Kris Benson's Real Name (Odd Squad Teams)

[Guest Edgy DC]

...is Kristin.

Owitch.

Sort of thing that'll toughen a man up or kill him.

[metirish]

Ouch, not cool, why would his parents do that?, baseballreference has him as Kris.

http://www.baseballreference.com/b/bensokr01.shtml

[seawolf17]

I thought you were kidding, but there it is on mets.com...

Kristin James (Kris) Benson graduated from Sprayberry High School in Marietta, GA...

[Benjamin Grimm]

That's bad, but not as bad as Braden Looper's middle name.

Bill Latham had a girly middle name, too.

[Guest Edgy DC]

OK, let's turn this into an ongoing thread.

Gimme an All-Girly-Sounding Met Team.

When you post it, conclude by demanding somebody else post their own Odd Squad --- an All-Redhead Mets Team or an All-Alabama-Born Mets Team. Try not to be too impossibly narrow of course. Those two probably are.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

P Les Rohr
P Tracy Stallard
P Kris Benson
P Neil Crisley (cut in spring training 1962: real name was Barbra)
P Terry Leach
P Galen Cisco
P Lee Guetterman
P Jesse Orosco
P Jesse Hudson
P Ken McKenzie
P Brian Rose

1B Bart Shirley
2B Tom Herr
SS Lou Klimchock
3B Robin Ventura

OF Pat Howell
OF Gene Woodling
OF Gene Clines
OF Pat Tabler

Gimmee the All-Eyeglasses Mets team

[Frayed Knot]

Dickshot to be chastised for leaving Lynn Nolan Ryan off his list; film at eleven.

[seawolf17]

And in breaking news, Kelly Stinnett is furious that he wasn't named as the team's starting catcher.

[Elster88]

Should Mackey Sasser be considered? Brett Butler also starred in a long running sitcom, as a woman.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I forgot catchers completely. I was just trying to do it before you did.

Now give me an eyeglass team

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm a Brook Fordyce man myself, but we have to move on.

Hold for four-eyes...

[Willets Point]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: I was just trying to do it before you did.

That's the bane of these types of threads.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Mets All-Bespectacled Team
Mookie "Jim Morrison" Wilson*	cf
Roy McMillan	ss
Lee Mazzilli	lf
Jason "Bono" Phillips	1b
Mike "John Denver" Cubbage	3b
Jeff McKnight	rf
Ed Hearn	c
Tim Foli	2b
Satoru Komiyama	sp**
Bullpen
Skip Lockwood	rp
Juan Padilla	rp
* "Ouch, my eye!" **Komi relieved exclusively for the Mets, but was primarily a starter in his career. (Despite the presence of Mookie Wilson and Lee Mazzilli, this is not such a good team, and I'm thinking of adding George Foster, who wore prescription sunglasses.)

Gimme an All-Moose Mets Team, the biggest Met at every position.

Not just fat guys but meese.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I just felt compelled to post this -



I remember that Benson collects Swarovksi crystals, and this one is the Celebration Kris bear.

[Theoldmole]

My favorite was former Ranger star Carol Vadnais, whose wife's name was Reymonde.

[DocTee]

worst met name ever:

Richard Goodhard Becker

[Theoldmole]

I went to college (honest) with a guy named Dick Hertz.

[Theoldmole]

The Mariners have a pitcher named j. j. Putz, and the Rangers an outfielder named Kevin Mench, and at least once this season, Putz has pitched to Mench.

[metsmarathon]

who named their kid rich harden.

and why don't more people call him "dick"?

[Guest Edgy DC]

I need meese.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

metsmarathon wrote: who named their kid rich harden. and why don't more people call him "dick"?

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that Harden is Canadian?

[Guest martin]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: That's bad, but not as bad as Braden Looper's middle name. .

i had to look that up and see that it is LaVern and surely that is the worst middle name i have seen in a while.

[MFS62]

Would the best writer covering the "girly" team be Shirley Povich? He was the father of Mauray, and a sportswriter who covered the old Washington Senators.

Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

Was it the reference to Laverne that made you think of Shirley?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Fine, don't give me Meese. Give me a Jeff Duncan Invitational All Sub-.200 Batting Average Team.

[MFS62]

Just from the early days alone, you could have the following folks who had a decent number of ABs:
c- Cannizzaro .183 1965 ; JerryGrote .196 1966
1B Ed Bouchee .161 1962
2B Chuck Hiller .093 1966
3B Cliff Cook .142 1983
ss Al Moran .193 1963 (I still think this award should be named after him)
OF Johnny Lewis .193 1966
OF Don Bosch .140 1966
OF Amos Otis .151 in his 1969 cuppa' joe

Later

EDIT: corrected the Johnny Lewis date. Best as I can fugure, he wasn't around during the year of the Norman Invasion.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Excellent.

Now, if you will, the next challenge will be.

(This is flopping like a bad musical.)

[MFS62]

Good Morning, Mr. Phelps.

About my next mission:

If I accept, will the Secretary disavow any knowledge?
Will this message self-destruct in 20 seconds?
Can you provide me with pictures so I can select my team?
Was there ever a more memorable theme song than the one written by Lalo Shifrin for Mission Impossible?
Why did Barbara Bain ever marry Martin Landau?

So many questions.
So little time.

Later

[Guest cooby]

I can't think of a "Big Boy" shortstop

[Guest Edgy DC]

Kevin Mitchell (5' 11", 210) would qualify for our purposes.