Baseball Thread Number 8: Cal Ripken says the playoff hunt is fun

Well, I'd like to congratulate the Dodgers for having the best DH in the National League.

 

One of the ESPN guys compared this to the importance of Matt Stairs to the Phillies last year. Of course, Matt Stairs wasn't making what Thome and Stairs is used to playing a part-time role and pinch-hitting while Thome is not particularly good as a pinch hitter.

 

And Stairs is Canadian.

 

And he had a mullet!

 

You are an idiot, as always. How could you forget Phil Coke?

 

And Aceves. Whatever the hell his first name is. He's a Yankee, dammit!

 

Nine wins in relief. Suck his taint, Dennis Lamp!!!!

 

Dennis Lamp ... good get, BYH. He once pitched before thousands of empty seats at Wrigley Field.

1979 Cubs starting rotation (from Baseball Almanac):

Ken Holtzman
Mike Krukow
Dennis Lamp
Lynn McGlothen (??)
Rick Reuschel

Can't say I remember anything about Lynn McGlothen, but I think I had cards of the other gusy -- along with their catcher, the immortal Barry Foote.

 

Remember whom Lamp piggybacked with the Blue Jays in 1985, Coco?

And Lynn McGlothen died very young and suddenly...car accident, maybe? I always mixed him up with Lloyd McClendon.

 

One died young and the other went on to manage the Pirates. I'm just going to leave that without comment.

 

I served that fucker up to you like Chan Ho Park to Cal Ripken Jr. in the '01 ASG.

 

It's McLaughlin, and I'm going to pull a Jon Gruden here: As a kid, I got a phone call while living in Arkansas. It was my dad. He was in a bar in Chicago sitting with McLaughlin and Donnie Moore, then a Cubs reliever. He asked if they'd be willing to call and talk to his son, who was huge baseball fan. They said yes, and that is my best long-distance-phone-call-from-a-pair-of-Cubs-relievers story.