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At This Rate, Ryan Langerhans Will Play For Every Team In The Majors By June
By Jay Busbee | May 2, 2007
(Yes, this is a post about ex-Brave Ryan Langerhans. Yes, those are pictures of Rasheed Wallace and Brett Favre. All will be explained.)
We always kinda liked Ryan Langerhans, the erstwhile Braves leftfielder with a brick for a bat and baby-soft hands…no, wait, switch those. He was always a good interview, and always seemed a bit in awe at being in the majors — which, in retrospect, was probably part of the problem. Langerhans couldn’t hit a beachball this season, and the Braves, already in full-on take-no-crap-we’re-goin’-back-to-the-playoffs mode, dealt him with a vague “yeah, pay us whenever” to the A’s.
This was on Sunday. Today, the A’s, apparently deciding that they, too, do not wish to accept any crap, dealt Langerhans to the Nationals. Langerhans had played in exactly one game for Oakland, though — poor bastard — he went 0-for-4 and had a boneheaded error in the outfield.
We tried to find a picture of Langerhans in his A’s uni, but failed. Which made us think of a killer blog topic — what about a piece on all those players who made a brief cameo in a strange uniform? Unfortunately, the damn zeitgeist bit again — Uni Watch did this exact same story ten days ago. Dammit!
So what you’re left with are our personal favorite uni cameos, being Hawks and Falcons fans and all: Rasheed Wallace and Brett Favre in Atlanta uniforms. Start with Wallace. Seems like it has to be a Photoshop, right? Nope, ‘Sheed had a layover in Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport between Portland and Detroit, and figured he’d kill some time by popping over to Philips Arena for a game.
Favre’s story is a little better known; while an Atlanta Falcon, he was on the Todd Marinovich Hell Train, nearly partying himself right out of the L. So Atlanta dealt him to Green Bay, where he promptly proved Falcon coaches right by failing miserably. Or something like that.
Check out the Uni Watch site for some other great cameos, including Reggie Jackson on the Orioles, Patrick Ewing on the Magic, and Pete Rose in…well, you’ll have to see it to believe it. (And no, it isn’t prison grays.)
Anyway, good luck, Ryan…here’s hoping you do well enough in Washington to make your Oakland stay the answer to a 2015 trivia question.
(UPDATE: And here’s one more for Brother Andrew.)
Topics: Braves, Falcons, Hawks |
May 3rd, 2007 at 10:20 am
Langerhans is half way there. I think the record is 4 teams in a season, established by Dave Kingman back in the 70s.
May 3rd, 2007 at 11:14 am
I always liked the stories when the guys would play an afternoon game for one team, then get called into the manager’s office, told they were dealt, hop a plane and get into an evening game for another.
And wasn’t there a story about a guy who got traded to another team while he was playing that team? He just packed his things and walked down the hall? Or was that urban legend?
I’m all over the big picture, but get a little fuzzy on the details.
May 3rd, 2007 at 11:17 pm
I know that the cross dugout trade happened a couple times, I think the Texas Rangers pulled it off a year or 2 ago, I’ll look through some stuff and find a few examples.
If I don’t die, that is.