IT'S HERE: Quiz in Honor of Bartolo Colon (No Fat Jokes)

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Edited October 10, 2014 by Guest

[Guest d'Kong76]

Bartolo is so fat he went to Mcdonalds, tripped over Burger
King, and landed on Wendy's!

[batmagadanleadoff]

Running this quiz as a list would make this one tough quiz. So instead, I'll re-work this quiz from what it was originally intended to be, into the following question:

Bartolo Colon probably needs two more Mets starts to have a chance to set an all-time Mets franchise record for something. What?



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[Edgy MD]

Most wins in a season by a dude in excess of 250 pounds.

[Guest themetfairy]

Edgy MD wrote: Most wins in a season by a dude in excess of 250 pounds.

Seriously? Lolich didn't surpass him?

[Guest d'Kong76]

Oldest Met to start a game?

[Edgy MD]

themetfairy wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Most wins in a season by a dude in excess of 250 pounds. Seriously? Lolich didn't surpass him?

A mere eight Met wins for Mickey.

[Frayed Knot]

Starts by a 40+ y/o?

No, that's not it, because then the words 'probably' and 'chance' wouldn't be in there.

[HahnSolo]

I sense misdirection, and think it is a batting quetstion. Two starts might get him to a plate appearance threshhold. So I'll guess worst batting average in a Met career, minimum 100 PAs? Or something like that

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Most wins in a season by a dude in excess of 250 pounds. Seriously? Lolich didn't surpass him? A mere eight Met wins for Mickey.

Sid's got this one, even though he's listed at 220.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I was gonna guess Sid, instead of the fast food joke.

[Edgy MD]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Most wins in a season by a dude in excess of 250 pounds. Seriously? Lolich didn't surpass him? A mere eight Met wins for Mickey. Sid's got this one, even though he's listed at 220.

Sure, but given two more starts, Bartolo could've theoretically topped Sid's high of 16.

Terry, by the way, has managed 'em both.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Most at bats as a Met by a player without any Met RBI's:

1. Doug Saunders - 67
2. Eric Hillman - 65
3. Bartolo Colon - 62
4. Ray Burris - 57
5. Chris Capuano - 56
6. Anthony Young - 55
7T. Bob L. Miller - 50
7T. Charlie Puleo - 50
9. Neil Allen - 49
10. Randy Jones - 44

Most at bats as a Met by a position player without any Met RBI's:

1. Doug Saunders - 67
2. Harry Chiti - 41
3T. Jeff D'Amico - 37
3T. Jimmie Schaffer - 37
5. Wayne Graham - 33
6. Wayne Kirby - 31
7. Mario Ramirez - 24
8. Sandy Alomar, Jr. - 22
9. Fred Lewis - 20
10. Craig Paquette - 19

[Guest d'Kong76]

I have absolutely no recollection of Doug Saunders. 1993
was a weird and really bad season.

[batmagadanleadoff]

d'Kong76 wrote: I have absolutely no recollection of Doug Saunders.

Ask Russ Gompers.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Most career Mets at bats - one RBI:

Bret Saberhagen - 166
Pete Harnisch - 96

Position players, only:

1. Pat Howell - 75
2. Gary Matthews, Jr. - 59
3. Ricky Otero - 51
4. Sergio Ferrer - 40
5T. Brad Emaus - 37
5T. Jeff Gardner - 37
7. Trot Nixon - 35
8. Ben Johnson - 27
9T. Frank Catalanotto - 25
9T. Shawn Gilbert - 25
9T. Rich Chiles - 25

[batmagadanleadoff]

Most at bats as a Met by a position player without any Met RBI's: 1. Doug Saunders - 67 2. Harry Chiti - 41 3T. Jeff D'Amico - 37 3T. Jimmie Schaffer - 37 5. Wayne Graham - 33 6. Wayne Kirby - 31 7. Mario Ramirez - 24 8. Sandy Alomar, Jr. - 22 9. Fred Lewis - 20 10. Craig Paquette - 19

That would be a mostly brutal list of topics to draw in a song parody contest.

[Guest d'Kong76]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: That would be a mostly brutal list of topics to draw in a song parody contest.

Don't get any ideas!

[Edgy MD]

Most at bats as a Met by a position player without any Met RBI's: 1. Doug Saunders - 67 2. Harry Chiti - 41 3T. Jeff D'Amico - 37 3T. Jimmie Schaffer - 37 5. Wayne Graham - 33 6. Wayne Kirby - 31 7. Mario Ramirez - 24 8. Sandy Alomar, Jr. - 22 9. Fred Lewis - 20 10. Craig Paquette - 19

You may want to add another guy to that list. D'Amico was a starting pitcher. And definitely a guy who qualified for the "Most Wins in a Season by a Met in Excess of 250 Points" sweepstakes.

Seems weird that 22, seven relief appearances, and 145 2/3 innings only added up to 37 at-bats for the guy.

Who signs off on a card design that's this ugly?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Most at bats as a Met by a position player without any Met RBI's: You may want to add another guy to that list. D'Amico was a starting pitcher.

He definitely was.

1. Doug Saunders - 67
2. Harry Chiti - 41
3. Jimmie Schaffer - 37
4. Wayne Graham - 33
5. Wayne Kirby - 31
6. Mario Ramirez - 24
7. Sandy Alomar, Jr. - 22
8. Fred Lewis - 20
9. Craig Paquette - 19
10. Rick Parker - 16

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: Who signs off on a card design that's this ugly?

The card companies were outputting over a thousand designs a season back then. It was incredible that they could even come up with so many looks.

[G-Fafif]

The Saunders AB-No RBI record has stayed with me since it was mentioned on a radio broadcast in 1993. Retaining it helped me win a t-shirt at QBC last January ("nobody's ever gonna get this," the guy asking it insisted). Doug had a really good glove...though I suppose he'd have to.

D'Amico by all rights but one shouldn't be on any list of RBI-bereft Mets. I attended a game in early 2002 in which Jeff grounded a ball into right with runners on first and third and two out. RBI, right? Not to B.J. Surhoff, who was playing shallow and threw the lumbering pitcher out at first to end the inning. The rare 9-3 putout ensured that the Mets would lose in irritating fashion to the Braves, 2-1, and Big Jeff would someday wind up drifting through a quiz like this.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I was at that game too.

[G-Fafif]

Also, I remain bizarrely proud of having witnessed Colon record an RBI at Shea as an Angel in 2005. He singled to right off Mike DeJean to cap a six-run inning. That was his last, or shall we say most recent, MLB run batted in.

[G-Fafif]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I was at that game too.

I can say without hindsight that when that game was over, I somehow knew all the changes that had been made in the preceding offseason would add up to bupkes and that the Braves would remain out of reach for all of eternity -- or that year, anyway.

[Edgy MD]

G-Fafif wrote: The Saunders AB-No RBI record has stayed with me since it was mentioned on a radio broadcast in 1993. Retaining it helped me win a t-shirt at QBC last January ("nobody's ever gonna get this," the guy asking it insisted). Doug had a really good glove...though I suppose he'd have to. D'Amico by all rights but one shouldn't be on any list of RBI-bereft Mets. I attended a game in early 2002 in which Jeff grounded a ball into right with runners on first and third and two out. RBI, right? Not to B.J. Surhoff, who was playing shallow and threw the lumbering pitcher out at first to end the inning. The rare 9-3 putout ensured that the Mets would lose in irritating fashion to the Braves, 2-1, and Big Jeff would someday wind up drifting through a quiz like this.

That play may have happened in 2002, but it's so 2003.

[G-Fafif]

Edgy MD wrote: G-Fafif wrote: The Saunders AB-No RBI record has stayed with me since it was mentioned on a radio broadcast in 1993. Retaining it helped me win a t-shirt at QBC last January ("nobody's ever gonna get this," the guy asking it insisted). Doug had a really good glove...though I suppose he'd have to. D'Amico by all rights but one shouldn't be on any list of RBI-bereft Mets. I attended a game in early 2002 in which Jeff grounded a ball into right with runners on first and third and two out. RBI, right? Not to B.J. Surhoff, who was playing shallow and threw the lumbering pitcher out at first to end the inning. The rare 9-3 putout ensured that the Mets would lose in irritating fashion to the Braves, 2-1, and Big Jeff would someday wind up drifting through a quiz like this. That play may have happened in 2002, but it's so 2003.

In the spirit of the metric alphabet, 200220032004 felt like one very long, very awful, very endless season.

[Edgy MD]

And you know, I have to be honest. Bobby Vee was so defeated after 2001 --- the offensive collapse, September 11, the dramatic comeback stifled by the fall to the Braves, and the deepening feud with Phillips --- that 2002 in many ways seems in retrospect to be the first year of Howe era more than the last year of the Vee era. A lot of Howe-era personnel first arrived in 2002 also --- Vaughn, Alomar, Burnitz, Weathers, Wigginton, Bono... .