Brodie and Tom

[Edgy MD]

What do Brodie Van Wagenen and Tom Seaver have in common?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Fresno birth?

[Centerfield]

Neither of them have a statue at Citi.

They’ve signed the same number of free agents this offseason.

Chaim Bloom. Smarter than both of them.

Foxhole guys.

Will share a podium when BVW announces his plan to replace Syndergaard.

At least one baseball writer felt neither belonged in the Hall of Fame.

Both could use soap. One has a dirty knee. One has unclean hands.

[Edgy MD]

Brodie is from Southern Cal, while Fresno is in the Central Valley. BVW went north to Stanford for college, while Tom went south to USC.

Bloom went to Yale, so you may be right about the smarty-pants thing.

Brodie's signed a minor league free agent, and I imagine Tom signed some vineyard workers.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Both have the same level of authorization to make major-league FA signings absent direct Wilponian approval.

Both know their way around rich, mellow whites.

Same haircut (adjusted for inflation)?

[Edgy MD]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Both know their way around rich, mellow whites.

Now, you're getting a little warmer.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Both married into the space program. (Nancy's Uncle Edgar was the third man to walk on Neptune.)

[bmfc1]

One makes wine, the other drinks a nice cab after signing a minor league free agent.

[Edgy MD]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Both married into the space program. (Nancy's Uncle Edgar was the third man to walk on Neptune.)

Family connections. You’re on the right track.

[MFS62]

Both related to Walker Cup golfers?

Later

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy MD wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Both know their way around rich, mellow whites. Now, you're getting a little warmer.

Are mulling spices involved?

[Edgy MD]

No, but pulling and slices are.

Both Tom and Brodie, Brodie and Tom, are the progeny of big shot golfers. Tom's father Charles was an amateur ace in the depression years, winning the California Amateur and Northern California Golf Association Amateur titles in 1933 and the Southern California Golf Association Amateur in 1934 becoming only the second dude to hold all thre e titles. He had previously won the great big NCGA National Championship. He also walked home with the trophy from the U.S. Amateur Championships and the Walker Cup, a tournament named in honor of the father of future Mets minority owner George Herbert Walker, Jr. He established the Seaver Golf Academy and ultimately died in Pebble Peach, which is a pretty hardcore place for a golfer to die.

Brodie's dad, Jeff started a career as a professional golfer in the early seventies, but getting your ass kicked by Nicklaus, Palmer, and Hogan has limited appeal, and he went into business. But the bug never left him, and after succeeding wildly in the business world, he joined the senior circuit in the mid-nineties, joining the Champions Tour and (mostly) the European Seniors Tour. Undeterred by the one-two punch of Eddie Holland and Tommy Horton, he walked off with the the first ever (and last ever!) cup at the 2000 (and only!) Tui Golf Championship Fleesensee, following the David Soul/David Hasselhoff career track of Americans who make it big in Germany.

[Centerfield]

Edgy MD wrote: following the....David Hasselhoff career track of Americans who make it big in Germany.

Sir. I would submit that Mr. Hasselhoff made it pretty big here as well.

[Guest 41Forever]

Good find, Edgy!

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: No, but pulling and slices are. Both Tom and Brodie, Brodie and Tom, are the progeny of big shot golfers.

Hey! I said the Walker Cup. That's golf.
Do I get any points for that?

Later

[Edgy MD]

I missed that. You get free fries the next time the Knicks score 120.

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: I missed that. You get free fries the next time the Knicks score 120.

Do I have to buy the regular sized drink to get them?

Later