Comments on: Jackie Brown http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/21/jackie-brown/ Voice of the Mathematically Eliminated Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:42:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: El Lay Dave http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/21/jackie-brown/#comment-536 Tue, 22 May 2007 08:04:56 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/21/jackie-brown/#comment-536 9.  Boog Powell once said that in the all-red uniforms he looked like a giant blood clot.

1 Player-manager Robinson was getting a bit paunchy by this time and also looked awful in this uni.

Hard to be too critical; my wardrobe in the late 70s was nothing I want to look back upon either. I have mostly suppressed memories of rayon print shirts and a powder-blue polyester Angel’s Flight disco suit, with vest, topped with my long, center-parted, feathered on the sides hairstyle. Truly awful.

]]> By: Josh Wilker http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/21/jackie-brown/#comment-535 Tue, 22 May 2007 00:31:39 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/21/jackie-brown/#comment-535 8.  3: “BTW, Les Expos were in the East.”

Aaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!!! Yes, I know, but I am hanging my head in shame at the mistake of saying they were in the west. I’m correcting it now. My punishment should be to have to walk around in Jackie Brown’s uniform in broad daylight for a day.

Thanks also for that Sporting News lookup link, Ennui.

]]> By: be2ween http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/21/jackie-brown/#comment-534 Mon, 21 May 2007 22:43:29 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/21/jackie-brown/#comment-534 7.  What a wonderful pose! Like he’s pitching off the mound, but in the grass!! Splendor in the grass. God bless ‘Cardboard Gods’!

]]> By: Ennui Willie Keeler http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/21/jackie-brown/#comment-533 Mon, 21 May 2007 21:19:41 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/21/jackie-brown/#comment-533 6.  I just looked Brown up. He was in his 30s by the time the Expos trade was consummated. Incidentally, he had a bother Paul who also pitched in the bigs. THought they were only a couple of years aprt. Paul’s big league career ended a couple of years before Jackie’s began.

]]> By: Monkey Head http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/21/jackie-brown/#comment-532 Mon, 21 May 2007 20:50:54 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/21/jackie-brown/#comment-532 5.  The late 1970s Indians are also known for the Rick Manning/ Dennis and Denise Eckersley thing.

]]> By: sly jones http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/21/jackie-brown/#comment-531 Mon, 21 May 2007 20:50:04 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/21/jackie-brown/#comment-531 4.  I liked the out-of-place, vaguely Grecian typeface that said “INDIANS” on the front of the uni.
Alas, Jackie’s pitching arm is in the way.

Hey, if you wanna muse some more about uni’s of the ’70s, here’s a suggestion:
How about the Toronto Blue Jays and Kansas City Royals’ groundbreaking use of head-to-toe baby blue?
I really dug those old Royals outfits, but I never thought the look worked as well on the Jays.

]]> By: Ennui Willie Keeler http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/21/jackie-brown/#comment-530 Mon, 21 May 2007 20:19:43 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/21/jackie-brown/#comment-530 3.  I watched baseball starting in 75 and I don’t really recall those unis. I’m trying to come up with something clever about Jackie Brown and Vincent Vega being prize pitching prospects, but I got nothing. One thing that you can try, Josh, is to look up old Sporting News editions from the 70′s at paperofrecord.com (it’s free) and see if Brown was a highly regarded prospect.

BTW, Les Expos were in the East.

]]> By: Jon Weisman http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/21/jackie-brown/#comment-529 Mon, 21 May 2007 19:50:13 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/21/jackie-brown/#comment-529 2.  Is this your grave, Jackie Brown?
This little piece of limestone that says another desperate man took himself out.
Is this your dream, Jackie Brown?

Going nowhere and nowhere fast
We shame ourselves to watch people like this live.
But who gives a damn about Jackie Brown?
Just another lazy man who couldn’t take what was his.
One helluva life Jackie Brown.
Forevermore, Jackie Brown
Amen and amen – Jackie Brown

http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/John-cougar-Mellencamp/Jackie-Brown.html

]]> By: mbtn01 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/21/jackie-brown/#comment-528 Mon, 21 May 2007 16:53:42 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/21/jackie-brown/#comment-528 1.  Truly hideous unis (it was hard even for Frank Robinson to look dignified wearing ‘em) but I always liked that style of “C” on the hat better than succeeding designs.

The Injuns have to drop that name one of these days, but it won’t be before their marketing people awake to the merchandi$ing promise inherent in a relaunching of the Cleveland Spiders.

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