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Oh I whiffed on the Texas gold glover

I got eight of nine. I missed on the Texas Gold Glove. I considered Oddibe McDowell, Toby Harrah, and Ivan Rodriguez. I went with McDowell, but of the three, Rodriquez was the only correct answer.

Astros/Rangers: Nolan Ryan 51%
Astros/Nationals: Rusty Staub 4%
Astros/200K: Mike Scott 5%
Dodgers/Rangers: Frank Howard 0.5%
Dodgers/Nationals: Max Scherzer 21%
Dodgers/200K: Sandy Koufax 19%
Gold Glove/Rangers: --
Gold Glove/Nationals: Ellis Valentine 0.6%
Gold Glove/200K: Greg Maddux 54%

eight of nine:

Astros/Rangers: Nolan Ryan 51%
Astros/Nationals: Rusty Staub 4%
Astros/200K: Mike Scott 5%
Dodgers/Rangers: --
Dodgers/Nationals: Mike Marshall 0.1%
Dodgers/200K: Sandy Koufax 19%
Gold Glove/Rangers: Rafael Palmeiro 4%
Gold Glove/Nationals: Gary Carter 8%
Gold Glove/200K: Jim Kaat 2%

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2023 8:49 am Dodgers/Rangers: Frank Howard 0.5%

Ugh - while I used all Expos for the Nationals in the grid, I forgot about the Rangers previously being the Senators.

Charlie Hough was my Dodger/Ranger. I was trying to remember Bo Belinsky's name, but as it turned out, he didn't play for either of them.

I screwed up my perfect grid by confusing my west coast Nats and putting Juan Soto in as a Dodger Nat when I meant Trea Turner.

best showing in a while, i only whiffed on the astronat.

apparently, washington is like the only team that octavio dotel didn't pitch for...

tex/hou: nolan ryan 58%
was/hou: NOT octavio dotel
200k hou mike scott 6%
tex/lad: adrian beltre 18%
was/lad: max scherzer 23%
200k lad kershaw 58%
tex gg: ivan rodriguez 27%
was gg: ryan zimmerman 70%
200k gg: greg maddux 60%

Did not realize that for Washington I think you can pick Expos but I have not tried yet

I forgot all about the Expos and so couldn't come up with answers on two questions thinking of Nationals alone.

The Texas Gold Glove was an easy one for me, only because I'll always remember Rafael Palmiero's 1999 Gold Glove at First base proving forever how incredibly dumb most baseball writers are. He played 128 games at DH that year.

nymr83 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2023 8:23 pm The Texas Gold Glove was an easy one for me, only because I'll always remember Rafael Palmiero's 1999 Gold Glove at First base proving forever how incredibly dumb most baseball writers are. He played 128 games at DH that year.

The thing about the GG votes (at least in that era) is that they were often the worst ones out of all the categories despite, or maybe because, they were the ones Not voted on by the writers. For many years it was the mangers and coaches who picked those.

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Phillies/Marlins Dennis Cook 0.1%! it was all downhill from there...

Seems that I didn't know Vogelbach was a Mariner. Was my only empty square. Big score Phillie-Mariner Michael Jackson

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Sweet immaculation!

yankies: mariano duncan 0.6%
yankwers: luke voit 21%
yanker yugger: don mattingly 6%
marinies: jay bruce 2%
marinwers: daniel vogelbach 8%
mariner mugger: ken griffey jr 43%
marlies: jt realmuto 40%
marlwers: christian yelich 60%
marler mugger: giancarlo stanton 48%

Still looking for my fifth immaculate. I got seven today:

Yankees/Phillies: Todd Zeile 0.2%
Yankees/Brewers: CC Sabathia 42%
Yankees/Silver Slugger: Derek Jeter 12%
Mariners/Phillies: --
Mariners/Brewers: --
Mariners/Silver Slugger: Alex Rodriguez 8%
Marlins/Phillies: JT Realmuto 39%
Marlins/Brewers: Christian Yelich 58%
Marlins/Silver Slugger: Giancarlo Stanton 48%

6 of 9

Yankees/Phillies: Jim Kaat 0.3%
Yankees/Brewers: Gary Sheffield 5%
Yankees/Silver Slugger: Derek Jeter 13%
Mariners/Phillies: --
Mariners/Brewers: --
Mariners/Silver Slugger: Ichiro 19%
Marlins/Phillies: Dennis Cook 0.1%
Marlins/Brewers: --
Marlins/Silver Slugger: Giancarlo Stanton 48%

Seven out of nine. Fucking Rays. Had a great rarity score going on, too.

I'm not sure why I thought Bert Blyleven played for Toronto, but he didn't.

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TOR/TB - David Price 17%
TB/OAK - Rich Hill 3%
TB/ASG - Evan Longoria 24%
TOR/MIN - Paul Molitor 9%
MIN/OAK - Bartolo 6%
MIN/ASG - Puckett 12%
TOR/100 RBIs - Delgado 11%
OAK/100 RBIs - McGwire 26%
ASG/100 RBIs - Piazza .5%

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2023 8:25 am Seems that I didn't know Vogelbach was a Mariner.

I don't either and, even if I did, the odds of that fact occurring to me would be near zero.
I'd get Maybe 20% of these two team questions. And most of that would be from blindly guessing Todd Zeile, Rich Hill, and Octavio Dotel over and over again.

Once again, the dreaded TB logo. At first, I was confused and found myself trying to think of Blue Jays and A's players who had had tuberculosis. The app was a little glitchy today. I got credit for Victor Zambrano as a Ray and a Jay (but you doesn't has to call him Johnson) but instead of seeing his name and a photo, I just got a green box with a little 0.1% in the upper right corner. I had tried guessing Rico Carty for Twins/A's (which would have been wrong, by the way) but his name wasn't available in the lookup list. I thought I had awoken in an alternate universe in which there was never a Rico Carty, a world in which grapefruits taste sweet and penguins can fly.

Anyway, seven of nine for me today:

Rays/Jays: Victor Zambrano 0.1%
Rays/A's: --
Rays/All-Star: Evan Longoria 25%
Twins/Jays: Jack Morris 6%
Twins/A's: --
Twins/All-Star: Rod Carew 3%
100RBI/Jays: Carlos Delgado 11%
100RBI/A's: Reggie Jackson 8%
100RBI/All-Star: Darryl Strawberry 0.2% (one of 482 valid answers; this would be a hard one to miss)

I’m sick and tired of seeing Tampa in seemingly every other puzzle… 6 of 9 today:

Rays/Jays- -
Rays/A's: --
Rays/All-Star: Evan Longoria 25%
Twins/Jays: Paul Molitor 12%
Twins/A's: --
Twins/All-Star: Kirby Puckett 15%
100RBI/Jays: Joe Carter 14%
100RBI/A's: Reggie Jackson 8%
100RBI/All-Star: Ted Williams 0.7%

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My first immaculate!

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