Post by The Blue Blazer on Nov 21, 2009 15:23:21 GMT -5
Can we include Chuck Knoblauch here? Not so much a bust from the draft, but the guy goes from Rookie of the Year and a World Series champ in Minnesota, to "Fundamentally Sound," to demanding a trade (and winding up on the Yankees), to forgetting how to THROW, to forgetting how to hit, to winding up playing in obscurity in Kansas City for a handful of games before quietly retiring. Ends up living back in Houston, being named in the Mitchell Report for having used "performance enhancers" and winding up in court (and probably going to jail) for beating his soon-to-be ex-wife.
Seems like the only good thing to happen for the guy in the last 10 years is being named to the all-Metrodome team at the end of this past season (and with the domestic abuse thing, he wasn't able to be there to enjoy the one thing anyone still gives a s*** about him for).
As a Minnesota fan, we'd have booed the crap out of him if he had shown up. That guy is a total dick and said terrible things about our state and fans after he was traded to the Yankees. I'm honestly not shocked that he beat his wife, because he's an asshole. I remember the first time he came back here playing left field as a Yankee...it was $1 Dome Dog Night and college ID night. Every college student in the bleachers were hurling dogs at him all night.
And as a guy who watched Mark Parrish play in college at St. Cloud State, he was really nothing special after his first couple years in New York. Not actually a draft bust, but a disappointment for me was former SCSU Husky Mark Hartigan. He should have won the Hobey Baker in 2001. Then he signed with the Atlanta Thrashers and blew out his hip in his 2nd game and was never the same.