If you could have…
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Great post OP! These are the threads that make me like coming in here.
I’m a Cardinals fan by blood- my family is from there and told me if I didn’t root for them I had to eat elsewhere. When you are two, that’s a daunting proposition. Plus they are awesome.
Cardinals-
Honorary mention- Pujols- I know he’ll be back in a few years and just left so I won’t count him, but still my favorite player of all time.- Rogers Hornsby
- Scott Rolen
- Steve Carlton- I know he’s known as a Phillie but his first 7 years were in St. Louis and he was quite good then too.
- Vince Coleman
- Dizzy Dean
I would love to see Berkman and Beltran too even though they were only there a few years each.
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@BxnnyMxn__PSN said in If you could have…:
Someone around here with some street cred in this forum should do a ‘top 5 or 10 ball players that you’d hate to face in a brawl’.
I’d probably put Mike Tyson as my number one because, well, you know….just in case.
You know, I remember reading a SI article back in the mid 80s about Tyson and it said he once had a sparring partner that involuntarily shat himself when one of his uppercuts missed by an inch. He didn’t even make contact and dudes TURDS even knew to get the heck out of there!
I grew up loving WWF/E wrestling and there were guys that seemed tough and guys that you knew could probably kick the crud out of anyone. The Undertaker in his prime I imagine would do some serious damage.
As for baseball players. Kyle Farnsworth and Kevin Mitchell would be an entertaining throw down.
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Pirates:
Andy Van Slyke
Barry Bonds
Vern Law
Manny Sanguillen
Dock P. Ellis Jr.Honorable mentions:
Josh Gibson (Homestead Grays)
Cool Papa Bell (Homestead Grays)
Jack Wilson
Brian Giles
Russell Martin
Francisco Córdova
Sid Bream
Mike York
John Smiley
Arky Vaughan
Paul Waner
Babe Adams
Bob Friend
John Candeleria
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@Ericulous1_PSN said in If you could have…:
@BxnnyMxn__PSN said in If you could have…:
Someone around here with some street cred in this forum should do a ‘top 5 or 10 ball players that you’d hate to face in a brawl’.
I’d probably put Mike Tyson as my number one because, well, you know….just in case.
You know, I remember reading a SI article back in the mid 80s about Tyson and it said he once had a sparring partner that involuntarily shat himself when one of his uppercuts missed by an inch. He didn’t even make contact and dudes TURDS even knew to get the heck out of there!
I grew up loving WWF/E wrestling and there were guys that seemed tough and guys that you knew could probably kick the crud out of anyone. The Undertaker in his prime I imagine would do some serious damage.
As for baseball players. Kyle Farnsworth and Kevin Mitchell would be an entertaining throw down.
Mitch was such a beast was he not!
Wrestling was so incredibly epic back then! I still have that album they cut way back when and still have everyone lines memorized from that incredible and without equal version of ‘Land of a thousand Dances’
Hogans such a YO-YO!
Classic. We should field us a ball team from any 5 that made an appearance in that video
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Strawberry
Gooden
Cleon Jones
Bud Harrelson
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@BxnnyMxn__PSN said in If you could have…:
Classic. We should field us a ball team from any 5 that made an appearance in that video
For me it’s
Fuji
Jesse the Body
Iron Sheik
Hillbilly Jim
Meatloaf
