Jeff Huson’s career slugging percentage is nine points lower than his career on base percentage, meaning Huson is the Major League equivalent of the kid in Pony League who went up to bat praying that either (a) the pitcher threw him 4 straight balls, (b) he could fall down, cry, and pretend that he got beaned on the first pitch he sees, or (c) the field would explode in a brilliant flash of blinding light before he stepped into the batters’ box.
An emaciated Jeff Huson takes his warm-up swings.
It takes a near Zen-like commitment to being weak to slug below your on-base percentage. It takes dedication, aversion to weights, inability to square up a baseball, and a lot of sand kicked in one’s face. Huson had all of those things. Hence, 8 home runs in a 12-year career. Guess how many came as a Cub? Do you even need to check to see if you’re right?
Low Point: Huson didn’t hit a home run from 1998 until the end of his career in 2000. He appeared in 217 games in that time, and had 626 at-bats. To put that in perspective, that’s 78 games longer and 232 at-bats more than Paul Bako’s longest home run drought.
Did You Know? Last year, Huson was a part-time color analyst for the Colorado Rockies. That actually makes me feel good about my job.
Hot as a Kerry Wood fastball.
I just found out Cubbie Julie has a blog site. I can’t read this anymore. She has all the positive I need.
Up yours Kermit.
When Desipio turned me out into the cold, dark wasteland of internet, Fire Lou Pinella was here for me.
I support Kermit.
Did you see the number of comments she got on an OSCARS thread? Wow. She should call her blog, “The Cubby Bare.”
I’m all for comment quality, not quantity. Keep it up, assholes.
You need to get one of those things that shows us who has left the most comments. Then Slaky can become a comment whore on this site too.
I wish it would at least show you when there’s new comments, but WordPress is a fickle whore.
When I was younger, I thought Jeff Huson would turn out to be a really good player because he had the same first name as me. I even made him a player on my Baseball Stars team. He didn’t have any power there, either.
Your first name is Fucking?
It’s Swedish.
Let’s not have a post count. Then I can post a lot, but since you’ll pass over or forget most of them, it’ll be like I hardly post at all.