Don't forget SS Jose Reyes. And they tried to make a run at Albert Pujols that offseason to

A lot of Chicago legends in one place!

Also future Cub-Sox Emilio Bonifacio, Rob Brantly, Steve Cishek, Jacob Turner and Former White Sox 1B Carlos Lee

@@Gtasplayer Steve Cishek is a deep cut, nice job lol

Ahhhh yes, the fun "anger management tour" season

For some reason, YT recommends that video (Derrek Lee/Chris Young fight) all the time. Lee's behavior that day was indefensible.

Lmao I remember a time he ran through the sign at 3rd trying to score and got thrown out by a mile. He looked so determined to score as he rounded 3rd disobeying the 3rd base coach😭

Zambrano, like most ball players, was superstitious so he would change his pants every three innings and when the fight happened he was in the middle of changing 😂

I don't think people realize how great he was either. Dude was a bonafide ace that could hit dingers if he wanted. Not to mention that on my team he was always great to watch. Definitely a competitor anybody would want on their team.

@@PerkyPineapple I was named after him I have the same first name as his last name My parents are big Cubs fans

@@PerkyPineapple Watching him hit was a blast, like who doesn’t love a switch hitting pitcher that hits bombs

He's my favorite Cubs pitcher to this day! Watching him as a kid got me so fired up to play ball.

“We stinks”

Puig trying to show him up. That would be EPIC.

Pretty sure they were almost teamates with the Cubs lol

@@beastmodebrandon6963 I think they were at the end of 2011 lol.

@@beastmodebrandon6963 they only just missed each other. Big Z went to Miami the day before Rizzo was traded to the Cubs

@@dontwannaname in a crazy, non sensible, almost religious, dragon-ball Z type of way, I like to think Carlos Zambrano is Anthony Rizzo, or like birthed Rizzo for the cubs and the city of Chicago as a parting gift, like here is my good half, reincarnated.

That pitch gets closer to the middle every year.

I will never understand how the 08 Cubs didn't mop the floor with those Dodgers.

Seriously! On paper, the 08 team was better than the 16 team. After seeing that team suddenly disappear the way they did in the DS, it really was hard not to believe in a curse

You know the Gaylord Perry story, right?

@jimwerther753 I do. I heard that he stated that they would put a man on the moon before he ever hit a homerun. I heard that he hit his 1st on July 20th, 1969. I was told that was the only homerun he hit in his career. This, I know, is incorrect, as on June 9th, 1972, he hit a 2-run shot against Minnesota in a game the Indians won 7-1. What story did you hear?

@@ericschminke8233 Nah, not quite. Story goes like this: While Alvin Dark was the Giants' manager, in either 1962 or 1963, San Francisco Examiner reporter Harry Jupiter was watching Perry take batting practice and told Dark that Gaylord looked like he had some pop. Dark replied, “No way, there’ll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.” Six or seven years later, man landed on the moon. 34 minutes afterward, Gaylord took his first at bat of the game, and hit it out of the park for his first career home run. True story. Gaylord hit five more HRs in his career, for a total of six.

@jimwerther753 Then the story I heard/read was incorrect. A supervisor I had back around 2000 would occasionally include at the end of his weekly emails information that he had found intriguing. This was one of them and that was he had said. I took his word for it as it was the first time I had heard it. A coworker had said that Perry hit 4 homeruns in his career. It turns out this, too, was incorrect.

@@ericschminke8233 Those of us who grew up before the internet became commonplace used to regularly hear great stories which we assumed was true, because how would you know otherwise? My brother told me when I was very young that Met shortstop Frank Taveras had played the most regular season games ever in a single season, because he played 9 games with the Pirates in 1979, was traded to the Mets who had only played 7, and played every game with the Mets as well, giving him an otherwise-impossible 164 game regular season. A few years later I stuck that as a trivia question into my class newspaper (10 cents a copy). Wait...BREAKING NEWS!! I just find out that my brother's story was (almost) true! I JUST NOW checked it up, because I couldn't remember Frank Taveras's name, and found that he really did play 164 games that year! Wow, I thought my brother made it up, and was going to use that as an example of the BS you could say back then and no one would ever know the difference. Sorry, John! Then again, it does turn out to be "almost", because Maury Wills played 165 games in 1962, including a three game series when the season ended with the Giants and Dodgers tied atop the NL. It became a one game playoff a few years later (think Bucky Dent 1978) but was then three games. Then as now it counts as regular season contests. Or actually not now, because I think MLB changed it a couple of years ago and replaced it with various tiebreakers instead of Game 163. Taveras is tied for second place with five others at 164 games in a season. Look what I just learned after all these years, thanks to you! Anyway, the point is, as I have told my kids, nowadays someone tells you something and you don't believe it until the internet confirms it for you. Back in my day (and yours too, I imagine), you figured the guy was telling you the truth, and believed a bunch of baloney stories, then passed it on to the next guy, who believed it too. Lots of urban legends back in the day, some of which people still believe today. (Talk show host Mike Francesa told his rather large WFAN audience about a guy who came back from Vietnam with arms covered in tattoos, trying to forget about all the people he'd killed in the jungles of 'Nam. So he put on a long-sleeved sweater and started a show for kids, which is how we all know the name Fred Rogers, as in Mr. Rogers. Great story, no? Alas, Mike didn't bother Googling that one first, as the entire story is utter fabrication. Perhaps they would have never had witch trials in Salem if they had Google back in the day.

Who else, I am interested in knowing

I can think of 3 others. Ig in his best decade you wouldnt count rick ankiel as a pitcher

MadBum

@@pwx13 there's this guy, who plays for the angels, not really a well known ballplayer who has a lot of success at the plate

@@michaelbaucom4019 hes gonna end up in someone's bullpen and on someone's bench if the dimebags pull through. A lot of teams could use a lefty inning-eater with some power. Dare i say teach a mad dog new tricks, i think hed be pretty scary with a knuckleball and mid-90s cutters.

He said as much when comparing him to Jimmy Rollins.

he did

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@@timothyplocinski5672 he doesn’t count. Own category

Shohei is the difference between a pitcher who hits and being both a batter and a pitcher.