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Who is... McGrath?

Benjamin Grimm Mar 04 2017 12:01 PM

Check out this picture posted on the UMDB Facebook page this morning. It's a cartoon team drawing of the 1986 World Champs. Anyone recognize the cartoonist "McGrath" from anywhere? I can identify most of the players, but there are a few that I'm unsure of.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 07 2018 07:57 PM Re: Who is... McGrath?

Well, it's been about a year and a half. I guess nobody knows who "McGrath" is!

Ceetar Aug 07 2018 08:37 PM Re: Who is... McGrath?

Edgy MD Aug 07 2018 09:00 PM Re: Who is... McGrath?

Three most disturbing parts of that illustration: [list:19eue4yh]1. It depicts the team a moment before the stadium, or at least the lighting tower and top of the scoreboard, are destroyed by a passenger jet crash. Pull up, captain! 2. Mackey is sporting an axe. What. The. Fuck? 3. He's wielding that axe WHILE getting a handjob from Mookie Wilson.[/list:u:19eue4yh]

Benjamin Grimm Aug 07 2018 09:12 PM Re: Who is... McGrath?

Edgy MD wrote: He's wielding that axe WHILE getting a handjob from Mookie Wilson. I think I was at Shea that day!

Edgy MD Aug 07 2018 10:03 PM Re: Who is... McGrath?

So I've got: Back Row, Standing: H. Johnson, Magadan, Mazzilli, Darling, Cone with a conehead, Strawberry and Gooden with the X-Rays, Fernandez indulging his vegetable diet, Aase with the business card, Aguilera standing tall and rocking a mullet, Lyons doffing his cap. Third Row, Seated on Benches and Squatting: Dykstra, Sasser, Wilson, Ojeda with the torn-up hand, Myers going commando, and Backman inexplicably climbing out of a coffin. Second Row, Seated on Ground: McReynolds, Hernandez, D. Johnson, Carter, Elster. Front Row, in Repose or Under Water: Jefferies, McDowell, I don't know (Miller? Carreon?).

Ceetar Aug 08 2018 01:11 AM Re: Who is... McGrath?

I feel like there are so many in/topical jokes there that might not even have made sense a year later.

Edgy MD Aug 08 2018 01:45 AM Re: Who is... McGrath?

I think in the stretch run of 1985, Wally Backman routinely gave quotes from day to day like "We're not buried yet" or "We may be in the coffin, but the lid isn't closed." Even if I remember that rightly, I'm not sure it was that big a thing that it would be a way of identifying Backman three seasons later.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 08 2018 02:32 AM Re: Who is... McGrath?

I remember the coffin analogies as a 1987 thing.

SteveJRogers Aug 08 2018 03:27 AM Re: Who is... McGrath?

Edgy MD wrote: 2. Mackey is sporting an axe. What. The. Fuck? Mackey "The Hacker" Sasser.