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Andre Dawson’s HOF Cap & Fan Ramblings

Posted on | January 6, 2010 | 2 Comments

What a 29 days it has been for Andre Dawson.  First the MLB Mustache Hall of Fame (as an Expo), and now its little cousin, the MLB Hall of Fame.

I’m a Cubs fan.  I’d like to think I’m a rational Cubs fan, but I’m actually not sure if a truly rational Cubs sports fan exists.  I chose the Cubs, after my Expos ceased to exist (don’t try to suggest to me that the AAA AA winter league slow-pitch beer-league club playing in Washington right now is the same bleu, blanc, et rouge), through a series of  trips across the country to other ballparks, run-ins with fans, and sad attempts to just “cheer for good baseball in general.”  The Canadian Prairies aren’t as close to MLB ballparks as you’d assume, so I put a lot of thought in my decision because I planned to visit a lot in the future.  Through deep soul searching, I realised a team that the last three generations of my family could have never seen win anything was the one for me… or something like that.

I can’t brag about being a Cubs fan from birth, or having my heart ripped out when I was 8 years old when the Cubs <insert a myriad of misfortunes here>, but I did watch my first team die a slow painful death… which is the ultimate baseball heartbreak.  Maybe that’s why I felt a kinship with Cubs fans: heartbreak.  We all love it, eh?

But there’s no heartbreak for Cubs & Expos fans today as we now have Andre Dawson in the MLB Hall of Fame.  Andre Dawson: an ultimate Expos-Cubs connection.  But which cap should he wear into the hall?  Does it matter?  I’m cap-obsessed, so hell yes…

The basic numbers tilt heavily to the Expos side when you look at his entire tenure with both teams, but if you average each body of work out over, say, a 150 game schedule, it’s too close (for an semi-irrational fan like me) to call.  These are just the baseball-card numbers though, but I imagine these numbers still carry the weight when it comes to these kinds of things:

  Expos Totals Cubs Totals Expos AVG Cubs AVG
G 1443 867 150 150
PA 6138 3520 638 609
AB 5628 3262 585 564
R 828 431 86 75
H 1575 929 164 161
2B 295 149 31 26
3B 67 27 7 5
HR 225 174 23 30
RBI 838 587 87 102
SB 253 57 26 10
BB 354 198 37 34
SO 896 453 93 78
BA 0.280 0.285 0.280 0.285

If the baseball card numbers are a wash, then what’ll win out?  Five extra seasons as a member of a now-defunct franchise, or the positive momentum of the Cubs fans base that certainly played a role in Dawson’s induction?  If decisions of this magnitude are made by people as awesome as those at Another Cubs Blog (I wish!), then commencez la célébration.

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