The Bottom 126 Cubs Players of My Time
From Sports Library
In January of 2007, blogger Bad Kermit of Hire Jim Essian began compiling a list of the bottom 100 Cubs of his time in a spoof of Al Yellon's 100 Greatest Players in Chicago Cubs History. Kermit thought of 126 Cubs in under an hour without going outside of his lifespan, so he amended the list to include the worst 126 Cubs in his lifetime.
Kermit professed that the list was by no means inclusive. Certain players were statistically worse than some guys who made the list, but had stays with the Cubs which were too brief to acquire legendary awful Cub status. Kermit intended for the list to cover most of the guys who caused Cubs fans to swear at their televisions for the last 30 years. The list covered pitchers, players, guys who were supposed to be great and were terrible, and even covered some of the players on the current Cubs roster.
Some of the factors Kermit considered were the player’s promise as a ballplayer, the player’s contract, amount of undeserved playing time, appearance, likability, and, in some cases, specific moments which made an otherwise average player legendarily horrible.
This list includes has-beens, never-weres, and guys who were particularly terrible during their times with the Cubs. Furthermore, the bottom 126 were vaguely ordered from least horrible (No. 126) to most horrible (No. 1).
Jon Garland was the only player on the list who never actually played in a game with the major league team.
This list lasted until June 8, 2007, when the Bottom One player of Kermit's lifetime was revealed to be Todd Hundley.
After the end of the list, Kermit announced plans to begin a new list called The Top 50 (or so) Cub Killers of My Time.[1] The new list is scheduled to begin sometime in June of 2007.
