Final day of DaBears 50th season…
Posted on May 11, 2008 by Jimmy
First of all, we need to unveil the last players on the list of the 50 Greatest Bears of All Time:
3) Dave Stanton
2) Jason Wagnon
1) Charles “Papa Bear” Reilly
Secondly, we need to look at who is playing in the final Comp game of the season:
Jimmy
Jeffrey
Wagnon
Wallis
Danny
Bo
Scott
Neven (retired)
Kaby
James
Jake
Nick
Howie
Please let me know if you are unable to make the game.
Filed under: Schedule
Now that we are done naming the 50 greatest Bears of all time, we will shift focus to awards and other BS to keep us busy until the next season starts in June. Please stay tuned for information about the upcoming summer season.
#3 Dave “Hefty Lefty” Stanton
Where do you start with Dave? Do you start with the fact that he is one of the best hitters I have ever seen? Do you begin with stories of him ripping Neven and others for nearly 20 years about their play? Do you talk about how he is a Sunday school teacher who 24 hours later is cussing and drinking beer in the softball parking lot? How about the greatness of the Bears website he started that you are looking at(The glue that has held the Bears together)? Maybe you begin with the fact that he played way to long at his weight on 2 then 1 then no knees and was still way better than any of you suckholes reading this. There are to many stories, to many adjectives and to many achievements to pick one so I will end it with this: Dave Stanton is Softball.
His comment on being #3
“Hey Neven I still think you suck but you are better than Teddy. Love, Dave”
#2 Jason Wagnon
Known for his many injuries over the years: Pulled hamstrings, sprained ankles, gout, bruised heel, blue balls, torn knee cartilage, shoulder and elbow probs, and of course his excuse maker the bad back. So why is this often injured player is at or near the top of most of the Bears career stats? It is because he doesn’t have any kids and feels like his stats,records and this website are his only legacy to the world. So while you are watching your kids unwrap their Christmas presents under the tree or they are handing you a tie on Father’s day he has tears running down his face while counting his homerun totals to make sure they are correct.
His comment on being #2
‘I started as kid who turned doubles into triples, know I am a middle aged man turning triples into doubles. What have I become?”
#1 Charles “Papa Bear” Reilly
There are Bears with better offensive statistics and certainly worse than Mr. Reilly. But stats don’t tell the whole story of how important he was on the field and how he and Mrs. Reilly still are important off the field. On the field not only was he the best pitcher in the history of Arlington softball but he was a calming influence for a bunch of young guys that won alot of games they would not have without him. And it was the awful occurence of Mr. Reilly getting hit with a line drive in the face that ended what I will call the Bears “Golden Years”. Since this happened the Bears went from a team that competed almost every season for first place to teams know that compete for a Miss Congenialty award at best.
But it maybe off the field where he and Mrs. Reilly have the biggest influence. The Bears have always been about friends and families like the Drakes, the Stantons, the Rankins and so on. But it is the Reilly’s who are out there at almost every game ever played. So maybe if your parents are divorced, maybe you have lost a parent or maybe it just takes you back to little league but I think I speak for alot of the guys when I say it is nice to walk to the plate and have them cheering for you and the Bears.
Exactly what I thought was going to happen. Big funny f-ing joke on Neven. Include almost everyone who has played with DaBears from inception even some who haven’t played very long at all. Happy fucking Monday!!!
I bet you guys worked really hard trying to figure out how to screw someone out of this list and what a surpirse it turned out to be Neven, the whipping boy. Well I sure hope Jimmy, Wagnon, Jeffrey, and Dave (I’m sure you were involved somehow) are fucking laughing it up right now. This is the biggest bunch of horse shit that I have seen in quite a while. All these good things said about people who have played with this team for years and where do I end up, in the FUCKING toilet. This is fucking bullshit…
Congratulations “Papa”, and the rest of the Reilly clan. Big Dave is my hero and Wagnon…Stay Hard!
Neven, I am with you. I mean you come in and consistently make every fourth play that comes your way and 40 % of the time you get a hit everytime. While these stats are not the greatest you surely are more important to the bears than the majority of the losers on this list. The shit that you put up with I would say f off all of you, it will be a cold day in hell before you see the hoff out here makeing routine plays look extremely difficult.
Some people’s stats aren’t worthy of the top 50 but perhaps their persona is to big for this list.
Contreversity.
WOW!! Those are just really nice fucking words. After hearing all that I guess I really am not a worthy condidate for the 50 greatests bears. That also means that I shouldn’t be a candidate for this fucking team either. Based on what Jeffe says I haven’t been doing anything worth while anyway.
Fuck it…consider this my retirement, might as well join the club of the other has beens. You boys have a good run…suck it.
There’s a church team in Midlothian you can spare with me and Dave. It would only be like a 400 mile round trip every Monday night.
it sounds you have 1 spare to many already…
Neven’s still got it! Even in retirement.
Hey Green - I thought you were “too busy for a softball comeback”?
I was lured out of retirement with Beef Jerky and Shiner Bocks.
Neven - stop being such a pussy.I hope you don’t quit, but I have a feeling we’ll be alright without you.
Kiss my ass Wagnon…why don’t you go join green as a spare on his midlothian team.
It’s not my team…it’s God’s team
If that is my team I am going to kill myself or thousands Chinese in an earthquake.