Single Greatest Thread Ever

[Wampa]

Llyod McClendon (1990)

[Dan]

Llyod McClendon (1990)

so we've got Larry Bowa, Terry Francona, Lloyd McClendon, Tony Larussa, who are we missing to great the all sucky x-cub future manager team?

[Wampa]

Lloyd McClendon (1990)

so we've got Larry Bowa, Terry Francona, Lloyd McClendon, Tony Larussa, who are we missing to great the all sucky x-cub future manager team?

We also have mentioned Jim Tracy, Don Zimmer, Lee Elia, Davey Lopes, and Joe Girardi.

[The Paul Popovich Experience]

Surely, someone has mentioned Steve Dillard.

[Tonker]

Surely, someone has mentioned Steve Dillard.

As unlikely as it seems, no.

Nor have they mentioned Jose F. Nieves, which I find staggering.  How quickly we forget.

[CubFaninHydePark]

I don't recall seeing Ben F. Grieve anywhere.  Rookie of the Year my @#$!@

[Slaky311]

I don't recall seeing Ben F. Grieve anywhere.  Rookie of the Year my @#$!@

Someone did mention him. What about Greg Hibbard?

[Dan]

Was Mitch Webster taken?

[Dan]

If you want to get all fancy, I think Doug Meintkewitz (or as I like to call him "make a sandwich") was technically on the cubs for about a few hours in 2004, as part of the Nomar trade.

[Huey]

Surely, someone has mentioned Steve Dillard.

As unlikely as it seems, no.

Nor have they mentioned Jose F. Nieves, which I find staggering.  How quickly we forget.

Bullshit.  I mentioned Dillard.  

This thread has jumped the tracks.  No way should Keith Moreland have been mentioned.  The idea is crappy, useless journeyman, not team-leading hitters, as Moreland was in '82.

Sigh.

I'm pretty sure nobody's mentioned Mark Parent.  The schmuck who got picked off second base once, causing manager Tom Trebelhorn to call him a "dumbass" or something similar during one of his postgame firehouse chats in '94.

[D. Doluntap]

Calvin Chiraldi?

Or Csquared.

[brf]

tony fossas

[Andy]

I have somewhere in the order of 20 Randy Martz baseball cards.  Whatever year that was, every time I bought a pack, it had a fucking Randy Martz in it.  Could have been worse.  Could have been Laddie Renfro.

[SD]

The idea is crappy, useless journeyman, not team-leading hitters

Ah!  But therein lies the catch.  You see, my man, with the Cubs, crappy useless journeymen are usually our leading hitters.  I'm using the term 'leading hitters' as loosely as possible in this context, as are the Cubs.

[JS]

Surely, someone has mentioned Steve Dillard.

As unlikely as it seems, no.

Nor have they mentioned Jose F. Nieves, which I find staggering.  How quickly we forget.

Bullshit.  I mentioned Dillard.  

This thread has jumped the tracks.  No way should Keith Moreland have been mentioned.  The idea is crappy, useless journeyman, not team-leading hitters, as Moreland was in '82.

Sigh.

I'm pretty sure nobody's mentioned Mark Parent.  The schmuck who got picked off second base once, causing manager Tom Trebelhorn to call him a "dumbass" or something similar during one of his postgame firehouse chats in '94.

Ahh, the Cubs. What other team could fill nearly 40 pages with useless, crappy players.