Comments on: Bobby Murcer http://cardboardgods.net/2007/02/12/bobby-murcer/ Voice of the Mathematically Eliminated Wed, 30 May 2012 18:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: glasspoet1 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/02/12/bobby-murcer/#comment-9426 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:16:45 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/02/12/bobby-murcer/#comment-9426 Bobby Murcer was a hero of mine. Probably because (as he is MOST famous for) being the (mostly)SUCCESSFUL Mickey Mantle replacement! I clung to his every box-score! It was the saddest day ever when he got traded.

He is in my strat-0-matic all time greats (and I made sure it was not JUST because of my hero worship) as an update. Side note, he has done very well there overall.

I also had a malignant tumor removed from my brain. I wish him well, it certainly does not mean his life is ended!

You, certainly, know most writers don’t get publish — especially easily. Everyone has their place and everyone is important!

]]> By: shealives http://cardboardgods.net/2007/02/12/bobby-murcer/#comment-9093 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:22:39 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/02/12/bobby-murcer/#comment-9093 When Murcer was traded for Bobby Bonds in ’75, he had slipped from his heyday but was still a major star. I was always fascinated with this trade because it is so rare for two big name players to be traded for each other in a straight swap…of course both players would be traded again in about a year’s time. Still, Josh is correct, when you think of Bobby Murcer you think of a star.

]]> By: Josh Wilker http://cardboardgods.net/2007/02/12/bobby-murcer/#comment-9068 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:50:03 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/02/12/bobby-murcer/#comment-9068 jamesguitarshields: Thanks for the praise and for digging through the archives.

redsoxeveryday: The plan to contact all those names from listings in a book didn’t specifically lead anywhere, no. But after the initial burst of disappointment and hurt that always follows rejection I couldn’t really blame anyone I tried to contact. For them my query letter was just one in an infinite pile of pleas.

]]> By: redsoxeveryday http://cardboardgods.net/2007/02/12/bobby-murcer/#comment-9067 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:49:39 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/02/12/bobby-murcer/#comment-9067 Just wanted to say that I think the ‘recent comments’ portion of the blog is awesome, because I hadn’t read this before jamesguitarshields posted a comment.

Did the new book come to pass with the help of those twenty assholes, and did you come to hate them? :)

]]> By: jamesguitarshields http://cardboardgods.net/2007/02/12/bobby-murcer/#comment-9065 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:21:31 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/02/12/bobby-murcer/#comment-9065 whaddya mean “who the fuck cares” about your writing? geez, last week i started at the very beginning of your blog (whatever the date of the first post is, sometime in ’06) and am reading each and every post up until i get to the present day (april 16,2009). i can’t get enough. your writing is great.
and i’ve passed it along to at least a dozen people – some of them fans of baseball, some of them fans of good writing.
-J

]]> By: Josh Wilker http://cardboardgods.net/2007/02/12/bobby-murcer/#comment-230 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:24:12 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/02/12/bobby-murcer/#comment-230 1.  8 comments from the old cg site:

peterk said…
Don’t worry buddy. I LOVE reading your essays, and even if the book doesn’t gel, what you’ve got here is pretty wonderful. Keep your head up, I’ll keep reading.

5:28 PM

Big D said…
I love the site and I hope you can keep it going.

2:10 AM

mbtn01 said…
I envy the living shit out of you.

8:58 AM

Michael said…
I’m telling you, put these pieces together, self publish it, and this will sell.

At least I’ll buy one. I’ll tell all my baseball-besotted friends to buy one, too.

This is good-real, real good stuff. It’s personal, emotional, funny, rocking stuff.

Seriously, keep it up.

10:22 AM

Anonymous said…
Yep this could be the follow up book to the early 70′s “Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book”

Your book book would look at he players of the 70′s and 80′s…but do send me a copy when that comes out this summer…!

Always good stuff…
gogosox60

11:07 AM

Anonymous said…
You could always move somewhere else, near family and friends and culture and opportunities and find a cheaper pad…
uh…New York City?
Stranger thoughts have surfaced.
Madison?

Alls I know is that someone who after hemming and hawing decides to say “fuck it,” and fly to Vegas last-minute for a bachelor party, someone who is game to circumnavigate Lake Superior to spend five days sloughing through mud and getting eaten alive even though the timing isn’t perfect, someone who sneaks into Democratic Party HQ on election night under the guise of being an “emergency back-up sign language interpreter,” to scope the ladies and help himself to hors d’oeurves…

This is not a person who is wasting his life.

Keep yr chin up.

1:54 PM

peterk said…
Yes, these would make a hell of a book. Self- PUBLISH!!!

3:37 PM

Josh Wilker said…
Thanks for all the support, everybody. I really appreciate it. I was in a bit of a panic there for a second but it seems to be passing. Chin is up, more or less.

Now I say turn the good vibes in the direction of Mr. Murcer. I sort of wish I would have tabled my own whining to just post a get well wish for guy fighting a much scarier battle than my own little jousts with the February blues.

8:55 PM

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