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batmagadanleadoff Aug 22 2022 10:57 AM

What do these Mets, and only these Mets, have in common? Be precise in your answer(s). Tom Seaver Armando Benitez Jacob deGrom Oliver Perez Jason Isringhausen Rene Rivera Jeff Innis Tug McGraw Jesse Orosco David Cone Jim McAndrew Ron Taylor

stevejrogers Aug 22 2022 11:14 AM Re: Quiz Time

All due respect Batmag's, but none of these men have been in my kitchen! ;)

batmagadanleadoff Aug 22 2022 11:19 AM Re: Quiz Time

All due respect Batmag's, but none of these men have been in my kitchen! ;) Is that your answer? Because the quiz specifically sez "and only these Mets, have in common". So for you to be correct, every other Met, from Hobie Landrith to Nate Fisher and every other Met in between, was once in your kitchen. You must be serving up some very tasty food. And I'll bet that Gary Carter stole all the credit for cooking that very tasty food.

stevejrogers Aug 22 2022 11:25 AM Re: Quiz Time

All due respect Batmag's, but none of these men have been in my kitchen! ;) Is that your answer? Because the quiz specifically sez "and only these Mets, have in common". So for you to be correct, every other Met, from Hobie Landrith to Nate Fisher and every other Met in between, was once in your kitchen. You must be serving up some very tasty food. And I'll bet that Gary Carter stole all the credit for cooking that very tasty food. You are going all in to be anal retentive over me paraphrasing a Cheers (Cliff on Jeopardy episode) quip?

batmagadanleadoff Aug 22 2022 11:27 AM Re: Quiz Time

All due respect Batmag's, but none of these men have been in my kitchen! ;) Is that your answer? Because the quiz specifically sez "and only these Mets, have in common". So for you to be correct, every other Met, from Hobie Landrith to Nate Fisher and every other Met in between, was once in your kitchen. You must be serving up some very tasty food. And I'll bet that Gary Carter stole all the credit for cooking that very tasty food. You are going all in to be anal retentive over me paraphrasing a Cheers (Cliff on Jeopardy episode) quip? You are going all in to be anal retentive by quoting a Cheers gag to try and solve this quiz? Did Gary Carter write that Cheers quip? Carter sez he did and if you don't believe him, he'll start to fake cry to manipulate himself into a Mets captainship that was supposed to be all Keith's.

stevejrogers Aug 22 2022 11:33 AM Re: Quiz Time

Is that your answer? Because the quiz specifically sez "and only these Mets, have in common". So for you to be correct, every other Met, from Hobie Landrith to Nate Fisher and every other Met in between, was once in your kitchen. You must be serving up some very tasty food. And I'll bet that Gary Carter stole all the credit for cooking that very tasty food. You are going all in to be anal retentive over me paraphrasing a Cheers (Cliff on Jeopardy episode) quip? You are going all in to be anal retentive by quoting a Cheers gag to try and solve this quiz? Did Gary Carter write that Cheers quip? I'm going all in to amuse readers with a Cheers quip as they, and I try to come up with an answer. It's quite an amusing one that I've often heard in response to “what do these people have in common” questions. No need to retort in the way you did.

stevejrogers Aug 22 2022 11:33 AM Re: Quiz Time

Especially in the edited version of what I just quoted.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 22 2022 11:35 AM Re: Quiz Time

=stevejrogers post_id=104976 time=1661189594 user_id=57] No need to retort in the way you did.

How come?

metsmarathon Aug 22 2022 11:37 AM Re: Quiz Time

every one of them was, at one time or another, a nationally ranked curling sweeper.

stevejrogers Aug 22 2022 11:41 AM Re: Quiz Time

They all lead in a specific category for wearing their uniform numbers in the 40s?

batmagadanleadoff Aug 22 2022 11:42 AM Re: Quiz Time

They all lead in a specific category for wearing their uniform numbers in the 40s? Unacceptable. Why don't you just say "Something, something, something, 40s?"

stevejrogers Aug 22 2022 11:50 AM Re: Quiz Time

They all lead in a specific category for wearing their uniform numbers in the 40s? Unacceptable. Why don't you just say "Something, something, something, 40s?" Because my guess would mean if it was warm, statistical category by uni number, or cold, not a thing to do with their Met related uniform number.

stevejrogers Aug 22 2022 11:50 AM Re: Quiz Time

Why are you being a troll about this?

batmagadanleadoff Aug 22 2022 11:58 AM Re: Quiz Time

=stevejrogers post_id=104983 time=1661190658 user_id=57] Why are you being a troll about this?

What are you going on about? You make jokes so I make jokes. What's the goddamn problem with this now? You're offended? Gimme a break ferchrissakes.



It always ends in tears, doesn't it?

stevejrogers Aug 22 2022 12:03 PM Re: Quiz Time

LOL! Just answer wether or not the answer has to do with statistical leaderboards among their 41-49 uni numbers!

Edgy MD Aug 22 2022 12:17 PM Re: Quiz Time

I want to say that each leads a uniform number in the 40s in WAR as a Met, but that would be tough, since Cone and Isringhausen, for instance, both wore 44.

smg58 Aug 22 2022 12:28 PM Re: Quiz Time

A bunch of pitchers and one catcher. I'm guessing it has something to do with the postseason but I don't have an answer yet.

Fman99 Aug 22 2022 12:34 PM Re: Quiz Time

They all had plump, girthy cocks

stevejrogers Aug 22 2022 12:35 PM Re: Quiz Time

=smg58 post_id=104988 time=1661192939 user_id=62] A bunch of pitchers and one catcher. I'm guessing it has something to do with the postseason but I don't have an answer yet.

Also a slew of guys who returned to the organization one way or another, but then there are guys like deGrom and Innis.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 22 2022 12:40 PM Re: Quiz Time

=smg58 post_id=104988 time=1661192939 user_id=62] A bunch of pitchers and one catcher. I'm guessing it has something to do with the postseason but I don't have an answer yet.

Neither Innis nor McAndrew ever appeared in the post-season for the Mets.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 22 2022 12:41 PM Re: Quiz Time

=Fman99 post_id=104989 time=1661193277 user_id=86] They all had plump, girthy cocks

But are they the only Mets with plump girthy cocks?

batmagadanleadoff Aug 22 2022 12:41 PM Re: Quiz Time

=stevejrogers post_id=104990 time=1661193341 user_id=57] =smg58 post_id=104988 time=1661192939 user_id=62] A bunch of pitchers and one catcher. I'm guessing it has something to do with the postseason but I don't have an answer yet.

Also a slew of guys who returned to the organization one way or another, but then there are guys like deGrom and Innis.


So some returned to the Mets. But some didn't. Is that it?

MFS62 Aug 22 2022 12:47 PM Re: Quiz Time

They were all operated on by the same surgeon? Later

Edgy MD Aug 22 2022 01:03 PM Re: Quiz Time

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=104992 time=1661193675 user_id=68] =Fman99 post_id=104989 time=1661193277 user_id=86] They all had plump, girthy cocks

But are they the only Mets with plump girthy cocks?


Yeah, I don't trust any list of PGCs that doesn't begin with Chris Jones and end with Bobby Abreu.

Fman99 Aug 22 2022 01:31 PM Re: Quiz Time

I appreciate the deep dive on the PGCs, which is appropriate, as the best thing you could do carrying around a fully swoll trouser sword is to sink it to unprecedented depths. You know, a snootch spelunker, if you will

whippoorwill Aug 22 2022 01:41 PM Re: Quiz Time

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=104991 time=1661193625 user_id=68] =smg58 post_id=104988 time=1661192939 user_id=62] A bunch of pitchers and one catcher. I'm guessing it has something to do with the postseason but I don't have an answer yet.

Neither Innis nor McAndrew ever appeared in the post-season for the Mets.


I could have sworn I already posted this.

Was McAndrew no longer a Met in 1973?



Do these guys have some kind of college connection?

MFS62 Aug 22 2022 01:56 PM Re: Quiz Time

Were on Little League World Series championship teams? Later

stevejrogers Aug 22 2022 01:56 PM Re: Quiz Time

=whippoorwill post_id=105007 time=1661197270 user_id=79] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=104991 time=1661193625 user_id=68] =smg58 post_id=104988 time=1661192939 user_id=62] A bunch of pitchers and one catcher. I'm guessing it has something to do with the postseason but I don't have an answer yet.

Neither Innis nor McAndrew ever appeared in the post-season for the Mets.


I could have sworn I already posted this.

Was McAndrew no longer a Met in 1973?


He, Dyer and Capra are the only members of the 1973 postseason roster not to appear in a game that postseason.



He's with DiLauro and Koonce with that distinction in 1969.

whippoorwill Aug 22 2022 02:04 PM Re: Quiz Time

Well that stinks

batmagadanleadoff Aug 23 2022 09:33 AM Re: Quiz Time

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=104970 time=1661187467 user_id=68] What do these Mets, and only these Mets, have in common? Be precise in your answer(s). Tom Seaver Armando Benitez Jacob deGrom Oliver Perez Jason Isringhausen Rene Rivera Jeff Innis Tug McGraw Jesse Orosco David Cone Jim McAndrew Ron Taylor

Some of youse were dancing around the main theme of this quiz -- Mets uniform numbers in the 40s -- all of them -- 40-49. All of the Mets listed above wore a particular Mets uniform number in the 40s for more seasons than any other Met.



For example, Jeff Innis wore #40 for seven seasons (1987-1993). No other Met wore #40 for more seasons than Innis did. Seaver (#41) needs no explanation. There was one tie: Rene Rivera, Jason Isringhausen and David Cone each wore #44 for five seasons.

Fman99 Aug 23 2022 09:39 AM Re: Quiz Time

These guys are all great at wearing the same uniform # and having plump, girthy cocks. I salute all of them.

MFS62 Aug 23 2022 09:54 AM Re: Quiz Time

=Fman99 post_id=105088 time=1661269159 user_id=86] These guys are all great at wearing the same uniform # and having plump, girthy cocks. I salute all of them.

Many of us are wondering, but I'll ask the question.

How do you know that?



Later

kcmets Aug 23 2022 10:14 AM Re: Quiz Time

=MFS62 post_id=105089 time=1661270081 user_id=60]Many of us are wondering, but I'll ask the question. How do you know that?

I would imagine mbtn.net would be one place to start.



OE: and ultimatemets.com since I now see the all-time numerical

roster is linked to from mbtn.

Fman99 Aug 23 2022 10:33 AM Re: Quiz Time

I think the more valid question is, how do you NOT know this ?

MFS62 Aug 23 2022 10:36 AM Re: Quiz Time

I haven't talked to Lindsay Graham. Later

Edgy MD Aug 23 2022 11:42 AM Re: Quiz Time

Here's a quick one-off: Who gave Gary Carter the nickname "Kid"? If you get it, there's a followup.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 23 2022 11:43 AM Re: Quiz Time

Boris Yeltsin?

Edgy MD Aug 23 2022 11:46 AM Re: Quiz Time

Cold.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 23 2022 11:50 AM Re: Quiz Time

Gary Carter.

MFS62 Aug 23 2022 11:50 AM Re: Quiz Time

Looking for Mets content here. Ron Taylor? (I think he may have been the Expos team doctor when Carter was a rookie) Later

kcmets Aug 23 2022 11:52 AM Re: Quiz Time

Boris Karloff? I just checked Gary's wiki-page and Kid is there seven times but no mention of who bestowed the nickname.

Edgy MD Aug 23 2022 12:18 PM Re: Quiz Time

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=105096 time=1661277029 user_id=68] Gary Carter.

Definitely warmer than Yeltsin.


=MFS62 post_id=105097 time=1661277045 user_id=60]
Looking for Mets content here.

Ron Taylor? (I think he may have been the Expos team doctor when Carter was a rookie)

Later


This is indeed warmer still.


=kcmets post_id=105098 time=1661277162 user_id=53]
Boris Karloff?

A rush back into the cold.


=kcmets post_id=105098 time=1661277162 user_id=53]
I just checked Gary's wiki-page and Kid is there seven times but no

mention of who bestowed the nickname.


HUH! Cheat, cheat, stinky feet!

kcmets Aug 23 2022 12:21 PM Re: Quiz Time

It's only cheating if I looked it up and answered as if I knew. I'm sure my feet still stink, but that's a given.

Bob Alpacadaca Aug 23 2022 12:36 PM Re: Quiz Time

It's always heard the name came from a pair for former Mets -- Mike Jorgenson and Ken Singleton. Baseball needs more Gary Carter and Kids and fewer players who think of themselves as savages. Tragic that we won't have Carter at the Old-Timers Game.

Edgy MD Aug 23 2022 01:29 PM Re: Quiz Time

The correct answer is indeed Jorgensen. Carter, by his account, was a teenage rookie kowtowing to the Expo vets when he was invited to watch, but not participate in, a card game among four vets. He eagerly attended, watched, and eventually Jorgensen said, "Hey, Kid, go get us some ice cream." Singleton was a second member of the group. Which two other future Mets completed the fouresome?

MFS62 Aug 23 2022 01:36 PM Re: Quiz Time

Dale Murray? Later

Edgy MD Aug 23 2022 01:45 PM Re: Quiz Time

Not Dale. But man, this forum needs more Dale Murray content.

MFS62 Aug 23 2022 02:05 PM Re: Quiz Time

We need more Pepe Mangual content, too. Was he one of them? Later

Edgy MD Aug 23 2022 02:18 PM Re: Quiz Time

Not Pepe. He may be a touch colder, but no more than a degree. Perceptible, but only by the most thermosenstiive.

MFS62 Aug 23 2022 02:21 PM Re: Quiz Time

I'm busy now. I'll tune in later for the next exciting chapter. Later

Benjamin Grimm Aug 23 2022 02:31 PM Re: Quiz Time

Ellis Valentine?

Bob Alpacadaca Aug 23 2022 02:41 PM Re: Quiz Time

Tim Foli!!

Edgy MD Aug 23 2022 02:49 PM Re: Quiz Time

Foli is one of our card sharks! Ellis, if he was in camp with the Expos, likely would have been rookie (and a teenager) himself, as he didn't debut until the next season, so not Ellis.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 23 2022 03:02 PM Re: Quiz Time Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 23 2022 03:04 PM

Not for nothing, but Carter's "Kid" nickname was not given to him endearingly. It was given to him, more or less, in the same vein as Pete Rose's "Charlie Hustle".

MFS62 Aug 23 2022 03:03 PM Re: Quiz Time

Mike Torrez. Later

Edgy MD Aug 23 2022 03:18 PM Re: Quiz Time

That's our fourth.