Quiz, anybody?

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Post by MFS62 » Fri Aug 02, 2024 5:21 pm

You said there was one more to go.
I got Nomo.
I thought there would be no mo'.
Now there's another?

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Post by Cowtipper » Fri Aug 02, 2024 5:43 pm

Did Bret Saberhagen do it?
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Post by batmagadanleadoff » Fri Aug 02, 2024 5:43 pm

MFS62 wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2024 5:21 pm You said there was one more to go.
I got Nomo.
I thought there would be no mo'.
Now there's another?

Later
Whaddyagonnadoo?
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Post by batmagadanleadoff » Fri Aug 02, 2024 5:44 pm

Cowtipper wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2024 5:43 pm Further proof that he is perhaps the most underrated of the great Mets pitchers...

David Cone
Already guessed.
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Post by Cowtipper » Fri Aug 02, 2024 5:47 pm

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2024 5:44 pm
Cowtipper wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2024 5:43 pm Further proof that he is perhaps the most underrated of the great Mets pitchers...

David Cone
Already guessed.
Yeah, I looked right over him. I thought it was strange no one had guessed him...but apparently, someone had.
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Post by Johnny Lunchbucket » Fri Aug 02, 2024 5:54 pm

Matlack?
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Post by MFS62 » Fri Aug 02, 2024 5:55 pm

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2024 5:43 pm
MFS62 wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2024 5:21 pm You said there was one more to go.
I got Nomo.
I thought there would be no mo'.
Now there's another?

Later
Whaddyagonnadoo?
Sneaky devil that you are, you tried to slip A.J. Burnett (originally drafted by the Mets) past us, eh?
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Post by batmagadanleadoff » Fri Aug 02, 2024 5:59 pm

Yes.

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Stilll one more to go.



This is so embaraskin.

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Post by batmagadanleadoff » Fri Aug 02, 2024 6:05 pm

MFS62 wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2024 5:55 pm
batmagadanleadoff wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2024 5:43 pm
MFS62 wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2024 5:21 pm You said there was one more to go.
I got Nomo.
I thought there would be no mo'.
Now there's another?

Later
Whaddyagonnadoo?
Sneaky devil that you are, you tried to slip A.J. Burnett (originally drafted by the Mets) past us, eh?
Later
Here's what happened: I made up this quiz about a week ago. But I got in the mood to post it only today. So I did. But I couldn't find the piece of paper where I had worked out all the answers. So I did this from memory. I had kind of a feeling that I wasn't remembering all of the answers but I winged it anyways. Turns out, I forgot Nomo and Burnett.
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Post by batmagadanleadoff » Fri Aug 02, 2024 6:07 pm

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2024 5:54 pm Matlack?





The most batters Matlack struck out in a season after leaving the Mets was 157.
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Post by batmagadanleadoff » Fri Aug 02, 2024 6:11 pm

I'll post the remaining answer at the start of tonight's Mets game if nobody's gotten it by then.
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Post by Johnny Lunchbucket » Fri Aug 02, 2024 6:54 pm

Cedrick Landrum
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Post by batmagadanleadoff » Fri Aug 02, 2024 7:01 pm

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2024 6:54 pm Cedrick Landrum
I'm not even gonna bother to give you the big "X" for that one.
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Post by Benjamin Grimm » Fri Aug 02, 2024 7:03 pm

Maybe another farmhand like...Jim Bibby?
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Post by batmagadanleadoff » Fri Aug 02, 2024 7:09 pm

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Fri Aug 02, 2024 7:03 pm Maybe another farmhand like...Jim Bibby?
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Post by batmagadanleadoff » Fri Aug 02, 2024 10:19 pm

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The last, or stumping pitcher, is 1969 Met and owner of a Mets World Series ring, Bob Johnson. He struck out 206 batters in 1970, his only season as a member of the KC Royals. The year after, Bob earned his second World Series ring in three years as a member of the 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates.

Thank you for playing.
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Post by batmagadanleadoff » Sat Aug 03, 2024 6:43 am

Pretty good trade sequence for the Royals. They got Johnson, a 200K pitcher and perennial all-star Amos Otis for only the already washed up Joe Foy. Then they flipped Johnson for another all-star and a foundational piece of their (also ex-Met) Whitey Herzog pennant contending teams, shortstop Freddie Patek. Patek and especially Otis would receive MVP votes, too, as Royals.
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Post by Edgy MD » Sat Aug 03, 2024 8:33 am

I'd've taken about 300 guesses before getting to Johnson. I would've guessed guys I was virtually certain were incorrect (Gooden? Viola? Matz? Byrd?) before Johnson.

I might be wrong, but I seem to remember Youmans got his 200th strikeout against the Mets, and that's why I pulled him out of my butt.
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Post by batmagadanleadoff » Sat Aug 03, 2024 8:38 am

Johnson was definitely the toughest answer, I thought. But you got what I thought were the next two toughest answers: Kazmir and Youmans.

Johnson was also the first former Met to strike out 200 batters in a season for another team.
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Post by MFS62 » Sat Aug 03, 2024 10:04 am

Johnson was traded, with Amos Otis, to KC for Joe Foy.
I've successfully blocked that trade out of my mind for many years.
Now it is back in there.
Thanks a lot.


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