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1. DL from MN
Posted: January 04, 2015 at 03:41 PM (#4872599)
8. OCF
Posted: January 04, 2015 at 09:01 PM (#4872898)
Brian Wilson as closer.
But was the public persona and mound behavior all just an act? If so, he wouldn't be the first relief pitcher with an act. Anyone remember Al "The Mad Hungarian" Hrabosky? Heck, long before that, Ryne Duren had an act.
Before settling on an outfield, go to the New Historical Baseball Abstract and read the piece on Mike Donlin. Now that's some high-grade crazy. When I read that piece, I kept thinking of Dennis Rodman.
9. Lars6788
Posted: January 04, 2015 at 10:27 PM (#4872940)
Kevin Mitchell, Carl Everett and Luke Scott could be in the outfield.
10. sanny manguillen
Posted: January 04, 2015 at 10:44 PM (#4872952)
Would love to see his career play out minus that horrible ankle injury in 1999.
Lurker here: Kendall actually came back from the ankle very well, .320/.412/.470 in 152 games in 2000. He sustained a hand injury early in 2001, played the full season with it, and his power disappeared for good.
11. Harvest
Posted: January 04, 2015 at 11:15 PM (#4872972)
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Bobo Newsom. He could slot right into that rotation.
12. Bleed the Freak
Posted: January 04, 2015 at 11:24 PM (#4872976)
Maybe just eccentric, but Julio Zuleta did some Pedro Cerrano type stuff.
13. Jacob
Posted: January 05, 2015 at 03:27 AM (#4873015)
He didn't play for long, but catcher Martin Bergen was definitely "crazy".
14. jdennis
Posted: January 05, 2015 at 07:51 AM (#4873031)
The all crazy team needs to be very heavily dead ball era.
He sustained a hand injury early in 2001, played the full season with it, and his power disappeared for good.
Specifically a torn tendon in his thumb. And the injury happened on opening day, when he tried to block a ball in the dirt, but it was the team's first season in PNC Park and they wanted him as a drawing card, so they let him try and play through it.
no way. kendall from about 2007 on was a powderkeg
It was at times legitimately scary how deeply committed Kendall was to playing baseball. I am, to be honest, a little bit surprised that he isn't still playing semi-pro ball in some Third World country and plotting to work his way back up to the Show.
19. toratoratora
Posted: January 06, 2015 at 02:06 PM (#4874411)
From a Calcaterra article;
"Retired Phillies catcher Darren Daulton believes in alchemy, auras, telepathy, energy transfers, astral planes, planetary ascension, and parallel universes. He believes that he had an had out of body experiences while playing at Wrigley Field one day. He believes that the universe is created and sustained by numerical synchronicities — the number 11 is particularly important in his life — and
that all matter is charged with extradimensional vibrational energy. He believes
that his moods have altered the weather before, that the pyramids were created by a lost
civilization — or possibly aliens — and that people with knowledge of the workings of the
universe will ascend to a higher plane of existence on Dec. 21, 2012, at 11:11 a.m."
Well, to be perfectly fair, lots of cosmologists believe in parallel universes. And doesn't string theory essentially posit that "all matter is charged with extradimensional vibrational energy"? And hasn't the entire Cubs franchise experienced a century of out of body experiences at Wrigley and at other locations on the North American continent? Is it so hard to believe that a visiting player might succumb to all those vibes?
21. Russ
Posted: February 03, 2015 at 10:32 AM (#4892497)
I didn't know Kendall had written a book... did anyone read it? Is it any good?
Kendall is far and away my favourite player ever. We share a birthday (just one year apart) and he was the most enjoyable part of the late 90's early 00's Pirate teams. That guy had the reddest of asses and you never felt like he was mailing it in, ever.
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1. DL from MN Posted: January 04, 2015 at 03:41 PM (#4872599)hmmm, what would be that squad?
Carlton has to be the ace
no way. kendall from about 2007 on was a powderkeg
so jimmy piersall in center (sorry)
milton bradley in right i imagine
But was the public persona and mound behavior all just an act? If so, he wouldn't be the first relief pitcher with an act. Anyone remember Al "The Mad Hungarian" Hrabosky? Heck, long before that, Ryne Duren had an act.
Before settling on an outfield, go to the New Historical Baseball Abstract and read the piece on Mike Donlin. Now that's some high-grade crazy. When I read that piece, I kept thinking of Dennis Rodman.
Lurker here: Kendall actually came back from the ankle very well, .320/.412/.470 in 152 games in 2000. He sustained a hand injury early in 2001, played the full season with it, and his power disappeared for good.
i feel a bit uncomfortable listing say a rube waddell. the guy wasn't crazy. he just had a real low i.q. by what we can determine.
Specifically a torn tendon in his thumb. And the injury happened on opening day, when he tried to block a ball in the dirt, but it was the team's first season in PNC Park and they wanted him as a drawing card, so they let him try and play through it.
Which is to say that he is not crazy at all. And that he is incredibly annoying.
It was at times legitimately scary how deeply committed Kendall was to playing baseball. I am, to be honest, a little bit surprised that he isn't still playing semi-pro ball in some Third World country and plotting to work his way back up to the Show.
"Retired Phillies catcher Darren Daulton believes in alchemy, auras, telepathy, energy transfers, astral planes, planetary ascension, and parallel universes. He believes that he had an had out of body experiences while playing at Wrigley Field one day. He believes that the universe is created and sustained by numerical synchronicities — the number 11 is particularly important in his life — and
that all matter is charged with extradimensional vibrational energy. He believes
that his moods have altered the weather before, that the pyramids were created by a lost
civilization — or possibly aliens — and that people with knowledge of the workings of the
universe will ascend to a higher plane of existence on Dec. 21, 2012, at 11:11 a.m."
Kendall is far and away my favourite player ever. We share a birthday (just one year apart) and he was the most enjoyable part of the late 90's early 00's Pirate teams. That guy had the reddest of asses and you never felt like he was mailing it in, ever.
He was intense.
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