Archive for the ‘Jack Cust’ Category
Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Most of our baseball posts tend to be exercises in self-punishment. No other sport seems to cause us pain quite like baseball. Maybe it's the long season; maybe it's the long offseason; or maybe it's the special pain of being fans of a small-market team that's kind of like being ...
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Sunday, August 12th, 2007
Seventeen days ago, we lamented the downfall of Jack Cust, erstwhile nobody who was snapped up by the Oakland A's from our San Diego Padres who immediately became an offensive force. His numbers had dipped and it looked as though we had reached a premature end of the fairy tale. ...
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007
It's been 22 days since our last Jack Cust update and our hero has come upon some difficult offensive times (times are always tough for him in the field). When we last saw him, he was hitting .280 with 15 homers and 39 RBI. Now he is hitting .252 with ...
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Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
We've been tracking Oakland A's Designated Hitter Jack Cust's progress this season since our Padres traded him in May. Naturally, this trade was before we realized that Terrmel Sledge and Jose Cruz Jr. can't hit and Milton Bradley is hurt. But it's cool, we don't really need an offense because ...
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Monday, May 21st, 2007
Last Monday, we mentioned how Jack Cust is probably headed to the Hall of Fame now that the Padres have traded him to another team. The Padres have a history of making the careers of other players by trading them for pretty much nothing. They did it for Ozzie Smith ...
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Monday, May 14th, 2007
Uh, remember when we said teams should never trade with San Diego Padres G.M. Kevin Towers? His prowess at ripping teams off in trades has become something of a legend recently. It's bigger news when the Padres don't get the better end of a deal. Well, there's a bigger Immutable ...
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