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Twins in the category spurred me onto a sub 10% grid score today (with a hefty memory bank of ‘80s baseball cards overall): Mariners: Terry Bulling, obscure backup catcher (.1%) Brewers: UW-Lacrosse alum Caleb Boushley (.09%) Under 3.00 ERA: Vic Albury (.04%) Both Bulling and Albury featured...

Donald Igwebuike, nice! I had forgotten about him and having my memory jogged for Iggy was very pleasant. I went Linval Joseph, Jeff Christy, and Todd Scott

My phone won’t allow me to post a screenshot, but I was able to go all Twins on the board today: Top Row: Nelson Cruz, Robbie Grossman, Junior Ortiz Middle Row: Ben Rortvedt, Glenn Borgmann, John Roseboro Bottom Row: Grant Balfour, Jesse Crain, Henry Blanco The most difficult cube was Ortiz—had...

Hey, I put Aldred to use just as you did Ope! Torii Hunter was my SS/300 cube, to the same tune of .2% as Gaetti. The other Twin connection I was able to employ was Nick Punto for a cool .2% (Dodgers/Phils) And one other adjacent Twins history--Dave Kingman for the Athletics 300+ HR's (the...

Hmm, Inglewood...you know he's up to no good.

Anytime I see MBIII's name, highlights, etc. it brings about melancholy--he may be my all time favorite Gopher, I just loved to watch him run and power into and over defenders and to surmise that style led to such a painful end to his life. So very sad. I still love watching the game and doing...

Ahh, the old laundry basket ruse--and here I thought us fellas over in Winona were the only ones clever enough to pull that off ;-)

I remember a time when we didn't write off a 21 year old 6 games into his NFL career. Consider Boye Mafe's rookie season versus year 2 and now into year 3. Look at Lukas Van Ness's rookie season stats versus where he's at in year 2. Who knows where Turner will end up, but I don't think the...

One function that I'd love to see IG add is the percentages not just for the top guy (Piazza, for the category we're talking about), but a drop down to see #2, #3, #4. . .#167. I'm often times curious about that.

Not much to say, except Ope's nugget from months ago that Mark Salas hit exactly .300 one season paid off for me today, as I used him for the played catcher/.300 average square to the sweet tune of .004%

Best movies with a wrestler in a prominent role? Guardians of the Galaxy Rocky III Roadhouse (Terry Funk) Predator They Live The Princess Bride The Iron Claw (Chavo Guerrero Jr.) The Wrestler (cameos from a few former wrestlers) What am I missing? As much as I loved The Rock's WWE persona, I...

It took awhile for the penny to drop, but when I was on the second to last episode of Bad Monkey, I heard a cover of Tom Petty's Don't Come Around Here No More and was reminded that I was hearing a lot of Petty songs throughout the show that were covers. A quick search found that DCAHNM was...

Funny you bring up the ‘96 Twins-I used Frankie Rodriguez (BoSox .2%) and Scott Klingenbeck (Orioles, .008%) today. For my money, Klingenbeck was the worst pitcher I ever saw on the mound for the Twins so he’s forever etched in my memory. I finished off the category with Tony O at 7%. It seems a...

He could be the ace on the Quinton McCracken All-Stars (he played for Rockies, D-Backs, and Rays, in addition to 24 games for the local team in ‘01)

Has the NFC Central ever been this strong? Not just w/records or point differential or anything else, just anecdotally speaking/thinking, there has always been a dog in the division-most often the Lions, certainly the Bucs back in the day, but this is something else. Of course, some team could...

I just found out there’s a podcast called The Wonder of Stevie that covers his sublime period from ‘72 to’76. Haven’t listened yet but will definitely be checking it out.

Alright, time to get back on the horse for the next post of "Holy Hell, I didn't know/don't remember that he played for that franchise!" with the pretty recent (all things considered) Seattle Mariners who debuted the summer of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours with much less acclaim. It would take 14...

It's been awhile since I've heard Dolly Parton jokes--I think our age is showing fellas ;-)

You are correct—H was my lineup and I thought I could sneak Wilco in with my last pick but I was thwarted.