Woodridge Ryan wrote:
Some of these entries I can't believe I'm reading.
Here's two that haven't been mentioned.
1.) Jacque Jones - I actually don't agree with this one, but this guy was shit on by the Cubs faithful pretty much since day one. He replaced Sammy Sosa. He got off to a horrendous 0 for 11 something start. Broke out of it with a 3-run HR I believe against the Cardinals on a Sunday night. Idiot Cubs fans were happy to have him then. Went back to getting shit on. Didn't produce as well as fans had hoped. Also had some funky injury that Dusty Baker wanted to keep secret as was the way of "the Cub" back then. Aramis Ramirez actually broke the story after the season that Jacque's arm had been f'ed up all year.
Technically, Jacque Jones didn't replace Sosa; Jeromy Burnitz did.
Ew. Anyway, Jacque probably seemed worse than he was because of the way Dusty enabled him.
What I'll remember about Derrek Lee, second to his 2005 season, was the time Obama made some meatball comment about how Cubs fans suck and Sox fans are the real baseball fans, and Lee was like "yeah, he's basically right, Cubs fans do suck." There was another incident like that before Obama ran his mouth. I don't like to be all "DERP DEY PAY YER SALARY," and I realize there's a time and place for snapping at the fans, but not when you're one of the most embraced players on a team that more often than not during his time here was pretty good. He earned no right to shit on the fanbase the way he did.
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Molly Lambert wrote:
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