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The collected thoughts of sportswriter, bookworm, & food critic Keith Law
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5/8 on the new quiz. I really gotta improve my reading skills and/or knowledge of history.
Happy Birthday Keith
6/8. I rather imagine that’s going to be a common score, as the six are fairly well known. I’d never heard of the other two.
Kevin – you’re a good bit younger than I am, right?
5/8 forgot one, never heard of two.
6/8. Never heard of one, heard of the other but wouldn’t have pulled his name in a million years.
Yeah I am, Keith. I’m still in college.
Keith- how do you feel about a sacrifice strikeout? I’d like Livan Hernandez to start trying it out.
When I was a kid – and since I’m in my decline phase now, I can say that – the two guys Kevin hadn’t heard of (and I’d wager the same two Rick missed) were huge. One had a TV movie made about his life. The other hit leadoff for a World Series winner and is now father-in-law to a player in my top 100 prospects. (I’m assuming those are the two guys – the others are all pretty well known.)
The guy you linked to was one of them. I’m assuming the other guy you’re thinking of isn’t the one who initially broke Cobb’s single-season record, as I think he’s fairly well known.
Leflore and Moreno were the two I had never heard of. I was born as they were ending their careers.
5/8 – Need to read up on my baseball history. What odds do you give Crawford of getting to 90? I’d say less than 50%.
Moreno stole 96 bases in a season with a .306 OBP… that’s pretty amazing to me.
7/8 missing Leflore. Only knew of Moreno because of the anomaly Aaron referenced. Coleman stole 107 with a .301 OBP in 1986 as well.
7 out of 8, fairly quickly. I kept entering “Willie Wilson” until my time ran out. Damn you, Maury Wills!
When is the review of brief like of O coming on? finish gone wind please
What does the RT mean in the Twitter posts?
6/8 not awful
By the way Keith Joba looked great in the 8th today why would they let him pitch any other inning.
6/8. Couldn’t pull Moreno, and frankly, if you asked me who Ron Lefore was I would have told you he was a hockey player.
Love the quizzes, hopefully you will be asked back.
7 for 8. How could I get Levar Burton?
I meant forget, not get.
6 out of 8… My excuse is being born in the wrong country and wrong decade!
6 of 8. Missed LeFlore and Moreno. I could have had 8 hours, and wouldn’t have gotten either.
And I too entered Willie Wilson at least three times.
Well, looks like I was right on who most people would miss.
Holla! Quick 5, then Cobb then Leflore then Wills nearly at the buzzer. Felt better about myself than I should have. Also entered Wilson and Butler a good 3 times each. Entered every variable of Young thinking one of them had to have done it.
Would love to see some of the worse wrong answers knowing how bad some of mine were. Polonia? Walton? (He didn’t break 90 for his career; no idea why I remember him as a big basestealer.)
My worst wrong answers that I actually tried were probably Taveras or Podsednik.
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Did you not read the qualifers regarding WHEN it happened? That should have eliminated those guys. I almost missed Coleman because I forgot what year it was now.
Woot! 8 of 8. Fantasy baseball has its uses. For whatever reason LeFlore came to me pretty quickly. Moreno was the one I paused for about 45 seconds to remember. I came *this* close to guessing Brian Hunter first.
BSK,
I did miss the qualifier. Had I realized, it would have saved me time, but I still don’t think I would’ve remembered Leflore.
Yea, I still whiffed on three. I thought of all the guys you thought of, but then remembered they were too recent. Like I said, I almost missed Coleman, because I was thinking “20 years ago” took us into the 70’s. Smart.
I think this just came through name-checking Keith:
http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/draft2009/insider/news/story?id=4250817
So I guess one may be able to add “lore” and “legend” to the MLB scouting report jargon. Disappointing to read that scouts put more into mythical charactizations rather than hard evidence. I wonder if the Belfior kid’s father will still be cool with Aoki when his kid’s arm falls off.