Stu’s Huntdown: Geoff Zahn
Posted on February 7th, 2008 – 12:59 PMBy Michael Rand
Name: Geoff Zahn
Claim to Fame, Minnesota: pitched for the Twins from 1977-1980, compiling a 53-53 record. That was no mean feat for those Twins teams. Also, his birthday is December 19th, widely regarded as the best date of birth during the calendar year.
Claim to Fame, Everywhere Else: his remarkably adequate run with the Twins led to him leaving the Twins as a free agent (just like Carlos Silva!) in 1981 for the then-just-California Angels. Went 18-8 in 1982 and was named to the Sporting News AL All-Star Team. In addition, he coached the 1997 Michigan Wolverines to the Big Ten Baseball title.
Where He Is Now: this feature is a lot easier when the target has his own website. You’ll find out at the link that he’s a pitching clinician and a motivational and Christian speaker. He even has an mp3 for you to sample, where he rips former teammates Roy Smalley and Hosken Powell to shreds*. Also, he really likes Mike Hart.
Glorious Randomness: Zahn also put some time in as pitching coach for The Master’s College in southern California. I bring this up only because the campus was built on the site of the Happy Jack Dude Ranch, four words that are hilarious in whatever order you put them in (Ranch Happy Jack Dude, Happy Dude Jack Ranch, etc.).
*He does no such thing.
10 Responses to "Stu’s Huntdown: Geoff Zahn"
Poor Geoff. He has to follow the Wine Rack thread.
Rand
What is that picture you use in the Strib print? Do they have something against you using your RandBall picture?
And who is Michael?
Hopefully we’ve gotten all of those jokes off of our chest.
And yes, I racked my brain for quite a bit of time coming up with that one.
Why are people named Geoff instead of just Jeff? A Geoff sounds like the type who uses macs, shops at the Sharper Image and is really uptight about his material posessions.
Matt
Just say Cleavage, Boobs, Cleavage and get it over with will you!
OK. Breathe in, breathe out.
When I see Geoff, I think of Geoff Edwards, host of Treasure Hunt, one of the stupidest game shows ever (and that’s a genre with a rich tapestry of stupidity).
I feel the same way when I see “Lawrence” instead of Larry, though I know a Larry who should be called Lawrence but I won’t go into why in case he’s listening. Speaking of Lawrence, more concessions are sold during Lawrence of Arabia (on average) than any other 58 hour movie about the desert..true
Almost topical, fairly easy on the grammar, and I laughed at the LoA joke … I may be jumping the gun here, but I’d like to encourage this sort of behavior by awarding my 1/8th COW vote for this week to the semi-reformed P3.
Of course, this might be because I haven’t had time to go back and read earlier comment threads for the day, but I’m gonna go with my gut.
(Also, for the record, I have always believed that P3 is actually RandTroll. If I’m right, Mr. Rand, please just delete this parenthetical and forgive me.)
No, muxhut, it was me !! and once at some movie website (are there enuf of those? )it actually was reported that more drinks were consumed during this flick than any other. I watched it on DVD once when I had a four day weekend free and felt uncomfortably drawn to camels and stopped it 6 times for a beer. But, I still wish Peter O’Toole could stop his voice from shaking all the time. Annoying.
