Single Worst Thread Ever

[PenPho]

Victor Diaz and Craig Brazell. I am still convinced the 2004 Cubs would have won the Wild Card if they had not lost that fucking Saturday game at Shea Stadium. Austin Kearns and Javier Valentin didn't help matters in the Reds series, but the Cubs weren't ahead in the standings when those games were played.

And why don't I readily recall Craig Brazell?

Because BC is crazy.

/cue Morph photoshopping him as the Chief in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Or WAS he crazy???

I've been at work for roughly 3 minutes and I already know that this is the best thing that's going to happen today.

[CBStew]

Victor Diaz and Craig Brazell. I am still convinced the 2004 Cubs would have won the Wild Card if they had not lost that fucking Saturday game at Shea Stadium. Austin Kearns and Javier Valentin didn't help matters in the Reds series, but the Cubs weren't ahead in the standings when those games were played.

And why don't I readily recall Craig Brazell?

Because BC is crazy.

/cue Morph photoshopping him as the Chief in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Or WAS he crazy???

I've been at work for roughly 3 minutes and I already know that this is the best thing that's going to happen today.

This confuses me.  Wouldn't that make this the Single Best Thread Ever?

[BC]

One season-destroying, improbable, opposite field homerun against a habitual pants-shitting late-inning psychopath does not a Cub Killer make, in my opinion.

And why don't I readily recall Craig Brazell?

Almost every Cubs relief pitcher has been a habitual pants-shitting late-inning psychopath, right??? I mean, the only difference is how brown the back of the pants are at the end of the inning.

Brazell was the guy that won that Saturday game with a homer in the 11th off Mercker, and that was his ONLY career homer. After 2004, his only major league time was a five-game stretch with the Royals in 2007.

[ChuckD]

Yeah, it was Craig Brazell (wtf is dat french?) that killed the 2004 Cubs season. Forget that the Cubbis lost 5 of 7 to finish the year after Monsieur Brazel caught lightning in an empty Dr. Pepper can.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Who the fuck is Kent Mercker?

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Yeah, it was Craig Brazell (wtf is dat french?) that killed the 2004 Cubs season. Forget that the Cubbis lost 5 of 7 to finish the year after Monsieur Brazel caught lightning in an empty Dr. Pepper can.

The fact that GREG BRAZIL never hit another HR still does not infuriate me as much as the fact that Eric Valente and JR Phillips never had to even lift the bats off thier shoulders to set up Diaz' heroics. 

None of these players mentioned would qualify as Cub Killers, BTW.  Ryan Dempster would, though.

[Quality Start Machine]

If we're talking Cub killers, I think we can all agree nobody had a higher body count as a Cub than Ted Lillly.

[Yeti]

If we're talking Cub killers, I think we can all agree nobody had a higher body count as a Cub than Ted Lillly.

Sully confirmed Lilly was crazy