Triple Trivia Fun

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Three strikes and yer out to LWFS. Figgins is 16th with 54. Renteria is 64th with 27. Durham is right out.

I walk a bunch, too, so it evens out.

Peeked. (Not so smart now, are we, Trebek!) Remember Edge's clue.

I think number 10 may actually be trickier (the possible oddity of which may strike you when you see who it is).

[Guest Edgy DC]

A strike on batmags for being a smart guy.

Andruw Jones is in 36th place with 36. Steeeerike one!

[Guest Edgy DC]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Three strikes and yer out to LWFS. Figgins is 16th with 54. Renteria is 64th with 27. Durham is right out. I walk a bunch, too, so it evens out. Peeked. (Not so smart now, are we, Trebek!) Remember Edge's clue. I think number 10 may actually be trickier (the possible oddity of which may strike you when you see who it is).

LWFS is one of those batters who strikes out and runs back to the film room.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy DC wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Three strikes and yer out to LWFS. Figgins is 16th with 54. Renteria is 64th with 27. Durham is right out. I walk a bunch, too, so it evens out. Peeked. (Not so smart now, are we, Trebek!) Remember Edge's clue. I think number 10 may actually be trickier (the possible oddity of which may strike you when you see who it is). LWFS is one of those batters who strikes out and runs back to the film room.

Why do you think I'm all Up-With-Chris-Carter? It would almost be wrong of me not to be.

[Chad ochoseis]

Beltran?

[Willets Point]

Edgy DC wrote: We may want to discuss protocol and etiquette for such trivquizzes, to avoid the bitter bitterness of the late.

I think the simplest solution is for the quiz master to specify protocol s/he wants when posting the question.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Carlos Beltran fails to crack the top 100. Strike two on Ochoseis.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Willets Point wrote: Edgy DC wrote: We may want to discuss protocol and etiquette for such trivquizzes, to avoid the bitter bitterness of the late. I think the simplest solution is for the quiz master to specify protocol s/he wants when posting the question.

Yeah, I blew that.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy DC wrote: Carlos Beltran fails to crack the top 100. Strike two on Ochoseis.

What about the right handed batting ex-Met that butted face with Beltran?

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Mike Cameron is fast enough, but is he too homer-or-nothing?

(OE: Whoa, Mike Cameron hive-mind.)

[batmagadanleadoff]

OlerudOwned wrote: Mike Cameron is fast enough, but is he too homer-or-nothing?

I'm out of gas on this one. I figured that Cameron's been around long enough. I wouldn't have thought of him were it not for the Beltran reference.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: OlerudOwned wrote: Mike Cameron is fast enough, but is he too homer-or-nothing? I'm out of gas on this one. I figured that Cameron's been around long enough. I wouldn't have thought of him were it not for the Beltran reference.

Yeah, that wasn't a criticism of your guess, I posted it without even realizing you'd guessed him too. Looks that way now, though.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Rank	Player	Age	Trips	Named by
T1	Crawford	28	96	JC Lunchbucket
T1	Rollins	31	96	batmagadanleadoff
T1	Damon	36	96	batmagadanleadoff
4
5	Pierre	32	79	LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
6	Reyes	27	75	Gimme
7	Vizquel	43	74	Fman99
8	Suzuki	36	70	batmagadanleadoff
9	Furcal	32	60	JC Lunchbucket
T10	Granderson	29	59	batmagadanleadoff
T10	Castillo	34	59	batmagadanleadoff
T10	Jeter	36	59	batmagadanleadoff
T10	Ka-Balmmeron	38	59	batmagadanleadoff

[batmagadanleadoff]

OlerudOwned wrote: OlerudOwned wrote: Mike Cameron is fast enough, but is he too homer-or-nothing? I'm out of gas on this one. I figured that Cameron's been around long enough. I wouldn't have thought of him were it not for the Beltran reference. Yeah, that wasn't a criticism of your guess, I posted it without even realizing you'd guessed him too. Looks that way now, though.

Oh, I never thought I was being criticized.

Have a cigar. They're on me. I've got a large stash of these.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Jim Edmonds?

[batmagadanleadoff]

It's Rod Barajas. Put this contest in the books.

[Fman99]

I peeked. I don't think I would have come up with the final entry on my own.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Come on, cats. He's won three triple titles.

[Centerfield]

Never in a million years would I have guessed #4.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Weird. Maybe it's because I've had him twice or thrice as fantasy-baseball back-of-roster fodder, but I would have guessed him before Kablammeron.

[HahnSolo]

I get three cracks at this? OK, NL-East familiarity is my clue:

1. Anybody guess Chipper Jones?
2. Since Castillo is on the list, and earlier in their careers I kinda conflated the two: Christian Guzman?
3. Not Craig Counsell?

[Chad ochoseis]

Back of rotisserie roster fodder with speed and NL East experience who's been around long enough to have compiled? I'm going to take a Francoeur-like swing at my last strike and guess Endy.


on edit...just looked Endy's stats up. Not even close.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Christian Guzman with 88, 20 of them in one year.

Rank	Player	Age	Trips	Named by
T1	Crawford	28	96	JC Lunchbucket
T1	Rollins	31	96	batmagadanleadoff
T1	Damon	36	96	batmagadanleadoff
4	Guzman	32	88	HahnSolo
5	Pierre	32	79	LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
6	Reyes	27	75	Gimme
7	Vizquel	43	74	Fman99
8	Suzuki	36	70	batmagadanleadoff
9	Furcal	32	60	JC Lunchbucket
T10	Granderson	29	59	batmagadanleadoff
T10	Castillo	34	59	batmagadanleadoff
T10	Jeter	36	59	batmagadanleadoff
T10	Ka-Balmmeron	38	59	batmagadanleadoff

Thank you for tripling.

[Chad ochoseis]

EdgyDC wrote: Carlos Beltran fails to crack the top 100. Strike two on Ochoseis.

Hey, ump - Questec says that wasn't a strike.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm guessing that his failure to appear in 2010 makes bb-r.com think he's inactive. Oopsy-daisy.

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, the KC stadium (pre-modeled version anyway) was a great place for triples (and ItPHRs). It had artificial turf and rounded corners which caused visiting OFers to mis-play balls there all the time.


Hey look, the inclusion of Beltran knocks Jeter off the list!!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Frayed Knot wrote: Yeah, the KC stadium (pre-modeled version anyway) was a great place for triples (and ItPHRs). It had artificial turf and rounded corners which caused visiting OFers to mis-play balls there all the time. Hey look, the inclusion of Beltran knocks Jeter off the list!!

And Castillo, too!

I mean, "and Castillo, too."

[Guest Edgy DC]

OK, sorry. Including the guessed guys who are active, but not active-active, we have...

Rank	Player	Age	Trips	Named by
T1	Crawford	28	96	JC Lunchbucket
T1	Rollins	31	96	batmagadanleadoff
T1	Damon	36	96	batmagadanleadoff
4	Guzman	32	88	HahnSolo
T5	Pierre	32	79	LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
T5	Durham	38	79	LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
7	Reyes	27	75	Gimme
8	Vizquel	43	74	Fman99
9	Suzuki	36	70	batmagadanleadoff
10	Beltran	33	64	Chad Ochoseis

Other Metly guys in the hot 100

Mike Cameron (now 12th with 59)
Alex Cora (38th with 36)
Miguel Cairo (55th with 30)
Gary Matthews, Jr. and Jay Payton (60th with 29)
Jason Bay (66th with 27)
Alex Cintron (91st with 21)
Kazuo Matsui (99th with 20)

[Centerfield]

I can't believe Christian Guzman has been in baseball that long and I still haven't noticed he exists.

[Frayed Knot]

Centerfield wrote: I can't believe Christian Guzman has been in baseball that long and I still haven't noticed he exists.

He was the guy (along with Eric Milton) the Yanx dealt away to get Chuckles Knoblauch back in 1997