Jacque Jones – Not Dead?
Ex-Twin, ex-Cub, ex-Tiger, ex-Marlin, ex-Red, and ex-Newark Bear Jacque Jones sent his agent to baseball’s winter meetings with a simple message:Â He wants to resurrect a bad career and get back into baseball.
“He has a lot of baseball left in his body, and he’s looking for a team, hoping to make them look like geniuses,” agent Damon Lapa said of Jones, who played for the independent Newark Bears in 2009.
Who wants a peice of this?
I call bullshit on him having anything left in his body. This guy was done when playing at the end of his Cubs career in 2007 when he demanded a trade out of town due to claims of Cubs racism. Not only was he allegedly getting it from the fans, but also the management was too racist for his taste when firing a bad, bad, bad coach in Dusty Baker to hire a new, tired, probably also bad coach Lou Piniella.
The funniest part is when Jacque signed with the Reds to reunite with his buddy Dusty and the skippper rewarded him with a pink slip in spring training. That kicked off his new career in the independent leagues and obscurity where he belongs.
That adds Jacque Jones to Milton, Hawkins, and Dusty as my list of schizo bad Cubs plagued by voices of imaginary racism. The Cubs are a team that never retired the number of a white player until the last 5 years. I spend a lot of time every year in the bleachers of Wrigley Field and trust me, we boo players not for the color of their skin but for the content of their awful play.
