Was gonna do Dwight E. but didn’t want any confusion
― Karl Malone, Friday, 26 August 2022 15:17 (two years ago) link
Full list:
1. Henderson2. Evans3. Murray4. Boggs5. Murphy6. Yount7. Hernandez8. Raines9. Schmidt10. Randolph11. Whitaker12. Brett13. Trammel14. Ozzie15. Baines16. Winfield17. Downing18. Ripken
― clemenza, Friday, 26 August 2022 15:26 (two years ago) link
who is the only player in the career top 10 for HRs and Doubles?
bonus: who is the only other player in the top 15 for the same categories?
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 10 September 2022 17:17 (two years ago) link
change to: "who are the only other two players in the top 15"
(i was manually checking for this and knew i'd fuck it up sorry)
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 10 September 2022 17:19 (two years ago) link
I guessed Pujols for top 15 and Ortiz for top 15, I always remember those dudes who were ripping 45+ doubles the same season they were hitting the same number of HR. Not sure on the second top 15.
― omar little, Saturday, 10 September 2022 17:38 (two years ago) link
Sorry pujols top 10!
― omar little, Saturday, 10 September 2022 17:39 (two years ago) link
Aaron? Palmeiro in Top 15 for both?
― clemenza, Saturday, 10 September 2022 18:09 (two years ago) link
god, i have really fucked this up, big time. i am unable to complete basic comparative tasks.
Pujols: 5th in HRs, 5th in doublesAaron: 2nd in HRs, 13th in doubles
I thought Ortiz made the cut, but he's at 17th for HRs, 12th in doublesPalmeiro is a good guess! he falls short in doubles (21st) but is 13th in HRs
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 10 September 2022 18:14 (two years ago) link
I can’t be bothered to frame this as trivia - but I only just now learned that Lonnie Smith once bought a gun with the intention of shooting his ex-manager!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 1 October 2022 18:16 (two years ago) link
"Besides having a reputation as an erratic, reckless left fielder, how else did Lonnie Smith display erratic and reckless behaviour in his everyday life?"
― clemenza, Saturday, 1 October 2022 19:17 (two years ago) link
“Lonnie Smith was never accused of having a gun for an arm in left field - but in what instance did he actually have a gun?”
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 1 October 2022 19:44 (two years ago) link
Very basic question, but I checked all five trivia threads and it's never been asked: the eight father-son combinations who were struck out by Ryan. (I got three, had one wrong, then checked--I probably would have gotten one or two of the remaining five with a little effort.)
― clemenza, Monday, 16 January 2023 23:53 (one year ago) link
That’s an interesting one
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 19:43 (one year ago) link
i struggle to think of 8 father-son combos, period. all the ones i can think of are the big obvious ones
bonds, griffey, alou...
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 19:53 (one year ago) link
How did i forget bonds?!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 19:56 (one year ago) link
ripken!
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 20:02 (one year ago) link
or wait...was there no ripken sr? i know his brother, billy (just because of his naughty bat)
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 20:03 (one year ago) link
I should have mentioned that three I got were really obvious: Bonds, Griffey, and a third HOF'er. Not Alou--not on the list I found; that does seem like it might be wrong--or Ripken. I don't think Cal Sr. ever played in the majors.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 20:17 (one year ago) link
Boone?
― omar little, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 20:45 (one year ago) link
That was one of my incorrect guesses. Of the remaining six...
One HOF'er (son)One HOF'er (father)One future HOF'er, probably (manager)Two good careers (the two fathers)One not especially notable combination (both father and son)
Pretty vague, I know. This is all according to a tweet; other sources say there are only seven in total, so this guy may have a mistake on there.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link
one thing i'll add: one father/son combo consists of two sons. (i gave up and looked it up – three answers i would have never guess as i was not aware of the father son-ness)
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 21:41 (one year ago) link
ahh ok Tito and Terry Francona for one, then.
― omar little, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 22:13 (one year ago) link
Yes--I never would have gotten that in a million years.
I thought for sure the Alous, but Ryan had gone back to the AL by the time Moises broke in.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 22:24 (one year ago) link
Here's the link if you want to check: twitter.com/theaceofspaeder/status/1086315158375489537?lang=en (if that embeds, look away, look away!)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 22:27 (one year ago) link
i didn't know about several of those father/son combos, and i always forget about the alomar family
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:04 (one year ago) link
here's a fun one. what player was taken off the field on a stretcher ELEVEN TIMES - six times while conscious, five times unconscious?
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:05 (one year ago) link
trivial hint that won't be helpful: he's the #1 player comp for julio rodriguez this year (which means he was very, very, very good)
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:06 (one year ago) link
I don't know how this squares with your clues, but the hardest one to me is the W's even more than the S's. I think W's son is all but forgotten now.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:12 (one year ago) link
oh, my trivia question is totally separate from the father/son question, sorry! just something i learned earlier this morning and wanted to share.
on the father/son question, i didn't even know that the W, P, or S players had family that also played
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:17 (one year ago) link
Crossed wires, got it...Fred Lynn for your question? Fred was banging into walls daily.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:31 (one year ago) link
I don’t think there is a “P” in the father/son thing?
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:37 (one year ago) link
according to the tweet clemenza posted a bit upthread, there is
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:43 (one year ago) link
and no on fred lynn! didn't know he was a wallbanger. but you're on the right track - it's an outfielder
There is a 'P' on the tweet, yes--that might be the extra one, as most other sources say there were only seven combinations he struck out.
I checked on the answer to KM's question, and it's a player who Lynn was often compared to; found two or three pieces that mentioned them in tandem.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:45 (one year ago) link
Oh wow. I hadn’t gone by the tweet - I had googled it after I gave up and landed somewhere else that didn’t have “p”!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:53 (one year ago) link
even more trivia! was just reading about Jayson Werth and learned that he is the grandson and nephew of one of the father/son combos that ryan struck out!
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 21:04 (one year ago) link
I was curious about the P combination--may as well say: Tony and Eduardo Perez--so I checked out Ryan's game logs.
On April 27, 1968, in his fifth game ever and fourth start, Ryan struck out Tony Perez the first time he faced him. I assume he struck him out a few times after that. (They usually were in different leagues, but not always.)
On August 10, 1993--more than 25 years and seven presidents later--in his 802nd game, and sixth-last start ever, Ryan struck out Eduardo (in his rookie season) the first time he faced him.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 23:19 (one year ago) link
Next bit of trivia: name the seven presidents Nolan Ryan struck out.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 19 January 2023 01:01 (one year ago) link
joe dimaggio struck out a president
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 January 2023 03:57 (one year ago) link
or wait, no he didn't. somehow i was jumbling jfk, jackie, marilyn monroe, and joe dimaggio in my head
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 19 January 2023 03:59 (one year ago) link
More like a president struck out Joe DiMaggio, then, eh?
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 19 January 2023 14:54 (one year ago) link
this is open-ended "trivia", because i only know of a few examples off hand and i'm curious who else did it.
tom seaver, in 1975, requested that his salary be decreased from 173K to 139K, because he didn't feel like he had performed well enough in 1974 to earn it.
stan musial, in 1960, requested that his salary be reduced from 100K to 80K, because he didn't like he had performed well enough in 1959 to justify it.
i'm not sure if seaver intended to or not, but both reductions were 20% pay cuts.
have any other players done this?
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 January 2023 16:21 (one year ago) link
Hard to think of any other examples. There was that time Andre Dawson wanted to sign with the Cubs and it was a blank contract situation, where he told them they could just fill in the salary for whatever they felt was appropriate for a one year deal. So they wrote in $500,000.
― omar little, Monday, 23 January 2023 16:35 (one year ago) link
But that was a weird situation heading into the 1987 season, collusion etc, and he signed a much better deal the year after that.
Swear I read about an example of this just the other day--I just have to get through the clutter in my brain to remember who it was.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 January 2023 16:41 (one year ago) link
from r/baseball, i thought this one was good (should be easy for you lot):
73 Phil Niekro52 Tim Wakefield43 Hoyt Wilhelm38 Charlie Hough32 Wilbur Wood30 Joe Niekro24 Dutch Leonard24 Tom Candiotti18 Felix Hernandez18 R.A. Dickey
Name the stat
― francisF, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 17:52 (one year ago) link
hit batsmen?
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 18:10 (one year ago) link
that's a good guess, and maybe right?
what's throwing me is king felix. did he throw a knuckleball?
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 18:11 (one year ago) link
well for Niekro i know that's how old he was when he retired but the other guys don't line up with that
― omar little, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 18:33 (one year ago) link
I’m out of my depth in this thread but dying to know what Felix has in common with the knuckleball guys!
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 20:09 (one year ago) link