Big, Stupid Quiz II

[G-Fafif]

]Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. --Sam Seaborn, The West Wing

Remember the Big, Stupid Quiz that Mr. Dickshot administered just after the season ended? Well, it is shamelessly aped at Faith and Fear.

If you can stand to take the ride once more (different questions, different answers, same parameters)...

http://mets2005.myblogsite.com/blog/_archives/2005/10/31/1333766.html

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Greg - would you object if we made it a group project here ala Dickshot's? Or would you prefer that we work independently until you post the answers next week?

[Guest Edgy DC]

]Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. --Sam Seaborn, The West Wing

He's stealing outright from Steve Earle here.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

It'll be a true theft if the quiz includes two bonus false answers, resulting from being poorly researched while busy with alledgedly more important work.

[Theoldmole]

]Quote: Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. --Sam Seaborn, The West Wing He's stealing outright from Steve Earle here.

And T.S. Eliot before him.

[MFS62]

Plagirism is the sincerest form of flattery.
(And I don't remember to whom that is attributed.)
Later

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ScarletKnight41 wrote: Greg - would you object if we made it a group project here ala Dickshot's? Or would you prefer that we work independently until you post the answers next week?

By all means.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Cool - thanks

[HahnSolo]

Okay, then I'll start with two:

8. Jerry Koosman, 1978
12. Ty Wigginton, 2004

[Guest Edgy DC]

14. is almost Herm Winningham 1984.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

29. Orel Hershiser - 1999


44. Doug Mintkiewicz - 2005

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HahnSolo wrote: Okay, then I'll start with two: 8. Jerry Koosman, 1978 12. Ty Wigginton, 2004

8. No
12. Yes

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Edgy DC wrote: 14. is almost Herm Winningham 1984.

14. Yes

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ScarletKnight41 wrote: 29. Orel Hershiser - 1999 44. Doug Mintkiewicz - 2005

29. No
44. No

[Guest SI Metman]

The ones I have are

25. Tug
28. Ordonez
29. Kenny Rogers

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SI Metman wrote: The ones I have are 25. Tug 28. Ordonez 29. Kenny Rogers

0-for-3. Sorry.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Damn - I was thinking Kenny Rogers when I typed Orel Hershiser.

Still wrong, but at least I have it straight in my head. D'Oh!

[HahnSolo]

Good job on #8 Greg...a lot of those clues could have pointed to Koosman. Including the hint about not wearing a glove in his biggest moments, which I thought referred to Orosco tossing his glove after the NLCS and WS.

It's Mickey Lolich (1976), who I had forgotten was traded for Rusty Staub.

[G-Fafif]

HahnSolo wrote: Good job on #8 Greg...a lot of those clues could have pointed to Koosman. Including the hint about not wearing a glove in his biggest moments, which I thought referred to Orosco tossing his glove after the NLCS and WS. It's Mickey Lolich (1976), who I had forgotten was traded for Rusty Staub.

Correct on No. 8. It is Mickey Lolich.

[HahnSolo]

I don't know if everybody has given up on this, but I've got another (I think):

43. El Sid, 1993.

[G-Fafif]

HahnSolo wrote: I don't know if everybody has given up on this, but I've got another (I think): 43. El Sid, 1993.

Correct. Enjoy a pineapple on Sid.

Don't give up. Never surrender. It was either Churchill or Corey Hart who said that (though neither of them is a clue).

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Greg is giving hints now.

[HahnSolo]

#34 looks like it has something to do with the band the Go Gos. "We Got the Beat", "Vacation." Now I have a vague recollection of Belinda Carlysle having a relationship with a baseball player, but can't figure out who. Any ideas?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Good call. You're thinking of Mike Marshall.

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HahnSolo wrote: #34 looks like it has something to do with the band the Go Gos. "We Got the Beat", "Vacation." Now I have a vague recollection of Belinda Carlysle having a relationship with a baseball player, but can't figure out who. Any ideas?

="Edgy DC"]Good call. You're thinking of Mike Marshall.

My lips aren't sealed. That's correct. The Mets' short-lived first baseman had a well-publicized romance with the lead singer of the Go-Gos in the early '80s. Mets fans, on the other hand, weren't head over heels for him.

[G-Fafif]

Due to my lack of due diligence, the quiz-taking world is owed a new No. 10 question.

http://mets2005.myblogsite.com/blog/_archives/2005/11/5/1349026.html

It has been incorporated into the original and Extra Help versions of the Final.

All apologies.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I've only taken glances at this. I'm guessing (44) is Pumpsie Green and the thing he did that no Red Sock had done before was merely to take the field without first having the decency to evolve out of his African skin.

[Guest GYC]

I'm pretty bad at trivia, and not that good with Mets history, but I'm going for it anyway:

19. Kenny Rogers
20. Mike Scott

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Old #10, Frank "Yankee Killer" Lary

Should have gotten that right away, WFAN's Chris Russo made him the patron saint of the Crack Committee (WFAN staffers and Russo friends who hate the Yankees) a few years back

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

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