Bozo Murton and his Grand Prize Game

by Thelonious on May 11, 2007 4:50 AM CDT Comment 48 comments

I'm not going to bother posting anything meaningful about Murton now. My opinion is well known: I'm not a big fan of him or his game, but he's definitely not worthless.

That being said, I feel compelled to post this nice picture that Ryno took of Murton when he didn't have his makeup on, and wasn't wearing his orange wig: in short, this is how Matt looks when he doesn't have his game face on...complements of Ryno from the matt murton weak-ass ground ball fan fest blog....sparkles--LOOK AWAY:

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Ain't that the truth.

This is a good one too

"What's it all about? Booze, Broads and bullshit." Harry Caray

by lemon17pie on May 11, 2007 5:04 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Lol

That made me think of the King from the Burger King commercials. That guys got skills, maybe we could get him to play center for us. We could have Bozo, The King and Fonzie in the outfield.

by pageian on May 11, 2007 7:04 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Love the King!

That guy is awesome. The wife thinks he's creepy, but I think the guy rules.

Well, sometimes nothin is a real cool hand.

by wicubfan on May 11, 2007 10:15 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Weird

My girlfriend and my sister both get creeped out by the King.

Hmm. wonder why.

"What's it all about? Booze, Broads and bullshit." Harry Caray

by lemon17pie on May 11, 2007 10:29 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Obviously

You've had a bad experience with royalty.

"No ballplayer's here because of the Mariners!" ~ Sam Malone

by Littlerock Rynofan on May 11, 2007 10:34 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Are you saying..

my wife is your girlfriend or sister?? :)

Well, sometimes nothin is a real cool hand.

by wicubfan on May 11, 2007 10:34 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

The guy

appears in bed next to ANOTHER GUY.

I'm sorry but if you don't think that's creepy I don't know what to say. Just don't sit next to me.

by nickler on May 11, 2007 2:54 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I love what he's done with his hair!

MMMMM...Hebrew National

by Kinky Reggae on May 11, 2007 7:49 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I should have taken a photo.

There was a kid, maybe high school age, standing behind us the other night who could have been Murton's kid brother. Same hair.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on May 11, 2007 8:05 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Priceless

..but he's only 25 and cheap !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ah, come on guys... It's so simple. Maybe you need a refresher course. Hey! It's all ball bearings nowadays. ...

by BlueMike on May 11, 2007 8:33 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Obviously

You must be afraid of clowns.

"No ballplayer's here because of the Mariners!" ~ Sam Malone

by Littlerock Rynofan on May 11, 2007 8:41 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Actually, I am

As a kid I found Bozo and Cookie to be two of the most disturbing characters on the planet. I actually met the real Bozo once. He reeked of cigarettes and was coughing like he had emphysema. Plus, I'll never forget the story of the guy from an adjacent town who sidelined as a clown at kid's birthday parties getting arrested for pedophilia.

John Wayne Gacy was a clown too.

Ah, come on guys... It's so simple. Maybe you need a refresher course. Hey! It's all ball bearings nowadays. ...

by BlueMike on May 11, 2007 8:48 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

So ...

Murton reminds you of ... Gacy? That's where the obsession began? Crikey, you do need help.

"No ballplayer's here because of the Mariners!" ~ Sam Malone

by Littlerock Rynofan on May 11, 2007 8:54 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm tempted to label this a cheap shot...

...but Murton did have an undeniably awful game yesterday. I still haven't given up on the guy as a quality supporting player, but he does deserve some guff after what was simply a disastrous defensive performance.

Brew Crew: We are coming for you.

by dat cubfan daver on May 11, 2007 9:13 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

if only the photoshop was better

bozo's neck is like a foot long!

One of Us!One Of Us!

by HerrProf on May 11, 2007 9:38 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Ok...

Is this one better...

...you nitpicking jerk?

by Rynot on May 11, 2007 9:44 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

re: Ok...

Geez, you Photoshop artistes are so touchy.

Brew Crew: We are coming for you.

by dat cubfan daver on May 11, 2007 9:53 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Please...

I spent five minutes on each of those photos. It's not like they were terrible or anything...

by Rynot on May 11, 2007 10:16 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

re: Please...

Not terrible at all. Just saying your response to criticism is a little harsh.

Brew Crew: We are coming for you.

by dat cubfan daver on May 11, 2007 10:19 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Maybe...

But that's not the case here. If you read my posts and comments at cubsblog.net you would see that my response was actually relatively polite.

by Rynot on May 11, 2007 10:22 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Perhaps...

I should have just said, "I'm a jerk."

by Rynot on May 11, 2007 10:38 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

how about a GOAT HEAD instead

baaaaaaaaaaaaa

Best Harry moment: 'Hey there's Marla without her shorts on!'

by Ivy Walls on May 11, 2007 2:46 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hmm...

Interesting...

by Rynot on May 11, 2007 3:44 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

You guys

crack me up. Nice pics, nice primal fear of clowns. My wife's afraid of clowns, too. Our son, however, is afraid of mechanical turkeys.

"Mine, mine, says the squirrel to the transformer, unclear on the capacities of electricity." -Dean Young

by Kegler on May 11, 2007 11:12 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Can someone explain to me...

... this fear of clowns?

Not that I love clowns that much or anything, but I don't fear them, either. Where does this fear come from?

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on May 11, 2007 11:20 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I went through

a strenuous Psych program, I should know, but I don't.

Good thing I'm not psych anymore.

Faith Plus One - Contributing Editor -http://www.inaleagueofherown.com

by Faith plus 1 on May 11, 2007 11:27 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Do they have to be in costume?

Do they have to be in costume for you to be afraid?

Because if you're afraid of clowns how could you go to any Cubs game where Dusty Baker is the manager?

Derrek Lee would beat Chuck Norris.

by kerrysotherwife on May 11, 2007 1:21 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

You misunderstand

I was 2 classes (6 credis) from a Bachelors in Psychology.

Faith Plus One - Contributing Editor -http://www.inaleagueofherown.com

by Faith plus 1 on May 11, 2007 1:26 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Clowns are creepy

Most guys who dress up as clowns are creepy, and often times perverts. Remember Crazy Joe Davola from the Seinfeld episode? Yet another creepy clown. If I were U.S. President, I'd hereby ban clowns from American society.

Ah, come on guys... It's so simple. Maybe you need a refresher course. Hey! It's all ball bearings nowadays. ...

by BlueMike on May 11, 2007 11:30 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Great!

Love the diving catch!

"Avoid the clap- Jimmy Duggan(That's good advice)"

by tommy veryzer on May 11, 2007 11:22 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I apologize

Several weeks ago I authored a diary entited, "Matt Murton = Scott Thompson." In hindsight, I was wrong to make the comparison. I would just like for Scott Thompson, his friends and family, and Cub fans who recall the late 70's and early 80's that I apologize for such a wretched comparison. Murton couldn't carry Thompson's jock strap.

I just hope my all-time hero, Larry Bittner, doesn't get wind of my crime.

Ah, come on guys... It's so simple. Maybe you need a refresher course. Hey! It's all ball bearings nowadays. ...

by BlueMike on May 11, 2007 12:05 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I kinda thought..

Terry Francona. Francona hit better though.

Well, sometimes nothin is a real cool hand.

by wicubfan on May 11, 2007 12:08 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Biittner

I wish you had a photo of him losing the ball under his hat.

"Hello again, everybody. Harry Caray from Wrigley Field on a beautiful day for baseball."

by danimal15 on May 11, 2007 3:44 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh, boy.

That was classic.

It happened in this game. The PBP is rather prosaic:

METS 4TH: Stearns walked; Stearns was picked off first but was safe on an error by Moore [Stearns to second]; Boisclair doubled to right [Stearns scored, Boisclair out at third (right to third)]; Flynn singled to pitcher; On a bunt Hausman struck out; Taveras made an out to shortstop; 1 R, 2 H, 1 E, 1 LOB. Mets 3, Cubs 0.

What really happened was that Biittner, playing RF, had the ball fall under his cap, which had fallen off. We saw it in RF, sitting behind him, and kept yelling, "Hat! Hat!" till he picked it up and threw Boisclair out at 3B.

Only 5,827 people can say they saw that in person. I was one of them.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on May 11, 2007 4:20 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

hat

I can't believe you were there, Al! Seems like you've never missed a game. I think I watched that one on TV. I was eight.

Actually, I would have probably been sitting in my third-grade classroom at the time that happened, so I'm not sure why I remember it. Maybe I saw it replayed that night.

"Hello again, everybody. Harry Caray from Wrigley Field on a beautiful day for baseball."

by danimal15 on May 11, 2007 4:31 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hebner

killed us that day, didn't he? The 1979 Mets were an awful club. For a long time, I was very glad the Mets were in the division because they always kept the Cubs from finishing last. Of course they finally started improving in 1983, 1984.

"Hello again, everybody. Harry Caray from Wrigley Field on a beautiful day for baseball."

by danimal15 on May 11, 2007 4:33 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Third grade.

<sigh>

I had just started grad school at Northwestern that week.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on May 11, 2007 5:09 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

age

Yeah, but think of all the stuff you got to experience that I missed by being born too late: The Beatles, the moon landing, the 1969 Cubs, Woodstock, Watergate, etc.

"Hello again, everybody. Harry Caray from Wrigley Field on a beautiful day for baseball."

by danimal15 on May 11, 2007 5:14 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

The discovery of fire, the invention of the wheel.

Just because I have a short attention span doesn't mean...

by eamuscatuli1881 on May 12, 2007 10:34 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

You....

and kerrysotherwife were there Al.

She is EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"I guess we will have to agree to disagree on this." Sue369

by timeforachange on May 12, 2007 9:31 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

re: You....

So kinda like Forrest Gump?

Brew Crew: We are coming for you.

by dat cubfan daver on May 12, 2007 1:56 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

re: re: you....

but crazier.......

"I guess we will have to agree to disagree on this." Sue369

by timeforachange on May 12, 2007 11:19 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh I forgot

No good player in the history of the game has gone through struggles in the plate and/or in the field.

Derrek Lee would beat Chuck Norris.

by kerrysotherwife on May 11, 2007 1:22 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

LOL

by Rynot on May 11, 2007 1:51 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

sure

that happens to good players. Evidently, it happens to Murton frequently too.

Baby, you got a stew goin'

by Thelonious on May 11, 2007 6:27 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wow

Murton sucks. Why would anyone think he was a quality ballplayer. I don't care if he's cheap, they could be paying him fifty bucks a game and it would still be too much. Name one good thing he has done for the club. I do think the Cubs should be playing him everyday though...only to get other teams intersted in a trade involving him. He is an absolute butcher on the basepaths and not much better defensively. I swear to you, I can run the bases better than Bozo, and I'm 39 pounds overweight and slow. Oh wait he does take a walk every now and then....OMG.....finally. A Cubbie who will take a walk, and hit a ton of weak ass grounders. I can guarantee you he goes to the dish looking to walk. Even HE knows he can't hit. Murton sucks!!!

by theantigoat on May 11, 2007 5:07 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs