s, who I'm surprised by too. Don't remember Magadan as a Cub either. Or Randy Myers, for that matter.

Myers posted seasons of 53 and 38 saves with the Cubs in his three years there, the latter in service to a
Cubs team that made a late if doomed push for the first N.L. Wild Card.

Magadan, on the other hand, I wouldn't have remembered North Siding it without the nudge provided here. Mags, wherever he batted in any given order, really wandered the earth post-Mets.

[Frayed Knot]

metirish wrote: Love the Burnitz picture it's his golf pose

I suspect that Jeromy's golf swing and baseball swing were pretty much indistinguishable.
Grip it and rip it!

[dinosaur jesus]

If you're looking to trade that Harry Chiti card, I've got a Harry Chiti card I'm willing to part with.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

G-Fafif wrote: seawolf17 wrote: There's always someone in these threads, usually from the mid-90s, who I'm surprised by too. Don't remember Magadan as a Cub either. Or Randy Myers, for that matter. Myers posted seasons of 53 and 38 saves with the Cubs in his three years there, the latter in service to a Cubs team that made a late if doomed push for the first N.L. Wild Card. Magadan, on the other hand, I wouldn't have remembered North Siding it without the nudge provided here. Mags, wherever he batted in any given order, really wandered the earth post-Mets.

Hojo. I mean, I believe it happened, but can't remember it.

[seawolf17]

G-Fafif wrote: Mags, wherever he batted in any given order, really wandered the earth post-Mets.

Wow. Florida (remember), Seattle (don't remember), Houston (nope), Cubs (not at all), A's (really?), Padres (three seasons!?).

HoJo as a Cub, I remember.

[batmagadanleadoff]

There's a lot of mind-bending one-time Mets with other teams that you'd probably never remember. Whenever I make these card threads, I'm always forced to leave out about 25-35% of the ex-Mets that once played for the team in question: cards don't exist for those missing ex-Mets.

[batmagadanleadoff]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: There's a lot of mind-bending one-time Mets with other teams that you'd probably never remember. Whenever I make these card threads, I'm always forced to leave out about 25-35% of the ex-Mets that once played for the team in question: cards don't exist for those missing ex-Mets.

Some MIA's from Club Cub: Rey Ordonez, Todd Pratt, Art Shamsky, Chris Cannizzaro....

[G-Fafif]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Hojo. I mean, I believe it happened, but can't remember it.

HoJo was both an ex-Met and ex-Rockie when I saw him, in my more concentrated beverage days, as a then-current Cub at Coors Field; I was a guest of the brewer who held (and holds) the naming rights. My PR handlers -- not enormous baseball fans but caught up in early Rockies fever, which was actually pretty invigorating to be around in the summer of 1995 -- vaguely recalled HoJo in Colorado the year before, and my hyper-recognition of him as the solitary Cub I went out of my way to applaud led them to the overstatement that "this guy knows more about the Rockies than we do!"

If I did, it was by default.

[seawolf17]

There are six players who have played ONLY for the Mets and Cubs and no other teams, unlike Messrs. Magadan and Hojo. NAME THEM.

1) Cubs 1960-61, Mets 1962
2) Cubs 1966, Mets 1967-68
3) Mets 1980-86, Cubs 1986-87
4) Cubs 1991, Mets 1993
5) Mets 1996-97, Cubs 1998
6) Mets 1993-95, Cubs 1996

[G-Fafif]

3) Ed Lynch

[seawolf17]

1) Cubs 1960-61, Mets 1962
2) Cubs 1966, Mets 1967-68
3) ED LYNCH -- Mets 1980-86, Cubs 1986-87
4) Cubs 1991, Mets 1993
5) Mets 1996-97, Cubs 1998
6) Mets 1993-95, Cubs 1996

[G-Fafif]

2) Billy Connors

[seawolf17]

1) Cubs 1960-61, Mets 1962
2) BILLY CONNORS -- Cubs 1966, Mets 1967-68
3) ED LYNCH -- Mets 1980-86, Cubs 1986-87
4) Cubs 1991, Mets 1993
5) Mets 1996-97, Cubs 1998
6) Mets 1993-95, Cubs 1996

One of these unnamed guys has a card up there.

[G-Fafif]

6) Kevin Roberson (though the years should be flipped)

[seawolf17]

1) Cubs 1960-61, Mets 1962 (infielder)
2) BILLY CONNORS -- Cubs 1966, Mets 1967-68
3) ED LYNCH -- Mets 1980-86, Cubs 1986-87
4) Cubs 1991, Mets 1993 (outfielder)
5) Mets 1996-97, Cubs 1998 (infielder)
6) KEVIN ROBERSON -- Cubs 1993-95, Mets 1996

Mistyped. Thanks.

[Edgy MD]

Pictures or it didn't happen.

But it really happened!





Cubs failed to put the acute accent over the second O in Ord��ez, but it's him.

[G-Fafif]

4) Ced Landrum

Released in tandem with Chico Walker as fast as could be on the last day of the 1993 season, lest it seem odd one should remember Ced Landrum.

Though I suppose it's odd to remember that, too.

[G-Fafif]

5) Jason Hartdke

Who rescued a game blown by John Franco at the hands of...current Cubs manager Dale Sveum.

[seawolf17]

1) Cubs 1960-61, Mets 1962 (infielder)
2) BILLY CONNORS -- Cubs 1966, Mets 1967-68
3) ED LYNCH -- Mets 1980-86, Cubs 1986-87
4) CED LANDRUM -- Cubs 1991, Mets 1993 (outfielder)
5) JASON HARDTKE -- Mets 1996-97, Cubs 1998 (infielder)
6) KEVIN ROBERSON -- Cubs 1993-95, Mets 1996

And your missing original ex-Cub Met is...

[G-Fafif]

Love the Drake!

Definitely respect him.

[batmagadanleadoff]