Quiz in Honor of Marlon Byrd

[Zvon]

Burnitz had to hit 20.

[G-Fafif]

It wasn't Burnitz.

He (the final guy sought) did have something in common with Hairston in the context of this quiz.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Zvon wrote: Burnitz had to hit 20.

Did it eight times, he did. But never as a Met. 19 and 18 were his Met season highs.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Memory lane, and last year's Hairston quiz. Same answers as this year, minus Byrd, natch.

http://archives.cranepoolforum.net/18600/f1_t18633.shtml

[G-Fafif]

The answer also once held a Mets record that plays, in a way, into the theme of this quiz.

[G-Fafif]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Memory lane, and last year's Hairston quiz. Same answers as this year, minus Byrd, natch. http://archives.cranepoolforum.net/18600/f1_t18633.shtml

Everything not that old is new again!

[G-Fafif]

FWIW, in addition to not getting the last slugger two years in a row, if bml hadn't led off by mentioning Hairston, I'm guessing he wouldn't have occurred to me for another hundred Mets.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I didn't know that photo appeared on a real baseball card! (I like my version better, I have to say.)

Me too.

[Zvon]

I'm waitin for JCL too because I don't believe Charlie Smith hit 20 knockers.

[batmagadanleadoff]

It's Smith again. The last man standing two years running.

Zvon wrote: I'm waitin for JCL too because I don't believe Charlie Smith hit 20 knockers.

I'd watch out for Sage. Charlie Smith is Vic's personal Susquehanna Hat Company.

And see if you can fix this card, while you're at it.

[Zvon]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: It's Smith again. The last man standing two years running. Zvon wrote: I'm waitin for JCL too because I don't believe Charlie Smith hit 20 knockers. I'd watch out for Sage. Charlie Smith is Vic's personal Susquehanna Hat Company. And see if you can fix this card, while you're at it.

I loved that card when I got it, which was when I first saw it at a card show in the 80s. Cause its different. I didn't think they did stuff like that in the early 60s sets. I will try and get him in orange and blue at some point. He deserves it. He had 106 at bats in '64. He hit 20 HRs!

[G-Fafif]

Blog post in honor of quiz in honor of Marlon Byrd.

[dinosaur jesus]

Zvon wrote: It's Smith again. The last man standing two years running. Zvon wrote: I'm waitin for JCL too because I don't believe Charlie Smith hit 20 knockers. I'd watch out for Sage. Charlie Smith is Vic's personal Susquehanna Hat Company. And see if you can fix this card, while you're at it. I loved that card when I got it, which was when I first saw it at a card show in the 80s. Cause its different. I didn't think they did stuff like that in the early 60s sets. I will try and get him in orange and blue at some point. He deserves it. He had 106 at bats in '64. He hit 20 HRs!

He had 106 hits in 1964, in 450 at bats. He did hit 20 HRs, though.

[Zvon]

dinosaur jesus wrote: Zvon wrote: It's Smith again. The last man standing two years running. Zvon wrote: I'm waitin for JCL too because I don't believe Charlie Smith hit 20 knockers. I'd watch out for Sage. Charlie Smith is Vic's personal Susquehanna Hat Company. And see if you can fix this card, while you're at it. I loved that card when I got it, which was when I first saw it at a card show in the 80s. Cause its different. I didn't think they did stuff like that in the early 60s sets. I will try and get him in orange and blue at some point. He deserves it. He had 106 at bats in '64. He hit 20 HRs! He had 106 hits in 1964, in 450 at bats. He did hit 20 HRs, though.

106 at bats,lmao. I should digest the stuff I type before I hit send.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Zvon wrote: I should digest the stuff I type before I hit send.

Gross!

[Zvon]

Article with a kool lil factoid.
http://www.themlbnation.com/2013/08/20/marlon-byrd/?noredirect=1#

[G-Fafif]

Article with a kool lil factoid. http://www.themlbnation.com/2013/08/20/marlon-byrd/?noredirect=1#

There's nothing cool about plagiarism.

http://studiousmetsimus.blogspot.com/2013/08/marlon-byrd-could-do-what-no-met-has.html

[Zvon]

Article with a kool lil factoid. http://www.themlbnation.com/2013/08/20/marlon-byrd/?noredirect=1# There's nothing cool about plagiarism. http://studiousmetsimus.blogspot.com/2013/08/marlon-byrd-could-do-what-no-met-has.html

Wow. And the one I linked is gone baby gone. I had no idea. I think I found the article link thru FB.

I wanted to check see if it was word for word. I imagine it was.

[MFS62]

Another Marlon Byrd question.
Should he be Comeback Player of the Year?

Who else is in consideration?

Later

[Edgy MD]

Troy Tulowitzki sure has a good case.

They may be reluctant to give it to a convicted juicer.

[stevejrogers]

Edgy MD wrote: Troy Tulowitzki sure has a good case. They may be reluctant to give it to a convicted juicer.

They didn't mind giving it to Giambi in 2005.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/awards/mlb_awards_content.jsp?content=comeback_players

[Edgy MD]

Good point. Circumstances a little different, but yeah, he had been outed.

[G-Fafif]

Article with a kool lil factoid. http://www.themlbnation.com/2013/08/20/marlon-byrd/?noredirect=1# There's nothing cool about plagiarism. http://studiousmetsimus.blogspot.com/2013/08/marlon-byrd-could-do-what-no-met-has.html Wow. And the one I linked is gone baby gone. I had no idea. I think I found the article link thru FB. I wanted to check see if it was word for word. I imagine it was.

A posse was rounded up and the offending site deleted the stolen article. The original remains a gem.

[Edgy MD]

Aces. Was it a modest re-write (where the writer could lie to himself that he wasn't really stealing from Ed) or a baldfaced copy-and-paste?

[G-Fafif]

Edgy MD wrote: Aces. Was it a modest re-write (where the writer could lie to himself that he wasn't really stealing from Ed) or a baldfaced copy-and-paste?

It required an "As Told To" to be remotely ethical given the form in which it showed up. How does one decide to contribute to "MLB Nation" and not commit to it with enough gumption to write one's own material? Perhaps that site is the future of baseball, but if you don't send in your MLB Nation piece, I don't think your journalism career dissipates on the spot.

I don't know anything about the perpetrator, but I wonder if this fellow is so green that he didn't think there was anything weird about it. A couple of years ago, I stumbled onto an MLB blog that had the EXACT same name as ours. I alerted Jason who was ready to bring down the hounds of holy hell on everyone from Bud Selig on down. Eventually we tracked down the other FAFIF, and it turned out to be a high school kid who said he read my book and thought "Gosh, what a great name for a blog." I guess he didn't read it that closely so as to ascertain the derivation of the book's name. Anyway, he was highly apologetic and changed it to Flushing something or other that was also already taken. I didn't have the energy by then to point out the idea is to come up with your own name.

To bring this back to Marlon Byrd, since it's his thread, if he did indeed knowingly violate PED rules, it's not great but at least one can rationalize he was doing it to make a (handsome) living. I sincerely don't understand the attraction of plagiarism. Byrd or Bonds or whoever can already hit. Then he wants to hit better. If you write, what's the fun in having the writing done for you? If you're a reporter, what's the fun in not crediting your sources, in not saying, "look how hard I worked on this"?

[Edgy MD]

Attention is the new cocaine.*

*Me, plagiarizing from John Cougar Lunchbucket.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I wish someone would steal the black background from Ed's site and I'd read it more. I friggin go blind whenever I go there.

[Guest Studious Metsimus]

I changed the Studious Metsimus background to get rid of most of the black. It's now black letters on an off-white background instead of the white on black. Is it easier to read now?

[Guest themetfairy]

Studious Metsimus wrote: I changed the Studious Metsimus background to get rid of most of the black. It's now black letters on an off-white background instead of the white on black. Is it easier to read now?

Welcome Abordick! It's great seeing you here!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Studious Metsimus wrote: I changed the Studious Metsimus background to get rid of most of the black. It's now black letters on an off-white background instead of the white on black. Is it easier to read now?

LOL Nice! Yes.