Comments on: Don Stanhouse, 1977 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/12/04/don-stanhouse-1977/ Voice of the Mathematically Eliminated Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:11:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: tscastle http://cardboardgods.net/2008/12/04/don-stanhouse-1977/#comment-9523 tscastle Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:12:28 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/12/04/don-stanhouse-1977/#comment-9523 Since he does have the lead quote on this blog, I thought you might be interested in this Baltimore Sun article on Stan the Man Unusual. http://tinyurl.com/qzjroh Since he does have the lead quote on this blog, I thought you might be interested in this Baltimore Sun article on Stan the Man Unusual.

http://tinyurl.com/qzjroh

]]> By: Ennui Willie Keeler http://cardboardgods.net/2008/12/04/don-stanhouse-1977/#comment-8021 Ennui Willie Keeler Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:33:00 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/12/04/don-stanhouse-1977/#comment-8021 <b><a></a>10.</b>  Gods may not answer letters, but they do answer blog posts. Even if it sometimes takes six months. 10.  Gods may not answer letters, but they do answer blog posts. Even if it sometimes takes six months.

]]> By: 68elcamino427 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/12/04/don-stanhouse-1977/#comment-8020 68elcamino427 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:48:01 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/12/04/don-stanhouse-1977/#comment-8020 <b><a></a>9.</b>  <strong>"spaced out"</strong> Dodger Stadium 1980 - Day Game - Wish I could remember the exact date. We had good seats - the "company seats" that were on the first base side - on the field right at the pitcher's mound - about 15 rows from the visitor's dugout. I was supposed to take customers to this game, but instead invited a few of my old buddies from school to attend. Undoubtledly we had passed the silver hitter around before entering the stadium which only served to enhance the hilarity of what was about to unfold before our eyes during the "pre-game entertainment" Batting practice was wrapping up and Stanhouse emerges from the Dodger's dugout and he is walking about in a random fashion both antimated and jocular in his actions with all whom he comes into contact with. However, everyone on the field seemed to be doing their best to ignore him. So Stanhouse wandered near the batting screen and the next thing you know - he's climbing the screen ... and higher and higher he climbs ... and he's not coming down ... and one coach and then another are standing beneath the Fullpack trying to talk him down. And the more they plead ... the more it seems Stanhouse is enjoying his new found power. He was up there ... way up there ... clinging onto that screen for awhile. The creases on the inside of my fingers began to ache in empathy as time wore on. Never before or since have I seen anything like it in a ball park, but it did make me think about Jimmy P. Soon enough Don was relaxing in his pool in Las Vegas - collecting his Dodger checks. So FULLPACK you get my vote dude. 9.  “spaced out”
Dodger Stadium 1980 – Day Game – Wish I could remember the exact date.
We had good seats – the “company seats” that were on the first base side – on the field right at the pitcher’s mound – about 15 rows from the visitor’s dugout.
I was supposed to take customers to this game, but instead invited a few of my old buddies from school to attend.
Undoubtledly we had passed the silver hitter around before entering the stadium which only served to enhance the hilarity of what was about to unfold before our eyes during the “pre-game entertainment”

Batting practice was wrapping up and Stanhouse emerges from the Dodger’s dugout and he is walking about in a random fashion both antimated and jocular in his actions with all whom he comes into contact with.
However, everyone on the field seemed to be doing their best to ignore him.
So Stanhouse wandered near the batting screen and the next thing you know – he’s climbing the screen … and higher and higher he climbs … and he’s not coming down … and one coach and then another are standing beneath the Fullpack trying to talk him down.
And the more they plead … the more it seems Stanhouse is enjoying his new found power.
He was up there … way up there … clinging onto that screen for awhile.
The creases on the inside of my fingers began to ache in empathy as time wore on.

Never before or since have I seen anything like it in a ball park, but it did make me think about Jimmy P.

Soon enough Don was relaxing in his pool in Las Vegas – collecting his Dodger checks.

So FULLPACK you get my vote dude.

]]> By: sb1902 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/12/04/don-stanhouse-1977/#comment-8019 sb1902 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:51:29 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/12/04/don-stanhouse-1977/#comment-8019 <b><a></a>8.</b>  "5. sly jones I half expect redsoxfaninpinstripeterritory to do a search and announce that Stanhouse never pitched on a rainy night at Yankee Stadium before a capacity crowd." Ha ha!!! 8.  ”5. sly jones
I half expect redsoxfaninpinstripeterritory to do a search and announce that Stanhouse never pitched on a rainy night at Yankee Stadium before a capacity crowd.”

Ha ha!!!

]]> By: Sox Fan In NYC http://cardboardgods.net/2008/12/04/don-stanhouse-1977/#comment-8018 Sox Fan In NYC Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:35:12 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/12/04/don-stanhouse-1977/#comment-8018 <b><a></a>7.</b>  Hey Ladies, How You All Feelin' Tonight? That shit is priceless. 7.  Hey Ladies, How You All Feelin’ Tonight?

That shit is priceless.

]]> By: Josh Wilker http://cardboardgods.net/2008/12/04/don-stanhouse-1977/#comment-8017 Josh Wilker Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:15:42 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/12/04/don-stanhouse-1977/#comment-8017 <b><a></a>6.</b>  <a href="#5" rel="nofollow">5</a> : "The messages seem to contradict each other... the first claims that nothing you can say can faze him, while the second seems distinctly fazed." I like how the shift from unfazed to fazed, if that's what actually happened, mirrors the shift to ALL CAPS. I've been thinking he would be a very interesting interview, in some ways the quintessential Cardboard God. Consider: 1. He came up through the system of the best team of the early 1970s (A's). 2. He played for one of the worst teams of the decade (the Rangers), who then got good with the arrival of Billy Martin. Also while on the Rangers he was on hand for 10 cent beer night. 3. He played for the only team from that era that no longer exists (Les Expos). 4. He played for arguably the best team, start to finish, of the decade (the Orioles). 5. And on top of all that, he was FULLPACK. I hope he finds me so I can ask him about all that before he punches my teeth in. 6.  5 : “The messages seem to contradict each other… the first claims that nothing you can say can faze him, while the second seems distinctly fazed.”

I like how the shift from unfazed to fazed, if that’s what actually happened, mirrors the shift to ALL CAPS.

I’ve been thinking he would be a very interesting interview, in some ways the quintessential Cardboard God. Consider:

1. He came up through the system of the best team of the early 1970s (A’s).

2. He played for one of the worst teams of the decade (the Rangers), who then got good with the arrival of Billy Martin. Also while on the Rangers he was on hand for 10 cent beer night.

3. He played for the only team from that era that no longer exists (Les Expos).

4. He played for arguably the best team, start to finish, of the decade (the Orioles).

5. And on top of all that, he was FULLPACK.

I hope he finds me so I can ask him about all that before he punches my teeth in.

]]> By: sly jones http://cardboardgods.net/2008/12/04/don-stanhouse-1977/#comment-8016 sly jones Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:21:09 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/12/04/don-stanhouse-1977/#comment-8016 <b><a></a>5.</b>  I half expect redsoxfaninpinstripeterritory to do a search and announce that Stanhouse never pitched on a rainy night at Yankee Stadium before a capacity crowd. The messages seem to contradict each other... the first claims that nothing you can say can faze him, while the second seems distinctly fazed. If FULLPACK tracks you down, Josh, ask him about the "Launching Pad" at Olympic Stadium, as previously referenced in this blog. 5.  I half expect redsoxfaninpinstripeterritory to do a search and announce that Stanhouse never pitched on a rainy night at Yankee Stadium before a capacity crowd.

The messages seem to contradict each other… the first claims that nothing you can say can faze him, while the second seems distinctly fazed.

If FULLPACK tracks you down, Josh, ask him about the “Launching Pad” at Olympic Stadium, as previously referenced in this blog.

]]> By: Ken Noe http://cardboardgods.net/2008/12/04/don-stanhouse-1977/#comment-8015 Ken Noe Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:40:05 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/12/04/don-stanhouse-1977/#comment-8015 <b><a></a>4.</b>  Maybe Dave Goltz will pop in next. 4.  Maybe Dave Goltz will pop in next.

]]> By: sb1902 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/12/04/don-stanhouse-1977/#comment-8014 sb1902 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:20:57 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/12/04/don-stanhouse-1977/#comment-8014 <b><a></a>3.</b>  I have very vivid memories as a 10 year old of Stanhouse warming up in the 1979 Series and the announcers going on about his nickname "Stan the Man Unusual" and having my father explain it to me. The way they talked about him, I assumed he was unhinged, then I'd look back at the screen and his hair was all over the place and they'd discuss his control, and I was sure his pitching control somehow was related to an inner wildness. The '79 Series was the first one I watched in its entirety, and Stanhouse was one of my vivid memories. 3.  I have very vivid memories as a 10 year old of Stanhouse warming up in the 1979 Series and the announcers going on about his nickname “Stan the Man Unusual” and having my father explain it to me. The way they talked about him, I assumed he was unhinged, then I’d look back at the screen and his hair was all over the place and they’d discuss his control, and I was sure his pitching control somehow was related to an inner wildness. The ’79 Series was the first one I watched in its entirety, and Stanhouse was one of my vivid memories.

]]> By: mbtn01 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/12/04/don-stanhouse-1977/#comment-8013 mbtn01 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:17:59 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2008/12/04/don-stanhouse-1977/#comment-8013 <b><a></a>2.</b>  This is great. Hi, Don! 2.  This is great.

Hi, Don!

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