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bigblu89 posted...

When it doubt, guess Edwin Jackson, Todd Zeile, or Fernando Rodney

Or Mike Morgan or Octavio Dotel

bigblu89 posted...

When it doubt, guess Edwin Jackson, Todd Zeile, or Fernando Rodney

Edwin has played for 3 expansion teams that havent even been created yet

6/9 today. My OAK 20+ game winner could also have fit into OAK/SF, but then I couldn't figure out who else to put there. I guessed with Mike Morgan in a few squares, but should've guessed Octavio Dotel instead

PIT/OAK - Miss
PIT/TOR - Miss
PIT/MVP - Barry Bonds
SF/OAK - Miss
SF/TOR - Benito Santiago
SF/MVP - Willie Mays
20/OAK - Barry Zito
20/TOR - Roy Halladay
20/MVP - Justin Verlander

5/9

Pirates/MVP: Willie Stargell
Giants/As: Sean Manaea
Giants/Jays: Ross Stripling
Giants/MVP: Buster Posey
As/20Wins: Catfish Hunter

5/9

Fucked myself with one guess, which kept me from getting 6/9.

Pirates/As = MISSED
Pirates/Jays = MISSED
Pirates/MVP = Willie Stargell (13%)
Giants/As = MISSED
Giants/Jays = MISSED
Giants/MVP = Jeff Kent (7%)
20 Wins/As = Barry Zito (27%)
20 Wins/Jays = Roy Halladay (66%)
20 Wins/MVP = Bob Gibson (6%)

Soon after writing in Barry Zito for 20 Wins/As, I realized I messed up. Shoulda written in Tim Hudson, which woulda given me a chance at Giants/As with Zito, since I couldnt think of anyone else. I really need to slow down when I play this game

Just 4/9 today. It was the worst combo of teams/categories I could think of.

I swept my team (KC) but only got one other correct for a horrific 4/9

My worst puzzle came a day after my best lol (9/9 yesterday)

Of the 4 I got right, I did get a 6%, a 2%, and a 0.6%

3/9

Horrible.

KC/30SBs: Adalberto Mondesi
Brewers/Nats: Gerardo Parra
Brewers/Dads: Josh Hader

This is cool

Dreadful performance though. Only 4/9. Could hardly come up with anything in the first two columns. Like the Brewers/Padres one should have been particularly obvious, but it just didn't occur to me. Also could not figure out 30+ SBs for the Royals.

GeneralKenobi85 posted...

Also could not figure out 30+ SBs for the Royals.

As a Royals homer, I went with Willie Wilson, a star on the great teams from the 70s and 80s. Johnny Damon, Carlos Beltran, Whit Merrifield (led the AL thrice) and Adalberto Mondesi are also names that you might have heard that accomplished the feat in KC.

Fwiw, I missed the Hader one too and couldn't think of 30+ SB guys for the Brewers (I forgot Yelish used to run well) and Rangers.

As many people don't really think about the Royals, I don't really think about the Nats, Rangers, Brewers, or Padres....so this was never going to be a good one for me lol

El_Marsh posted...

As a Royals homer, I went with Willie Wilson, a star on the great teams from the 70s and 80s. Johnny Damon, Carlos Beltran, Whit Merrifield (led the AL thrice) and Adalberto Mondesi are also names that you might have heard that accomplished the feat in KC.

Fwiw, I missed the Hader one too and couldn't think of 30+ SB guys for the Brewers (I forgot Yelish used to run well) and Rangers.

As many people don't really think about the Royals, I don't really think about the Nats, Rangers, Brewers, or Padres....so this was never going to be a good one for me lol

Yeah it's one of those games where everything is obvious in hindsight. I know all of those guys, but couldn't place them at the time. Merrifield should have been obvious. Mondesi was the one I was trying to remember, but couldn't.

My only 4 correct guesses:

TEX/WAS - Mark DeRosa (0.6%)
TEX/SD - Ken Caminiti (2%)
KC/30+ - Carlos Beltran (6%)
MIL/30+ - Christian Yelich (40%)

Yeesh, I usually do well on these, but I only got 4/9 today. Just got these 4:

Royals/30 steals: Bobby Witt Jr (14%)
Rangers/Padres: Ken Caminiti (2%)
Rangers/30 steals: Elvis Andrus (51%)
Brewers/30 steals: Scott Podsednik (3%)

I only knew Witt because hes on my fantasy team. And I dont know which recess of my brain I pulled Caminiti from. It suddenly just popped into my head at the very end.

Yesterday was the hardest puzzle Id done. Today was the easiest. Very quick 9/9, 302 rarity:

Cubs/BoSox = Rod Beck (0.3%)
Cubs/Guardians = Kenny Lofton (11%)
Cubs/Cy = Rick Sutcliffe (5%)
Twins/BoSox = Doug Mientkiewicz (5%)
Twins/Guardians = Jim Thome (32%)
Twins/Cy = Johan Santana (87%)
3,000/BoSox = Pedro Martinez (44%)
3,000/Gaurdians = CC Sabathia (77%)
3,000/Cy = Randy Johnson (40%)

Got 8/9 today because I thought that Nolan Ryan would be an easy pick for 3k/CY, but he never actually won the Cy Young

CHC/BOS - Bill Mueller
CHC/CLE - Kerry Wood
CHC/CY - Jake Arrieta
MIN/BOS - David Ortiz
MIN/CLE - Miss (out of guesses)
MIN/CY - Johan Santana
3k/BOS - Roger Clemens
3k/CLE - CC Sabathia
3k/CY - Randy Johnson

6/9 today. I don't think there were any obvious players for the categories I missed (though I was relatively sure that Carlos Pena was good for ANA/TB

ANA/CIN - Miss
ANA/TB - Miss
ANA/Allstar - Mike Trout
BAL/CIN - Miss
BAL/TB - Jason Hammel 0.4%
BAL/Allstar - Adley Rutschman
ATL/CIN - Deion Sanders
ATL/TB - Fredd McGriff
ATL/Allstar - Chipper Jones

6/9

Reds/Angels: Brandon Drury
Reds/Braves: Raisel Iglesias
Rays/Braves: Charlie Morton
Angels/Allstar: Shohei Ohtani
Orioles/Allstar: Cedric Mullins
Braves/Allstar: Ronald Acuna Jr.

I have two guesses left, so maybe I'll come back to it and try for 8/9.

Apparently, they are resetting the puzzle in about 30 minutes. We get two today!

For the first puzzle, I got a 7/9. I was absolutely clueless on the ones I missed.

Angels/Reds = MISSED
Angels/Rays = Troy Percival (5%)
Angels/All Star = Reggie Jackson (1.0%)
Orioles/Reds = Arthur Rhodes (0.9%)
Orioles/Rays = MISSED
Orioles/All Star = Eddie Murray (2%)
Braves/Reds = Brandon Phillips (16%)
Braves/Rays = Fred McGriff (15%)
Braves/All Star = John Smoltz (3%)

Seemed like an easy one today, until I discovered that Ken Griffey Jr, Alex Rodriguez, Frank Thomas and Chris Sale didn't win ROTY, so that sucked

Went 8/9 today. Missed Seattle/Miami (I went with Ichiro at Seattle/RotY, which took away the Seattle/Miami answer). Also, ChiSox are my team, so it made that one a little easier.

DBacks/ChiSox = Adam Dunn (10%)
DBacks/Mariners = Randy Johnson (56%)
DBacks/100 RBIs = Luis Gonzalez (40%)
Marlins/ChiSox = Miguel Olivo (0.4%)
Marlins/Mariners = MISSED
Marlins/100 RBIs = Miguel Cabrera (26%)
RotY/ChiSox = Ozzie Guillen (14%)
RotY/Mariners = Ichiro Suzuki (41%)
RotY/100 RBIs = Albert Pujols (14%)

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/9/3/AAEqD0AAEp2Z.jpg

Went 6/9 today. I'm just not great with either the A's, Padres or Tigers, so this was a bad grid.

DET/COL - Octavio Dotel
DET/SD - Miss
DET/500 - Miggy Cabrera
OAK/COL - Miss
OAK/SD - Miss
OAK/500 - Mark McGwire
SF/COL - Kris Bryant
SF/SD - Jake Peavy
SF/500 - Barry Bonds

7/9 today. One of my misses was a square that either Edwin Jackson or Octavio Dotel would have worked (grrrr)

I got 4/9, mostly 'cause I embarrassingly mixed up the Jays and Expos for some reason, lol.

I didnt get a chance to finish the last few days, but I was doing poorly, to say the least.

Got a quick and easy 9/9 today, rarity score of 102. Living just outside of Chicago for my whole life made this one a breeze, considering the ChiSox and Cubs were both on it:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/3/9/AAEqD0AAEqZf.jpg

I'm at 8/9 right now and staring down the CHW/LAA box

I ended at 8/9. I had 4 guesses for CHW/LAA and none of them would have been right.

6/9 ain't bad, I guess. I don't follow Detroit or the White Sox that much, so my guesses didn't pan out (Alec Mills lol).

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/9/3/AABhrNAAEqb5.jpg

I had a good one today. 49 rarity score

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/5/8/AAP15pAAEqee.jpg

9/9, rarity 143

Took a chance to see if Montreal would count for Washington. It does.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/1/4/AAEqD0AAEqkC.jpg

I don't want to talk about today's....

I had 7/7 but blew it at the end. I was thinking about J.A. Happ but chickened out, only to find he would have worked in both of my missed squares (oof)

I missed one today because instead of putting Bret Boone for the Mariners' silver slugger spot I said his brother Aaron *facepalm*.

Still had a 173 rarity score.

8/9, rarity 320

Could not think of Sea/Mil for the life of me.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/5/8/AAEqD0AAEq3e.jpg

9/9 with a rarity of 218. One of the easier ones imo

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/7/4/AAA8oMAAEq3u.jpg

9/9, rarity 37

Did great on this one

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/0/0/AAEqD0AAEq7Q.jpg

Rarity score 23. the best I've done so far. The Twins ones took me a while and Koskie was a leap of faith. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/5/AAP15pAAEq7p.jpg

I apparently have no memory of any Twins player in the history of the Twins. I'm at 7/7 with the two Twins boxes staring at me mockingly

My grids have basically turned into "Let's see how many days in a row I can fill it with 9 current or former Mets".

bigblu89 posted...

My grids have basically turned into "Let's see how many days in a row I can fill it with 9 current or former Mets".

Same, but with Cubs. "Okay, so that Cubs backup infielder from 1994 used to play for the Pirates, but then I think they were traded to the Rangers?"

I'm really bad with who's played on multiple teams but I got a player today that was picked only 0.8% for Blue Jays/Rays

Kelly Johnson

Thewinner14 posted...

I'm really bad with who's played on multiple teams but I got a player today that was picked only 0.8% for Blue Jays/Rays

Kelly Johnson

Also a former Met, so I used him as well.

bigblu89 posted...

Also a former Met, so I used him as well.

I forgot about his Mets tenure.

Hmm, 7/9 might be my best yet.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/5/1/AABhrNAAErD3.jpg

9/9, rarity 195. I got super lucky with some educated guesses on KC/Pit and CIn/NYM.

Also, Im not sure if Ive ever seen a player with a score higher than 70% before, let along 92%

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/4/6/AAEqD0AAErFW.jpg

Waiting for my coffee to kick in because I got SF/KC and now I'm just staring through the screen. The .300 hitter column should be easy, but I don't want to screw myself by putting someone there I can use elsewhere

Ended up 7/9. I made the same wrong guess on CIN/300 hitter that I did last time (dammit) and also missed on a previous correct guess for PIT/KC.

My memory is shit

SF/KC - Carlos Beltran
SF/NYM - Miss (ran out of guesses)
SF/300 - Willie Mays
PIT/KC - Miss
PIT/NYM - Todd Frazier
PIT/300 - Roberto Clemente
CIN/KC - Aroldis Chapman
CIN/NYM - Tom Seaver
CIN/300 - Pete Rose

Now I know Im obsessed. Im actually emailing them corrections. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/5/2/AAafKOAAErKI.jpg

5/9

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/5/3/AABhrNAAErKJ.jpg