What was the joke behind Truby?

[Dale Hicks]

If people can ask about in-jokes, I missed this one. Truby's nothing
amazing, according to his stats. What has immortalized him as a "hated
one"?

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Cranial Crusader dgh...@bellsouth.net

[Ima Pseudonym]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 00:20:12 -0500, Dale Hicks
<dgh...@bellSPAMsouth.net.invalid> wrote:

>
>If people can ask about in-jokes, I missed this one. Truby's nothing
>amazing, according to his stats. What has immortalized him as a "hated
>one"?

Tom Nawrocki gets credit. His original post is at
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=20010413101211.00821.00000016%40ng-fc1.aol.com

[TJNawrocki]

Ima Pseudonym wrote:

: On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 00:20:12 -0500, Dale Hicks
: <dgh...@bellSPAMsouth.net.invalid> wrote:

: >
: >If people can ask about in-jokes, I missed this one. Truby's nothing
: >amazing, according to his stats. What has immortalized him as a "hated
: >one"?

: Tom Nawrocki gets credit. His original post is at

: <A
HREF="http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=20010413101211.00821.0000
0016%40ng-fc1.aol.com">http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=20010413
101211.00821.00000016%40ng-fc1.aol.com</A>

And I feel bad about it, let me tell you.

Someday, someone's going to ask Chris Truby, "How come people talk so bad about
you on the Internet?" And Chris will say, "People talk bad about me on the
Internet?" And the first guy will say, "Yeah, some butthead wrote something
about you being involved with satanic dismemberment."

And Chris will say, "I thought only Albert Belle did that."

Tom Nawrocki

[Roger Moore]

Dale Hicks <dgh...@bellSPAMsouth.net.invalid> writes:

>If people can ask about in-jokes, I missed this one. Truby's nothing
>amazing, according to his stats. What has immortalized him as a "hated
>one"?

This post:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=20010413101211.00821.00000016%40ng-fc1.aol.com

I think that it stuck because it's A) quite funny and B) quite true.
Somehow, though, it's turned into the latest inside joke. It's short
enough that I think that I'll quote it in full:

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B26...@hotmail.com wrote:

: Baseball is losing fans because of players like Sheffield, Belle, and
: Thomas. And not because of their hitting...
: They can no longer relate to assholes who bitch about their $10,000,000
: paychecks.

When did Albert Belle ever complain about how much he was getting paid? Talk
about a lightning rod for fans' complaints.

If somebody like Chris Truby was accused of satanic dismemberment, it would
take about a week before people started saying, "I'm so sick of all these
ballplayers like Chris Truby and Albert Belle with all their satanic rituals
and the dismemberment and everything."

Tom Nawrocki

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