The Top 79 Cub Killers of My Time #43: Austin kEARnS
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The Top 79 Cub Killers of My Time #44: "My Cousin" Vinny Castilla
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The Top 79 Cub Killers of My Time #43: Austin kEARnS
Sometimes, the biggest Cub Killers of my time aren’t all about the statistics. Sometimes, they’re more about the timing of their hits than the number or distance of those hits. Sometimes, there was just an opponent that any rational Cubs fan did NOT want to see at the plate or on the mound in a crucial situation. And, sometimes, the …
by admin on June 29th, 2011 Comments Off
The Top 79 Cub Killers of My Time #44: “My Cousin” Vinny Castilla
There are two things that stand out in the career of Vinny Castilla. His dark, flowing mullet and the horrible things he did to Cub pitching throughout the course of his 16 MLB seasons. Cub pitchers breathed a collective sigh of relief when the former Rockie, Brave, National, Astro, and Devil Ray retired after the 2006 season. You may remember …
by admin on June 27th, 2011 3 Comments »
The Top 79 Cub Killers of My Time #45: Any Starting Pitcher Making His MLB Debut Against the Cubs
Though I’m not 150 years old, I can only assume that if I were, I would have been in attendance at good old National League Park in Cleveland on Wednesday, August 6, 1890. On that historic day, a young feller by the name of Denton True Young made his Major League debut with the Cleveland Spiders against the Chicago Colts. …
by admin on June 23rd, 2011 3 Comments »
The Top 79 Cub Killers of My Time #46: Jim “Sox It” Thome
Jim Thome’s Major League Baseball career started in 1991, the same year as one James Sarkis Essian. Nearly TWENTY years after his rookie season, Thome managed to garner an AL MVP vote while compiling a .283/.412/.627 slash line with the 2010 Minnesota Twins. Thome has continued to be a productive hitter and, by all accounts, a very likeable, genuine human …
by admin on June 22nd, 2011 5 Comments »
The Top 79 Cub Killers of My Time #47: Kevin Mitchell “Report”
No, Kevin Mitchell was not listed in baseball’s infamous Mitchell Report. He probably wasn’t on steroids. But he was an oversized left fielder for the San Francisco Giants who was so bad in the outfield that the greatest play he ever made involved him taking a horrible route to the ball and overrunning it by several feet. The connection seemed …
by admin on November 15th, 2010 4 Comments »
The Top 79 Cub Killers of My Time #48: Chris “Phi Beta” Capuano
For much of the mid-2000s, the Milwaukee Brewers’ rotation consisted of Ben Sheets and four indistinguishable jackasses who couldn’t throw fastballs hard enough to break water and had an aggressive affinity at alliteration. I’m not one for ridiculous conspiracies, but there is absolutely no reason to believe that Dave Bush, Doug Davis, Gary Glover, and Chris Capuano are not the …
by admin on November 3rd, 2010 2 Comments »
The Top 79 Cub Killers of My Time #49: Luis “Long” Gonzalez
Oh, what the 2001 Cubs season might have been if the Cubs hadn’t allowed outfielder Luis Gonzalez to walk at the end of the 1996 season. Sosa wouldn’t have had to single-handedly attempt to carry the Cubs into the playoffs. Gonzalez’s 57-home run, 142-RBI season would have paired nicely with Sosa’s unbelievable campaign. But, alas, the Cub version of Gonzalez …
by admin on March 23rd, 2010 4 Comments »
The Top 79 Cub Killers of My Time #50: Scott Downs “Syndrome”
If there’s one thing that’s absolutely infuriating about the Cubs, it’s their mystifying inability to hit left-handed pitching. No, scratch that. If there’s one thing that’s absolutely infuriating about the Cubs, it’s their 102-year championship drought. Number two is the other thing with the left-handers. A couple of offseasons ago, when Jim Hendry decided to make the lineup “more left-handed,” …
by admin on March 18th, 2010 4 Comments »
The Top 79 Cub Killers of My Time #51: Jeff “Eff” Fassero
Ed. Note: When I’m long gone from this world and tales are told of what I did to make a difference in this life, no one will have an answer that doesn’t, at some point, use the phrase “dick joke.” Whether I leave a legacy in the expanding world of penis jokes or not, though, I certainly don’t want to …
by admin on March 17th, 2010 6 Comments »
The Top 79 Cub Killers of My Time #52: “I Refuse to Wear a Towel in the” Jim Edmonds
When the Cubs signed Jim Edmonds early in the 2008 season, what was your first reaction? Irrational hatred? Yeah, me too. Until he had a terrific 2008 season with the Cubs, I hated Jim Edmonds with every fiber of my being. As it turns out, my hatred was well-founded. Prior to his arrival in Chicago, Edmonds had already established himself …
by admin on October 13th, 2009 2 Comments »
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