The best news I think I have read in the last few weeks is the proposed return to major league baseball of one DENNIS ‘Oil Can’ BOYD.
There was a time in the late 1980’s when all of these huckleberry county ass fools named DENNIS were a problem in professional sports. DENNIS RODMAN, DENNIS GREEN and DENNIS ‘Oil Can’ BOYD.
At 49 yrs old Oil Can could be considered to be “off his rocker” for thinking that he could return to pro baseball, but when you have SATCHEL PAIGE as a spiritual hero there is nothing that is impossible.
I wish the Mets would pick up this unusual free agent since he shouldn’t be too costly to sign. The man hasn’t pitched professionally for nearly twenty years.
Quiet as its kept I think Oil Can might still be younger than ORLANDO ‘El Duque’ HERNANDEZ who played against SATCHEL PAIGE in Cuba.
The bathroom attendant at The Mirage now refers to me as El Dookay.
No way “Oil Can” can make a comeback but definitely one of the first dudes I can remember rockin’ his ice in the big’s!! Circa them’ Red Sox days!
Jeez, I feel old…
I remember Oil Can! I loved the Mets and my mom had the hots for Keith Hernandez… GEEZ, DP does make me say ” When I Reminisce”! ;p
That’s a nice story. I just had an Al Nipper flashback.
Wow.. I actually thought the Oil Can would be older than 49. He was the effing man.
lol
El Duque’s the man, him and Julio Franco have been playing proffesional baseball for over a century
I loved the Oil Can back in Boston. He used to talk about himself in the third person. “I thinks the Oil Can is ready” that sort of thing. I’d love to see him play again.