Comments on: Ron Santo http://cardboardgods.net/2007/02/27/ron-santo/ Voice of the Mathematically Eliminated Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:48:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: fredbeene http://cardboardgods.net/2007/02/27/ron-santo/#comment-11350 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:22:33 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/02/27/ron-santo/#comment-11350 This card always confused me because the same year in 1975 somehow I ate my way to a 3D spectacular card of none other than Ron Santo. But it says CUBS on it not whitesox. I believe it was a kellogs card.

The other 3D card that was thumbtacked to my bulletin board was Felix Milan.

I can only hope Santo gets into the HOF before the juiced up crowd starts to flood in ruin everything.

]]> By: Josh Wilker http://cardboardgods.net/2007/02/27/ron-santo/#comment-218 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:06:13 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/02/27/ron-santo/#comment-218 1.  7 comments from the old CG site:

peterk said…
Yeah, you called it. Tommyrot. Or the eloquence of Bob Murphy. Spent many evenings and afternoons with him. “He rocks and deals….”. Such class. I miss his voice very much.

9:29 PM

Michael said…
Indeed.

The VC needs to be junked.

9:57 AM

Anonymous said…
Stop it. You’re offending Joe Morgan.
http://www.cantstopthebleeding.com/?p=9357

11:06 AM

ramblin’ pete said…
It was all over for the Cubbies when that black cat crossed Santo’s path in the Shea on-deck circle in ’69…

As for Lou Gehrig’s Disease and
Tommy John Surgery, I’d like to suggest two related items for the lexicon:

Joe Foy Syndrome:

The palpable state of abject failure afflicting any successful
ballplayer upon his acquisition by the New York Mets.

(see also; Jim Fregosi, Mickey Lolich, Randy Jones, George Foster, Juan Samuel, Tony Fernandez, Bobby Bonilla, Vince Coleman, Mo Vaughan, Roberto Alomar, etc. etc.)

Amos Otis Syndrome:

The propensity for any middling Mets prospect showing flashes of ‘potential’ to blossom flamboyantly into stardom in new surroundings.

(see also Jim Bibby, Nolan Ryan, Ken Singleton, Jason Isringhausen, Mike Scott, Melvin Mora, Jason Bay, Scott Kazmir, etc.)

11:14 AM

Josh Wilker said…
Joe Morgan says he voted for the maximum ten guys on his own ballot, so I guess he’s not to blame for this one. My dislike of him as an announcer must have made me lash out in his direction.

Speaking of the Hall of Fame and “Joe Foy Syndrome”: Vince Coleman once claimed that coming to the Mets somehow cost him a spot in Cooperstown.

1:06 PM

ramblin’ pete said…
Perhaps he meant Attica.

1:55 PM

Chad Crudup said…
This is also the only Santo card in my collection.

2:34 PM

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