Who's Your Top Favorite Cubs from Your Lifetime?

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

With everything shut down and not much else to talk about, I ended up back here. It's been awhile.

 

So, a light topic- who are your favorite Cubs from your life time. If you want to list five- fine. Ten- go ahead. Any criteria you wanna use- knock yourself out. This doesn't say best Cubs- though that can be your criteria, just favorite.

 

Here's mine:

 

1. Ryne Sandberg. Growing up he was my favorite, for a long time. I remember in my late teens when I at one time owned every card of his ever printed.

2. Sammy Sosa. I know he doesn't always get the love from the fan base, but in his best years, he was a joy for me to watch.

3. Greg Maddux- I liked him before he left, and honestly rooted for him during his Braves years. I was happy when he rejoined the team in his twilight years.

4. Kris Bryant- He's my favorite of the current group. I will admit, as much as I loved watching the Cubs win it all, there's fewer of this group in my favorites because I have less time to watch games as in the past.

5. Ryan Theriot- My LSU connection made me really like Theriot when he was a Cub.

6. Andre Dawson- Loved the Hawk and always will.

7. Mark Grace- Grace was another player that I saw play a lot and always liked.

8. Rick Sutcliffe

9. Kerry Wood

10. Aramis Ramirez

[Tim]

Bill Buckner - my favorite player when I was a kid

Javy - absolutely the most fun Cub player ever

 

After that it gets really hard.

[Clem Fandango]

Don't know that I can rank them, but I can pick them based on the era/chronological order

 

1) Andre Dawson

2) Sammy Sosa

3) Aramis Ramirez

4) Anthony Rizzo/Javy Baez (hard to pick)

[jersey cubs fan]

Sandberg was when I was a kid, but that faded fast when he quit then came back and stunk and then turned into the quintessential "back in my day" guy.

 

Sammy, Baez and Bryant are at the top now.

 

Ramirez is an honorable mention for his trajectory, since I did not like him at first then grew to love him. Kerry Wood is also in the discussion.

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

1. Dawson

2. Javy

3. Geovany Soto

4. ARam

5. Hendricks

[NOLA]

Vance, hope you made out ok with the horrible weather the last two weekends.

 

1. Javy

2. Shawon Dunston-loved him so much as a kid I named my dog Dunston

3. Hawk

4. Mark Prior-what could have been...

5. Jody Davis-my first favorite Cub

6. Mike Fontenot-if you listened to drive-time sports radio in NO you'd know why Theriot is not on this list.

7. Big Z

8. Michael Barrett

9. Kerry Wood

10. Jim Bullinger-friends with his family

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Vance, hope you made out ok with the horrible weather the last two weekends.

 

 

Yes, nothing bad at my house. However, a girl who plays softball with my daughter lost their entire home last weekend. Tornado dropped a tree on it. They were all able to get out ok, but it was a total loss. But, yeah staying safe as I can during these crazy times. Thanks for asking!

[NewUserName]

1st favorite was Rick Monday...then in somewhat chronological order

 

Dave Kingman

Bill Buckner

Leon Durham

Ryno

Dwight Smith

Grace

Sosa

Wood and Prior

Aram

Matt Murton

Javy and KB

 

Javy, KB and Ryno are easily my top 3 favorites of all time

 

Glad to see a post from Vance!!

[Andy]

No particular order from someone who's only been a fan during the 21st century:

 

Javy

Rizzo

Lester

Hendricks

Aramis

Sosa

Bryant

Soriano

Fowler

Zambrano

Wood

Prior

 

Castellanos and Edmonds get into a Midseason Acquisitions wing.

[sneakypower]

Sosa, Grace, Dawson, Hendricks, Castro, Contreras, Wood, Rizzo, Zambrano

 

Sosa probably wins out

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

Vance, hope you made out ok with the horrible weather the last two weekends.

 

1. Javy

2. Shawon Dunston-loved him so much as a kid I named my dog Dunston

3. Hawk

4. Mark Prior-what could have been...

5. Jody Davis-my first favorite Cub

6. Mike Fontenot-if you listened to drive-time sports radio in NO you'd know why Theriot is not on this list.

7. Big Z

8. Michael Barrett

9. Kerry Wood

10. Jim Bullinger-friends with his family

I very, very nearly put Jim Bullinger on my list as a joke, no kidding. I had a lot of baseball cards of him, for whatever reason.

[Bertz]

Maddux is number 1 by a mile. From the Hendry era obviously Lee and Ramirez are tops. Prior and Wood too.

Rich Harden weirdly stands out as well, his second half of 2008 was just the coolest.

 

From this era probably Willson, Javy, Dex, and Hendricks. Yu's probably my favorite right at this moment, but he needs to be produce for longer for him to be a guy I really look back on and think about.

[TarzanJoeWallis]

I loved the obscure guys when I was a kid...

 

Tarzan Joe Wallis (hence the name I use)

Jerry White

Miguel Dilone (hated Preston Gomez for not using him)

Tim Hosley

George Mitterwald

Pete LaCock

Rodney Scott

 

Of the star players...

 

Andre Dawson (my all time favorite)

Dave Kingman

Jose Cardenal

Rick Monday

Bill Buckner

and a bunch of others (including the entire 2016 team)

[NOLA]

Honorable mention for Carl Edwards Jr? I always loved that guy and really wanted him to be the closer.

[cl smooth]

ryno

sosa

ramirez

wood

prior

grace

dawson

dunston

baez

contreras

 

terry mulholland

[Old Style]

Bill Buckner - my favorite player when I was a kid

Javy - absolutely the most fun Cub player ever

 

After that it gets really hard.

Yikes. Not only do we have the same name but we have the exact same answer.

[17 Seconds]

you guessed it- candy maldonado

[CyHawk_Cub]

Aramis Ramirez - that he was bagged-on by fucks like Kaplan made me love him even more

Javy - simply the most exciting Cubs player I have ever watched; I have loved him since his "I can do whatever the horsefeathers I want" to the Angels bench during (I think) the spring of his first pro year.

[Backtobanks]

Since I'm an old-timer:

 

Banks

Santo

Williams

Dawson

Sandberg

Maddux

Jenkins

Buckner

Ramirez

Wood

Sosa

Grace

[Tim]

Since I'm an old-timer:

 

Banks

Santo

Williams

Dawson

Sandberg

Maddux

Jenkins

Buckner

Ramirez

Wood

Sosa

Grace

Not a single player from the greatest stretch of Cubs baseball ever who was either developed or acquired under Theo.list>

 

Yep, checks out.

[David]

Sammy

Javy

DLee

Aramis

Rizzo

KB

Wood

Lester

Schwarbs (his playoff contributions cement it)

Brian McRae (just for the logan - but he really was one of my favorites at one time)

[David]

Since I'm an old-timer:

 

Banks

Santo

Williams

Dawson

Sandberg

Maddux

Jenkins

Buckner

Ramirez

Wood

Sosa

Grace

 

holy horsefeathering horsefeathers how on brand lmao

[MWV]

As a kid, Dawson and Sandberg. I also really liked Vance Law. He was only a cub a couple of years, and was only any good for one of them, but he wore dorky aviator glasses like I did.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

I see no matter how long I've been away, some things are the same.

[Cubswin11]

If I had to do a top 10 I’d go;

 

1. Sosa

2. Lee

3. Wood

4. Rizzo

5. Bryant

6. Aramis

7. Javy

8. Jake

9. Zobrist

10. Lester