Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

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Steve Miller went from Phoenix, Arizona, all the way to Tacoma, Philadelphia, Atlanta, L.A. as well as Northern California (where the girls are warm). Like Steve, one major leaguer played in all those ports of call -- substituting nearby Seattle for Tacoma.

And that player is...?

[Edgy MD]

Assenmacher.

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Edgy DC wrote: Assenmacher.

Which sounds very much like a German insult. But no, not Paul Assenmacher.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I disqualify myself because I was given this quiz a few years and I think I still remember the answer. But if I recall correctly, the player in question played in Tacoma as well, so there's no need to swap out anything. OTOH, I'm still struggling with Neiuwenhuis so don't go by anything I might think..

[G-Fafif]

I didn't know it was a quiz (it was something that just occurred to me today as I pondered the travels of Ty Wigginton), but the answer I divined with the (complete) help of baseball-reference never played for Tacoma.

[Edgy MD]

I wonder which ballplayer could knock off the most towns from "I've Been Everywhere." Rickey? Dotel?

[batmagadanleadoff]

G-Fafif wrote: I didn't know it was a quiz (it was something that just occurred to me today as I pondered the travels of Ty Wigginton), but the answer I divined with the (complete) help of baseball-reference never played for Tacoma.

I'll betcha we're talking about different guys. I'll tell you this: I didn't get the right answer when I was first given this quiz and I wouldn't know it today if I didn't know it.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Colbrunn?

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Not Colbrunn.

[Gwreck]

Mike Morgan?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Dessens?

[G-Fafif]

Neither of the above.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I think I've got it, maybe. Mulholland?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Omar Daal

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Ooh, Daal. Was Daal a Bravo?

[Gwreck]

I don't think Daal was ever a Mariner. I was going to guess Barajas but I don't think he was ever with Atlanta.

[Edgy MD]

You don't necessarily have to have been a Mariner to have been a Ranier, though.

[ashie62]

Greg Olson?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

It's not Daal, but whatever his name is that I conflate with Daal. A pitcher I think of as a phlilie and a diamondback. That guy.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: It's not Daal, but whatever his name is that I conflate with Daal. A pitcher I think of as a phlilie and a diamondback. That guy.

Daal was both a Phil and Diamondback, IIRC. A Dodger, too, to start (I had his card). But I don't think he was a Brave, and I'm not sure he was a Seaman or Northern Californian.

Today's game makes me think... Chad Durbin? The West Coast stuff might disqualify him, but I'm not sure.

[DocTee]

Michael Jackson?

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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I think I've got it, maybe. Mulholland?

Oh, you got it all right. A Giant, a Phillie (twice), a Mariner, a Brave, a Dodger and at the end of his career, a Diamondback -- which wasn't even necessary because he was a Phoenix Firebird in Triple-A.

He was also practically everything else.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

<-- Picker, grinner.

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Terry Mulholland came up eight days before the Rockies' starting pitcher tonight, Jamie Moyer. They were teammates for two months, acquired within a day of each other at the 1996 trade deadline by the Mariners, each for a future Met (Mulholland from Philly for Desi Relaford, Moyer from Boston for Darren Bragg). Mulholland kept on rockin' the free agent market, signing with the Cubs en route to fulfilling the SMB tour schedule.

[Edgy MD]

I was totally thinking Muholland when I wrote Assenmacher, lost as I was in the foggy haze and the hazy fog of conflation.

[batmagadanleadoff]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I disqualify myself because I was given this quiz a few years and I think I still remember the answer. But if I recall correctly, the player in question played in Tacoma as well, so there's no need to swap out anything. OTOH, I'm still struggling with Neiuwenhuis so don't go by anything I might think..

[Gwreck]

Yeah, I'm going to suggest that "The Onion" is not exactly authoritative on this issue.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Haha. Made you look.

[Gwreck]

Recognized the font/layout. Sorry to disappoint.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

He didn't get caught up in any of that funky shit going down in the city.