Comments on: Ron Schueler (1)

By: wireroom

wireroom — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:03:20 +0000

7. I think I am in the same place where you were at that time. Work part time, go to library school, have no direction, drink beer a lot, and love baseball and the Dodgers to the point where I read this blog when I should be working. My rock band of 5 years is done for, so no more cross country tours filled with days of reading in a van and drinking in dark clubs nightly. It takes a while to get used to not living that life anymore. Maybe Ron Shueler is contemplating the future where things get tough, but you charge forward anyway. He looks like a general faced with an impossible counterattack that there is no way of getting out of. Grim determination.

By: Peanut

Peanut — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:29:06 +0000

6. I remember when the White Sox drafted Schueler's daughter. Some people took it as an insult to Carlton Fisk that they didn't draft Fisk's son that year. Nobody expected any of the late-round draftees to ever play in MLB. Still, the Sox drafted Carey Schueler in the 43rd round of the 1993 draft, and they picked three future major leaguers, including Placido Polanco, later in that same draft.

By: Peanut

Peanut — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:22:05 +0000

5. I was a White Sox fan and a carpenter during Schueler's GM tenure, and I didn't notice the misspelling or the pasteboard thing.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:23:55 +0000

4. 1 : That's some good info, Sly. 2 : Interesting. I did not know that factoid either. 3 : O how such laughter wounds. (More on that to come...) Incidentally, I have made two corrections to the above post. First, my mother pointed out that I spelled poor Ron Schueler's name wrong, even though I had his card staring me in the face and even though I call myself a proofreader. Second, in the last sentence, I changed "pasteboard" to "particle board." I hope no carpenters lost all respect for me before the correction was made.

By: Monkey Head

Monkey Head — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:07:48 +0000

3. A friend of mine teaches freshman comp at a college in Pennsylvania. When he introduced himself the first day of his first semester, he dropped his index cards all over the floor. This is his fourth year now, and whenever he sees somebody from his first class around campus, he feels like they're still laughing at him.

By: Eric Enders

Eric Enders — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:21:57 +0000

2. He looks like he is staring into the stands at his then-two-year-old daughter, thinking to himself, "Someday, she'll be the first woman ever drafted by a major league baseball team."

By: sly jones

sly jones — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:35:56 +0000

1. Ron Schueler once taunted the Best Everyday Player of the 1970s, to his face, by calling him a punch-and-judy hitter. Which infuriated the BEPotS so much that he promptly hit a stand-up double and pulled into second base yipping, "I ain't no fuckin' punch-and-judy hitter!" Score one for the BEPotS.