https://i.imgur.com/Cpua2mB.png
rarity score of 8
thank you, Wil Cordero
― omar little, Saturday, 23 March 2024 16:56 (six months ago) link
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.
https://i.postimg.cc/9fTP6QQ4/grid.jpg
― clemenza, Sunday, 24 March 2024 16:55 (six months ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Monday, 25 March 2024 13:23 (six months ago) link
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."
https://i.postimg.cc/nLsF3q66/grid.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 15:01 (six months ago) link
Can anybody fill me in on how "Disco" Dan Ford got his nickname? His Wikipedia page doesn't say.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 18:14 (six months ago) link
9/9, 20. Sudden Sam and Mack the Knife--great day for nicknames.
https://i.postimg.cc/wxrQLRnh/grid.jpg
― clemenza, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 12:31 (six months ago) link
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%.
https://i.postimg.cc/tCGSzY4B/grid.jpg
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
― clemenza, Thursday, 28 March 2024 12:36 (six months ago) link
9/9, 13. Wasn't sure about Damon Berryhill, but he did feel right for both teams.
https://i.postimg.cc/1zHpZ5vw/grid.jpg
I'm on a streak here: with revised scores, 12/17/17/13. Under 10 seems to get harder and harder, though.
― clemenza, Friday, 29 March 2024 13:00 (five months ago) link
9/9, 8--finally! First time in weeks, maybe months. There's a chance it could go up, but I don't think so.
https://i.postimg.cc/T3LhMF8d/grid.jpg
Streak (dropped down again yesterday) now stands at 12/17/17/10/8.
― clemenza, Saturday, 30 March 2024 11:59 (five months ago) link
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).
― clemenza, Saturday, 30 March 2024 12:09 (five months ago) link
been a long time but i try the grid every once in a while, Saturday is always he best for me
9/9, 5
https://imgur.com/a/tz2jchK
― buzza, Sunday, 31 March 2024 09:14 (five months ago) link
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).
https://i.postimg.cc/T304DYh3/grid.jpg
Streak: 12/17/17/10/7/12.
― clemenza, Sunday, 31 March 2024 11:22 (five months ago) link
Clemente's one game at second--a couple of innings late in the game--has stayed in my mind from another grid.
― clemenza, Sunday, 31 March 2024 11:24 (five months ago) link
Wow the grid today is mental
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 31 March 2024 15:20 (five months ago) link
8/9 the center square f-ed me over
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 31 March 2024 15:51 (five months ago) link
Honestly, I think it would be more challenging today to figure out the most common answers. Of the nine, only one is above 25%.
― clemenza, Sunday, 31 March 2024 16:12 (five months ago) link
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.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 31 March 2024 18:48 (five months ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Sunday, 31 March 2024 19:05 (five months ago) link
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.
https://i.postimg.cc/gJSFWnFD/grid.jpg
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.
― clemenza, Monday, 1 April 2024 12:36 (five months ago) link
97 today
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 1 April 2024 13:13 (five months ago) link
8/9, 176. Man you guys are good.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 01:14 (five months ago) link
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.
https://i.postimg.cc/m2f4whpL/grid.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 11:29 (five months ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 11:33 (five months ago) link
8/9, 124--the streak dies at eight days, 107%. Rico Brogna, no good.
https://i.postimg.cc/CMt3ByzB/grid.jpg
― clemenza, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 12:33 (five months ago) link
9/9, 44?https://i.postimg.cc/nzwhcsLN/IMG-8537.jpg
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 16:09 (five months ago) link
Two of your players are on my fantasy team--including the box I missed.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 16:21 (five months ago) link
Which two?
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 17:00 (five months ago) link
J.P. Crawford is my utility guy--I inherited Corey Seager--and Bryson Stott my second baseman. I missed the Phillies/Mariners box today.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 17:07 (five months ago) link
love JP a lot - top ten current player
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 17:08 (five months ago) link
It wasn't till late last season that I clued into the fact that he and Brandon Crawford weren't the same person.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 17:16 (five months ago) link
Did you know his father played Canadian football and his cousin is Carl Crawford?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Crawford
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 17:23 (five months ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 17:31 (five months ago) link
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.
https://i.postimg.cc/QNFVT8hQ/grid.jpg
― clemenza, Thursday, 4 April 2024 13:14 (five months ago) link
89 today
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 4 April 2024 13:46 (five months ago) link
Eighty-nine not 8/9 i ran the table
https://imgur.com/a/1bmGUZT
doyle a. used to be one of my go-to guys but last time i used him i got like a double digit ding, glad to see he still comes thru in certain grids
― buzza, Friday, 5 April 2024 05:24 (five months ago) link
9/9, 15. Tiant and Tommie Herr used to be good for 2% at most, not anymore. Going to go with Wes Ferrell next time for Red Sox 20-game winner.
https://i.postimg.cc/sXPcT6Hg/grid.jpg
― clemenza, Friday, 5 April 2024 12:04 (five months ago) link
9/9 35First 9/9 I’ve gotten in a while!
https://postimg.cc/sQ0Tdwn4
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 5 April 2024 21:09 (five months ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/W1H99SkD/gus.jpg
― clemenza, Friday, 5 April 2024 23:16 (five months ago) link
9/9, 10, but I'm positive that'll end up dropping--Molitor won't stay at 4%. I should have gone with Cap Anson or Paul Waner; except for Biggio, who'd I already used, I doubt there's another answer better than Molitor. (27 3,000-hit guys in the HOF in total.)
https://i.postimg.cc/76XcrwfN/grid.jpg
― clemenza, Saturday, 6 April 2024 13:22 (five months ago) link
"who had I already used"--an alternative to the age-old who/whom debate.
― clemenza, Saturday, 6 April 2024 13:23 (five months ago) link
8/9 and 114 for me. My mistake came from thinking Mel Ott made it to the 3000 hit mark. Fell short by like 120 hits. But he was good for the 300 career avg
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 6 April 2024 15:34 (five months ago) link
Balls
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Saturday, 6 April 2024 17:11 (five months ago) link
Let’s try that again (ty mod)https://i.postimg.cc/3NRML7RD/IMG-8719.jpg
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Saturday, 6 April 2024 17:47 (five months ago) link
9/9, 9
https://imgur.com/a/zS1TS8S
― buzza, Saturday, 6 April 2024 21:08 (five months ago) link
I'm waiting for the day when you duck in to post a higher score than me...and if I drop to 8% later tonight, I will be back!
― clemenza, Saturday, 6 April 2024 21:11 (five months ago) link
"You talkin' to me?"
https://www.probaseballhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Nap_Lajoie.jpg
― buzza, Saturday, 6 April 2024 21:23 (five months ago) link
aw busted link, but look up Nap Lajoie and tell me DeNiro isn't a dead ringer
― buzza, Saturday, 6 April 2024 21:25 (five months ago) link
I can see that. But not with a bat in his hand.
https://i.postimg.cc/bvgzW68v/bob.jpg
― clemenza, Saturday, 6 April 2024 22:07 (five months ago) link
9/9, 19
https://i.imgur.com/r9MN49g.png
― omar little, Sunday, 7 April 2024 03:33 (five months ago) link