Steve Lyons 1990 Upper Deck

On October 7, 2016 I received this card from the Baseball Card Bandit (BCB):

On Facebook, I wrote: Another card from the BCB. This time with a taunting message, "Why can't we get players like this?" Not from the left coast but from the heartland of this great county, Milwaukee, WI. 

2019 Notes: The quote above comes from long-time Boston sports TV reporter Bob Lobel. Whenever someone who once played in Boston did well for another team, Lobel would look into the camera and sigh, "Why can't we get players like that?" It's actually a pretty decent line. 

Steve "Psycho" Lyons was a terrible ball player and is currently a terrible announcer. He's lucky that he pulled down his pants in Tiger Stadium because I don't think anyone would remember him because although he played a lot of positions, he didn't play any particularly well. Fun fact: once traded straight up for Tom Seaver. 

My list of suspects grows:

Alice Cooper (knows a lot about Milwaukee)
Anthony Perkins (he's dead but he was Psycho)
Arthur Lee Allen (also dead but may have written taunting letters if he was the Zodiac)Paul Herman (spends a lot of time in Milwaukee now)Tim O'Neill (went to school in Milwaukee)
Donnie Most (put Milwaukee on the map as funny man Ralph Malph on TV's Happy Days and doesn't like me taking his name in vain.)

Who knows? It could be YOU!

2019: Again, I spent a lot of time wondering who could be the BCB and not too much on the player. Two of those names are friends of mine who spent time in Wisconsin, one is a suspect's name of the Zodiac Killer, the other are famous people -- one of which is dead. 

There isn't much to say about Lyons other than he was a backup infielder who got a lot of mileage out of talking a lot and accidentally pulling down his pants in Detroit during the 1990 season. 

He was a member of the 1986 Red Sox team until he was on second base in the ninth inning of a game that the Sox were losing by one run with Wade Boggs up and he attempted to steal third. He was thrown out by a mile. Sox manager John McNamara buried him (rightly) on the bench and before long he traded in one pair of socks for another, going to Chicago for Tom Seaver. 

The Red Sox didn't hold any grudges and he came back to the team three other times, after spending time in Atlanta, Montreal and in Spring Training with Cubs. 

He currently works for the Red Sox cable company NESN and wasn't fired after he was arrested for domestic batter in January 2017. He also got canned from Fox Sports in 2006 for making some derogatory remarks about Spanish-speaking people.

Steve Lyons is a bit of a dipshit.