Anybody Remember...?

by Buddy Holly on Feb 18, 2010 6:54 PM EST

A friend sent an email asking if I remembered a Brave's player (outfielder?) who used to imitate Sammy Sosa. Evidently, when the Braves were playing the Cubbies at Wrigley, he would take the field imitating the thrust out chest and swaggering gate of Sosa. I have searched the Braves rosters from the Sosa era, and I can't come up with it. Bobby Bonilla is a possibility, but I don't recall Bonilla mocking Sosa. In short, I can't remember who it was. Anyone out there got a sharper memory than I do?

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I remember Smoltz openly mocking Carlos Perez after strikeouts when we played the Expos

But that’s as close as I can come. Still awesome.

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by The Keith Lockhart Era on Feb 18, 2010 8:01 PM EST reply actions

Andruw seems like the type, but I don’t remember any particular event.

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by Jacob Peterson on Feb 18, 2010 8:35 PM EST reply actions

Bonilla

We had him?

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by TradeAndruw on Feb 18, 2010 9:24 PM EST reply actions

I personally don’t remember him in a Braves uni

by eaheckman10 on Feb 18, 2010 10:06 PM EST up reply actions

Yep, in 2000. He actually had a pretty good year off the bench.

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by cbwilk on Feb 18, 2010 10:17 PM EST up reply actions

I remember that

He used to sit in the bullpen in Montreal. The turf messed with his knees so much, he didn’t want to run across it to get to the dugout, so he would sit in the bullpen in between innings (unless he needed to bat, ofc).

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by Doghnut on Feb 19, 2010 6:57 AM EST up reply actions

Seeing as how Sosa isn’t white, I’d like to say it was John Rocker, but he never batted.

by thenightstallion on Feb 18, 2010 9:30 PM EST reply actions

I think it was

Julio Franco. For some reason I think I remember him mocking Sosa. Either him or Furcal. Too much MJ has ruined my long term memory, but it was one of those two.

by udontknowwho on Feb 18, 2010 10:07 PM EST reply actions