let’s play: Immaculate Grid!

Only six Jays with 200 K...Brandon Morrow, A.J. Burnett--typing them out to remember.

Five good answers (3.2%), three mediocre ones (34%), and I-Rod was never a Kansas City Royal. Goddamned Marlins again.

9/9, 14--best one in a while, though I thought these answers would get me under 10, which I haven't done for months. Joe Carter and Dick Allen for those particular combinations used to be good for 1% or less. Wilhelm was a guess for the White Sox; he shows up a lot when I check my incorrect answers. Maybe by the end of the day I'll creep under 10.

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First three answers, 94%. So I thought I'd just go with the most obvious answers imaginable, and at 7/7 I was up to...232%! Broke the pattern with Teoscar Hernandez for Mariners/Astros (all I could think of), who was only 3%.

And then, I just couldn't think of a Red Sox no-hitter. There were a couple of old guys I could have gotten, Cy Young and Smokey Joe Wood, but I went with Lefty Grove and it was wrong. That's actually a pretty hard combination.

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I'm sure there's no connection--she doesn't look like someone obsessed with the grid--but because of the timing, I have to ask.

8/9, 105. #&@%, or however that goes. I was 7/7, under 3%, and I went for Phil Cavarretta for MVP/catcher. Cavarretta played first. I mixed him up with Ernie Lombardi, plus "Cavarretta" sounds like "catcher"--that's how my mind works. If I had put in Lombardi and come up with a good CF/MVP, I would have been under 5%. (Tested that out on another browser with Lombardi and Don Baylor.) Being able to use both Cesar Tovar and Bert Campaneris, I won't get a better chance at an obscenely low score for a while.

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I even mixed up who I mixed him up with: it was Gabby Hartnett, not Lombardi. Hartnett and Cavarretta played alongside each other on the Cubs. Hartnett was MVP in '35, Cavarretta in '45. Same 0.6% for Hartnett.

oooo...my best ever. 54!

Fuck! Sorry!

Just going to post

So that my post moves up

And hopefully doesn’t spoil anyone

Sorry

Really

Sorry

Don’t scroll up if you’re here I posted my grid without hide tags (but I’ve asked a moderator to delete it)

Hopefully that’s enough

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rarity score of 8

thank you, Wil Cordero

9/9, 80. Great start for the first six: tried and tried to avoid Schilling and Bream--who's treated like an inner-circle HOF'er on IG when Pirates/Braves come up--but couldn't do any better. Took me even longer for Orioles/Pirates, finally remembered Bonilla.

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Go forth and get low scores today--pretty easy grid if you're not GG-phobic like me. I was good through six boxes, under 10%, then lost rarity with Jose Reyes for the Mets' 100-run guy--24%. Then I lost it with the Yankees' GG; I thought Paul O'Neill was considered a great fielder for some reason, but he didn't win one. Next time, Joe Pepitone! Never knew he won three.

9/9, 13. Thought I had a chance at less than 10%--hard with the HOF on there. I remember Tom Hall was nicknamed "The Blade."

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Can anybody fill me in on how "Disco" Dan Ford got his nickname? His Wikipedia page doesn't say.

9/9, 20. Sudden Sam and Mack the Knife--great day for nicknames.

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9/9, 20--I'm sure, like yesterday's, it will drop under 20. Five boxes around the perimeter under 3%, the other four for over 15%.

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They should add opening-day starts (for pitchers) as a category. Mostly famous names, but I'm sure you could come up with some comparatively obscure ones.

https://www.mlb.com/news/most-opening-day-starts-by-a-pitcher-c269247830

9/9, 13. Wasn't sure about Damon Berryhill, but he did feel right for both teams.

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I'm on a streak here: with revised scores, 12/17/17/13. Under 10 seems to get harder and harder, though.

9/9, 8--finally! First time in weeks, maybe months. There's a chance it could go up, but I don't think so.

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Streak (dropped down again yesterday) now stands at 12/17/17/10/8.

Considered both Phil Rizzuto and Pee Wee Reese for the bottom left: Reese would have been better than Kaline, but Rizzuto wouldn't have worked (wasn't even close to 2,000 hits).

been a long time but i try the grid every once in a while, Saturday is always he best for me

9/9, 5

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You were just lying in wait for that, weren't you?

9/9, 12--almost two sub-10s in a row, but one box killed me. 2.9% through six, and I still hadn't used Campenaris or Tovar. So I went with Russell Martin for C/SS, thinking he'd be 3 or 4% at worst. Eight! Checking answers, I've added Cookie Rojas and Jose Oquendo to the list of guys who've played all nine positions (not in the same game like the other two...there are a few others who I won't remember).

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Streak: 12/17/17/10/7/12.

Clemente's one game at second--a couple of innings late in the game--has stayed in my mind from another grid.

Wow the grid today is mental

8/9 the center square f-ed me over

Honestly, I think it would be more challenging today to figure out the most common answers. Of the nine, only one is above 25%.

And that is who I picked for 2b/c. 47%. Amazing my score was only 60 total (only one other above 1%)! First time getting 9/9 in a while.

It makes sense that Biggio would be such a common answer today--HOF'er who played 15% of his career games (over 400) behind the plate--although I'm surprised A-Rod at 3B/SS wasn't even higher; that was actually a huge story. I guess Ripken cut into that combination a lot.

9/9, 19. Got to use two things I've been meaning to for a while: Bill Singer, the Jays' starter for their first game ever (in the snow) in 1977, and Podres of the Padres--hard to believe, but the guy who shut out the Yankees to win G7 for the Dodgers in '55 finished up with the Padres in their first season.

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Last day I'll post the streak (I wanted to be under 100 for the seven days): 12/17/17/10/7/12/19 = 94.

97 today

8/9, 176. Man you guys are good.

9/9, 19. Thought I had another sub-10 in the works: 2% through first four, but then Ted Lyons came up 3 and Ralph Garr 6, so I just quickly filled in Alexander and Torre.

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I thought Scipio Spinks had a great rookie season, 10-2 or something and a low ERA; never would have named him if I'd known that sub-3.00 ERA rested on two innings.

8/9, 124--the streak dies at eight days, 107%. Rico Brogna, no good.

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9/9, 44?

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Two of your players are on my fantasy team--including the box I missed.

Which two?

J.P. Crawford is my utility guy--I inherited Corey Seager--and Bryson Stott my second baseman. I missed the Phillies/Mariners box today.

love JP a lot - top ten current player

It wasn't till late last season that I clued into the fact that he and Brandon Crawford weren't the same person.

Did you know his father played Canadian football and his cousin is Carl Crawford?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Crawford

Neither! I used to used CC on the Grid all the time--Tampa's first real star, and one of the few Rays I knew--but eventually he became a pretty common answer.

9/9, 16. Easy one, so was hoping for under 10. I'm retiring Jeff Burroughs for Braves/Rangers--used to be rare, now semi-common. Will try to remember John Burkett by his initials.

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