Happy birthday, Mike Cubbage
by Adam J. Morris on Jul 21, 2008 2:45 PM CDT
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Mike Cubbage was a third baseman who played for the Rangers from 1974-76. Cubbage ended up getting dealt in the middle of the 1976 season, along with Roy Smalley, Bill Singer, and Roy Smalley Jim Gideon (and a lot of cash), to the Twins for Bert Blyleven and Danny Thompson.
He had a few nice years with the Twins, but fell off a cliff in his late 20s and was out of baseball by age 31.
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Roy Smalley
was in the same deal 2 times?
Warner Madrigal makes Ezequiel Astacio look downright handsome.
Yep
He was so good the Twins asked for him to be put in the deal twice.
"Would you mind walking a time or two so I could drive in some runs"? Milton Bradley
Actually the twin GM was so stupid...
...that they thought they were getting 4 players instead of 3.
Physician: Primum non nocere
Batter: First, make no out
That was
Roy and his other brother Roy.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
by Ed Coffin on Jul 21, 2008 2:58 PM CDT up reply actions
And that's why they were traded
to the Twins.
It's baseball. You don't always get what you want, and you don't always want what you get. --Ed Coffin
Mike's '76 Topps card...
...was one of my earliest Ranger cards. I can still picture it.
Physician: Primum non nocere
Batter: First, make no out
That card
was for a long time the ONE Ranger card that I needed to complete my full Topps collection. I remember sitting in Bobby V’s as a kid, and he had old Ranger cards under the glass top tables, and I saw it sitting there. I wondered for a while whether there was any way for me to pry open the top and take it…
Wow...
A team got the better end of a trade with the Twins. How times have changed.
"I am not a never-nude" - Tobias Fünke
Mike Cubbage
was married to my step mom before she and my dad hooked up. The first game played in TBiA was an exhibition game vs the Mets, where Mike happened to be the third base coach at the time. She took me down to the field to meet him and he got me a Doc Gooden autographed baseball and a ball used in the game that day. Pretty cool for an 11 year kid. Happy birthday Mike.
If there were no rewards to reap,
no loving embrace to see me through this tedious path I've chosen here,
I certainly would've walked away by now... Be patient
OT: Wild Card
why is everyone already giving up on this season. we are only 5.5 games out of the wild card and we are 3 games above .500. and we have done nothing but improve since april
What if Hurley continues to pitch well and Mendoza pitches remotely close to the way pitched against the white sox??
Kinsler is the best player on the rangers(done), BENOIT SUCKS(done), bring up Harrison(done),new: Put Nippert in rotation, Mendoza to the pen, get Feliz to AAA by the end of the year, trade cat
You, of all people, must be kidding
http://www.halosheaven.com/2008/7/19/575064/congratulations-on-winning
And do us a favor, homey, stop making us look bad.
Don't knock masturbation, it's sex with someone I love .
by Brian Thomas on Jul 21, 2008 8:09 PM CDT up reply actions
Nice catch,
Ombudsman. Nice hands was already near the bottom of the pile, here; this cements his lowly status.
Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.
First you make some bad posts here...
Then you go and kiss the asses of Halos fans over there?
Thanks a lot nice hands, some Rangers fan you are.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
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