Countdown Quiz

[G-Fafif]

seawolf17 wrote: (My "wrong" response was on Mookie Looper.)

Ah, Bach.

[stevejrogers]

Hobie Landrith

[seawolf17]

Yes on Hobie and Steve's on the board!

The relief pitcher who was acquired in 1967 and traded away in 1970 without appearing in the 1969 postseason died young, in 1993. He also pitched for the Cubs and Red Sox, and his name is alliterative.

Standings:
GFafif 2
Ben Grimm 2
Edgy 1
SteveJR 1

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Kal Coonce

[G-Fafif]

seawolf17 wrote: Yes on Hobie and Steve's on the board! The relief pitcher who was acquired in 1967 and traded away in 1970 without appearing in the 1969 postseason died young, in 1993. He also pitched for the Cubs and Red Sox, and his name is alliterative. Standings: GFafif 2 Ben Grimm 2 Edgy 1 SteveJR 1

Jose Moreno and I just lost a point.

[seawolf17]

Apparently, I suck at standings. But JCL is on the board with Kcal Ckoonce!

Standings:
GFafif 3
Ben Grimm 2
Edgy 1
SteveJR 1
JCL 1

Stay tuned for a batch of 44s tomorrow!

[seawolf17]

"Hi. I'm Jason Bay. And I bet you all wish I only had 44 at-bats as a Met, but I had a lot more! These three guys, however, reached the magical number of 44 and then were gone, never to return. Name them, won't you?"

1. "I won 100 major league games. Even won a Cy Young Award once! But then at the end of the 1976 season, I got hurt, and was mostly terrible, to the point where I got traded to the Mets and retired at 32."
2. "I'm a tough one to guess, so I'll just recite my Wikipedia entry: The Mets purchased my contract from the Buffalo Bisons on August 27, 2010. I played in seventeen games for the Mets in 2010, hitting two home runs with six runs batted in. My season ended after hitting a foul ball off my right foot, breaking a bone in my foot on September 18, although I still managed to hit a home run on the next pitch. On Oct. 17, 2011, I declared for free agency."
3. "I'm perhaps one of the most disliked Mets this millennium, and not just because I gave up one of the most important home runs in franchise history."

[Lefty Specialist]

#3 is most definitely Aaron Heilman.

[Frayed Knot]

#1 = Randy Jones

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

2 Hessman?

[seawolf17]

It's a double boom for two new contestants! And a good guess on Hessman, who would have been in this quiz if I'd thought of it a week or so earlier, with his 55 AB and one home run.

1. "I won 100 major league games. Even won a Cy Young Award once! But then at the end of the 1976 season, I got hurt, and was mostly terrible, to the point where I got traded to the Mets and retired at 32." RANDY JONES
2. "I'm a tough one to guess, so I'll just recite my Wikipedia entry: The Mets purchased my contract from the Buffalo Bisons on August 27, 2010. I played in seventeen games for the Mets in 2010, hitting two home runs with six runs batted in. My season ended after hitting a foul ball off my right foot, breaking a bone in my foot on September 18, although I still managed to hit a home run on the next pitch. On Oct. 17, 2011, I declared for free agency." Bonus hint: He took over SS from Reyes in late August for a spell, then slid over to 2B in early September for a week or so when the Mets realized that Luis Castillo sucked and called up Ruben Tejada to play short. Then he got hurt.
3. "I'm perhaps one of the most disliked Mets this millennium, and not just because I gave up one of the most important home runs in franchise history." MOST DEFINITELY AARON HEILMAN

Standings:
GFafif 3
Ben Grimm 2
Edgy 1
SteveJR 1
JCL 1
Lefty 1
FK 1

[G-Fafif]

2. Luis "Leave On A High Note" Hernandez

[seawolf17]

GF expands his lead!

1. "I won 100 major league games. Even won a Cy Young Award once! But then at the end of the 1976 season, I got hurt, and was mostly terrible, to the point where I got traded to the Mets and retired at 32." RANDY JONES
2. "I'm a tough one to guess, so I'll just recite my Wikipedia entry: The Mets purchased my contract from the Buffalo Bisons on August 27, 2010. I played in seventeen games for the Mets in 2010, hitting two home runs with six runs batted in. My season ended after hitting a foul ball off my right foot, breaking a bone in my foot on September 18, although I still managed to hit a home run on the next pitch. On Oct. 17, 2011, I declared for free agency." Bonus hint: He took over SS from Reyes in late August for a spell, then slid over to 2B in early September for a week or so when the Mets realized that Luis Castillo sucked and called up Ruben Tejada to play short. Then he got hurt. LUIS HERNANDEZ
3. "I'm perhaps one of the most disliked Mets this millennium, and not just because I gave up one of the most important home runs in franchise history." MOST DEFINITELY AARON HEILMAN

Standings:
GFafif 4
Ben Grimm 2
Edgy 1
SteveJR 1
JCL 1
Lefty 1
FK 1

We'll be back tomorrow morning with a four-pack of 43s, hosted by legendary knuckleballer RA Dickey. Stay tuned now for your local news!

[seawolf17]

"Howdy! I might not have been born with a UCL in my throwing arm, but I do have four guys here with exactly 43 at bats as a Met!"

1. This right-hander was the "closer" in 1966, going 6-13 with 13 saves. He was traded in mid-1967 to the Angels, and later that season he threw one of the most fateful pitches in Boston Red Sox history.
2. This right-hander led the 1980 Mets in wins, going 10-8. He had a fun nickname and was ALSO remembered for throwing a fateful pitch (this one as a Met), although not quite as historically notable.
3. This guy is best known for one odd statistical quirk: 43 hits in 88 AB in one particular game situation.
4. I have virtually zero recollection of him as a Met, but in 1994 he got 43 AB in the middle infield after spending time as a starter with the Expos and Red Sox.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Jack Hamilton
Mark Bomback
Pat Tabler
Luis Rivera

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[stevejrogers]

2) Mike Torrez

[HahnSolo]

I didn't hate Aaron Heilman.

[batmagadanleadoff]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Jack Hamilton Mark Bomback Pat Tabler Luis Rivera [fimg=444]http://www.crainium.net/jdjArchives/DoninoPoolFinal.jpg[/fimg]

Yeah. I know. I hogged this one up yesterday. I just couldn't help myself. I read through the quiz and all of the right answers came to me instantly and so I had to post all the answers all at once. Actually, Pat Tabler took about a minute. I knew who the damn guy was right away but my brain had some trouble retrieving his name from my memory. At first, I kept coming up with Pat Tillerson like the cabinet guy, and then Pat Keebler like the cookie elves. But eventually, Tabler came to me. Luis Rivera I never would've gotten except that the other day, I pulled out some of my Mets baseball cards to look at. I've been neglecting my collection and so I haven't looked at my Mets cards in years and the last time I even bought some was in 2013 -- and just a couple. But I pulled out a book that had mid 90s Mets cards and there was Luis Rivera -- a couple of them. No way would Rivera get a card today unless it was his rookie year but years ago, there were big sets here and there and so a guy like Rivera has a Mets card.

[seawolf17]

Batmags violates ALL GENERALLY ACCEPTED METHODS OF DECORUM and scores himself four points anyway. Heckuva job.

Standings:
GFafif 4
Batmags 4
Ben Grimm 2
Edgy 1
SteveJR 1
JCL 1
Lefty 1
FK 1

Because #42 is retired, no Met has completed their tenure with the team with exactly 42 AB. So instead, we'll do a different 42 quiz today WHICH YOU WILL ALL FOLLOW THE RULES FOR PLEASE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:

GAMES: This Met played in exactly 42 games, going 19-for-90 with three home runs as a backup catcher in 1990.
RUNS: Selected off waivers from the Cubs in May 1992, he spent that season and the next serving as a fourth outfielder, putting together a serviceable .268/.322/.382 line in 440 AB, stealing 21 bases.
HITS: Has the best numbers (.223/.351/.330) of any of the four Mets with 42 hits; served as a backup outfielder in 1998 near the end of a long career that even got him onto the 2005 HOF ballot.
HOME RUNS: This fourth outfielder went 7-for-13 in the 1969 NLCS, and is fondly remembered despite never being a star and only spending four seasons in New York, hitting 42 home runs.
HOME RUNS: Finished sixth in the ROY voting despite only getting 109 AB, finished third in the balloting the following year, and then despite two more productive seasons, is generally regarded as a failure as a Met, hitting only 42 HR.
RBI: Always solid, never great outfielder who bounced around the AL for a while, got traded to the Mets in 1980, driving in 42 runs, and then spent his most productive years in the 80s with the Braves and then the Yankees.
STOLEN BASES: One of the greatest players of all time, as he'll surely tell you; somehow only stole 42 bases as a Met.
WALKS: Batted right, threw left? No wonder he only walked 42 times in parts of five seasons as a pinch-hitting specialist in Flushing.
STRIKEOUTS: In 1998, he "only" struck out 42 times in 100 AB as a backup outfielder, although it feels like he struck out every time up after being acquired from the Twins.

[Frayed Knot]

HOME RUNS: Finished sixth in the ROY voting despite only getting 109 AB, finished third in the balloting the following year, and then despite two more productive seasons, is generally regarded as a failure as a Met, hitting only 42 HR. -- Gregg Jefferies

[HahnSolo]

RBI: Always solid, never great outfielder who bounced around the AL for a while, got traded to the Mets in 1980, driving in 42 runs, and then spent his most productive years in the 80s with the Braves and then the Yankees. Claudell Washington

[batmagadanleadoff]

seawolf17 wrote: Batmags violates ALL GENERALLY ACCEPTED METHODS OF DECORUM and scores himself four points anyway. Heckuva job. .

I learned that from Mitch McConnell.

Gimme Gregg Jefferies for the failure with ROY votes in two different seasons.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Gah. My cell phone is not for postimg. Fk beats. Me. So shamsky the poplar 4 y4 guy.

[HahnSolo]

STOLEN BASES: One of the greatest players of all time, as he'll surely tell you; somehow only stole 42 bases as a Met.
Rickey

[seawolf17]

Ding! Ding! Ding!

GAMES: This Met played in exactly 42 games, going 19-for-90 with three home runs as a backup catcher in 1990.
RUNS: Selected off waivers from the Cubs in May 1992, he spent that season and the next serving as a fourth outfielder, putting together a serviceable .268/.322/.382 line in 440 AB, stealing 21 bases.
HITS: Has the best numbers (.223/.351/.330) of any of the four Mets with 42 hits; served as a backup outfielder in 1998 near the end of a long career that even got him onto the 2005 HOF ballot.
HOME RUNS: This fourth outfielder went 7-for-13 in the 1969 NLCS, and is fondly remembered despite never being a star and only spending four seasons in New York, hitting 42 home runs. SHAMSKY
HOME RUNS: Finished sixth in the ROY voting despite only getting 109 AB, finished third in the balloting the following year, and then despite two more productive seasons, is generally regarded as a failure as a Met, hitting only 42 HR. JEFFERIES
RBI: Always solid, never great outfielder who bounced around the AL for a while, got traded to the Mets in 1980, driving in 42 runs, and then spent his most productive years in the 80s with the Braves and then the Yankees. CLAUDELL WASHINGTON
STOLEN BASES: One of the greatest players of all time, as he'll surely tell you; somehow only stole 42 bases as a Met. RICKEY
WALKS: Batted right, threw left? No wonder he only walked 42 times in parts of five seasons as a pinch-hitting specialist in Flushing.
STRIKEOUTS: In 1998, he "only" struck out 42 times in 100 AB as a backup outfielder, although it feels like he struck out every time up after being acquired from the Twins.

Standings:
Batmags 5
GFafif 4
Ben Grimm 2
FK 2
Hahn 2
Edgy 1
SteveJR 1
JCL 1
Lefty 1

[Benjamin Grimm]

Matt Lawton for the strikeouts.

[seawolf17]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Matt Lawton for the strikeouts.

That is a fantastic guess (Twins!), but wrong. Lawton was slightly more full-time, and in 2001, not 1998. (Also struck out less than Mystery Met in more than twice the PAs.)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

RUNS: Chico Walker?

[seawolf17]

Chico is the man!

GAMES: This Met played in exactly 42 games, going 19-for-90 with three home runs as a backup catcher in 1990.
RUNS: Selected off waivers from the Cubs in May 1992, he spent that season and the next serving as a fourth outfielder, putting together a serviceable .268/.322/.382 line in 440 AB, stealing 21 bases. CHICO WALKER
HITS: Has the best numbers (.223/.351/.330) of any of the four Mets with 42 hits; served as a backup outfielder in 1998 near the end of a long career that even got him onto the 2005 HOF ballot.
HOME RUNS: This fourth outfielder went 7-for-13 in the 1969 NLCS, and is fondly remembered despite never being a star and only spending four seasons in New York, hitting 42 home runs. SHAMSKY
HOME RUNS: Finished sixth in the ROY voting despite only getting 109 AB, finished third in the balloting the following year, and then despite two more productive seasons, is generally regarded as a failure as a Met, hitting only 42 HR. JEFFERIES
RBI: Always solid, never great outfielder who bounced around the AL for a while, got traded to the Mets in 1980, driving in 42 runs, and then spent his most productive years in the 80s with the Braves and then the Yankees. CLAUDELL WASHINGTON
STOLEN BASES: One of the greatest players of all time, as he'll surely tell you; somehow only stole 42 bases as a Met. RICKEY
WALKS: Batted right, threw left? No wonder he only walked 42 times in parts of five seasons as a pinch-hitting specialist in Flushing.
STRIKEOUTS: In 1998, he "only" struck out 42 times in 100 AB as a backup outfielder, although it feels like he struck out every time up after being acquired from the Twins.

Standings:
Batmags 5
GFafif 4
Ben Grimm 2
FK 2
Hahn 2
JCL 2
Edgy 1
SteveJR 1
Lefty 1

[batmagadanleadoff]

Mark Carreon. BR/TL