Former MLB player to make pro wrestling debut ...

[Claws for Concern]

Former Montreal Expos outfielder Warren Cromartie will debut on a card June 17. He is 53 years old.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/01/sports/AS-SPT-BBL-Japan-Cromartie.php

 

[Flying Headbutt]

Re: Former MLB star to make pro wrestling debut ...

Who?? I should change the title of this thread to former MLB player only diehard Expos fans remember.

 

[Claws for Concern]

Who?? I should change the title of this thread to former MLB player only diehard Expos fans remember.

Played with Andre Dawson. He's not THAT unfamiliar.

 

[markvid]

Gary Carter.

 

[suburbanite]

Rush referenced Cromartie on the back of their 1982 Signals album cover, FWIW.

 

[slappy4428]

Former Montreal Expos outfielder Warren Cromartie will debut on a card June 17. He is 53 years old.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/01/sports/AS-SPT-BBL-Japan-Cromartie.php

Two more years and he'll be at the circuit that once again graces us here in Hooterville every six weeks -- like next week.
Sign on the city's marquee mentioned a Canadian wrestler. Or, if you went by the actual spelling -- Canadion..

 

[PhilaYank36]

Big whoop. Let me know when Bonds realizes his true calling and signs with WWE.

 

[markvid]

Big whoop. Let me know when Bonds realizes his true calling and signs with WWE.

I may be nuts, but didn't he once have something to do with a Wrestlemania?

 

[lantaur]

Rush referenced Cromartie on the back of their 1982 Signals album cover, FWIW.

Cromartie became good friends with the band when he played in Japan. If I recall (from his book), Cromartie plays drums. He was hosting a radio show, last I remember.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

He hosted a talk radio show in Miami in the late '90s.

 

[X-Hack]

I think Neil Peart was a big 'Spos fan too. Geddy is a huge Jays fan. But Peart wore an old tricolor Expos hat in the "Vital Signs" video.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

Big whoop. Let me know when Bonds realizes his true calling and signs with WWE.

I may be nuts, but didn't he once have something to do with a Wrestlemania?

Bonds? No.

Pete Rose did.

 

[markvid]

Big whoop. Let me know when Bonds realizes his true calling and signs with WWE.

I may be nuts, but didn't he once have something to do with a Wrestlemania?

Bonds? No.

Pete Rose did.

Yeah, I remember the Pete one, but I thought earlier (like maybe late 90's), Bonds had something to do with one.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

I think Neil Peart was a big 'Spos fan too. Geddy is a huge Jays fan. But Peart wore an old tricolor Expos hat in the "Vital Signs" video.

I hope Neil hung on to that pinwheel hat. I'm nowhere near Quebec and it became quite a fashion statement.

The back of lyric booklet for "Signals" is a planned subdivision (the first track on the album is "Subdivisions") with "Warren Cromartie Secondary School" printed on one corner.

 

[SoCalDude]

are they still making Cro-bar candy bars in Canada?

 

[BYH]

Like Cheap Trick, Cromartie is huge in Japan.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

He hosted a talk radio show in Miami in the late '90s.

The Crow..... bloody awful.

Delusional character to the highest degree.

 

[budcrew08]

Big whoop. Let me know when Bonds realizes his true calling and signs with WWE.

I may be nuts, but didn't he once have something to do with a Wrestlemania?

Bonds? No.

Pete Rose did.

Pete actually did three appearances in consecutive Wrestlemanias.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

Yeah Simon, that's the best description of him, really. It was like a bad skit.

Between him, Hank and Neil Rogers (the latter two spending time on suspension), that was some dysfunctional talk radio. I went to Eddie Kaplan for comfort.

 

[ondeadline]

A natural would be Joey.... uh.... Albert Belle.