Comments on: Randy Jones http://cardboardgods.net/2008/07/15/randy-jones/ Voice of the Mathematically Eliminated Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:42:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Joe Romano http://cardboardgods.net/2008/07/15/randy-jones/#comment-6320 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:24:22 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/07/15/randy-jones/#comment-6320 19.  Randy Jones went on to become teammates with Lee Mazzilli on the 1981 Mets.

]]> By: Raf http://cardboardgods.net/2008/07/15/randy-jones/#comment-6319 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:23:50 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/07/15/randy-jones/#comment-6319 18.  13 Curious as to why you didn’t mention the death of Wilson, but mentioned the death of Umbricht & Hutchinson.

]]> By: Ken Noe http://cardboardgods.net/2008/07/15/randy-jones/#comment-6318 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:47:31 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/07/15/randy-jones/#comment-6318 17.  The Pads should go back to brown and gold. But not those uniforms, oh no.

]]> By: Bob Timmermann http://cardboardgods.net/2008/07/15/randy-jones/#comment-6317 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:14:14 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/07/15/randy-jones/#comment-6317 16.  My high school baseball team wore uniforms of that style. Our colors were (and still are) gold and brown.

]]> By: Psychsound http://cardboardgods.net/2008/07/15/randy-jones/#comment-6316 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:58:49 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/07/15/randy-jones/#comment-6316 15.  That uniform of Randy Jones is positively vulgar.

]]> By: Ennui Willie Keeler http://cardboardgods.net/2008/07/15/randy-jones/#comment-6315 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:44:35 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/07/15/randy-jones/#comment-6315 14.  I knew that you’ve written about Jones previously, Josh. It was in one of the unsortable entries; the one about 1976 Victory Leaders. I need to peruse some of the recent comments.

Hasta

]]> By: Eric Enders http://cardboardgods.net/2008/07/15/randy-jones/#comment-6314 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:50:19 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/07/15/randy-jones/#comment-6314 13.  Randy Jones, whose number was retired by the Padres, has also got to be one of the least legitimate retired numbers ever, along with Steve Garvey (Padres), Hank Aaron (Brewers), Don Wilson (Astros), Jim Umbricht (Astros, died of cancer), and Fred Hutchinson (Reds, died of cancer).

(That’s setting aside the truly phony retired numbers like Gene Autry in Anaheim, Carl Barger in Florida, and “The Fans” in Cleveland.)

]]> By: godvls http://cardboardgods.net/2008/07/15/randy-jones/#comment-6313 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:45:30 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/07/15/randy-jones/#comment-6313 12.  I have two lasting memories of Randy Jones. In 1976 my family went on a rare “hotel” vacation to San Diego (we normally went camping) and attended a Padre game which turned out to be Jones’ 20th victory of the season. My second memory was meeting Jones at his Randy Jones BBQ stand at Jack Murphy Stadium in the mid-90′s. By this point he bore little resemblance to the young man pictured in the baseball card.

]]> By: Eric Enders http://cardboardgods.net/2008/07/15/randy-jones/#comment-6312 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:41:31 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/07/15/randy-jones/#comment-6312 11.  My comment on Jones resembling John C. Reilly comes not from this card so much, as from this photo that I saw for the first time today, courtesy of Paul Lukas’ Uni Watch:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3159/2603581959_0d61ea6792_b.jpg

There are just all kinds of things going on in that photo spread. Randy Jones looking like John C. Reilly. Steve Garvey looking perfect from the hairline down and ridiculous from the hairline up. Pete Rose looking particularly scummy. And a group shot of what has got to be the most spectacular defensive outfield of all time.

]]> By: Josh Wilker http://cardboardgods.net/2008/07/15/randy-jones/#comment-6311 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:11:25 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/07/15/randy-jones/#comment-6311 10.  9 : Point taken. Fernando was pretty cool in ’81.

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