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Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

G-Fafif Apr 06 2012 07:22 PM

[youtube:1b1qgv8b]p1FxiYOHq9U[/youtube:1b1qgv8b] 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 Apr 06 2012 08:19 PM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

Assenmacher.

G-Fafif Apr 06 2012 08:40 PM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

Edgy DC wrote: Assenmacher. Which sounds very much like a German insult. But no, not Paul Assenmacher.

batmagadanleadoff Apr 06 2012 08:42 PM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

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 Apr 06 2012 08:52 PM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

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 Apr 06 2012 08:55 PM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

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

batmagadanleadoff Apr 06 2012 08:59 PM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

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.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 06 2012 09:54 PM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

Colbrunn?

G-Fafif Apr 06 2012 10:46 PM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

Not Colbrunn.

Gwreck Apr 07 2012 07:38 AM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

Mike Morgan?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 07 2012 08:21 AM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

Dessens?

G-Fafif Apr 07 2012 08:23 AM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

Neither of the above.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 07 2012 08:39 AM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

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

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 07 2012 09:17 AM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

Omar Daal

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 07 2012 09:23 AM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

Ooh, Daal. Was Daal a Bravo?

Gwreck Apr 07 2012 09:51 AM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

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 Apr 07 2012 09:52 AM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

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

Ashie62 Apr 07 2012 11:38 AM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

Greg Olson?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 07 2012 12:58 PM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

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.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 07 2012 01:36 PM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

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 Apr 07 2012 01:52 PM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

Michael Jackson?

G-Fafif Apr 07 2012 06:11 PM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

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.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 07 2012 06:26 PM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

<-- Picker, grinner.

G-Fafif Apr 07 2012 06:38 PM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

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 Apr 08 2012 05:32 AM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

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

batmagadanleadoff Apr 08 2012 08:00 AM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

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 Apr 08 2012 11:06 AM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

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

batmagadanleadoff Apr 08 2012 11:37 AM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

Haha. Made you look.

Gwreck Apr 08 2012 12:31 PM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

Recognized the font/layout. Sorry to disappoint.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 08 2012 06:51 PM Re: Steve Miller's Favorite Ballplayer

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