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All time psycho team??
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A friend and I were discussing today at work how crazy we think Manny Ramirez is for turning down a 45 million dollar contract.
We then decided to come up with our All Psycho Team. (Maybe not psycho, eccentric - a little off) Since we are both Red Sox fans most of the players are ones we are familiar with:
Manny Ramirez
Bill Spaceman Lee
Jimmy Piersall
Mark Fydrich
Roger Clemens – Bat throwing in the World Series
George Brett – Pine Tar game
Billy Martin
Steve Lyons
Oil Can Boyd
Julian Tavraez
Jeff Reardon
Al Hrabosky
Nomar Garciaparra
I am sure there are many more…who are we missing?
We then decided to come up with our All Psycho Team. (Maybe not psycho, eccentric - a little off) Since we are both Red Sox fans most of the players are ones we are familiar with:
Manny Ramirez
Bill Spaceman Lee
Jimmy Piersall
Mark Fydrich
Roger Clemens – Bat throwing in the World Series
George Brett – Pine Tar game
Billy Martin
Steve Lyons
Oil Can Boyd
Julian Tavraez
Jeff Reardon
Al Hrabosky
Nomar Garciaparra
I am sure there are many more…who are we missing?
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Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
Chris
My small collection
Want List:
'61 Topps Roy Campanella in PSA 5-7
Cardinal T206 cards
Adam Wainwright GU Jersey
"If I ever decided to do a book, I've already got the title-The Bases Were Loaded and So Was I"-Jim Fregosi
Rube Waddell
steve lyons of course... bill lee was not psycho
then you're forgetting Juan Marichal.
He tried to clobber someone with a bat one time.
Jose Cardenal
Lou Novikoff
Jay Johnstone
Moe Drabowsky
BTW, Steve Lyons will sometimes add the nickname "PSYCHO" when he's signing autographs.
Nick
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Jose Lima
and if we're talking about turning down a big contract, who can beat Latrell Sprewell who turned down a 3yr $21M contract from the T-Wolves and said something to the effect of "I can't feed my family with that". Thankfully with that attitude, he never got another contract offer. Now that I think about it, I guess choking his coach earns him a spot on this list anyways.
<< <i>Lots of good responses here. But do any of them really top Juan Gonzalez turning down a 8 year / $140 million dollar contract from the Detroit Tigers? So what if he couldn't hit another home run in that huge park. That's $140 million guaranteed dollars!
/s/ JackWESQ >>
Holy crap - I didn't remember that one!
<< <i>If your listing players just because of one incident,
then you're forgetting Juan Marichal.
He tried to clobber someone with a bat one time. >>
JOHNNY ROSEBORO
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
Sweet Morsels Toffee and Chocolates
"If I ever decided to do a book, I've already got the title-The Bases Were Loaded and So Was I"-Jim Fregosi
He once stepped up to bat wearing a Beatles wig and playing "air guitar" on his bat, led cheers for himself in the outfield during breaks in play, and "talked" to Babe Ruth behind the center field monuments at Yankee Stadium. In his autobiography, Piersall commented, "Probably the best thing that ever happened to me was going nuts. Who ever heard of Jimmy Piersall, until that happened?"
and that was just jimmy on a good day
hes a good ttm signed though
Besides, it's not like he got caught with superballs coming out the end of his bat *cough* Graig Nettles *cough*
I had a post like that about two-three weeks ago. Some yank fan was saying how Brett was a cheat, I said a lot more players than Brett had bats covered with pine tar, but George was the only one in the habit of slamming game winning homers off Goose Gossage.
Rush Limbaugh used to work for the Royals a long time ago, that's how they became friends.
Craig Nettles, now thats real scum. He used to start swinging at players for sliding hard into third base.
story....
One time at Busch stadium when I was a teenager we were heckling Justice. We kept it up inning after inning saying nasty stuff. If I remember correctly his wife left him sometime earlier that week and we used that A LOT. Anyway, after about 5 innings he ran up to the rail, pulled some grass out of the field, threw the grass up in the air and told us to come on the field. Now, I am not saying we were in the good for doing this (now that I'm older I know it was a crappy thing for us to do) but seriously to ask a couple of teenagers to come onto the field to fight him... that's pretty bad. After that he called security and they came over and told us to tone it down. We didn't and called him names for having called someone... He ended up dropping a fly ball at one point and then was taken out of the game. Shortly after that we were moved to the front row seats (we were like 15 rows back during the heckling).
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Mike
...why would Nomar be listed?
still one of my favorite alltime fights
For those older===Bert Campy throwing the bat at the pitcher in 74'--classic!!
<< <i>...why would Nomar be listed? >>
I'm going to guess it's for his obsessive-compulsive batting-glove-adjustment routine between pitches.
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<< <i>...why would Nomar be listed? >>
I'm going to guess it's for his obsessive-compulsive batting-glove-adjustment routine between pitches. >>
Its no wonder he can't hit, he's too nervous up there.