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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

18 Years Ago Today

So 18 years ago, after a whole lot of scouting by this guy:

the Braves decided to draft and sign this guy:

because Tony thought Chipper was capable of doing this:

Here's that kid today:

Looks like Tony was right. Good job Tony!

8 comments:

Captain Canuck said...

That man will have a special place at our dinner table on Christmas...

Wax Heaven said...

Awesome post. Did you pull that auto?

Andy said...

Bye bye Smoltzie!

dayf said...

Bought it and the blue Chipper on ebay for a buck.

Also, to all you people out there hating on Smoltzie, I wish upon you a raging case of elephantine genital warts contracted from Rosie O'Donnell.

capewood said...

Back in 1991 I was playing in a fantasy baseball league. We were allowed to draft from the minor leagues. One guy drafted Chipper. This would have been in the spring of 1991The rest of us didn't know who he was. He had to wait until 1994 for any production from Jones, but theguy had him real cheap.

Billy Suter said...

Please tell me you didn't draft Brien Taylor, capewood.

capewood said...

Back then I didn't know enough about the minor leagues to draft a minor leaguer. Brien Taylor, what a flame out he was. There's been a lot of talk on the blogs recently about rookie card short prints. Taylor's card may have been the first. Although the card wasn't short-printed (as far as I know), Topps had him under exclusive contract. So your could only get his card through Topps.

Andy said...

Just to be clear, I wasn't hating on Smoltz. Just remarking that he was out for the season.