View Full Version : Cracked.com list of 11 Baseball Legends Who Were Legendary *Bleep*
ChaosLex
08-08-2008, 07:39 PM
Thought you guys would get a kick out of this list. :D
http://www.cracked.com/article_16534_11-baseball-legends-who-were-legendary-assholes.html
ledzepp8
08-08-2008, 08:29 PM
That was pretty funny...and you can't really argue with any of it.
scOtt
08-08-2008, 09:14 PM
Great stuff! They started with Canseco, and I thought "HE'S not #1????" :eektf: He's #11??? And then each one gets worse and worse. :p
ChaosLex
08-08-2008, 09:28 PM
Know what's funny? I bleeped the naughty word in the headline, and I just noticed it's in the URL. :rofl:
By the way, that's the first time I ever heard about Bonds and Sheffield. WTF!?
TyCobb
08-09-2008, 01:18 AM
I only read the Ty Cobb part, and most of it is false. Well not 100% the truth. Supposely the man he beat with no hands deserved what he got because the teammates (who mainly hated Cobb) actually wanted him back on the field. The sharping of the spikes is also a rumor that Cobb himself said he didn't question when he played because the fear in the fielders gave him an edge (no pun intended)
Balmer Bomber
08-09-2008, 09:04 AM
Know what's funny? I bleeped the naughty word in the headline, and I just noticed it's in the URL. :rofl:
By the way, that's the first time I ever heard about Bonds and Sheffield. WTF!?
The Bonds and Sheffield thing was in Sports Illustrated in 05 IIRC. Bonds was also going through Sheff's mail.
JimDH
08-09-2008, 10:02 AM
deleted my comment
Moose Milligan
08-09-2008, 07:46 PM
Excellent call on Mountain Landis.
rolliefingers
08-10-2008, 10:08 AM
I only read the Ty Cobb part, and most of it is false. Well not 100% the truth. Supposely the man he beat with no hands deserved what he got because the teammates (who mainly hated Cobb) actually wanted him back on the field. The sharping of the spikes is also a rumor that Cobb himself said he didn't question when he played because the fear in the fielders gave him an edge (no pun intended)
What in god's name are you on about.
Moose Milligan
08-10-2008, 11:00 AM
What in god's name are you on about.
:laughlol::laughlol:
I particularly liked the defense of Ty Cobb beating a man with no hands because "he deserved what he got" :rofl::rofl:
Mark Carver
08-10-2008, 11:14 AM
:laughlol::laughlol:
I particularly liked the defense of Ty Cobb beating a man with no hands because "he deserved what he got" :rofl::rofl:
"I don't care if he's got no feet!" Ty Cobb...
Ty Cobb Beats Up a Man With No Hands (http://baseball.suite101.com/article.cfm/ty_cobbs_ugliest_scandal)
On May 15, 1912, in New York's Highland Park, the Detroit Tigers were playing the hometown New York Highlanders. In the stands behind home plate was a Highlander fan named Claude Lueker who was giving Detroit's Ty Cobb a tough time. A really tough time. According to spectators who were in the stands that day, Lueker hurled insults and epithets at Cobb every time the Georgia Peach came to the plate.
By the end of the fifth inning, Cobb warned the Highlanders manager and the umpires that if the man wasn't ejected from the game, there was going to be some serious trouble. Nothing was done to the rambunctious fan, and so when he called the notoriously racist Cobb a "half-******" in the bottom of the sixth inning, the ferocious outfielder climbed into the crowded stands, leapt upon the man and began beating him senseless.
Other fans began pleading with Cobb to stop the physical attack because the foul-mouthed Mr. Lueker had no hands. He had apparently lost them years earlier in an industrial accident. As the crowd pleaded, Ty Cobb responded as he pummeled the man, "I don't care if he's got no feet!"
sakata_catching
08-10-2008, 11:48 AM
Ty Cobb was a selfless humanitarian, and he baked the most delicious cakes.
FellsPointOsFan
08-10-2008, 07:55 PM
Ty Cobb also killed a man in a fight in an alley, according to his biographer.
I think he is on a totally different plane from these other pikers. Cobb was a titanic figure.
Moose Milligan
08-10-2008, 08:03 PM
Ty Cobb also killed a man in a fight in an alley, according to his biographer.
I think he is on a totally different plane from these other pikers. Cobb was a titanic figure.
Yeah, not to mention the time he choked the groundskeepers wife :rolleyestf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Cobb
Freaking psycho.
ChaosLex
08-10-2008, 08:06 PM
I heard a rumor that Ty Cobb once refused to room with Babe Ruth, because he heard Ruth had "black blood." The question I have is, why would a Red Sox/Yankees player be rooming with a Tigers player anyway?
Moose Milligan
08-10-2008, 08:16 PM
I heard a rumor that Ty Cobb once refused to room with Babe Ruth, because he heard Ruth had "black blood." The question I have is, why would a Red Sox/Yankees player be rooming with a Tigers player anyway?
Post-season barnstorming tours.
JimDH
08-10-2008, 08:18 PM
I heard a rumor that Ty Cobb once refused to room with Babe Ruth, because he heard Ruth had "black blood." The question I have is, why would a Red Sox/Yankees player be rooming with a Tigers player anyway?
Don't ask questions. Just spread the rumors.
ChaosLex
08-10-2008, 08:35 PM
Post-season barnstorming tours.
Don't ask questions. Just spread the rumors.
lol. IIRC, it happened during Spring Training. Did some clubs room with each other back then?
Bonds being #2 is a bit much imo. Yes, he did steroids/HGH just like about half of the other guys of the last 15 years or so. Sure, he wasn't friendly with the media, or that friendly in general, but what did he do that was that bad?
ChaosLex
08-10-2008, 10:12 PM
Bonds being #2 is a bit much imo. Yes, he did steroids/HGH just like about half of the other guys of the last 15 years or so. Sure, he wasn't friendly with the media, or that friendly in general, but what did he do that was that bad?
Um... he tried to make a remake of Misery with Gary Sheffield. Isn't that bad enough? :D
brvn52
08-10-2008, 10:31 PM
Check out the #2 "Greatest Thing Every Accomplished While High."
http://www.cracked.com/article_16532_p2.html
Wow.
Malike
08-11-2008, 10:56 AM
The Marge Schott stuff is just unreal. Anytime she opened her mouth, there was a good chance a gem would come hurling out.
IamtheSkip
08-12-2008, 10:56 AM
That was pretty funny...and you can't really argue with any of it.
I think the racist shots they take against the pre-Civil Rights era players aren't entirely fair.
While certainly not acceptable, there were millions of hard core racists in America during that period, and more than a few of them played baseball. It's not like these guys were bucking a trend.
Marge Schott on the other hand... yea.
Tony-OH
08-12-2008, 11:41 AM
Funny stuff indeed. I still think Bonds deserves number one, even if Cobb did beat up the guy with no hands. :D
MNAFETSC
08-12-2008, 03:36 PM
I think the racist shots they take against the pre-Civil Rights era players aren't entirely fair.
While certainly not acceptable, there were millions of hard core racists in America during that period, and more than a few of them played baseball. It's not like these guys were bucking a trend.
Marge Schott on the other hand... yea.
Agreed, it was just the nature of the day. From what Ive read Cobb supported integration in baseball and his charitable work benefited black citizens in Georgia.
srock
08-13-2008, 06:12 PM
It's hard to believe that this is the same guy who once saved a woman and all her appliances from a burning building. Sure, that was an episode of The Simpsons, but it's about the only good thing Canseco has ever done in his life.
Best Canseco reference...EVER!