@@donarthiazi2443 yes, life in prison. he threw a bomb into a group of little children and infants and their parents. injured a 1 year old i believe, among others. i am plenty grown up, kid.
@@jamesesterline The irony is that Vince Coleman was my favorite player when I first started following baseball when I was 8. I loved the Cardinals and for about three years Vince Coleman was my favorite player.
Bret Saberhagen also threw an explosive at reporters as well as spraying bleach into the faces of reporters that same year on the Mets. Yet, Coleman received far more negative publicity than Saberhagen did
@@jirikurto3859 it did seem Herzog kept him somewhat in control. I also remember the Mets in 1992 with an outfield of Coleman, Bonilla, and Howard Johnson, not realizing that 1 had to play center.
Dodgers fan here. I remember that Milton Bradley moment with the baseballs, and I just want to say how cool Vin Scully was in that moment. Most former players turned announcers would be stunned silent, or start talking about the low character of the player, but my man Vin said something like, "He is throwing baseballs like he is at a wedding throwing rice. That's not a good sign." Way to rule, Vin! All he did was keep on making announcements
I can even now hear him in his distinct voice saying that. I grew up listening to Harry Caray broadcast White Sox and then Cubs games, and for me personally, it's hard to say who was my favorite between the two. If I grew up listening to Dodgers games, it would probably be a no-brainer. But both of them were so stellar at what they did, I believe.
Carl Everett played winter ball in Venezuela... one day, he was ejected for protesting a strike call. Carl proceeded to insult the umpire, he went to the dugout and tossed everything he found to the field, took off his team jersey and sat within the crowd arguing that he could stay there since he wasn't playing anymore... He was then banned from ALL winter leagues.
@@PaoloJairo The Manager was Tim Tolman, by then Phil Regan was managing Caracas. You can find the clip here in youtube, just type "El día que Carl Everett se volvió loco en Maracay"
That 2009 Cubs clubhouse must have been a hoot to have BOTH Carlos Zambrano AND Milton Bradley. Their manager, Lou Piniella, was also known to have some anger management issues himself. YIKES!
i was going to say Zambrano and Bradley were so easy to set off that it was an actual strategy of opposing teams. Carlos could be pitching a three-hitter but if you just audibly called him a (gay slur in Spanish) and, immediately, he'd go crazy and get ejected.
Milton Bradley's tirade at the 15:21 mark however, did lead to a classic remark by the great Vin Scully: "Milton Bradley...has thrown baseballs like rice at a wedding!"
Fun Fact. I was with Milton Bradley during the day before the night game on June 3rd 2004 when he threw the ballbag on the field. I was working for Albertsons and we had to attend a charity event at a store in Burbank. Milton, Eric Gagne, David Ross and Jose Lima were the Dodger players at the event. It was a fill a grocery cart up in 15 minutes and donate the scanned amount to the charity. I got my pic with all of the players individually and quite a few of the event. They were all super nice but Milton was the most standoff-ish and reserved. Jose Lima was awesome and super outgoing as you would expect. Gagne freaked me out as I was assigned to help him. He grabbed a cart, and on the jarred baby food aisle, jammed his valuable right arm into the back of the shelf and with a huge sweeping motion, pushed all of the glass jars into the cart causing some of the jars to break. I thought he was going to slice his arm. Crazy. What a memory.
I too had a wonderful Jose Lima experience. He signed baseballs and offered to take pictures with my little brother and I when we went to Mets spring training in Florida one year. He was incredibly kind, and especially patient with all of the children who wanted to meet the players. RIP to a guy who seemed like a very kind soul.
I remember that firecracker incident. Vince Coleman was quoted saying at the time "It was only a joke. What do you do when you throw a firecracker? You laugh. At least I do."
When Milton Bradley was with the Dodgers I met him once at a doctor's office as a kid. It was right after I had just gotten my nose cauterized and was walking out of the building with my mom as he was walking in. I was probably 9 or 10 at the time but was a big enough Dodger fan to be able to instantly recognize him. I asked him for a picture and he was totally nice about it and stood next to me and smiled while my mom got a photo on her old Nokia. I haven't seen that picture in years but I remember how goofy I looked next to him with my nose all stuffed and covered in gauze. At the time I wasn't aware of his reputation. I was just elated to meet a real life MLB player for the first and only time in my life. But looking back, I find it funny that that the only current big leaguer I've ever met in public also happened to be the biggest douchebag in MLB history (according to this video).
I'm a huge Dodgers fan as well. I used to work at this upscale liquor and wine store in the LA area so we would occasionally get celebrities in there. I met 3 Dodgers while at work. The first was Ramon Martinez, starting pitcher and Pedro's older brother. He was super nice and friendly, chatted with me for several minutes. Just a pleasant guy. The second was Jim Gott, a reliever and for a short time their closer. He had just been traded to the Pirates but he still called LA home. He was very friendly as well, and I could tell he wasnt used to being recognized. The 3rd was Bill Russell. He was the manager at the time but when I was a kid and watched games with my dad, he was the SS. Russell was a dick. He was rude to the staff, annoyed when recognized, and he ordered 2 cases of the cheapest dirt wine we had for some party. My boss tried to talk him out of it, saying for just 1$ a bottle more he could get a much better wine. He wasnt having it. Then 2 days later he returned the wine saying it wasnt good, and he was a dick then too. I was bummed, he was a childhood idol, and turns out, not a very good manager, either.
Don't forget Jose Guillen - an incredibly talented player who played for 10 teams in 14 years because everyone hated him. Got kicked off the Angels in 2004 as they were moving into the playoffs in spite of his productivity because he was such a clubhouse problem.
I did not know that about Guillen. As a lifelong Tigers fan he was great for us play for us way longer than he played for anyone else maybe Jim Leyland and some of the other veteran leaders in that clubhouse were able to keep him in check maybe cuz he was not a problem in Detroit I didn't hear anything about him being a problem in the clubhouse while he was here.
I always wondered why he seemed to bounce around so many teams, despite being a good player. That makes sense now. Never realized he was a clubhouse cancer.
I have my own story about Milton Bradley: I was a member of a men's chorus in Rhode Island in the early 2000s when he was in the Indians' system, and their AAA affiliate was in Pawtucket for a series when we were scheduled to sing the anthem before a game at McCoy Stadium. While we were waiting to go on the field, several players and their manager at the time, Eric Wedge, were in the visitors' dugout near where we were, and some of us spoke with Wedge briefly (a nice guy, btw). Bradley saw us talking and he said something like "Get the fuck outta here, we got a game to play!" He also gave us a look that suggested that if we didn't move away quickly, he would make us. Keep in mind that this was about 15 minutes before the pre-game ceremonies, and we were in a waiting area outside the dugout, a good 10-12 feet from Wedge and his players. A little over a year later I believe there was a story about Bradley hitting an umpire while he was in the minors, so this behavior was always in him, and he likely never should have played professional team sports at all.
5:16 Jimmy Dugan: Rogers Hornsby was my manager, and he called me a talking pile of pigsh*t. And that was when my parents drove all the way down from Michigan to see me play the game. And did I cry? Evelyn Gardner: No, no. Jimmy Dugan: No! No! And you know why? Because there's no crying in baseball.
@@Soma2710 actually when i hear his name i remember reading the reds waited till they fired him to bring up chuck harmon because hornsby was such a biggot
Umpire: Jimmy Jimmy: She’s crying, sir! Umpire: Good rule of thumb. Treat each of these girls as you would treat your mother. Jimmy: Did anyone ever tell you, you look like a penis with that little hat on? Umpire: You’re out of here! Jimmy: No, no you misunderstood me. You misunderstood!
Really good list. You did your research. Being a Red Sox fan, I didn't remember his comments about Red Sox fans. He's actually loved in the city now, doing Red Sox pre and post game analysis. I'm very familiar with Carl Everett as well. His temper was legendary. I never knew Vince Coleman was that bad. Good comprehensive and fact filled video. Well done!
I love the fact you included old school players. Not like these modern so called experts who only know of and chose modern players in their lists. Well done
He could have included Dirty Jack Doyle, a very good late 19th century and early 20th century player who finished with a lifetime .299 avg. He played 17 seasons, but never more than 4 for one team.
I remember watchin Shea Hillibrand in Affiliate Ball when I went to a Bridgeport Bluefish game like 10 years ago..dude was nasty to the fans and played very lazy.
I love your stuff. The problem with most social media baseball people is they try to act like know-it-alls. You do a good job avoiding that trap. I was surprised in this one that Elijah Dukes didn’t make the cut. Keep grinding!!!
Ty Cobb is a very complex case. His defenders will say that his biographer, Al Stump sensationalized and exaggerated the more unsavory aspects of Cobb's life, and the general public pretty much accepted that what Stump wrote was truly reflective of the real man.
I also bet Ty Cobb was probably a great teammate, but his opponents hated him. Just a guess though. Maybe some sportswriters hated how he played a bit too rough and the reputation stuck that he was an ass.
@@sortofanoakyafterbirth3661Ty Cobb was hated by teammates. The PBS documentary on baseball made that clear. The only time they took his side was when he was absolutely beating the hell out of a fan for calling him a halfnigger. When Ty was told by other fans that the man was stomping was a cripple... Cobb beat him even harder. His teammates, though they hated Cobb, all agreed that _"being called something that despicable was an insult too great to bear"._ Unreal Edit: As an aside: I can't get over Rocker being number 2? He didn't do anything even close to what the others on this list did?
Almost nobody knows the truth about the Yankee great Joe DiMaggio who was also an arrogant, notorious prima donna who wasn't well-liked by his teammates. Mickey Mantle never let on but Mantle noted in a veiled criticism of DiMaggio that Mantle's greatest career accomplishment was that his teammates liked him, and in fact they did. Mantle was a refreshing change for the Yankee players after DiMaggio's career ended. Although he was a superstar, Mantle refused special treatment and liked all of his teammates. He was a player's player.
@@williamjconde Sounds about right and speaks to my point. Maybe Joe D. was jealous of Mantle. I'd also heard that a Yankee rookie's job was to have a cigarette lit and ready in the dugout so that Joe D. could drag on it as soon as he returned from the field.
Richard Ben Cramer's essential biography agrees that DiMaggio was often a dick and peaked at aloof but it also says his teammates loved him. Maybe not liked him but they were in awe of him and fed off him. It's nothing close to a hagiography and if his teammates didn't like him they've managed to maintain the facade for decades. He did nothing off the field to deserve their adulation but that's not the same thing as being disliked.
Since Hornsby is on the list, I'm going to go even more old school and nominate Carl Mays, who not only threw the pitch that killed Ray Chapman in 1920 but was despised by pretty much everyone, including teammates. Whether Mays purposely hit Chapman is debatable, but he was a horse's ass well before that tragic event. In 1919, Mays tired of getting little run support from his Red Sox teammates and second baseman Jack Barry's penchant for making errors with Mays on the mound (I checked, and eight of Barry's 12 errors in 1919 came when Mays pitched). The final straw came on July 13, 1919, when catcher Wally Schang accidentally hit Mays with a throw to second base on an attempted steal. Mays stormed off the field and refused to play for the Red Sox again. The Sox traded him to the Yankees, much to the chagrin of Yankees manager Miller Huggins, who couldn't stand Mays. Huggins once left Mays in a game in which the Indians pounded him for 13 runs on 20 hits. Of Mays, Huggins said "if he was in a gutter, I'd kick him." In Philadelphia, a warrant was issued for Mays's arrest after he threw a ball into the stands as hard as he could and hit a fan. He fled the city and avoided pitching there again for fear that he'd be arrested and charged with assault. He was also accused of throwing World Series games, but the charges were never proved. From Mays's SABR biography: "Mays was once described by F.C. Lane as 'a strange, cynical figure' who 'aroused more ill will, more positive resentment than any other ballplayer on record.'
Some of the factors I'd read that contributed to Chapman's fatal beaning included the following: the use of one baseball for the whole game, even after it had become filthy with dirt and whatever foreign substances had been applied to the ball; the common but since-banned practice of doctoring the ball with a wide variety of substances (spit, grease, dirt, scuffs, etc.), the darkness of playing the game into the sunset hours without lights; Carl Mays's submarine pitch delivery; the non-use of batting helmets, which wouldn't be required for another few decades; etc. Mays may have also tried to hit Chapman, but I've never seen that cited as a factor in the beaning. Chapman didn't even see the pitch that killed him. I do believe that Mays was horrified to learn that his pitch actually killed Chapman.
It's been my understanding that the allegations of throwing the World Series, though never proven, were serious enough to prevent Mays from reaching the Hall of Fame. With a record of 207-126, he's the type of pitcher that probably could have reached the HOF if everyone didn't hate him so much.
The strangest thing about Milton Bradley is he was a patient hitter with an 11.9% walk rate. If he was only that patient in every other aspect of his life.
Met rocker once. For some inconceivable reason, Honda brought him in to work a booth at the little league world series. He was a headcase. He ended up leaving after getting in an argument with a kid about 12 years old.
@@woodyreed2882 His 'ideas' didnt come from steroids, they came from being taught how to hate everyone not exactly like him in the small town in Georgia he grew up in. Steroids might make you angry, but being a bigot takes indoctrination.
It’s really pathetic that the guys on this list just don’t get it. Being an MLB player is a privilege not a right. All of them had talent but wasted their careers away with unruly and disrespectful behaviour. As a big baseball fan in Western Canada I can’t wait for the 2023 season (especially after a frigid winter!). Thanks for sharing and I have already subscribed.
@@unclesamowitz9922I got suspended from a team for 2 games in HS (football) for bringing up the anunaki during practice. They had to make a rule "no talking about lizard people" Because I kept bringing them up and one of the kids (a LB) couldn't stand it. I would talk about them and skinwalkers until he would scream at me to shut up. When I switched schools I managed to get him ejected for throwing a punch at me because every time I beat him on a route for the whole game I would taunt him and call him "lizard man"
The Papelbon / Harper fight really hurt Harper's image at the time because he was more of a high-profile guy than Papelbon, and everyone wanted to believe that Harper was the problem. Turns out, Harper is a really cool dude, and Papelbon was the jackass.
Nah, Harper was pretty stupid and immature too when he was in Washington. He finally grew up when he moved to Philly. DC still has a HUGE grudge against him. He still gets booed at Nats Park when he comes up to bat.
The 1992 Mets had Vince Coleman, Bobby Bonilla, Jeff Kent and Eddie Murray all on the roster. I read the book “the worst team money could buy” about that team and recall lengthy segments were dedicated to Coleman and Kent, but it’s been 30 yrs since I read it lol.
I had no idea about Vince Coleman. I can’t believe he threw an m100 into a crowd. I’ve done some really bad stuff myself. That could be considered aggravated assault at best and attempted murder at the worst
This is news to me too. I wonder to what extent he was protected by the media. I think a lot of bad behavior went without comment- players didn’t want to rat out other players, home town sports writers didn’t want to piss off the owners, etc.
I've read quite a bit about Hal Chase. Everyone knew he was corrupt. The scary thing is that his deliberate dumping of games was tolerated in MLB for so long.
Probably helped that he started with the New York Highlanders (future Yankees), whose owners at the time Farrell and Every got rich through New York organized crime. (AL front office were desperate to compete against the NL in NYC, so they made a deal with the devil as it were)
They only started to care because their product was being threatened. The Black Sox scandal nearly ended professional baseball, and because of that, they suddenly had a care about it. I would almost certainly bet some of the powers that existed in early MLB knew and benefitted from Hal Chase's behavior which is why it was allowed.
Loved when a caller would respond to Howard Eskin’s “I haven’t had a bad day in my life” with “mmmm, what about the time you sent flowers to that married lady?”
Such a great channel and I love that you do follow up videos all the time because it tells me you read comments research stories! In the next one you should include Rob Dibble for any number of reasons, as well as Matt Garza. I watched a Rangers game in person and he shook off his catcher enough times that I started noticing it. He would give up a hard hit after and his catcher (Navarro I believe) came out to the mound and they ended up having to be separated as most of the Tampa Bay team ran on the field.
Fun story My dads friends sister was actually proposed to by Albert Belle. When asked why she didn’t marry Albert, IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS PRIME, she said it was “because he was an asshole.”
Just when I thought bonds was gonna be number 1, you rewarded my patience and listed my man Milton. This guy had the talent to be something special but was batshit crazy and couldn’t get his life together.
@@diesel1344 agree for the most part, but he did have issues with players, most notably Jeff Kent. I think some of it stemmed from Bonds’ holier-than-thou persona with the la z boy and whatnot.
@@Dunkaroos248 You put 25 highly paid, possibly prima donnas in a competitive environment for 5 or 6 months and it's a certainty that everybody will have issues with somebody, especially if that somebody is Kent. Most of the rest of the team just ignored him in the clubhouse or the dugout because he ignored them. A grump maybe, but not a cancer.
I don't know if he qualifies for your list, but another interesting character in this realm is the much traveled Jose Offerman (Dodgers, Reds, Royals, Red Sox, and many others). He doesn't have quite the history of some of these guys, but he was a pain in the ass for his teammates and managers. Believe it or not, he's the father of WWE wrestler Bray Wyatt's fiancee, Joseann "JoJo" Offerman.
At the end of his career while I’m Seattle, Milton Bradley was in KC playing the Royals at Kauffman Stadium. My two buddies and I had tickets in the front row of 103, the sonic slam section. We always go early for BP and like to joke around with those shagging hoping to make someone laugh and get some balls for kids sitting around us. This kid next to us was a Mariners fan and wanted his autograph so we hollered to show him the kids sign only for him to tell us “I’m not blind or deaf, you dumb motherfuckas…” So then we were all in making him as mad as we could. Finally in the 6th with 2 outs, a ball gets hit right at us and off the bat looks like a HR ends up dying just short on the track. We screamed practically right in his ears and he caught it, looked up at us and for a couple seconds I thought for certain he was jump into the row and gonna start fighting us, but he called us “pussies” and for a second time acter like he was tossing a ball to another kid only to fake it and put it in his back pocket. Next half inning, he was nearly ejected for bat flipping strike 3 that he though was ball 4. He didn’t get ran but they did replace him right then which ended up being the straw that broke the camels back and landed him on the suspended list which he never returned from!
My memorable Carl Everett story occurred during a mid 90s minor league game against the Padres AAA team, the Las Vegas Stars. I recall him getting into an altercation at 2nd base (I don’t remember what happened.). What I do remember is him yelling at fans in the stands as he was walking back to the dugout. Things got heated really quick. He had to be pulled back by his teammates as he attempted to go into the stands. I can remember seeing his meltdowns on the field years after. Wasn’t surprised about any of it. He was a nutcase
Excellent video and trip down memory lane. I had forgotten about almost all of these wonderful humans and wasn't even aware Hornsby had such a bad rep.
They missed Ty Cobb, who wasn't exactly loved by anyone. When once asked about Cobb, former teammate Sam Crawford was reputed to say" I or anyone else on this team wants anything to do with him"
@Suk Hastings In the description, he mentions leaving Cobb off this list because he believes him to be misunderstood. He says he's planning a separate video on Cobb. I'll be interested to hear his reasoning because, like you, I've heard nothing but toxicity regarding Cobb.
Well, done! A couple of those players could be rearranged in different orders, but overall very spot on with those 10 players. And I like the fact that he backed everything up with facts for each player to support his reasoning.
Great video! Surprised Dave Kingman didn't make the list. Also, according to Bill James, one of the reasons manager Hornsby was voted off the team was because he refused to stop pissing in the showers.
According to his ex-teammates, Kingman was a good teammate but he really hated the media. He was often misquoted (he believed it was deliberate) and he pulled a prank on a reporter by sending her a live rat. He believed women didn’t belong in a men’s locker room.
@@sukhastings4200I can understand his dislike for the media as players managers are often misquoted by the media or are asked the same stupid questions over and over..
As an Indians/Guardians fan it's awesome that about half these guys spent time in Cleveland! Really the only one worth the trouble was Albert Belle, his stats in a CLE uniform were insane, Belle seems a bit more level-headed now and actually makes regular calls into CLE sports radio
@@shanemcnelis2667 charges from the 2018 spring training incident were dropped, and I said Belle seemed a bit more level headed, not that the dude was a saint, if he's actually still a huge scumbag then fine, makes no difference to me
Doing time in Maricopa Co jail ( along with Mike Tyson) has apparently mellowed Albert out. Being from the Columbus area when Belle was in Cleveland, no doubt talented, but troubled
@@BennyT_3434 Of course not. You'll lick the boots of any athlete, won't you? By your logic, I am a saint for not being a sex offending creep, yet I'm pretty sure that I'm just not a fucking wierdo.
@@shanemcnelis2667 Easy killer, Belle was a great baseball player 25 long years ago, hopefully he's changed his ways, but if not then oh well, it has zero impact on my life and isn't worth arguing about, the messed up way he acted in the 90s will always be a part of his story regardless and he def belongs on this list
Baur has been tempered big time since playing in Japan, he struggled at first but came back strong and has acted with class, when he comes back to the MLB he will be a much different person, There are way to many hotdogs in the bigs now, over celebrating etc. One would never see the Mick act like that
I often take these with a grain of salt. I recall when Devon White was traded to the Jays. He had a reputation as “great glove, but a head-case and clubhouse cancer.” All he did in Jays uni was put his head down, played hard, and won championships. Never saw a trace of negative character from him.
there are cases like that in various sports, where a guy has a rep but it's based on one team/situation. then goes somewhere and is fine. it's when it's multiple teams/years/situations that you know it's the guy. but sometimes it just doesn't add up. for example in hockey this year my Blackhawks had Max Domi. who had a negative rep. turned out he was not just 'fine', he was like - an exemplary teammate and clubhouse guy, who gave constant good effort, stuck up for teammates, etc. watching him it was hard to understand where a negative rep could even have come from.
Honestly surprised Barry Bonds wasn't on this list. He was literally forced into retirement because no team would sign him even though he was asking for the league minimum.
probably more valuable than his antics... But it'd be hard to be the guy's teammate... If a player is a dick and doesn't apologize for it, thats one thing... but when a guy is a dick, a narcisst, and diva but he tries to play himself off as a humble common man, then they become disguising.
My only personal memory of Bradley was when late teens early twenties we would get bleacher seats to go to as many Cardinals games as possible. He was with the Dodgers then. We started chanting chutes and ladders (if your old enough you get it) anyways he just laughed, clapped towards the bleachers, thew a ball he caught for an out to the crowd, and even in his post game interview for the local paper mentioned he got a kick out of the chants.
Possible dishonorable mention: Avisail Garcia who allegedly had been caught sleeping with Prince Fielder's wife while playing for the Tigers and it lead to a clubhouse brawl that reinjured Miggy in the process and Garcia was almost immediately traded afterwards Though I'm not sure if this is actually true or not as it's largely just been a rumor for the past almost 10 years now
@@robertkeith7274 rumor was always D Martinez bagged Sandberg's wife, got traded immediately after. may have been more than just him, but him for sure. Sandberg would later have an acrimonious divorce that involved among other things him retiring temporarily before coming back. Keith/Sharp was during 2015, Sharp got traded right after the 3rd Cup bc of it. they later made peace apparently but Keith's marriage ended.
Milton Bradley had a brief stint with the Cubs after he conned the Cubs into believing he was "reformed." It was a total disaster from day one, and he was gone by mid-season.
Rogers Hornsby always reminds me of that line in A League of their own where Tom Hanks talks about him humiliating him when his parents where in the stand. Lol
Barry Bonds and Will Clark. Both great players, but those guys were hated by their teammates, coaches and managers. I was a sportswriter, and Belle was strange. You'd try to talk to him, and he would not only ignore you, but he'd act like you weren't there. By that I mean that he would walk straight through you, bouncing you out of the way, with a complete deadpan expression on his face and no reaction, as he moved around. I dealt with Carl Everett several times and found him to be funny and engaging.
I remember during the 1995 World Series, Albert Belle cursed out Hannah Storm, who was working as broadcaster for NBC Sports. Albert Belle should've won the AL MVP Award in '95 over Mo Vaughn, but the sports writers, did the voting, outright hated him and for good reason.
@@gr33dyglutton Barry Bonds was one of the most miserable people I dealt with over the course of my career. He actually relished being a prick to everyone - media, clubhouse personnel, fans... Fortunately I was an NBA writer, so I didn't have to deal with him too often, but he was a chore.
Thought Bonds would have made it on here as well. I know this video is about their major League exploits, but the amount of stuff Bonds did on school and minor league teams puts him up there.
Quite pleasantly surprised not to see Ty Cobb on this list. He wasn't always the most pleasant person in the world, but his reputation for nastiness is overblown, mainly because of a hack sportswriter that he hired to do his autobiography.
The Papalbon comment about Boston fans is pretty much spot on. I'm a Boston fan and as I grew up and matured I realized how awful we were and I changed. Most don't
i really hated Puig. and he would do stuff every game, every AB. constant drama and attention seeking stuff and not in a fun Javy Baez on the Cubs way either. made the games very much not fun but of course the leftists wanted to convince us he was making the game fun. no.
Jon Rocker was also the inspiration behind the show East Bound and Down and the personality of Kenny Powers...which if you haven't seen that show, I recommend it
Vince Coleman had the automatic turf rolling machine accidentally trap his leg. I wonder if he pissed off the guy controlling it and it wasn't an accident.
It happened at the worst time that it could happen, which was during the NLCS. He was unable to play in the 1985 World Series against Kansas City due to his freak leg injury.
I remember when Papelbon was on the Phillies (my hometown team), and while he was a pretty good player, things always seemed just a little...off. As an example of this, my parents and I went to the ballpark one summer evening, and on the ballpark screen, they were asking players who their favorite superheroes were. Some answered with Batman or Superman or Spiderman, but when it came to Papelbon, he said, "...Aquaman?"
@@peteyprimo7173 Nothing's wrong with Aquaman, it's simply that he doesn't seem to be the first to spring to mind when most think of comic-book superheroes.
So your labeling him as off because he likes a different super hero ? Maybe he doesn't like super heros and mentioned the 1st one to come come his mind maybe he just likes to be different and have his own opinion. It's also possible that an Aquaman movie was coming put that year and he was literally told or paid to say that. I don't see this as the big story your trying to make it to be.
@@seanheaney8303 I understand and respect your opinion. I'm not saying that Papelbon was wrong for stating Aquaman was his favorite superhero, I'm simply noting that such a choice is a tad outside the norm, which seems to be in line with some of his other behavior. To reiterate, I'm not saying his behavior is wrong, either, it's just a little different/eccentric.
I remember the story about Vince Coleman during the playoffs when he lost a flyball in the sun when he wasn't wearing sunglasses. A photograph was taken of Coleman later that night in a nightclub & you can probably guess. Yes he was wearing sunglasses!! Really sharp guy.
When I saw the title, Carl Everett was the first name I could think of. List did not disappoint.😉 baseball seems to have a lot of characters like these, so there must be more than the ones here. Some of them may not have been "cancers," but weren't beloved by their teammates. Canseco burned bridges, obviously, but it didn't sound like there was any love lost with his mates and managers.
Kind of surprised that Belle yelling at a female reporter before a World Series game, throwing a baseball into a fans chest and chasing kids in his vehicle on Halloween one year weren't mentioned. Of course, it would have taken more time than any of the other players were allotted to get it all in. And the Chicago corked bat incident was not fully explained as the bat that replaced Belles after the locker-room theft was a Paul Sorrento model as there was no Belle bat that wasn't corked.
As a Dodger fan I remember Albert Belle, Jeff Kent, Milton Bradley and now Trevor Bauer. Kent got to the Dodgers after the Giant/Bonds years. He mellowed a bit by then. He has more homeruns as a second baseman and can't get in the HOF. It appears he had a lot of enemies. Albert had a good half season in Mannyville, then he was gone. The Dodger clubhouse went to the LA Times and said we don't want Bauer back. Milton Bradley was the worst Dodger ever. Bradley was brought to the dodgers by the worst ownership group to ever own a baseball team, Frank McCourt
Can't believe y'all included footage of Reggie's confrontation, in the Yankees dugout, with, then Mgr, Billy Martin (who was the one who incited the argument). Reggie won, with every team he ever played for, with 3 straight World Series titles in Oakland, 2 additional titles in NY, and was a key factor in taking perennial losers, the California Angels, to their first ever playoff appearance, late in his career - (Hardly, what you'd call a locker room "cancer"!)
...Billy Martin was fired, as Yankees mgr, the following season, and had long been infamous, both for his drinking, and his temper, going all the way back to his time, as a player.
This is a great video! Another I thought would be on this list is Ty Cobb but his success definitely outweighted his cancerous moments. I realize now that growing up is harder than we all think. Despite our successes in life, they can all be forgotten but our actions (especially the bad ones) can be remembered.
If a non-athlete did even one of the non-game related things mentioned they would be staring at long prison sentences. We really need to stop treating celebrities differently.
it gets a lot more uglier. having said that i love when people pipe up with really nice personal encounters with a sports star. however, a lot of these guys are just not very good people. they are average people and now you add money, status and drugs to that.
I never realized that Vince Coleman was the one that threw the firecracker at Dodger Stadium. Milton Bradley was such a mess, the Dodgers would have taken a box of doorknobs to get rid of him. Honorable Mention should go to Yasiel Puig. A guy who really thought more of himself than he was.
As a Cleveland fan I liked having Albert Belle on our team. An argument can be made that his stats make him a Hall Of Famer. I think you left out the time he chased down some trick or treaters in his car 🚗
Denny McClain unfortunately didn't make the list...the fans didn't hate him*** but, his teammates did...** His fans came to loathe him years later when he stole the pension fund of his workers at Farmer Petes meats in Chesaning Mi.
I would definitely put Chad Curtis on a list like this. Long before he was sexually assaulting teenage girls, Curtis was getting into scraps with his teammates over the music they were playing in the clubhouse and overall espousing a “holier than thou” attitude towards players and coaches.
I always think of Chad Curtis for deliberlity and publicly snubbing Jim Gray live on NBC, who wanted to interview him following Curtis' walk off home run in Game 3 of the 1999 World Series against Atlanta. Gray at the time, took a lot of heat for his pregame interview with Pete Rose in Game 2, where Gray basically badgered Rose into confessing that he bet on baseball games prior to his banishment in 1989. Curtis made it look like he was speaking on behalf of the entire team, when he told Gray point blank that he didn't want to talk to him in retaliation for the Rose interview.
Why are TV and radio announcers allowed to rip and criticize a player, but a ball player isn’t allowed to criticize announcers, fans, other media personalities? Isn’t that a double standard? And why are the players labeled “cancers” when they do? And why don’t announcers get suspended or fired when they do it? Isn’t that a double standard? Just wondering. Cause that seems to be part of a ongoing theme in this video..
I grew up during the 1960s... and two names come to mind... Dick (Don't call me Richie) Allen and Alex Johnson. Both extremely talented ballplayers. These two actually were teammates on the Phillies 1964 team that choked down the stretch. But don't blame that on these guys, especially Allen, who was just phenomenal back then. Both have passed on. Allen is a border line Hall of Famer, who did not put up with racist Philadelphia fans back then. Johnson won a batting title with the Angels in 1970... but may have suffered from mental illness. In reality though, this is probably the tip of the iceberg when it comes to troublesome ballplayers. Go back even further, and you'll find the likes Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Ben Chapman, etc. So this is just someone's personal list from recent times. A question for all of you out there... just think... imagine yourselves being the manager of these 10 lunatics mentioned above... all being on YOUR same team!! Lol
I remember that Alex Johnson played for like ten teams, including 1977? for the Tigers. He got kicked out of one game before it started. He was going out to play left said something nasty to the ump and was kicked out. He didn’t even argue, he just walked off the field. I’m guessing that he really didn’t want to play that night.
@@christopherharing9883 Goose Gossage said as a young player, he learned more about baseball listening to Dick Allen than anyone in his career. Alot of his former teammates said that Allen was misunderstood.
There were a lot of people who really liked Dick Allen, but Alex Johnson was a horse's ass to everyone. Another guy who'd be a serious candidate for a GOOD video would be Hal Chase.
I think the guy that blew all those games and sabotaged his team's chances to win is the worst... the others had tempers and inappropriate comments, but imagine playing with a guy that bet against your team and stopped playing/trying randomly? I'd think all the teammates would want to beat him up.
Hal Chase also just randomly went back home in 1908 with about a month left to play, the team was horrible and full of other cancerous players. Of course, the New York Highlanders at the time were owned by Farrell and Devery, who got rich off illegal gambling and a multitide of other organized crime.
I guarantee this won't be the last time you hear a similar comment about Albert "Don't Call Me Joey" Belle: My guess is that Belle was at the very least experiencing symptoms of "roid rage" at varying points in his career, but you can also say that he also had/has some deeply rooted psychological issues as well. Also, what kind of a guy not only is as big and strong as he was, and yet still CORKED HIS BAT??? What the hell? If he had ever hit a liner back through the box at a pitcher, there would have been nothing left of that poor pitcher but a friggin' grease spot!
Big Z was fine until his "tennis elbow" ruined his career. They showed here his dugout fight with Michael Barrett. Most of what I read it was Barrett who escalated the problem
@@sukhastings4200 Both Big Z and Barrett were hotheads. Z was well liked by fans and respected by teammates. His performance started to falter bc of wear and tear, and combined w his blowups becoming progressively worse, he kind of got blackballed by the league after Florida. But no never a clubhouse cancer.
Hopefully some of the guys on this list realized some of the mistakes they've made. Sometimes their passion for the game turns into anger. Been there, done that.
I still remember when the Red Sox traded Carl Everett for Darren Oliver and I was super excited. My roommate asked me what was so great about Oliver. My response: he's not Carl Everett. Also, I'm surprised Kevin Brown didn't make the list.
Interesting list. Although, even as a Braves fan, I do have a bit of a soft spot for Albert Belle. My oldest child was born on opening day, 1997 and while my wife was struggling to shove a ham through her birth canal I was eating popsicles watching the Chicago White Sox play the Toronto Blue Jays. The baby started crowning so I dutifully put down my popsicle and went to her side making sure I could still see the television, (I didn't know how long this was going to take). As the baby's head emerged, Albert Belle walloped one, but good. It immediately dawned on me what a cool moment this was. Birth of my first child on opening day and as she is coming into this world a homerun is being launched. As I saw the ball leaving the yard I started chanting, "Go! Go! Go! Go!....YEAH!!!" Sweet. Later when I asked her, "Wasn't that cool?", it became obvious that she had not been paying attention to the game so I told her about Albert Belle hitting a home run at the moment of birth and that's why I was yelling, "Go, Go, Go..!" She pursed her lips as only an aggravated woman can and said a bit dejectedly, "I thought you were cheering for me". I probably should've kept that little pearl of a story to myself.
Great gads man....I don't think telling her was to bright...it's almost as bad as me telling my wife that her inconsiderate timing on our daughter being born cost me my EIB the first time around after having to leave testing with the 3 easiest stations to go...I'd already aced the others.😂😂😂
@@andyroid5028 it is Expert Infantryman's Badge (peacetime/non combat)) Of which I got 6 months later then got CIB (combat) 5 months after that during Operation Urgent Fury (invasion of Grenada) 1/75th Rangers.
As a Rockies fan, I’m still salty about Jonathan Papelbon and the 2007 WS. He made the Rockies franchise look bad with his “celebration” after he struck out Steve Smith. Yes, Boston won the World Series, I get it, but it looked to me like he was taunting and mocking the Rockies in a way like “haha I win, you lose” kind of thing, especially because it was a sweep and an utter steamrolling, which wasn’t even close. The Rockies are gone of the only two teams, the other being the Seattle Mariners, who have never won a single game in World Series play. What hurts the most (which I don’t necessarily blame Papelbon for, but rather the Rockies front office) is that ever since, the Rockies have had a blatant disregard for the postseason. All they care about is selling out regular season games, and not having a good team. They will probably go longer than the Cubs without a championship. And all that’s remembered is Jonathan Papelbon celebrating his cursing of the Rockies forever in Game 4 of the 2007 World Series. And it being in Colorado is the final kick in the gut.
I personally know Nyjer Morgan and am shocked he didn’t make the list. We had a house party one night. He had caught wind of it while buying weed from my roommate earlier in the day. He just showed up uninvited and started harassing some girls. We had to physically remove him. He wanted to fight all 10 of us that threw him out lol. He kept saying “I fought against real men, hockey players.” Also that “ten regular guys was nothing to him.” He was spitting and even bit one guy as we dragged him out. He was truly insane and out of control. Then when I saw his on the field antics it totally made sense. Maybe he wasn’t around long enough to make this list, but judging by the few times I met him I and saw his on the field tantrums, I am sure he was a locker room cancer. I actually have a few more stories about him acting crazy, but nothing like the house party situation.
Loved this comment. Red Sox fans used to piss the crap out of Belle by chanting "Joooey! Joooey!" We loved the fact we were getting under his skin. Such an unlikeable player.
Colman throwing a firecracker into a crowd of fans puts him at NO.1 in my book. Great list
He should have gone to jail for that. A few of these guys skated on charges that should have been filed.
yes, thrown into a crowd consisting largely of young kids asking players for autographs. should have been life in prison.
It wasn't JUST a "firecracker "!!!
@@georgial6398
What... _"life in prison"?_ Grow up kid.
@@donarthiazi2443 yes, life in prison. he threw a bomb into a group of little children and infants and their parents. injured a 1 year old i believe, among others. i am plenty grown up, kid.
I'd put Vince Coleman above Rocker. Throwing an explosive and injuring a child with lifelong damage is absolutely disgusting.
It's insane how he wasn't banned for life after that
@@jamesesterline The irony is that Vince Coleman was my favorite player when I first started following baseball when I was 8. I loved the Cardinals and for about three years Vince Coleman was my favorite player.
Bret Saberhagen also threw an explosive at reporters as well as spraying bleach into the faces of reporters that same year on the Mets. Yet, Coleman received far more negative publicity than Saberhagen did
@@jirikurto3859 it did seem Herzog kept him somewhat in control.
I also remember the Mets in 1992 with an outfield of Coleman, Bonilla, and Howard Johnson, not realizing that 1 had to play center.
He should be #1 just based on that incident.
Dodgers fan here. I remember that Milton Bradley moment with the baseballs, and I just want to say how cool Vin Scully was in that moment. Most former players turned announcers would be stunned silent, or start talking about the low character of the player, but my man Vin said something like,
"He is throwing baseballs like he is at a wedding throwing rice. That's not a good sign."
Way to rule, Vin! All he did was keep on making announcements
Well, Vin Scully was perhaps one of the best announcers in the game ever had.
Vin Scully was the reason I watched Dodgers ball on television. He kept it a game at all times.
@@unclerat2131 And me watching the NBC Game of the Week.
I can even now hear him in his distinct voice saying that.
I grew up listening to Harry Caray broadcast White Sox and then Cubs games, and for me personally, it's hard to say who was my favorite between the two. If I grew up listening to Dodgers games, it would probably be a no-brainer. But both of them were so stellar at what they did, I believe.
@@DaDitka You mean Haray Caray did White Sox games first?? That makes him a turncoat bitch!! He did White Sox games?! Actual news to me!
Carl Everett played winter ball in Venezuela... one day, he was ejected for protesting a strike call. Carl proceeded to insult the umpire, he went to the dugout and tossed everything he found to the field, took off his team jersey and sat within the crowd arguing that he could stay there since he wasn't playing anymore...
He was then banned from ALL winter leagues.
That was with Magallanes right? I remember watching that game as a youngster lmao
@@PaoloJairo yes, I watched it too.
@@teachersama crazy that was I think when Phil Regan was manager and they were chasing after him and the team just gave up lol.
@@PaoloJairo yes 🤣
@@PaoloJairo The Manager was Tim Tolman, by then Phil Regan was managing Caracas. You can find the clip here in youtube, just type "El día que Carl Everett se volvió loco en Maracay"
That 2009 Cubs clubhouse must have been a hoot to have BOTH Carlos Zambrano AND Milton Bradley. Their manager, Lou Piniella, was also known to have some anger management issues himself. YIKES!
Lou isn't exactly a mean guy, but man he had some legendary tirades
True WGN was popping back then
exactly what I was thinking watching this video lol
Only in Chicago!!!!!!!!!!!
i was going to say Zambrano and Bradley were so easy to set off that it was an actual strategy of opposing teams. Carlos could be pitching a three-hitter but if you just audibly called him a (gay slur in Spanish) and, immediately, he'd go crazy and get ejected.
I really appreciate that you looked at more historical players instead of just guys who played in the last 12 or so years. Great video
Milton Bradley's tirade at the 15:21 mark however, did lead to a classic remark by the great Vin Scully: "Milton Bradley...has thrown baseballs like rice at a wedding!"
Fun Fact. I was with Milton Bradley during the day before the night game on June 3rd 2004 when he threw the ballbag on the field. I was working for Albertsons and we had to attend a charity event at a store in Burbank. Milton, Eric Gagne, David Ross and Jose Lima were the Dodger players at the event. It was a fill a grocery cart up in 15 minutes and donate the scanned amount to the charity. I got my pic with all of the players individually and quite a few of the event. They were all super nice but Milton was the most standoff-ish and reserved. Jose Lima was awesome and super outgoing as you would expect. Gagne freaked me out as I was assigned to help him. He grabbed a cart, and on the jarred baby food aisle, jammed his valuable right arm into the back of the shelf and with a huge sweeping motion, pushed all of the glass jars into the cart causing some of the jars to break. I thought he was going to slice his arm. Crazy. What a memory.
They sound like degenerate drug addicts.
RIP Jose Lima
RIP Lima Time
I too had a wonderful Jose Lima experience. He signed baseballs and offered to take pictures with my little brother and I when we went to Mets spring training in Florida one year. He was incredibly kind, and especially patient with all of the children who wanted to meet the players. RIP to a guy who seemed like a very kind soul.
Fun
I remember that firecracker incident. Vince Coleman was quoted saying at the time "It was only a joke. What do you do when you throw a firecracker? You laugh. At least I do."
I was only 12 at the time but I remember thinking what unconscionable thing to do, especially so close to the rape thing.
If he only did that, id give him a pass. But he was always a problem
Same here. The Mets had some real low character guys around that time. Jeff Kent, Bonilla was another.
When Milton Bradley was with the Dodgers I met him once at a doctor's office as a kid. It was right after I had just gotten my nose cauterized and was walking out of the building with my mom as he was walking in. I was probably 9 or 10 at the time but was a big enough Dodger fan to be able to instantly recognize him. I asked him for a picture and he was totally nice about it and stood next to me and smiled while my mom got a photo on her old Nokia. I haven't seen that picture in years but I remember how goofy I looked next to him with my nose all stuffed and covered in gauze. At the time I wasn't aware of his reputation. I was just elated to meet a real life MLB player for the first and only time in my life. But looking back, I find it funny that that the only current big leaguer I've ever met in public also happened to be the biggest douchebag in MLB history (according to this video).
He had it in him to be a great person. I kinda always looked at his misdeeds and thought “You’re better than that.”
Cool story…hey one never knows.
*He always carried anger - angry that his parents purposefully named him after a board game company.*
I'm a huge Dodgers fan as well. I used to work at this upscale liquor and wine store in the LA area so we would occasionally get celebrities in there. I met 3 Dodgers while at work. The first was Ramon Martinez, starting pitcher and Pedro's older brother. He was super nice and friendly, chatted with me for several minutes. Just a pleasant guy. The second was Jim Gott, a reliever and for a short time their closer. He had just been traded to the Pirates but he still called LA home. He was very friendly as well, and I could tell he wasnt used to being recognized. The 3rd was Bill Russell. He was the manager at the time but when I was a kid and watched games with my dad, he was the SS. Russell was a dick. He was rude to the staff, annoyed when recognized, and he ordered 2 cases of the cheapest dirt wine we had for some party. My boss tried to talk him out of it, saying for just 1$ a bottle more he could get a much better wine. He wasnt having it. Then 2 days later he returned the wine saying it wasnt good, and he was a dick then too. I was bummed, he was a childhood idol, and turns out, not a very good manager, either.
@@Heathcoatman he was also a lousy shortstop.
The story about Milton Bradley and the abuse and later death of his girlfriend deserves its own video
It was his wife who lost her life
Sad
It was his wife. He also beat up his new girlfriend while he was on probation for beating his wife who died. Truly a piece of shit.
Wtf @@kylenickelberry1602
Don't forget Jose Guillen - an incredibly talented player who played for 10 teams in 14 years because everyone hated him. Got kicked off the Angels in 2004 as they were moving into the playoffs in spite of his productivity because he was such a clubhouse problem.
Wow I didn't know that about him..
No wonder why he was like a Mercenary lol
Yea I would probably swap him and Papelbon. Paps was a dick but, wasn't really a problem until his last couple years with Philly and Washington
Also, Juan Samuel put the nail in the coffin for the Mets after their amazing run from 1984 to 1990 ish
I did not know that about Guillen. As a lifelong Tigers fan he was great for us play for us way longer than he played for anyone else maybe Jim Leyland and some of the other veteran leaders in that clubhouse were able to keep him in check maybe cuz he was not a problem in Detroit I didn't hear anything about him being a problem in the clubhouse while he was here.
I always wondered why he seemed to bounce around so many teams, despite being a good player. That makes sense now. Never realized he was a clubhouse cancer.
I have my own story about Milton Bradley: I was a member of a men's chorus in Rhode Island in the early 2000s when he was in the Indians' system, and their AAA affiliate was in Pawtucket for a series when we were scheduled to sing the anthem before a game at McCoy Stadium. While we were waiting to go on the field, several players and their manager at the time, Eric Wedge, were in the visitors' dugout near where we were, and some of us spoke with Wedge briefly (a nice guy, btw). Bradley saw us talking and he said something like "Get the fuck outta here, we got a game to play!" He also gave us a look that suggested that if we didn't move away quickly, he would make us. Keep in mind that this was about 15 minutes before the pre-game ceremonies, and we were in a waiting area outside the dugout, a good 10-12 feet from Wedge and his players. A little over a year later I believe there was a story about Bradley hitting an umpire while he was in the minors, so this behavior was always in him, and he likely never should have played professional team sports at all.
So sorry, he was a dick. He is a board game. Milton Bradley.
He’s a mental case
That's awful. Heard stories about him on not being a nice guy.
I mean... ok sure he had a bad day... but he invented friggin Monopoly! So ....
@@BrettShadow and the ouiji board too, don't forget.
5:16 Jimmy Dugan: Rogers Hornsby was my manager, and he called me a talking pile of pigsh*t. And that was when my parents drove all the way down from Michigan to see me play the game. And did I cry?
Evelyn Gardner: No, no.
Jimmy Dugan: No! No! And you know why? Because there's no crying in baseball.
Honestly, whenever I hear Rogers Hornsby’s name, I always think of that line XD
@@Soma2710 actually when i hear his name i remember reading the reds waited till they fired him to bring up chuck harmon because hornsby was such a biggot
Evelyn should start using her head. It's that lump that's 3 feet above her a$$!
Umpire: Jimmy
Jimmy: She’s crying, sir!
Umpire: Good rule of thumb. Treat each of these girls as you would treat your mother.
Jimmy: Did anyone ever tell you, you look like a penis with that little hat on?
Umpire: You’re out of here!
Jimmy: No, no you misunderstood me. You misunderstood!
Treat each of these girls like you would treat your mother
Really good list. You did your research. Being a Red Sox fan, I didn't remember his comments about Red Sox fans. He's actually loved in the city now, doing Red Sox pre and post game analysis. I'm very familiar with Carl Everett as well. His temper was legendary. I never knew Vince Coleman was that bad. Good comprehensive and fact filled video. Well done!
I love the fact you included old school players.
Not like these modern so called experts who only know of and chose modern players in their lists.
Well done
He could have included Dirty Jack Doyle, a very good late 19th century and early 20th century player who finished with a lifetime .299 avg. He played 17 seasons, but never more than 4 for one team.
Totally different world. Their actions then were incredible
Nyjer Morgan should definitely be on this list as well. Also Shea Hillibrand.
Don’t you mean Tony Plush?
Ozzie Geion. The player and later Marlins Manger
Lasting Millage. Total A hole
His farther was even annoying, too
I remember watchin Shea Hillibrand in Affiliate Ball when I went to a Bridgeport Bluefish game like 10 years ago..dude was nasty to the fans and played very lazy.
I love your stuff. The problem with most social media baseball people is they try to act like know-it-alls. You do a good job avoiding that trap. I was surprised in this one that Elijah Dukes didn’t make the cut. Keep grinding!!!
Every time I saw Milton Bradley 'play', all I could think about was the board game company that made 'Operation' and numerous other games
Remove funny bone.
His nickname was game board
If only there had been an opposing pitcher named Parker Brothers.
The red nose lighting up and that god damn noise it makes when you miss still haunts me
I'm surprised Ty Cobb & Barry Bonds were not on this list
Ty Cobb is a very complex case. His defenders will say that his biographer, Al Stump sensationalized and exaggerated the more unsavory aspects of Cobb's life, and the general public pretty much accepted that what Stump wrote was truly reflective of the real man.
I also bet Ty Cobb was probably a great teammate, but his opponents hated him. Just a guess though. Maybe some sportswriters hated how he played a bit too rough and the reputation stuck that he was an ass.
@@sortofanoakyafterbirth3661Ty Cobb was hated by teammates. The PBS documentary on baseball made that clear. The only time they took his side was when he was absolutely beating the hell out of a fan for calling him a halfnigger. When Ty was told by other fans that the man was stomping was a cripple... Cobb beat him even harder. His teammates, though they hated Cobb, all agreed that _"being called something that despicable was an insult too great to bear"._ Unreal
Edit: As an aside: I can't get over Rocker being number 2? He didn't do anything even close to what the others on this list did?
@@donarthiazi2443
Rocker spoke the truth. Truth hurts. The narrator seems to be a soft ass liberal. Probably from Seattle.
Cobb was a bastard
Almost nobody knows the truth about the Yankee great Joe DiMaggio who was also an arrogant, notorious prima donna who wasn't well-liked by his teammates. Mickey Mantle never let on but Mantle noted in a veiled criticism of DiMaggio that Mantle's greatest career accomplishment was that his teammates liked him, and in fact they did. Mantle was a refreshing change for the Yankee players after DiMaggio's career ended. Although he was a superstar, Mantle refused special treatment and liked all of his teammates. He was a player's player.
Joe D.'s treatment of his son was despicable
Mantle said that during his 1951 rookie year. Joe D never ever talked to him the whole year.
@@williamjconde Sounds about right and speaks to my point. Maybe Joe D. was jealous of Mantle. I'd also heard that a Yankee rookie's job was to have a cigarette lit and ready in the dugout so that Joe D. could drag on it as soon as he returned from the field.
@@daniellinehan63 He was also rumored to be very controlling and abusive of Marilyn Monroe during their relationship/marriage.
Richard Ben Cramer's essential biography agrees that DiMaggio was often a dick and peaked at aloof but it also says his teammates loved him. Maybe not liked him but they were in awe of him and fed off him. It's nothing close to a hagiography and if his teammates didn't like him they've managed to maintain the facade for decades. He did nothing off the field to deserve their adulation but that's not the same thing as being disliked.
Since Hornsby is on the list, I'm going to go even more old school and nominate Carl Mays, who not only threw the pitch that killed Ray Chapman in 1920 but was despised by pretty much everyone, including teammates. Whether Mays purposely hit Chapman is debatable, but he was a horse's ass well before that tragic event. In 1919, Mays tired of getting little run support from his Red Sox teammates and second baseman Jack Barry's penchant for making errors with Mays on the mound (I checked, and eight of Barry's 12 errors in 1919 came when Mays pitched). The final straw came on July 13, 1919, when catcher Wally Schang accidentally hit Mays with a throw to second base on an attempted steal. Mays stormed off the field and refused to play for the Red Sox again. The Sox traded him to the Yankees, much to the chagrin of Yankees manager Miller Huggins, who couldn't stand Mays. Huggins once left Mays in a game in which the Indians pounded him for 13 runs on 20 hits. Of Mays, Huggins said "if he was in a gutter, I'd kick him." In Philadelphia, a warrant was issued for Mays's arrest after he threw a ball into the stands as hard as he could and hit a fan. He fled the city and avoided pitching there again for fear that he'd be arrested and charged with assault. He was also accused of throwing World Series games, but the charges were never proved. From Mays's SABR biography: "Mays was once described by F.C. Lane as 'a strange, cynical figure' who 'aroused more ill will, more positive resentment than any other ballplayer on record.'
Good call
wouldve LOVED to see the "you fucking just stay in there, asshole---see how U like a 12.00 ERA tomorrow!" game! lol
Some of the factors I'd read that contributed to Chapman's fatal beaning included the following: the use of one baseball for the whole game, even after it had become filthy with dirt and whatever foreign substances had been applied to the ball; the common but since-banned practice of doctoring the ball with a wide variety of substances (spit, grease, dirt, scuffs, etc.), the darkness of playing the game into the sunset hours without lights; Carl Mays's submarine pitch delivery; the non-use of batting helmets, which wouldn't be required for another few decades; etc. Mays may have also tried to hit Chapman, but I've never seen that cited as a factor in the beaning. Chapman didn't even see the pitch that killed him. I do believe that Mays was horrified to learn that his pitch actually killed Chapman.
@@10Peter25 good points, from all ive read/heard!
It's been my understanding that the allegations of throwing the World Series, though never proven, were serious enough to prevent Mays from reaching the Hall of Fame. With a record of 207-126, he's the type of pitcher that probably could have reached the HOF if everyone didn't hate him so much.
The worst part about Milton Bradley is, he had sooooo much talent and would've been a perennial all-star.
I was at the game where he tore his ACL. That dude was talented as hell, but after a month, you wanted him traded fast.
The strangest thing about Milton Bradley is he was a patient hitter with an 11.9% walk rate. If he was only that patient in every other aspect of his life.
I couldn't believe the Cubs Signed Bradley 😂😂
@@RapIsDeadly U have More sir? Or no
@@RapIsDeadly miserable white hater … lots of these types 🤧
Met rocker once. For some inconceivable reason, Honda brought him in to work a booth at the little league world series. He was a headcase. He ended up leaving after getting in an argument with a kid about 12 years old.
really? I cannot find a clip or even a mention of him being there lol, not saying its untrue just wished they had the video LOL.
Well he often acted like a 12 year old himself. Steroids are a powerful drug. I'm sure a lot of these modern day guys were under the influence.
@@woodyreed2882 His 'ideas' didnt come from steroids, they came from being taught how to hate everyone not exactly like him in the small town in Georgia he grew up in. Steroids might make you angry, but being a bigot takes indoctrination.
@@Heathcoatmanwell said
Wth was honda thinking😅.. when you pay for a John Rocker, you get a John Rocker
It’s really pathetic that the guys on this list just don’t get it. Being an MLB player is a privilege not a right. All of them had talent but wasted their careers away with unruly and disrespectful behaviour. As a big baseball fan in Western Canada I can’t wait for the 2023 season (especially after a frigid winter!). Thanks for sharing and I have already subscribed.
What did John Rocker do that was "unruly" or "disprespectful"? He simply engaged in his First Amendment right to Free Speech. And was correct to boot.
@@unclesamowitz9922I got suspended from a team for 2 games in HS (football) for bringing up the anunaki during practice. They had to make a rule "no talking about lizard people" Because I kept bringing them up and one of the kids (a LB) couldn't stand it. I would talk about them and skinwalkers until he would scream at me to shut up. When I switched schools I managed to get him ejected for throwing a punch at me because every time I beat him on a route for the whole game I would taunt him and call him "lizard man"
@@symptomofsouls You sound like an absolute clown.
It's not a privilege. It's a job.
The Papelbon / Harper fight really hurt Harper's image at the time because he was more of a high-profile guy than Papelbon, and everyone wanted to believe that Harper was the problem. Turns out, Harper is a really cool dude, and Papelbon was the jackass.
Ya Harper is awesome dude and great player 😎
They both were a-holes
Nah, Harper was pretty stupid and immature too when he was in Washington. He finally grew up when he moved to Philly.
DC still has a HUGE grudge against him. He still gets booed at Nats Park when he comes up to bat.
Pap was a top serious hothead smh
@@staffsaber534 Good! I hate the guy and always will. I hope he suffers a career ending injury soon.
The 1992 Mets had Vince Coleman, Bobby Bonilla, Jeff Kent and Eddie Murray all on the roster. I read the book “the worst team money could buy” about that team and recall lengthy segments were dedicated to Coleman and Kent, but it’s been 30 yrs since I read it lol.
I had no idea about Vince Coleman. I can’t believe he threw an m100 into a crowd. I’ve done some really bad stuff myself. That could be considered aggravated assault at best and attempted murder at the worst
Me to .
When the Mets signed him he also set firecrackers in the stadium injuring a kid
This is news to me too. I wonder to what extent he was protected by the media. I think a lot of bad behavior went without comment- players didn’t want to rat out other players, home town sports writers didn’t want to piss off the owners, etc.
That’s really wild
Wow I didn't know this about him
Honestly surprised Elijah Dukes wasn't on the list even though he only played 3 seasons
Thank you. His name was on the tip of my tongue. Short, uneventful MLB career but Hall Of Fame caliber cancer.
I thought he would be #1!
@@ajenning85Hall of SHAME 😅
He was notorious!!! I guess he didn’t stick in the league long enough but you’re right
I've read quite a bit about Hal Chase. Everyone knew he was corrupt. The scary thing is that his deliberate dumping of games was tolerated in MLB for so long.
Probably helped that he started with the New York Highlanders (future Yankees), whose owners at the time Farrell and Every got rich through New York organized crime. (AL front office were desperate to compete against the NL in NYC, so they made a deal with the devil as it were)
The fact they let Hal stay and banned shoeless joe with no real evidence shows the mlb has been batshit with decision making since the beginning.
@@chainlinkwarden Hal Chase did get banned about a year after the Black Sox
They only started to care because their product was being threatened. The Black Sox scandal nearly ended professional baseball, and because of that, they suddenly had a care about it. I would almost certainly bet some of the powers that existed in early MLB knew and benefitted from Hal Chase's behavior which is why it was allowed.
Kinda like Angel Hernandez and Dan Bellino in the present time.
Loved when a caller would respond to Howard Eskin’s “I haven’t had a bad day in my life” with “mmmm, what about the time you sent flowers to that married lady?”
Such a great channel and I love that you do follow up videos all the time because it tells me you read comments research stories! In the next one you should include Rob Dibble for any number of reasons, as well as Matt Garza. I watched a Rangers game in person and he shook off his catcher enough times that I started noticing it. He would give up a hard hit after and his catcher (Navarro I believe) came out to the mound and they ended up having to be separated as most of the Tampa Bay team ran on the field.
Carl Everett: “Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve eating apples. No one ever saw a T Rex." Who saw Adam & Eve?
Carl has never heard of The Flinstones it seems. Somebody gotta educate the man.
a talking snake
@@MrSpongemike44
Jewish myth
Fun story
My dads friends sister was actually proposed to by Albert Belle. When asked why she didn’t marry Albert, IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS PRIME, she said it was “because he was an asshole.”
Just when I thought bonds was gonna be number 1, you rewarded my patience and listed my man Milton. This guy had the talent to be something special but was batshit crazy and couldn’t get his life together.
Bond's problem was with the media, not his teammates.
@@diesel1344 agree for the most part, but he did have issues with players, most notably Jeff Kent. I think some of it stemmed from Bonds’ holier-than-thou persona with the la z boy and whatnot.
@@Dunkaroos248 You put 25 highly paid, possibly prima donnas in a competitive environment for 5 or 6 months and it's a certainty that everybody will have issues with somebody, especially if that somebody is Kent. Most of the rest of the team just ignored him in the clubhouse or the dugout because he ignored them. A grump maybe, but not a cancer.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Glad the RUclips algorithm brought us together.
How did Barry Bonds and A.J. Pierzynski not make this list?
My thoughts exactly!
Pierzynski was generally liked in his clubhouse. Bonds had beef primarily with Jeff Kent (Secret Base did a Beef History on him).
@@AEMoreira81 And so was Carlos Zambrano, yet here he is on this list. Big Z was no cancer.
@@AEMoreira81 I actually just watched that episode of Beef History
@@georgial6398 big z was a huge cancer nobody in Chicago liked him the fans hated him I mean just watch this video 😂
Who remembers when Jose Offerman went after an opposing team's pitcher with a baseball bat? He was with the Long Island Ducks at the time.
Awfulman. Wasn't nearly good enough to be doing stuff that crazy.
Yep, I remember that nutcase.
Juan Marichal actually clubbed Johnny Roseboro on the head with a bat during a brawl in the 1960’s. Those darn firey latins.
I don't know if he qualifies for your list, but another interesting character in this realm is the much traveled Jose Offerman (Dodgers, Reds, Royals, Red Sox, and many others). He doesn't have quite the history of some of these guys, but he was a pain in the ass for his teammates and managers. Believe it or not, he's the father of WWE wrestler Bray Wyatt's fiancee, Joseann "JoJo" Offerman.
At the end of his career while I’m Seattle, Milton Bradley was in KC playing the Royals at Kauffman Stadium. My two buddies and I had tickets in the front row of 103, the sonic slam section. We always go early for BP and like to joke around with those shagging hoping to make someone laugh and get some balls for kids sitting around us. This kid next to us was a Mariners fan and wanted his autograph so we hollered to show him the kids sign only for him to tell us “I’m not blind or deaf, you dumb motherfuckas…” So then we were all in making him as mad as we could. Finally in the 6th with 2 outs, a ball gets hit right at us and off the bat looks like a HR ends up dying just short on the track. We screamed practically right in his ears and he caught it, looked up at us and for a couple seconds I thought for certain he was jump into the row and gonna start fighting us, but he called us “pussies” and for a second time acter like he was tossing a ball to another kid only to fake it and put it in his back pocket. Next half inning, he was nearly ejected for bat flipping strike 3 that he though was ball 4. He didn’t get ran but they did replace him right then which ended up being the straw that broke the camels back and landed him on the suspended list which he never returned from!
Bauer got shafted by false accusations, the league owes him an apology
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My memorable Carl Everett story occurred during a mid 90s minor league game against the Padres AAA team, the Las Vegas Stars. I recall him getting into an altercation at 2nd base (I don’t remember what happened.). What I do remember is him yelling at fans in the stands as he was walking back to the dugout. Things got heated really quick. He had to be pulled back by his teammates as he attempted to go into the stands. I can remember seeing his meltdowns on the field years after. Wasn’t surprised about any of it. He was a nutcase
Looks like roid rage on a low IQ individual
Excellent video and trip down memory lane. I had forgotten about almost all of these wonderful humans and wasn't even aware Hornsby had such a bad rep.
They missed Ty Cobb, who wasn't exactly loved by anyone. When once asked about Cobb, former teammate Sam Crawford was reputed to say" I or anyone else on this team wants anything to do with him"
@Suk Hastings In the description, he mentions leaving Cobb off this list because he believes him to be misunderstood. He says he's planning a separate video on Cobb. I'll be interested to hear his reasoning because, like you, I've heard nothing but toxicity regarding Cobb.
Well, done! A couple of those players could be rearranged in different orders, but overall very spot on with those 10 players. And I like the fact that he backed everything up with facts for each player to support his reasoning.
Great video! Surprised Dave Kingman didn't make the list. Also, according to Bill James, one of the reasons manager Hornsby was voted off the team was because he refused to stop pissing in the showers.
According to his ex-teammates, Kingman was a good teammate but he really hated the media. He was often misquoted (he believed it was deliberate) and he pulled a prank on a reporter by sending her a live rat. He believed women didn’t belong in a men’s locker room.
Kong was a decent teammate when he was with the Cubs. He disliked the NY media, which affected his teammates
Years ago a wise old well respected coworker said "The dumbest man is the guy that gets out of the shower to take a leak". 😊
AND while still in his uniform!
@@sukhastings4200I can understand his dislike for the media as players managers are often misquoted by the media or are asked the same stupid questions over and over..
As an Indians/Guardians fan it's awesome that about half these guys spent time in Cleveland! Really the only one worth the trouble was Albert Belle, his stats in a CLE uniform were insane, Belle seems a bit more level-headed now and actually makes regular calls into CLE sports radio
It's amazing that you can refer to a sex offender and stalker of women as "level-headed".
@@shanemcnelis2667 charges from the 2018 spring training incident were dropped, and I said Belle seemed a bit more level headed, not that the dude was a saint, if he's actually still a huge scumbag then fine, makes no difference to me
Doing time in Maricopa Co jail ( along with Mike Tyson) has apparently mellowed Albert out. Being from the Columbus area when Belle was in Cleveland, no doubt talented, but troubled
@@BennyT_3434 Of course not. You'll lick the boots of any athlete, won't you? By your logic, I am a saint for not being a sex offending creep, yet I'm pretty sure that I'm just not a fucking wierdo.
@@shanemcnelis2667 Easy killer, Belle was a great baseball player 25 long years ago, hopefully he's changed his ways, but if not then oh well, it has zero impact on my life and isn't worth arguing about, the messed up way he acted in the 90s will always be a part of his story regardless and he def belongs on this list
Baur has been tempered big time since playing in Japan, he struggled at first but came back strong and has acted with class, when he comes back to the MLB he will be a much different person, There are way to many hotdogs in the bigs now, over celebrating etc. One would never see the Mick act like that
I see an unofficial blackballing of him, if he does come back. Manfred definitely doesn't him coming back.
I often take these with a grain of salt. I recall when Devon White was traded to the Jays. He had a reputation as “great glove, but a head-case and clubhouse cancer.” All he did in Jays uni was put his head down, played hard, and won championships. Never saw a trace of negative character from him.
Sometimes a player doesn't fit in well one place, but does in another.
there are cases like that in various sports, where a guy has a rep but it's based on one team/situation. then goes somewhere and is fine. it's when it's multiple teams/years/situations that you know it's the guy. but sometimes it just doesn't add up. for example in hockey this year my Blackhawks had Max Domi. who had a negative rep. turned out he was not just 'fine', he was like - an exemplary teammate and clubhouse guy, who gave constant good effort, stuck up for teammates, etc. watching him it was hard to understand where a negative rep could even have come from.
@@georgial6398I'd have to guess it's because of the Montreal media. They tried to make PK Subban out to be a cancer too.
They had him but traded him. Why was that? I am not complaining he was good for the stars
I do to. The media creates most of these. They love white hats/black hats. All it takes is a couple of bad days and the media brands you.
Honestly surprised Barry Bonds wasn't on this list. He was literally forced into retirement because no team would sign him even though he was asking for the league minimum.
That’s because the league/media blackballed him others players where fine with him other then Jeff Kent
@@jollyboyjoe8619 He was despised by his teammates for his over the top diva behavior in the clubhouse. .
@@jollyboyjoe8619 Kent was his own kind of ashole though.
probably more valuable than his antics... But it'd be hard to be the guy's teammate... If a player is a dick and doesn't apologize for it, thats one thing... but when a guy is a dick, a narcisst, and diva but he tries to play himself off as a humble common man, then they become disguising.
@@jollyboyjoe8619In what world do you live?
Nice to see Candlestick in the intro. Saw my first MLB games there back in the 90s.
Albert Belle was my favorite player growing up. I never knew this stuff back then obviously. Just saw a big dude who hit lots of home runs.
Upper tank box seat tickets to Shea Stadium: $180
4 hot dogs and beers: $240
Watching John Rocker suffer a total meltdown: Priceless
My only personal memory of Bradley was when late teens early twenties we would get bleacher seats to go to as many Cardinals games as possible. He was with the Dodgers then. We started chanting chutes and ladders (if your old enough you get it) anyways he just laughed, clapped towards the bleachers, thew a ball he caught for an out to the crowd, and even in his post game interview for the local paper mentioned he got a kick out of the chants.
careful what you name your kids, though, for real. I'm sure he was picked on as a kid.
Please explain chutes and latters
@@jx22283 here’s a hint; milton bradley. 🤪🤪🤪
Milt once threw the ball into the stands at wrigley field. Too bad the catch wasn’t the third out.
@@harrylook7810 howard johnson.
Possible dishonorable mention: Avisail Garcia who allegedly had been caught sleeping with Prince Fielder's wife while playing for the Tigers and it lead to a clubhouse brawl that reinjured Miggy in the process and Garcia was almost immediately traded afterwards
Though I'm not sure if this is actually true or not as it's largely just been a rumor for the past almost 10 years now
Id always heard that was why they traded prince fielder
They traded fielder because he was the worst postseason player of all time: 44 games .187 BA .587 ops.
happens more often in sports than people realize. Ryne Sandberg/Dave Martinez. Duncan Keith/Patrick Sharp.
@@georgial6398 Sandberg/Martinez??
@@robertkeith7274 rumor was always D Martinez bagged Sandberg's wife, got traded immediately after. may have been more than just him, but him for sure. Sandberg would later have an acrimonious divorce that involved among other things him retiring temporarily before coming back.
Keith/Sharp was during 2015, Sharp got traded right after the 3rd Cup bc of it. they later made peace apparently but Keith's marriage ended.
I’d like to see a study on clubhouse relationships in winning teams.
Alot of these players made their way to Cleveland. No wonder we never win shit.
As a Cleveland fan myself, I noticed that as well, and came to the comments to see if i was the only 1
That made me chuckle. Thank you.
Anyone remember Alex Cole? Why couldn't the Tribe keep BOTH him and Kenny Lofton in 1992? Fast base runners.
Milton Bradley had a brief stint with the Cubs after he conned the Cubs into believing he was "reformed." It was a total disaster from day one, and he was gone by mid-season.
and then to rub it more, they change the name of the Indians and cave to the woke people ! Cleveland what ?! G...G...G.....Guardians ? What an insult.
Carlos Gomez and Nyger Morgan should get honorable mentions.
Morgan maybe, but Go-Go was beloved in the Brewers clubhouse at least and by MKE fans
How did Nyjer Morgan not make the list?
Rogers Hornsby always reminds me of that line in A League of their own where Tom Hanks talks about him humiliating him when his parents where in the stand. Lol
It is amazing that teams continued to sign many of these players time and time again when it had to be known what powder kegs they were.
Tells you a lot about what kind of people sports owners tend to be. Very difficult to become a multi-billionaire without doing a lot of awful things.
Barry Bonds and Will Clark. Both great players, but those guys were hated by their teammates, coaches and managers. I was a sportswriter, and Belle was strange. You'd try to talk to him, and he would not only ignore you, but he'd act like you weren't there. By that I mean that he would walk straight through you, bouncing you out of the way, with a complete deadpan expression on his face and no reaction, as he moved around. I dealt with Carl Everett several times and found him to be funny and engaging.
I remember during the 1995 World Series, Albert Belle cursed out Hannah Storm, who was working as broadcaster for NBC Sports. Albert Belle should've won the AL MVP Award in '95 over Mo Vaughn, but the sports writers, did the voting, outright hated him and for good reason.
I expected to see Bonds on this list.
@@gr33dyglutton Barry Bonds was one of the most miserable people I dealt with over the course of my career. He actually relished being a prick to everyone - media, clubhouse personnel, fans... Fortunately I was an NBA writer, so I didn't have to deal with him too often, but he was a chore.
Thought Bonds would have made it on here as well. I know this video is about their major League exploits, but the amount of stuff Bonds did on school and minor league teams puts him up there.
@@Jimifan57 *_I love these 'straight from the horse's mouth' type of comments. Thanks so much for sharing your personal testimonials/insights.👍_*
Bauer got hosed in this deal given the current news. Also that "headbutt" from Everett at 7:38 looked like a massive flop from the umpire 😂.
Surprised to not see Bonds on this list...
He was a racist to other ballplayers
Quite pleasantly surprised not to see Ty Cobb on this list. He wasn't always the most pleasant person in the world, but his reputation for nastiness is overblown, mainly because of a hack sportswriter that he hired to do his autobiography.
Hornsby has him beat by a mile and seas a good inclusion.
Didn't Cobb shoot guy then the Tigers owner paid the police so Cobb got off scot free?
I think it was a hack sportswriter that was salty that Cobb didn't hire him to write his autobiography.
Agree. But disappointed to see Rocker on this list. Teammates loved him. The media blew it up
Lol dude was a flat out baccy chewing racist, and there are countless first hand accounts of his unacceptable behavior.
The Papalbon comment about Boston fans is pretty much spot on. I'm a Boston fan and as I grew up and matured I realized how awful we were and I changed. Most don't
Shocked not to see Yasiel Puig on the list.
Could have been an honorable mention. He's looking at prison time as I type.
i really hated Puig. and he would do stuff every game, every AB. constant drama and attention seeking stuff and not in a fun Javy Baez on the Cubs way either. made the games very much not fun but of course the leftists wanted to convince us he was making the game fun. no.
Dodger fans seem to love him, But then again, it’s Dodger fans.
@@georgial6398 Nevermind you’re warped jaded bullshit politics you F ing retard! Stick to the topic moron!
@@georgial6398why are you bringing politics into baseball pretty gay
You sound exactly like the kind of guy I would want to listen to baseball stories for hours on end. Subscribed.
It’s amazing how right John Rocker was. He wasn’t a cancer, he was just an honest man
Good stuff, I appreciate the effort put into this one.
Jon Rocker was also the inspiration behind the show East Bound and Down and the personality of Kenny Powers...which if you haven't seen that show, I recommend it
rocker threw personal fits (bad) but bradley did them publicly, stopped games, fought w teamates. Just an ego-driven cancer (w some useless talent)
Totally concure, esp the first season... pure gold!
In fact my comment on this video was "where is Kenny Fucking Power?" Lol
I agree with everything rocker said
@@gregpettis1113 You must be the life of the party, and not a total douche.
And let’s be honest, his description of NYC was pretty accurate. 😌
Vince Coleman seems like a good man these days. Observed him at an autograph signing about a year ago and he was very patient and kind with people.
Vince Coleman had the automatic turf rolling machine accidentally trap his leg. I wonder if he pissed off the guy controlling it and it wasn't an accident.
It happened at the worst time that it could happen, which was during the NLCS. He was unable to play in the 1985 World Series against Kansas City due to his freak leg injury.
I remember when Papelbon was on the Phillies (my hometown team), and while he was a pretty good player, things always seemed just a little...off. As an example of this, my parents and I went to the ballpark one summer evening, and on the ballpark screen, they were asking players who their favorite superheroes were. Some answered with Batman or Superman or Spiderman, but when it came to Papelbon, he said, "...Aquaman?"
What’s wrong with aquaman?
@@peteyprimo7173 Nothing's wrong with Aquaman, it's simply that he doesn't seem to be the first to spring to mind when most think of comic-book superheroes.
So your labeling him as off because he likes a different super hero ? Maybe he doesn't like super heros and mentioned the 1st one to come come his mind maybe he just likes to be different and have his own opinion. It's also possible that an Aquaman movie was coming put that year and he was literally told or paid to say that. I don't see this as the big story your trying to make it to be.
@@seanheaney8303 I understand and respect your opinion. I'm not saying that Papelbon was wrong for stating Aquaman was his favorite superhero, I'm simply noting that such a choice is a tad outside the norm, which seems to be in line with some of his other behavior. To reiterate, I'm not saying his behavior is wrong, either, it's just a little different/eccentric.
I remember the story about Vince Coleman during the playoffs when he lost a flyball in the sun when he wasn't wearing sunglasses. A photograph was taken of Coleman later that night in a nightclub & you can probably guess. Yes he was wearing sunglasses!! Really sharp guy.
When I saw the title, Carl Everett was the first name I could think of. List did not disappoint.😉 baseball seems to have a lot of characters like these, so there must be more than the ones here. Some of them may not have been "cancers," but weren't beloved by their teammates. Canseco burned bridges, obviously, but it didn't sound like there was any love lost with his mates and managers.
Kind of surprised that Belle yelling at a female reporter before a World Series game, throwing a baseball into a fans chest and chasing kids in his vehicle on Halloween one year weren't mentioned. Of course, it would have taken more time than any of the other players were allotted to get it all in. And the Chicago corked bat incident was not fully explained as the bat that replaced Belles after the locker-room theft was a Paul Sorrento model as there was no Belle bat that wasn't corked.
As a Dodger fan I remember Albert Belle, Jeff Kent, Milton Bradley and now Trevor Bauer. Kent got to the Dodgers after the Giant/Bonds years. He mellowed a bit by then. He has more homeruns as a second baseman and can't get in the HOF. It appears he had a lot of enemies. Albert had a good half season in Mannyville, then he was gone. The Dodger clubhouse went to the LA Times and said we don't want Bauer back. Milton Bradley was the worst Dodger ever. Bradley was brought to the dodgers by the worst ownership group to ever own a baseball team, Frank McCourt
I was looking for someone to say Jeff Kent. Dude was such a prickly person with the media and his teammates.
Surprised Bonds wasnt there too. Mark Sweeney would agree.
And if I remember correctly, when the LADs traded Bradley to Oakland, they got a minor league player named André Ethier…
@@Erschophone Oakland was the only place that Bradley stayed out of trouble (hell even had an awesome playoff run in 06).
Worst ownership group? Jack Z. From Seattle says hi.
Can't believe y'all included footage of Reggie's confrontation, in the Yankees dugout, with, then Mgr, Billy Martin (who was the one who incited the argument). Reggie won, with every team he ever played for, with 3 straight World Series titles in Oakland, 2 additional titles in NY, and was a key factor in taking perennial losers, the California Angels, to their first ever playoff appearance, late in his career - (Hardly, what you'd call a locker room "cancer"!)
...Billy Martin was fired, as Yankees mgr, the following season, and had long been infamous, both for his drinking, and his temper, going all the way back to his time, as a player.
This is a great video! Another I thought would be on this list is Ty Cobb but his success definitely outweighted his cancerous moments. I realize now that growing up is harder than we all think. Despite our successes in life, they can all be forgotten but our actions (especially the bad ones) can be remembered.
That "Not this shit again" look on the managers face is all you need to know about dealing with Milton Bradley. 16:51.
If a non-athlete did even one of the non-game related things mentioned they would be staring at long prison sentences. We really need to stop treating celebrities differently.
it gets a lot more uglier. having said that i love when people pipe up with really nice personal encounters with a sports star. however, a lot of these guys are just not very good people. they are average people and now you add money, status and drugs to that.
I never realized that Vince Coleman was the one that threw the firecracker at Dodger Stadium. Milton Bradley was such a mess, the Dodgers would have taken a box of doorknobs to get rid of him. Honorable Mention should go to Yasiel Puig. A guy who really thought more of himself than he was.
Barry Bonds.... Coming from a Giants fan.
Yeah. But his bat was worth the headache. Some of these guys just weren’t worth the trouble they brought.
As a Cleveland fan I liked having Albert Belle on our team. An argument can be made that his stats make him a Hall Of Famer. I think you left out the time he chased down some trick or treaters in his car 🚗
His stats are HOF, he's not though. If Pete Rose can't get in the HOF, then there's zero chance Belle will get there.
He was a steroid cheater, that ends any discussion of the HOF. The fact that he took steroids tells you that he knew he was garbage without them.
@@tw5139 Albert may have been a jerk and got caught using a corked bat, but he’s never been connected with steroids
Denny McClain unfortunately didn't make the list...the fans didn't hate him*** but, his teammates did...** His fans came to loathe him years later when he stole the pension fund of his workers at Farmer Petes meats in Chesaning Mi.
Good video. I'm sure you could have added few more to the list (Bonds, Sheffield...).
Cant believe they missed Sheffield. He was hated when he was with the Yankees and tigers.
I would definitely put Chad Curtis on a list like this. Long before he was sexually assaulting teenage girls, Curtis was getting into scraps with his teammates over the music they were playing in the clubhouse and overall espousing a “holier than thou” attitude towards players and coaches.
He gave Derek Jeter grief during a brawl with the Seattle Mariners in 1999 when Jeter and A-Rod were just talking to each other like best friends.
I always think of Chad Curtis for deliberlity and publicly snubbing Jim Gray live on NBC, who wanted to interview him following Curtis' walk off home run in Game 3 of the 1999 World Series against Atlanta. Gray at the time, took a lot of heat for his pregame interview with Pete Rose in Game 2, where Gray basically badgered Rose into confessing that he bet on baseball games prior to his banishment in 1989. Curtis made it look like he was speaking on behalf of the entire team, when he told Gray point blank that he didn't want to talk to him in retaliation for the Rose interview.
Why are TV and radio announcers allowed to rip and criticize a player, but a ball player isn’t allowed to criticize announcers, fans, other media personalities? Isn’t that a double standard? And why are the players labeled “cancers” when they do?
And why don’t announcers get suspended or fired when they do it? Isn’t that a double standard?
Just wondering. Cause that seems to be part of a ongoing theme in this video..
I've heard stories about Jeff Kent being a terrible person and teammate as well
He did well in Houston.
I grew up during the 1960s... and two names come to mind... Dick (Don't call me Richie) Allen and Alex Johnson. Both extremely talented ballplayers. These two actually were teammates on the Phillies 1964 team that choked down the stretch. But don't blame that on these guys, especially Allen, who was just phenomenal back then. Both have passed on. Allen is a border line Hall of Famer, who did not put up with racist Philadelphia fans back then. Johnson won a batting title with the Angels in 1970... but may have suffered from mental illness. In reality though, this is probably the tip of the iceberg when it comes to troublesome ballplayers. Go back even further, and you'll find the likes Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Ben Chapman, etc. So this is just someone's personal list from recent times. A question for all of you out there... just think... imagine yourselves being the manager of these 10 lunatics mentioned above... all being on YOUR same team!! Lol
The racist Philly media treated Allen like shit back then despite his All-Star level play
I remember that Alex Johnson played for like ten teams, including 1977? for the Tigers. He got kicked out of one game before it started. He was going out to play left said something nasty to the ump and was kicked out. He didn’t even argue, he just walked off the field. I’m guessing that he really didn’t want to play that night.
@@christopherharing9883 Goose Gossage said as a young player, he learned more about baseball listening to Dick Allen than anyone in his career. Alot of his former teammates said that Allen was misunderstood.
@@christopherharing9883 That's correct!
There were a lot of people who really liked Dick Allen, but Alex Johnson was a horse's ass to everyone. Another guy who'd be a serious candidate for a GOOD video would be Hal Chase.
What I get a kick out of are the contracts most of these guys got even after teams knew how difficult they were. Talk about turning a blind eye!
I think the guy that blew all those games and sabotaged his team's chances to win is the worst... the others had tempers and inappropriate comments, but imagine playing with a guy that bet against your team and stopped playing/trying randomly? I'd think all the teammates would want to beat him up.
Hal Chase also just randomly went back home in 1908 with about a month left to play, the team was horrible and full of other cancerous players.
Of course, the New York Highlanders at the time were owned by Farrell and Devery, who got rich off illegal gambling and a multitide of other organized crime.
I guarantee this won't be the last time you hear a similar comment about Albert "Don't Call Me Joey" Belle: My guess is that Belle was at the very least experiencing symptoms of "roid rage" at varying points in his career, but you can also say that he also had/has some deeply rooted psychological issues as well. Also, what kind of a guy not only is as big and strong as he was, and yet still CORKED HIS BAT??? What the hell? If he had ever hit a liner back through the box at a pitcher, there would have been nothing left of that poor pitcher but a friggin' grease spot!
If you haven’t, I highly recommend listening to the Crime In Sports episode on Albert Belle. I think him and Donaldson would go 15 rounds.
@@bananaman4589 I'll look for it. Thanks!
Apparently, he had no issues until he started getting into alcohol. He eventually stopped drinking, but his demons didn't leave him.
@@bananaman4589CiS is fantastic!
Belle was such a good player to but he was a loose cannon.
Rocker was quite popular in his locker room. Don’t rewrite history.
coleman was not traded to the Mets, he was a free agent
I'm Cubs and but man I loved big Z. Glad he chilled out. My favorite is when he got into Dlee.
everyone loved Big Z. him being on this list is absurd.
Big Z was fine until his "tennis elbow" ruined his career. They showed here his dugout fight with Michael Barrett. Most of what I read it was Barrett who escalated the problem
@@sukhastings4200 Both Big Z and Barrett were hotheads. Z was well liked by fans and respected by teammates. His performance started to falter bc of wear and tear, and combined w his blowups becoming progressively worse, he kind of got blackballed by the league after Florida. But no never a clubhouse cancer.
Hopefully some of the guys on this list realized some of the mistakes they've made. Sometimes their passion for the game turns into anger. Been there, done that.
@@georgial6398 They'd Carlos throw 130+ pitches in a game IIRC. (Suspecting he didn't like to be removed ;-).
John Rocker is correct about NYC at least
1000%😂😂😂😂
I still remember when the Red Sox traded Carl Everett for Darren Oliver and I was super excited. My roommate asked me what was so great about Oliver. My response: he's not Carl Everett.
Also, I'm surprised Kevin Brown didn't make the list.
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Wasn't Kevin Brown a major diva?
@@vilebasterd5729 to put it mildly. He was known for his hot-headedness as much as his pitching ability.
Good one. Red Sox fan here too. Carl was talented for sure, but he just couldn't control himself.
Interesting list. Although, even as a Braves fan, I do have a bit of a soft spot for Albert Belle.
My oldest child was born on opening day, 1997 and while my wife was struggling to shove a ham through her birth canal I was eating popsicles watching the Chicago White Sox play the Toronto Blue Jays. The baby started crowning so I dutifully put down my popsicle and went to her side making sure I could still see the television, (I didn't know how long this was going to take).
As the baby's head emerged, Albert Belle walloped one, but good. It immediately dawned on me what a cool moment this was. Birth of my first child on opening day and as she is coming into this world a homerun is being launched. As I saw the ball leaving the yard I started chanting, "Go! Go! Go! Go!....YEAH!!!" Sweet.
Later when I asked her, "Wasn't that cool?", it became obvious that she had not been paying attention to the game so I told her about Albert Belle hitting a home run at the moment of birth and that's why I was yelling, "Go, Go, Go..!" She pursed her lips as only an aggravated woman can and said a bit dejectedly, "I thought you were cheering for me".
I probably should've kept that little pearl of a story to myself.
*LOL. Sounds like a 'Friends' episode. 👍🍺*
Great gads man....I don't think telling her was to bright...it's almost as bad as me telling my wife that her inconsiderate timing on our daughter being born cost me my EIB the first time around after having to leave testing with the 3 easiest stations to go...I'd already aced the others.😂😂😂
@@charlesfritz7131 What's EIB?
@@andyroid5028 it is Expert Infantryman's Badge (peacetime/non combat)) Of which I got 6 months later then got CIB (combat) 5 months after that during Operation Urgent Fury (invasion of Grenada) 1/75th Rangers.
how did the ham turn out
As a Rockies fan, I’m still salty about Jonathan Papelbon and the 2007 WS. He made the Rockies franchise look bad with his “celebration” after he struck out Steve Smith. Yes, Boston won the World Series, I get it, but it looked to me like he was taunting and mocking the Rockies in a way like “haha I win, you lose” kind of thing, especially because it was a sweep and an utter steamrolling, which wasn’t even close. The Rockies are gone of the only two teams, the other being the Seattle Mariners, who have never won a single game in World Series play. What hurts the most (which I don’t necessarily blame Papelbon for, but rather the Rockies front office) is that ever since, the Rockies have had a blatant disregard for the postseason. All they care about is selling out regular season games, and not having a good team. They will probably go longer than the Cubs without a championship. And all that’s remembered is Jonathan Papelbon celebrating his cursing of the Rockies forever in Game 4 of the 2007 World Series. And it being in Colorado is the final kick in the gut.
I personally know Nyjer Morgan and am shocked he didn’t make the list. We had a house party one night. He had caught wind of it while buying weed from my roommate earlier in the day. He just showed up uninvited and started harassing some girls. We had to physically remove him. He wanted to fight all 10 of us that threw him out lol. He kept saying “I fought against real men, hockey players.” Also that “ten regular guys was nothing to him.” He was spitting and even bit one guy as we dragged him out. He was truly insane and out of control. Then when I saw his on the field antics it totally made sense. Maybe he wasn’t around long enough to make this list, but judging by the few times I met him I and saw his on the field tantrums, I am sure he was a locker room cancer.
I actually have a few more stories about him acting crazy, but nothing like the house party situation.
I remember him charging the mound against the Marlins in a 15-5 game and getting decked by the first baseman
Joey "Albert" Belle also chased down some kids in his car for trick or treating his house. That guy was a cray cray.
Or Albert Belle Had The Misfortune Of Being Chased By An Irate Albert Pujols Pujols Being Angry Was Rare
Loved this comment. Red Sox fans used to piss the crap out of Belle by chanting "Joooey! Joooey!" We loved the fact we were getting under his skin. Such an unlikeable player.