Sprinkle your magic dust, DUSTY

[mordecaibrown]

Since I am still recovering from the depression that the Super Bowl and the HOF vote put me in, I have decide to remember the fun that was Dusty Baker. I know many of you would like to forget the last four years but twenty years from now we will all realize how lucky we were to have the GREAT DUSTY BAKER grace our baseball team.

 

BLACK GUYS PLAY BETTER IN THE HEAT, DUDE

 

DUSTY"S DEW RAG

 

post your favorite DUSTY moment and try to get through one more day without Cubs baseball,

 

PS....I will be sitting in the sunshine enjoying baseball tomorrow watching Cesar hit some dingers with his glove. I love spring training

[David]

That crazy deal with the holy water...

[CuseCubFan69]

My favorite Dusty moment is the day he left.

[Allroy]

The fishing analogy. I'm so looking forward to his babble on Baseball Tonight. The guy is so out there it cracks me up as long as he's not managing my team.

[KenCub]

Every double-switch will make me think of The Dust.

The Dust LOVED the double-switch.

[mordecaibrown]

As sad as it sounds I had a "In Dusty we Trusy" shirt during 2003. Right after game 7 of the NLCS, I ripped it off me like the hulk, I guess from that point I truly knew that Dusty was magic that no man would comprehend.

[Chris]

As sad as it sounds I had a "In Dusty we Trusy" shirt during 2003. Right after game 7 of the NLCS, I ripped it off me like the hulk, I guess from that point I truly knew that Dusty was magic that no man would comprehend.

 

What took you so long?

[mordecaibrown]

[What took you so long?] The hope of the world series, Dusty tricked me with his crazy babble, his spearmint toothpicks and his really hip wristbands.

[Careless]

It's the giant avatar/sig thread!

[Soriano12]

I think any list has to have the "Walks are overrated, they clog the basepath's" quote near the top.

[UMFan83]

Man we are just starting to get some optimism, do we really need to bring up Dusty?

 

Well since we must...mentioning Dusty's Cub tenure can only be done properly if one other person is mentioned:

 

http://andrewfalconer.com/neifi/neifi_legend.gif

[CubinNY]

My favorite is the great Grudz/Walker debate of 04.

 

"You don't dump your new girlfriend just becuase your old girlfriend wants to get back together with you", or something like that

[David]

I miss the ZZ Thorn rants.

[Chris]

Still can't believe the shirt made it to game 7 of the NLCS.

 

Game 1 was bad enough

[PrimeTime]

" Dude, I need my horses to win" " Ya aint nuthin unless ya got ya horses " " Neifi Saved Us" "Baseball is kinda like fishing,you throw out your bait and catch the big one if you can" or whatever the hell he repeatedly said about fishing.

[mordecaibrown]

Didn't Dusty have a picture of the Virgin Mary imprinted in a tree on his desk or something, I think I remember Sully mentioning this in a article

[soccer10k]

My favorite Dusty moment is the day he left.

 

Ditto.

[otis89]

Whatever team it was that Enrique Wilson started against because he "knew the park" or whatever.

[BRASKYS SCOTCH]

... "Neifi saved us."

 

This defines the Dusty Baker era on several levels. Feel free to nod.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Either the fishing metaphor or the Gruzielanek is My Girlfriend reference would be my favorite.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I loved it when he screwed up the double switch and blew a gasket.

[AllStarMe]

All those mentioned are awesome, but my fave is probably the shouting match he got in with Tony La Russa. Examples of that intensity were few and far between, but it sure was great to watch the boiling tensions of the storied Cubs/Cards rivalry manifested in its skippers.

[Allroy]

I don't remember the Gruz is my girlfriend thing. Please fill me in, that sounds like an all-timer.

[CubinNY]

All those mentioned are awesome, but my fave is probably the shouting match he got in with Tony La Russa. Examples of that intensity were few and far between, but it sure was great to watch the boiling tensions of the storied Cubs/Cards rivalry manifested in its skippers.

 

"Somebody is punching a wolf ticket"

[CaliforniaRaisin]

I don't remember the Gruz is my girlfriend thing. Please fill me in, that sounds like an all-timer.

 

If you have a girlfriend and another one comes along, should you put your girlfriend down because the next girl is just as pretty? That ain't right.