Quiz Time -- 2000 Mets Content

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

The fuck's a Dan Murray?

Jon Nunnally.

(I'm running out of bullets here.)

[Ceetar]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: The fuck's a Dan Murray? Jon Nunnally. (I'm running out of bullets here.)

I'd never haerd of Nunnally until I looked up the roster. He was 8th in ROY voting one year.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Active in 2010
Mike Hampton -- Edgy
Jay Payton -- Edgy
Melvin Mora -- Willets

In honor of Gwreck, I'll name this category as follows:
2000 Mets who never made it to the 21st Century (as MLB'ers)
Eric Cammack (9/29/00) -- HahnSolo
Jon Nunnally (5/31/00) -- LWFS

Neither here nor there
Shawon Dunston (9/29/02)('99 Met) -- Ceetar
Mark Johnson (6/2/02) -- MetIrish
Masato Yoshii (9/11/02)('99 Met) -- Ceetar
Rich Rodriguez (5/3/03) -- LWFS
Kurt Abbott (4/13/01) -- MetIrish & JCL
Jorge Toca (10/7/01) -- Edgy
Jerrod Riggan (5/15/03) -- LWFS
Dan Murray (9/30/00)('99 Met) -- JCL


Dan Murray was a Met for one day -- 8/9/99. (2 IP, 3 ER, 13.50 ERA)

Thanks for playing again. My wardrobe was furnished by Botany 500.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: [ Dan Murray was a Met for one day --8/9/99. (2 IP, 3 ER, 13.50 ERA)

Traded for Glendon Rusch in a rare Steve Phillips stickup.

[metirish]

Ceetar wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: The fuck's a Dan Murray? Jon Nunnally. (I'm running out of bullets here.) I'd never haerd of Nunnally until I looked up the roster. He was 8th in ROY voting one year.

Looking at the 2000 40 man there are at least 5 or 6 guys names I don't recall at all.

Ryan McGuire, Dave Lamb, Jim Mann, Dennis Springer....then I click on Dennis Springer's name and see he gave up Bonds 73rd HR in 2001 and the name vaguely comes back to me.


Damn

The homer came off a 3-2 pitch clocked at 43 miles per hour (a knuckleball) in the bottom of the first inning of Los Angeles' 2-1 loss to the San Francisco Giants.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I remember Nunnally from being surprisingly good in Triple Play '99 or '00 (whichever one I was playing that year).

[batmagadanleadoff]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I remember Nunnally from being surprisingly good in Triple Play '99 or '00 (whichever one I was playing that year).

Could it have been 1997? (.318/.400/.602)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Nunnally also had a great spring training, as I recall. I conflate him with Jermaine Allensworth, however, so I could be thinking of him.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Nunnally the Met walked like Rickey Henderson: 17 walks in 74 official AB's

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

IIRC, Video Nunnally put up really great pinch-hitting numbers for me DESPITE having terrible stats and ratings. It was odd-- he was essentially my Matt Franco surrogate (now HE was shitty in virtual life).

Then again, Video Danny Graves saved 20-some-odd games for me in that same fake year, so... anything's possible.

[batmagadanleadoff]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Nunnally the Met walked like Rickey Henderson: 17 walks in 74 official AB's

But unlike Rickey, Nunnally has a 2000 WS ring.

[seawolf17]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Nunnally the Met walked like Rickey Henderson: 17 walks in 74 official AB's But unlike Rickey, Nunnally has a 2000 WS ring.

How did he get one? Swipe it from Shane Spencer in a Port. St Lucie parking lot?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Players get rings for league championships, don't they?

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I remember Nunnally from being surprisingly good in Triple Play '99 or '00 (whichever one I was playing that year).

One time, in college, I was playing Triple Play 99 against a friend and broke open a tied extra innings game with an inning that included two home runs from John Franco. My buddy never played Triple Play against me again.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: The fuck's a Dan Murray? Jon Nunnally. (I'm running out of bullets here.)

Dan Murray -- Daniel Saffle Murray -- is a hero in my household. Somewhere out there is a game-used jersey with MURRAY on the back that was NOT worn by a Hall-of-Famer but by a cup-of-coffee guy, which means it would be somewhat affordable, at least in the affordable way that some game-used jerseys can be.

I have a Matt Murray from the 1995 Braves.

I know the Mets had Dale Murray, but that might have been in the pre-name on back era. I have to check that one.

[Valadius]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Players get rings for league championships, don't they?

Yes.

[G-Fafif]

Longest Ago Mets Still Active chronology here.

[batmagadanleadoff]

G-Fafif wrote: Longest Ago Mets Still Active chronology here.

Nice work. The Mora segment confused me. It took me two hours to realize that you had written the piece in September, before the regular season ended.

Ryan and Orosco combined for an almost 20 year grip on LAMSA. Not surprising. Orosco appeared in more games than any other pitcher in the history of baseball. And Ryan started more games than any pitcher in the modern era -the only era that matters when calculating LAMSA- (second only to Cy Young, all-time).

Orosco was loogied to the extreme at the end of his career. His 21st Century (or aught's) Games to Innings Pitched ratio is greater than 2 to 1.