All-Time Hot Dog Team

[Hazelwood72]

OK, gang, here’s a lighter topic that I hope you can enjoy.

Everyone has “All Time ______ Team” lists.

All Time Lefthanded Team, All Time Jewish Team (Sandy Koufax is my starting pitcher for both), All Time Players Born in Canada Team, etc.

Well, how about an All Time Hot Dog Team? I’m talking about players who were colorful, outrageous, crazy, etc.

Here are a couple examples to get us started:

Pedro Martinez - P
Dizzy Dean - P
Al Hrabosky - P
Dick “Dr. Strangeglove” Stuart - 1B
Ken “Hawk” Harrelson - OF/1B
Marcel Ozuna - LF
Harrison Bader - CF
Reggie Jackson - RF
Bob Uecker (my favorite) - C

I can fill out a whole team, but don’t want to hog the show. Anyway, you get the idea. They don’t have to be HOF material, just colorful, or annoying, or whatever you consider to qualify them as needing mustard & relish.

(PS, Credit to Cranny who called Bader a hot dog in a different thread which spurred my warped mind for this idea)

[clemonsonroots]

soto, arozarena, machado all have to be on that list

[passthebuck]

Yogi Berra, Bob Uker, John Rocker, John Kruk, and Billy Martin could be the manager.

[Ozziesfan41]

Tony plush aka nyjer morgan chuck Carr when asked why he didn’t take 2-0 after the manager said for him to “that ain’t chuckies game chuckie hacks 0-2” Ricky Henderson Pete crow Armstrong

[Cranny]

The greatest hot dog of all time unfortunately may be Ty Cobb.

[kscardsfan]

Where is Ricky?

[12xu]

"Corky" Sosa
"Hot Dog" Javy Baez
Carlos Zambrano
PCA
Joaquin Andujar
Jim Edmonds

[Hazelwood72]

Yogi Berra, Bob Uker, John Rocker, John Kruk, and Billy Martin could be the manager.

Good choices except for Yogi. He really wasn’t a hot dog on the field at all. Though he had some good quips later in his career.

I had forgot about Rocker, but he definitely belongs in this category!

[Alex Reyes Cy Young]

soto, arozarena, machado all have to be on that list

Aroz is number 1. It’s silly how much he hotdogs.

[Ozziesfan41]

"Corky" Sosa
"Hot Dog" Javy Baez
Carlos Zambrano
PCA
Joaquin Andujar
Jim Edmonds

Oh yea Edmonds for sure

[sp25]

So what's the definition of a hot dog? I think it is someone who likes to show off during a game.

I don't think Yogi was, he was all business on the field. Uecker was a clown, but a hot dog?

Rickey Henderson, yes.

Ty Cobb? He was ruthless, not a hot dog, IMO.

Pete Rose? It's in his nickname, "Charlie Hot Dog", so yes.

Dizzy Dean was colorful and outspoken, but was he a hot dog? Satchel Paige, because he was so cocky on the mound?

Tito Fuentes used to tap his bat on the plate to make it flip back to him. That was hot doggish.

Manny Ramirez, yes.

[Bushiro]

Manny....sosa....soto....acuna....bader....edmonds....wong....ozuna...Henderson....aroz....pca....Rodney....belle...Bo

[ramfandan]

One guy not mentioned that was one of the 'craziest' players in MLB history was Boston OF JIMMY PIERSALL

The guy had some serious issues and acted quite outrageous at times .

He once went behind the Yankee Stadium monuments and 'talked' with Babe Ruth . When I was very young, remember seeing a game where he sat down in the OF . He came up to home plate with his bat once playing 'air guitar' with it as he wore a Beatles wig. If you are older fan like me, yu may remember him .

Here is some of his antics :

On May 24, 1952, just before a game against the New York Yankees, Piersall engaged in a fistfight with Yankee infielder Billy Martin.[1] Following the brawl, Piersall briefly scuffled with teammate Mickey McDermott in the Red Sox clubhouse. After several such incidents, including Piersall spanking the four-year-old son of teammate Vern Stephens in the Red Sox clubhouse during a game, he was demoted to the minor league Birmingham Barons on June 28.

In less than three weeks with the Barons, Piersall was ejected on four occasions, the last coming after striking out in the second inning on July 16. Prior to his at-bat, he had acknowledged teammate Milt Bolling's home run by spraying home plate with a water pistol.

Receiving a three-day suspension, Piersall entered treatment three days later at the Westborough State Hospital in Massachusetts. Diagnosed with "nervous exhaustion", Piersall underwent electroshock therapy and began taking a new drug called Lithium which leveled out his moods.[2] He spent the next seven weeks in the facility and missed the remainder of the season.[3]

Piersall returned to the Red Sox in the 1953 season, finishing ninth in voting for the MVP Award.

He once stepped up to bat wearing a Beatles wig and playing "air guitar" on his bat, led cheers for himself in the outfield during breaks in play, and "talked" to Babe Ruth behind the center field monuments at Yankee Stadium. In his autobiography, Piersall commented, "Probably the best thing that ever happened to me was going nuts. Who ever heard of Jimmy Piersall until that happened?"

[Bushiro]

Albert Pujols when talking a walk in his prime...the your scared flick of the bat he did before jogging to first

[Rojo Johnson]

Jimmy Piersall was my choice, too. Although I’m not sure he was a hot dog. Many said he was simply mentally ill. When he hit his 100th career HR he ran the bases backwards, facing backwards. You’ve probably never seen that before. He was quite the head case.

[12xu]

So what's the definition of a hot dog? I think it is someone who likes to show off during a game.

I don't think Yogi was, he was all business on the field. Uecker was a clown, but a hot dog?

Rickey Henderson, yes.

Ty Cobb? He was ruthless, not a hot dog, IMO.

Pete Rose? It's in his nickname, "Charlie Hot Dog", so yes.

Dizzy Dean was colorful and outspoken, but was he a hot dog? Satchel Paige, because he was so cocky on the mound?

Tito Fuentes used to tap his bat on the plate to make it flip back to him. That was hot doggish.

Manny Ramirez, yes.

Rose's nickname was "Charlie Hustle", but I do recall a lot of the established stars in the NL considered him a Hot Dog when he first came up. I agree with you I don't think Yogi or Cobb were Hot Dogs at all.