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Favorite player on the Indians, that actually sucked?

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Lonnie Chisenhall’s swing to end the WC game against the Rays was one of the worst professional baseball swings @Deezus @bushwick_bill and I have ever seen.

It was Bartolo level hilariously awful.
 
Lonnie Chisenhall’s swing to end the WC game against the Rays was one of the worst professional baseball swings @Deezus @bushwick_bill and I have ever seen.

It was Bartolo level hilariously awful.
I don't remember his final AB, but I do remember him being one of the few offensive bright spots that night going 3-4. He was absolutely dialed in.

Bourn and Swisher at the top really fucked us. They went 0-8 with Chisenhall and Gomes going 5-8 as the 8/9 hitters.
 
If you are my age, and lived thru the twin debacles of Frank Lane and multiple owners with no freaking money, the list is in the hundreds. Almost all of them sucked as MLB players. The few that didnt were quickly traded.

But I loved them all. They were MY guys.

Long before the internet was a gleam in Al Gores eye, the only time you could get cumulative stats was in the Sunday paper, which listed every qualifying players season stats thru the previous Friday night games.

I would duly cut the page out, pin it to the wall of my cardboard closet, and underline all the Tribe players. A vast majority of those underlines were at or near the bottom of the page.

Immortal names, like...

Ty Cline
Mike de la Hose
Wynn Hawkins
Barry Latman
Bubba Phillip's
Steve Hargan
Chico Salmon
Fred (Wingy) Whitfield
 
How did you end up getting those
The bat I got actually at a game because it came into the stands and I got it.

The ring I got through a person I knew at an auction house.
 
For a short time, every Tribe fans fav player was Gomer Hodge...lol.
 
Lou Klimchock. When I was a kid, I had a stack of baseball cards and decided for some unknown reason that I would select at random ONE CARD and that player would then be my favorite player (no, I was NOT kicked in the head by a mule as a child). Did I pull a Hank Aaron? Warren Spahn? Sam McDowell? Nope. Lou Klimchock. He did have one year, for the Indians, where he was solid. He hit around .290 in 90 games and was their “good guy of the year” or some such honor. He ended his career in the minors, playing for Denver in the Junior World Series against Rochester. I attended one game with my brother in Rochester and my brother commented that Klimchock “runs like a gazelle”. I believe Richie Scheinblum also played for Denver that year.
 
Kaz Tadano. Man, I have a Tadano jersey from his days with the Buffalo Bisons. He threw a slo-ball on occasion that went 12 feet in the air at about 35 mph, but I never saw him throw it. He’d been in some sort of weird video in Japan and was kind of blackballed after that ( seems like it was a sex video if I remember correctly). Never did much as a pro over here.
 
Charles Nagy.

He was the worst good pitcher ever.

I am surprised he didn't slip discs whipping his head around to see all the home-runs he gave up.

Edit: Should have read the thread from the start.
 

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