Holy Crap! I did it AGAIN!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Twice in one week. I'm really setting myself up for heartbreak.

Just this morning I got an e-mail from someone (not a player or coach) who was once connected with the Mets and whom many of us remember.

And I invited him to join us here.

So it's twenty questions time again.

To avoid total confusion, I'll only answer the first question that's posed after each of my replies. Since this was a non-player, I have less information about him, so there may be more "I don't know" answers. I don't know whether he was born North or South of the Mason Dixon Line, for example, but I do know whether his name starts with a consonant or a vowel.

[Guest cooby]

Is it Greg Cox?

[Guest sharpie]

Was this person a general manager?

[Benjamin Grimm]

]Is it Greg Cox?

Who?

I mean, NO.

[HahnSolo]

Was he a broadcaster?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Holy crap! Welcome Lou Niss!

[Benjamin Grimm]

HahnSolo wrote: Was he a broadcaster?

YES.

[metirish]

Did he work games with McCarver?

[Benjamin Grimm]

metirish wrote: Did he work games with McCarver?

We're not going to need twenty questions.

YES.

[Willets Point]

Does his name kind of rhyme with Comiskey?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Willets Point wrote: Does his name kind of rhyme with Comiskey?

YES.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Steve Zabriskie come on down!

Wonder what he's up to these days

[metirish]

We'll find out if Yancy can get him here....

[Benjamin Grimm]

mlbaseballtalk wrote: Wonder what he's up to these days

Steve is planning on posting a "memory" of himself on the UMDB to tell everybody just that. Hopefully he'll swing by here, too.

[Guest cooby]

"I remember Steve, too"


Come on Yancy, you're on a roll...

[Benjamin Grimm]

="cooby"] "I remember Steve, too" Come on Yancy, you're on a roll...

You want me to have three heartbreaks in a single week? How cruel you are!

I may be forgetting something. Do we somehow have Mackey's contact information?

[Guest cooby]

Here ya go...

http://www.wallace.edu/staff/mailer.php?id1=Sasser&id2=Mackey

[Willets Point]

I suppose it would be impolitic to ask Zabriskie, "So Steve, did you ever just want to lean over and slap McCarver across the head?"

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: ="mlbaseballtalk"]Wonder what he's up to these days Steve is planning on posting a "memory" of himself on the UMDB to tell everybody just that. Hopefully he'll swing by here, too.

Last time I remember thinking of him was seeing a clip of him and Ralph via a bloopers tape. Zabriskie is looking puzzled as Ralph is rambling (I think about Orosco) and you see some ???s pop up in quotation balloons

Steve

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

As an aside, I never know where to find broadcaster/front office, etc profiles at umdb. can you collect them in a common front page link or am I overlooking something?

[Benjamin Grimm]

mlbaseballtalk wrote: Last time I remember thinking of him was seeing a clip of him and Ralph via a bloopers tape. Zabriskie is looking puzzled as Ralph is rambling (I think about Orosco) and you see some ???s pop up in quotation balloons Steve

What's funny is that I mentioned him in this thread just a few days ago. And suddenly he's in my e-mail box.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: As an aside, I never know where to find broadcaster/front office, etc profiles at umdb. can you collect them in a common front page link or am I overlooking something?

There are two ways to find them:

Go to the page for the season in which they were with the Mets:

http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/metannual.php?ThisYear=1983

Or, if they're in the mug shot gallery, you can get to them from here:

http://leaptoad.com/mets/mugshots.php


Steve Zabriskie's UMDB page

[Benjamin Grimm]

Check out our new registered user. I have confirmation from The Man himself that it's the real guy. He says he doesn't spend much time online, but he'll participate when possible.

[Guest sharpie]

Yancy, you're already leading in your parody contest, no need to recruit new guys to throw you an extra vote.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I promised to write "The Ballad of Steve Zabriskie" if he'd vote for me.

[Willets Point]

Now you can use Google Image Search to find pictures of joyful people!

[Valadius]

Wait... who was the first one?

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Did Steve Z register himself, or did someone save the name for him?

[Benjamin Grimm]

He wrote back and told me that he registered himself, but he doesn't know when or if he'll actually post anything here.

[Theoldmole]

Steve -- glad to have you aboard, even as an occasional lurker, but we'd love to see you posting sometime.