OT: The Toronto Blue Jays

[Metalleaf]

That was a shitty call by the Umps. But the Atlanta fans aren't very classy. Throwing shit on the field.

 

[JohnnyHolmes]

As if players make a habit of calling out their teammates. They shut up about this stuff.

It was well reported at the time that Yunel wore out his welcome in Atlanta. The manager hated him, Chipper Jones hated him and the fans hated him for sulking during the playoffs and making boneheaded plays. Explains why they dumped him for nothing .

I could definitely see some of the guys letting him dig his own grave by allowing him to parade around with dick and gay written on his face.

 

[Metalleaf]

Chipper Jones is a dick though, so there's that.

 

[MapleLeafBlueJayBoy]

He certainly is and he did his typical playoff disappearing act tonight. Great way to end his career.

 

[TheCountofMonteCristo]

Larry got a hit in his last at bat, what more do you expect from him?

 

[JaysCyYoung]

Too bad he was injured so often. He finished just shy of 3,000 hits and 500 homers. Still a first ballot Hall of Famer and the second or third best third-baseman of all-time though.

 

[CH1]

I could definitely see some of the guys letting him dig his own grave by allowing him to parade around with dick and gay written on his face.

I agree 100%. Like everyone else at the time, I wondered how is it that nobody in the clubhouse tried to talk him out of it? Then I thought, the team was probably so sick of him they stop caring he's such a dickwad.

 

[Alfamale]

These TBS play by play guys are exceedingly bad.

 

[JaysCyYoung]

1.) Mike Schmidt
2.) Eddie Matthews
3.) Larry "Chipper" Jones

 

[JackBurton]

1.) Mike Schmidt
2.) Eddie Matthews
3.) Larry "Chipper" Jones

I'd put George Brett, Brooks Robinson and Wade Boggs ahead of him as well.

 

[CH1]

George Brett came close but he sort of tailed off at the end with all those injuries. It's amazing how Chipper stayed very productive (>800 OPS) all the way to the end.

 

[JohnnyHolmes]

I can't believe Chipper lasted so long. The Jays won the WS in his rookie season.

Anyone else feel old?

 

[JaysCyYoung]

I'd put George Brett, Brooks Robinson and Wade Boggs ahead of him as well.

Boggs never won an MVP or had his power and Robinson was pretty weak offensively in terms of comparison. Brett is the only one I think you have a legitimate argument for putting ahead.

 

[JaysCyYoung]

George Brett came close but he sort of tailed off at the end with all those injuries. It's amazing how Chipper stayed very productive (>800 OPS) all the way to the end.

Brett's most significant accomplishment was winning a batting title in three separate decades, fourteen years apart (1976, 1980, and 1990). If he had gotten only five more hits in 1980 we'd also be talking about baseball's last .400 hitter. It's remarkable how close he was to replicating Williams, Hornsby, Jackson, Cobb, etc.

 

[JohnnyHolmes]

Sorry not his official rookie season. He was a September call up though.

 

[JaysCyYoung]

Sorry not his official rookie season. He was a September call up though.

He got a September cup of coffee in 1993. His first full season was Atlanta's World Series winning 1995 campaign.

 

[JohnnyHolmes]

Nobody is giving E5 Sprague any kind of consideration for the best 3rd baseman in baseball history?

 

[CH1]

Don't forget all those triples Brett hit. Triples are pretty badass.

As for 1980, it's a double edge. He missed by 5 hits but he also missed 45 games due to injury. Harder to keep .400 going for an entire, full season.

 

[Metalleaf]

Nobody is giving E5 Sprague any kind of consideration for the best 3rd baseman in baseball history?

Well, he's 1st in tobacco spitting.

 

[JaysCyYoung]

Don't forget all those triples Brett hit. Triples are pretty badass.

As for 1980, it's a double edge. He missed by 5 hits but he also missed 45 games due to injury. Harder to keep .400 going for an entire, full season.

That's why one has to have respect for Cabrera's Triple Crown this season. He was offered an out by his manager to maintain his batting title edge and went out there and had a pair of hits in each of his last two games to solidify things. Kind of like Ted Williams' legendary 6 for 8 double-header performance back in 1941 when he could have had his .39986 average (or whatever it was) rounded up. He simply stated that it wouldn't count and went out and pounded a .750 in his last two games.