I am corresponding with an actual Met

[bmfc1]

Greg solved the riddle... on Brian Ostrosser's birthday.



https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/brian-ostrosser/https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/brian-ostrosser/

[batmagadanleadoff]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I don't have any memory of Ostrosser as a player but could tell you he wore no. 19. Thanks for turning a cool humblebrag into a douchy one, though. That part was great. Sorry. I shoot for funny, sometimes I hit douchy by mistake.

Hey Lunchy! You at least, get an apology. No doubling down here.

[stevejrogers]

RMPL!

[seawolf17]

STEVE PAY ATTENTION lolol

[Fman99]

I didn't get a chance to start making up Mets players that weren't even people.



Plus, I just knew you were exchanging letters with Raul Argente. I mean, who else could it have been?

[stevejrogers]

=seawolf17 post_id=96976 time=1655893541 user_id=91]
STEVE PAY ATTENTION lolol

[seawolf17]

=Fman99 post_id=96980 time=1655898133 user_id=86]
I didn't get a chance to start making up Mets players that weren't even people.



Plus, I just knew you were exchanging letters with Raul Argente. I mean, who else could it have been?

[Edgy MD]

Adriadne Argente really made the Wifey Watch thread shine for a few weeks there.

[roger_that]

I just heard from Mr. Ostrosser, who really appreciated the copy I emailed him of his Dairylea baseball card from 1974, which he had never seen. He was tickled to get it. Naturally, I took all the credit for digging it up, and told him that I stumped an entire Met-fan forum in a quiz about his identity.



No, of course, I didn't. I told him that the card had been shown to me by one of the posters here, and that his name was recognized by at least one other poster on this site, which pleased him even further.



Further research revealed that he (and his dad) worked for a company that did business, or became a subsidiary of, or had some other Byzantine connection to my granddad's company, but Mr. Ostrosser said he'd do a little research into the company's history to try and nail down his exact connection to me and my family.

[MFS62]

=roger_that post_id=96406 time=1655502512 user_id=128]
=MFS62 post_id=96402 time=1655501529 user_id=60]Ostrosser is Canadian.