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Another Sunday Name That Cub

OK, maybe THIS one will stump you. No clues.

Who's this handsome young man?

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I dunno if I can take it…

Erm, well if we are going to call Milton Bradley nicknames, mine is Fischer Price: yes, you heard it here first..

by Chanman25 on Jan 11, 2009 3:27 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Maybe this one will last longer than the others.

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

by Al on Jan 11, 2009 3:31 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

TWSS

"Truth does not do as much good in the world as the semblance of truth does evil," - Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 64.

by Emelie on Jan 11, 2009 3:59 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

meh...

that one was used two threads ago!

Erm, well if we are going to call Milton Bradley nicknames, mine is Fischer Price: yes, you heard it here first..

by Chanman25 on Jan 11, 2009 4:05 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

good effort though

you’ve learned well haha

Erm, well if we are going to call Milton Bradley nicknames, mine is Fischer Price: yes, you heard it here first..

by Chanman25 on Jan 11, 2009 4:05 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

there is no such thing as too much TWSS :D

"Truth does not do as much good in the world as the semblance of truth does evil," - Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 64.

by Emelie on Jan 11, 2009 4:38 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

TWSS

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson

by Shanghai Badger on Jan 11, 2009 8:22 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

that is what she said...

Erm, well if we are going to call Milton Bradley nicknames, mine is Fischer Price: yes, you heard it here first..

by Chanman25 on Jan 12, 2009 9:57 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I didn't want to waste a FanShot slot for this but...

those of you who get the MLB Network will be able to see a April 21, 1991 Cubs @ Pirates game. My DirecTV says it will air at 8:00 ET. Not sure how to link the date with baseball reference so I’ll just put the link.

It will be funny seeing the “slimmed down,” younger version of Bonds.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PIT/PIT199104210.shtml

Bleeding Cubbie Blue since 1985.

by Bricks and Ivy on Jan 11, 2009 3:36 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Harkey, McElroy

Dave Smith, Heathcliff Slocum, and Mike Bielecki… How could we lose with that kind of pitching!?

"This is an environment of welcoming, and you should just get the hell outta here." --Michael Scott

by Reddevil on Jan 11, 2009 3:38 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Actually, there is a FanShot about this.

That’s at 7 pm CST for those of us in Chicago.

And I don’t think I really want to see that game again. Or maybe just shut it off after the top of the 11th.

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

by Al on Jan 11, 2009 3:38 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Um, nope.

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

by Al on Jan 11, 2009 3:43 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

rey?

Rey Sanchez?…j/k.

by Lows05 on Jan 11, 2009 3:41 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Easy

Daniel Larusso

"This is an environment of welcoming, and you should just get the hell outta here." --Michael Scott

by Reddevil on Jan 11, 2009 3:58 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

LOL

But no.

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

by Al on Jan 11, 2009 4:01 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

There IS a clue in the photo.

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

by Al on Jan 11, 2009 4:10 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Look closely.

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

by Al on Jan 11, 2009 4:33 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I noticed the the zipper

It looks like he’s wearing a uniform over a warm-up jacket.

Old Style is the nectar of life.

by Mordecai on Jan 11, 2009 5:06 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

damn I am good!

100 vocab words for english put onto flashcards in 45 minutes

Erm, well if we are going to call Milton Bradley nicknames, mine is Fischer Price: yes, you heard it here first..

by Chanman25 on Jan 11, 2009 4:19 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Looks a lot like...

…Randy Hundley.

"Man, this is fun!" - Len Kasper

by ryno HOF 2005 on Jan 11, 2009 5:01 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

I'm gonna say he's from '68 based on the jersey

It was the only one from that era that had a red collar.

Old Style is the nectar of life.

by Mordecai on Jan 11, 2009 5:11 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Actually, the 1969 road jerseys were different.

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

by Al on Jan 11, 2009 5:36 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Nice guess, but no.

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

by Al on Jan 11, 2009 5:36 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Lee Elia?

"Who's Bob Brenly? The guy that used to be the manager for Arizona?" ~ Alfonso Guilleard Soriano

by JohnM on Jan 11, 2009 5:23 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Then again

It also looks like John Boccabella

"Who's Bob Brenly? The guy that used to be the manager for Arizona?" ~ Alfonso Guilleard Soriano

by JohnM on Jan 11, 2009 5:26 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Boccabella...

… looks like this:

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

by Al on Jan 11, 2009 5:45 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Merritt Ranew...

or Boccabella…or Sterling Slaughter

by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Jan 11, 2009 5:27 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

None of the above.

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

by Al on Jan 11, 2009 5:37 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

This uni goes many years before 1968.

1968 was the last year this road uni was worn. I still think it’s the best one of the 50’s and 60s….

by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Jan 11, 2009 5:29 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Nope.

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

by Al on Jan 11, 2009 5:43 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Maybe, but...

… there are literally THOUSANDS of obscure Cubs to go through…

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

by Al on Jan 12, 2009 10:57 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Nope.

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

by Al on Jan 11, 2009 5:51 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Interesting guess.

But no.

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

by Al on Jan 11, 2009 5:57 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Billy Connors

An excellent pitching coach. Better coach than pitcher. Dated porn star named Seka.

by cub512 on Jan 11, 2009 6:00 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

DINGDINGDING!!!

We have a winner. Here’s the ful version of that photo:

Here’s what Connors looked like in spring training 2008:

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

by Al on Jan 11, 2009 6:05 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Hmmm.

Not sure what happened to that other photo, there should have been another photo linked there.

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

by Al on Jan 11, 2009 8:40 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

And now it's there... but in case it vanishes again...

This is Connors watching Kei Igawa in ST 2008.

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

by Al on Jan 12, 2009 11:00 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

is that delivery as awkward as it looks?

Or is it just the camera angle? Looks like he’s doing the chicken dance!

"Truth does not do as much good in the world as the semblance of truth does evil," - Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 64.

by Emelie on Jan 12, 2009 12:49 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Maybe it is as awkward as it looks.

And maybe that’s why Igawa failed.

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

by Al on Jan 12, 2009 2:48 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Is that true?

Billy Connors dated Seka? Sources, please.

"Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle." ~ George Burns

by tville on Jan 11, 2009 8:17 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Estrada did pitch for the Cubs

But he sucked.

Just weeks into the 1966 season, he was returned by the Angels to the Orioles.1 A day later, he was sent packing again, this time to the Chicago Cubs.7 The Cubs gave Estrada a shot as a starting pitcher on June 14, 1966, but he pitched less than an inning, giving up three hits and four earned runs and also hitting a batter.8 The Cubs then sent him to the bullpen and used him in relief for the remainder of the 1966 season. His stats only worsened, as he pitched a career-worst 7.30 ERA in only 12.3 innings of work. The 28-year-old Estrada was released by the Cubs on November 30, 1966.

thanks to Wikipedia

by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Jan 11, 2009 6:00 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

See the answer above.

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

by Al on Jan 11, 2009 6:06 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

SEKA

IN THE EARLY 1990s, the Cubs pitching coach at the time, Billy Connors, dated adult film star Seka, a
relationship that caused no small embarrassment to the Cubs, who forbade Connors from leaving tickets
for her at the box office and told him not to be seen in public with her.

http://www.clearbuck.com/pdf/Chicago20Tribune20Special20Section20-20Baseball20in20Chicago2006.27.2004.pdf

by Clutche on Jan 11, 2009 9:18 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

I like the weather conditions in that link

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson

by Shanghai Badger on Jan 11, 2009 10:05 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Never heard that

You’d think Dick Pole would have been more her type if she was going to date a pitching coach….

But seriously, I’ve heard that she “went yard” with a lot of Cubs players over the years.

by Mike Vails Evil Twin on Jan 12, 2009 9:35 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I have evidence to base this on, nor sources

But there is a 100% chance Mark Grace was one of those players.

by rob9802 on Jan 12, 2009 3:29 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

whoops

comment foul on myself..that needed to be reply to Mike Vails Evil Twin’s message from above about players Seka ‘went yard’ with.

by rob9802 on Jan 12, 2009 3:31 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

shameful

the topic should be ’ i have NO evidence to base this on’..
I’m going back to bed now.

by rob9802 on Jan 12, 2009 3:36 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

All your evidence is belong to us.

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

by Al on Jan 13, 2009 9:35 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

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