Deadspin: jack cust

Major Leaguer Says What We're All Thinking, Likely To Be Fined For It

Barry Petchesky — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:00:00 EDT

Jack Cust: "It's kind of funny they spent all that money on the Mitchell Report and a bunch of hearsay and the guy who made all the money off it happened to work for the Red Sox." [AP]

Red Sox, A's Look Like They'd Rather Not Be In Japan

Leitch — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:01:46 EDT

The Boston Red Sox and Oakland A's landed in Japan yesterday — their series starts Tuesday at 6 a.m. ET — after an 18-hour flight. We've never taken an 18-hour flight, but if we did, the last thing we'd want as soon as we got off the plane would be a bunch of photographers ready to take our picture.

The Red Sox didn't handle it well; Kevin Youkilis, in particularly, looks like, as UmpBump puts it, "you can actually see every minute of that 18-hour flight on his face." Yipes.

By the way, we had never noticed how much Jack Cust looks like The Daily Show's Rob Riggle. We suppose that makes sense.

You Make The Call [UmpBump]

Reintroducing Jack Cust

Leitch — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:15:01 EDT

Anyone who has paid attention the world of sabermetrics and Baseball Prospectus over the last few years is probably familiar with Jack Cust. For years, he was that supposed slugging Colorado catcher we were all waiting to take over the National League, the guy we hoped no one else in our fantasy league knew about. And we waited and waited and waited ... and then it just never happened. Even the most devoted stathead gave up on him.

And now, jeez, the guy has exploded. In his last four games, he has five homers and 12 RBIs, including his insane walk-off homer yesterday. He's still living in a hotel and has been back in the majors for a week.

It has been amusing to watch his nuttiness, if just to monitor his father's Web site. His dad is a famous hitting instructor, sort of the new Tom Emanski, minus the cheesy Fred McGriff videos. We suppose his son finally emerging as a non-failure as a hitter can only help business, though we still want to see if Cust can throw a ball in a little tube from center field. Always impressed by that.

Is Billy Beane David Copperfield? [The Smittblog]
Jack Cust Baseball [Official Site]