let’s play: Immaculate Grid!

Fuck! Sorry!

Just going to post

So that my post moves up

And hopefully doesn’t spoil anyone

Sorry

Really

Sorry

Don’t scroll up if you’re here I posted my grid without hide tags (but I’ve asked a moderator to delete it)

Hopefully that’s enough

https://i.imgur.com/Cpua2mB.png

rarity score of 8

thank you, Wil Cordero

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

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.

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

Can anybody fill me in on how "Disco" Dan Ford got his nickname? His Wikipedia page doesn't say.

9/9, 20. Sudden Sam and Mack the Knife--great day for nicknames.

https://i.postimg.cc/wxrQLRnh/grid.jpg

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

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.

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.

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).

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

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.

Clemente's one game at second--a couple of innings late in the game--has stayed in my mind from another grid.

Wow the grid today is mental

8/9 the center square f-ed me over

Honestly, I think it would be more challenging today to figure out the most common answers. Of the nine, only one is above 25%.

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.

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.

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.

97 today

8/9, 176. Man you guys are good.

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

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.

8/9, 124--the streak dies at eight days, 107%. Rico Brogna, no good.

https://i.postimg.cc/CMt3ByzB/grid.jpg

9/9, 44?

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Two of your players are on my fantasy team--including the box I missed.

Which two?

J.P. Crawford is my utility guy--I inherited Corey Seager--and Bryson Stott my second baseman. I missed the Phillies/Mariners box today.

love JP a lot - top ten current player

It wasn't till late last season that I clued into the fact that he and Brandon Crawford weren't the same person.

Did you know his father played Canadian football and his cousin is Carl Crawford?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Crawford

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.

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

89 today

Eighty-nine not 8/9 i ran the table

9/9, 5

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

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

9/9 35
First 9/9 I’ve gotten in a while!

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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

"who had I already used"--an alternative to the age-old who/whom debate.