CORA GONE

[PEOPLESCHICKEN]

But, like all good things, this too came to an end. Critics say @Cyder jumped the shark trying to portray the thick broad next to Madonna

 

[Indrid Cold]

Or maybr illiterate Joe was too dumb to figure out how to lose a game?

Ty Cobb stopped by Joe's liquor store later in life....as Jackson was getting him checked out, Ty finally yelled, "Joe, you must know who I am!!"
Joe replied, "Ty, I didn't think you would want to talk to me"

Cobb and Tris Speaker were also involved in a game fixing scandal that was quickly hushed up after the two agreed to resign their managerial positions.

 

[PEOPLESCHICKEN]

Still not clear how much Joe was in on the fix, but he definitely knew about it. I did read one account that said Jackson tried to alert Comiskey and Charlie just had him shooed away by a secretary.

I heard he gave Jackson a crossword puzzle and left him for days

 

[ChiSoxFan]

Still not clear how much Joe was in on the fix, but he definitely knew about it. I did read one account that said Jackson tried to alert Comiskey and Charlie just had him shooed away by a secretary.

That Comiskey was a real scumbag.

 

[PEOPLESCHICKEN]

Or maybr illiterate Joe was too dumb to figure out how to lose a game?

Ty Cobb stopped by Joe's liquor store later in life....as Jackson was getting him checked out, Ty finally yelled, "Joe, you must know who I am!!"
Joe replied, "Ty, I didn't think you would want to talk to me"

Cobb and Tris Speaker were also involved in a game fixing scandal that was quickly hushed up after the two agreed to resign their managerial positions.

Sad how their legacies were labeled. About as bad as being portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones and Ray Liota

 

[Cyder]

But, like all good things, this too came to an end. Critics say @Cyder jumped the shark trying to portray the thick broad next to Madonna

I was over compensating for that Summer I spent performing as the Construction worker in the Village People reboot and went for a more masculine role.

 

[ChiSoxFan]

Or maybr illiterate Joe was too dumb to figure out how to lose a game?

Ty Cobb stopped by Joe's liquor store later in life....as Jackson was getting him checked out, Ty finally yelled, "Joe, you must know who I am!!"
Joe replied, "Ty, I didn't think you would want to talk to me"

Cobb and Tris Speaker were also involved in a game fixing scandal that was quickly hushed up after the two agreed to resign their managerial positions.

I always assumed he was too dumb to understand he was supposed to not play well.

 

[Indrid Cold]

If you were tantalized with free raccoon coats and tickets on the Duluth Limited PLUS dining car you would have turned on your own mother

Any baseball team that put me in the field was begging to lose.


I'm being too modest, I caught for a NABA NW Chicago Suburbs pennant winning team and was behind the plate for a no hitter.

 

[Indrid Cold]

I FINE STANDARD OIL $1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000!!

 

[PickleRick]

Joe Jackson hit .375 in the 1919 World Series and made no errors. Maybe he didn’t know he was supposed to suck. No one was telling him what pitches were coming either.

I cant stress to you enough how little that has to do with the question.

 

[ChiSoxFan]

I cant stress to you enough how little that has to do with the question.

I know. I just wanted to add some filler. Nice stats though, eh?

 

[ChiSoxFan]

I cant stress to you enough how little that has to do with the question.

You are right, however. The Astros were trying to win at least, unlike a handful of the 1919 White Sox. The Astros are just massive assholes.

 

[redseat]

Color me surprised


Not... it was coming. Hilarious how one day the Red Sox are like, "we wait to rush to judgement until AFTER the investigation before we decide what to do"

To

"Screw that, you're out"

I did fully expect him to be fired

 

[steelerssb]

The funniest part of this whole scandal is the Mets in typical fashion somehow got roped into this.

 

[Montalban]

Once Houston shit-canned their GM and Manager, The Red Sox had no choice but to follow suit with Cora.
What astonishes me is how did they think they were going to keep this a secret? The first disgruntled player who got cut or traded would surely spill the beans. I'm stunned at how stupid these guys were.

 

[RobToxin]

I just don't know.

This has Mitchell Report possibilities.

The more names that drop, the more names that will be dropped.

The guys who were cheating learned it from somewhere.

The ones who taught them learned it from somewhere.

And so forth.

The Astros are just the tip of the iceberg.

 

[WizardHawk]

Baseball is such a ridiculous sport.

Honestly a year without any kind of cheating with make more headlines at this point. It's the dirtiest sport in the country and has the most taint. It was America's game when I was a kid, but has fallen from grace.

Pete Rose is still banned from the game... for making bets on his own team to win. That's it. Nothing that impacted the game, made no mockery of records, didn't cause other teams to unfairly lose, and yet he's the devil.

From Clemons to Cora there's a streak a mile wide of names that have left a wake of destruction that did impact others.

 

[Indrid Cold]

I know. I just wanted to add some filler. Nice stats though, eh?

Good start, but what about his BABIP, OPS+, and Rdrs??

 

[Indrid Cold]

Honestly a year without any kind of cheating with make more headlines at this point. It's the dirtiest sport in the country and has the most taint. It was America's game when I was a kid, but has fallen from grace.
Pete Rose is still banned from the game... for making bets on his own team to win. That's it. Nothing that impacted the game, made no mockery of records, didn't cause other teams to unfairly lose, and yet he's the devil.
From Clemons to Cora there's a streak a mile wide of names that have left a wake of destruction that did impact others.

The big thing was that Rose was the manager and would be tempted to make game choices to support his bets rather than with the view of winning a pennant in mind. He might, say, use his closer with a substantial lead in a game he had bet on the Reds to win and then not have him available for a closer game the next day in which he would really be needed.
My big beef with Rose was that he played himself when he wasn't helping the team to extend his hit total and kept talented young guys from getting established.

 

[ChiSoxFan]

Good start, but what about his BABIP, OPS+, and Rdrs??

Those categories were all off the charts for Jackson that WS. Immeasurable.