The other day, waiting for a CWS game, I caught the Espn 30-for-30 about the MissSt team in '85? with him, Raffy Palmeiro, Jeff Brantley and Bobby Thigpen. It’s a good watch, and Clark indeed comes across as a good dude
eta: Is it the Spring Training “Rickey Gone!” story? Clark has a few good ones. Everyone seems to have a Rickey story or 3.
Clark was a menace to the Astros in the late 80s.
I’ve enjoyed seeing some of his interviews.
But during his time in Arlington he was a fucking asshole to the low level media types getting tape pre and post game.
Not the top the on-air guys or the columnists, but the guys making $18K a year arriving early and staying late.
So he may have been a great teammate and he was most definitely a very good player, but he was also very much an ass.
That sucks.
“never meet your heroes” or something like that
My (late) friend and I were at the game where Clark hit his first home run. It was against Nolan Ryan and it was a solid homer, out over the wagon gate. A real clout.
Chris Sale to the IL with a rib cage fracture? WTF?
Ouch! I wouldn’t wish that on most anybody.
Broken ribs are fucking horrible. Nothing you can do but try to not breathe or move.
Didn’t Ryan bean Clark in his next at bat that game?
I hope so
I’m too lazy to look it up but that’s the story I heard (Clark still calls into the local sports radio station from time to time to chat about the Giants).
If I remember right, Clark wasn’t grandstanding, but when he got back into the dugout his teammates warned him that Nolan wouldn’t take too kindly to a rookie hitting a home run in his first at bat against him. Sure enough, Ryan drills Clark in the back in his next at bat.
ETA - may have had some of the facts wrong. It was Chili Davis who confirmed Nolan would drill him next at bat, and at the very least Ryan threw high and inside.
This one’s for youse, Mark and Mark:
Cal Raleigh is now, per MLB:
Apologies…I don’t know what phase of the moon we’re in or what color socks he was wearing.
Waning crescent.
What animal moon is that?
Pink moon. Pink pink pink pink, pink moon.
I was hoping for monkey
That’s nothing. According to Sarah Langs, Rafael Devers is the first player to hit his first homer for a new team against a team he played for earlier that year AND played 1,000+ career games for since 8/30/93 Rickey Henderson for the Blue Jays vs the A’s.
Fucking awesome!
Everybody does.
I was checking out some Detroit history this morning as part of my Immaculate Grid routine, and I was reminded of Willie Hernandez, whom I had forgotten but should have remembered since he pitched for the Cubs when I was in HS in Chicago. 1984 was a strike season, and Detroit only played 80 games. Hernandez appeared in every one of those 80 games, finishing 68 of them, and had 8 wins and 35 saves. I don’t imagine we’ll see something like that again. (Oh, yeah: he won the MVP and CY that year.)