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batmagadanleadoff May 16 2013 05:31 PM

smg58 May 16 2013 06:11 PM Re: Club Cub

Dave Magadan played for the Cubs? Ah yes, Mel "the Smell" Rojas...

seawolf17 May 17 2013 07:26 AM Re: Club Cub

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 May 17 2013 08:08 AM Re: Club Cub

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 May 17 2013 08:48 AM Re: Club Cub

There's a lot of generous chins here. You figure, "Surely those last two can't be outchinned," and then... BAM!

metirish May 17 2013 08:54 AM Re: Club Cub

Love the Burnitz picture it's his golf pose

G-Fafif May 17 2013 10:45 AM Re: Club Cub

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 May 17 2013 10:52 AM Re: Club Cub

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 May 17 2013 11:11 AM Re: Club Cub

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

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 17 2013 11:33 AM Re: Club Cub

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 May 17 2013 11:40 AM Re: Club Cub

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 May 17 2013 11:44 AM Re: Club Cub

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 May 17 2013 11:47 AM Re: Club Cub

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 May 17 2013 11:54 AM Re: Club Cub

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 May 17 2013 11:56 AM Re: Club Cub

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 May 17 2013 11:57 AM Re: Club Cub

3) Ed Lynch

seawolf17 May 17 2013 11:58 AM Re: Club Cub

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 May 17 2013 12:01 PM Re: Club Cub

2) Billy Connors

seawolf17 May 17 2013 12:07 PM Re: Club Cub

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 May 17 2013 12:10 PM Re: Club Cub

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

seawolf17 May 17 2013 12:11 PM Re: Club Cub

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 May 17 2013 12:11 PM Re: Club Cub

Pictures or it didn't happen. But it really happened! Cubs failed to put the acute accent over the second O in Ordóñez, but it's him.

G-Fafif May 17 2013 12:20 PM Re: Club Cub

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 May 17 2013 12:25 PM Re: Club Cub

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

seawolf17 May 17 2013 12:55 PM Re: Club Cub

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 May 17 2013 01:56 PM Re: Club Cub

Love the Drake! Definitely respect him.

batmagadanleadoff May 19 2013 07:59 AM Re: Club Cub