Got into a great mid 80’s baseball discussion last night at the Sidecar with Trivia Art and Sidecar owner Adam, where we tried to list the rosters of as many Series teams of the mid 80s as we could. Therefore, this weeks questions will be about obscure mid 80s baseball players who played in the World Series. No lookingthem up, no cheating and one guess per person. (The guy above did not play in a World Series. Do you know who he is?)
Month: June 2007
Week in Review
Started the week on the good ol’ Eastern Shore of Virginia, where I had a hot date to a wedding on Saturday. (Rumors that she must be completely blind to be my wedding date are untrue and, quite frankly, unfair. She can make out shapes and colors). Oh, and I did drop a sick hip hop medley at the reception, which consisted of verses from “It’s Tricky”, “Ice, Ice, Baby”, “Shimmy Shimmy Ya”, and “Bust a Move”. Needless to say, it went over extremely well. There was video taken, and if I can get a hold of some, it will propel me to the rap superstardom I so richly deserve. And Eve will be my date to the next wedding. They will call us “hip hop royalty” in the papers. It will be awesome.
On to quizzo, where the Young the Old and the Restless fell behind early, but aced a tough final round to come from behind and cruise past defending champs Dork Sided, 102-88.
A minor upset at the Bards Tuesday night, as the Dysfunktion, seemingly the only team that can hang with the Kingdom on Tuesdays, took a 100-94 win and the extra $20 bounty i had placed on the Sofa’s head.
On to the Rendezvous, where we had a thriller. Charles Nelson Reilly’s Ascot Collection held off Trust Us, We Know, 94-92. The Jams made a 4th round surge, scoring 50 to get to 90, but had made their bed in the movie taglines round. Darth Ern’s knowledge of movie taglines doesn’t extend into the “talkies”. Is their a new threat to Jam dominance at the Vous? Time will tell.
The craziness continued at the Black Sheep. A duo calling themselves Parke Overall tacked up a surprisingly easy win over Duane’s Minions, 91-79. I honestly can’t remember the last time two new teams won on the same night. I bet it’s been at least 3 years.
And the wackiness didn’t stop there. The 2 1/2 Armenians, the new team to beat at the Good Dog, fell to the Goodtimejohnnies.com, 107-101. On Thursday night, the Wild Card round (Things that Sting) was unquestionably tougher than the Impossible Round.
At the Bards, two teams aced round four, but the Hurtin’ Bombs missed less questions in Round Three and edged The Looser the Waistband, the Deeper the Quicksand, 107-104. The Sofa Kingdom was MIA.
Neither the Jams nor the Sofa Kingdom won this week. I would love to know the last time neither one of them won one week. I bet it’s over a year. But I’m too lazy to find out. If anyone wants to do the research (Nate, JohnniE?), I’ll buy ya a drink next week.
Barry Bonds: Philly’s Kind of Guy
This is an updated tweaking of a story I did last year. Bonds and the Giants visit town this weekend.he was still the worst player in the history of the game. And let’s face it; was it not brutally obvious that Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa were on the juice during that great chase of ’98 that gave us all the fuzzies? So why does Barry not get treated like the star athlete that he is when he comes to Philly? Because he doesn’t operate under a facade of niceness, b/c his p.r. people don’t tell him to offer up a bunch of b.s. about “taking it one day at a time” and giving “110 percent”? You people always complain about how boring athletes are, then you get a guy who speaks his mind and you decide to hate him. Ridiculous double standard.
But what this really comes down to is the rules. Should Cy Young be villified b/c he was allowed to throw the spitball, which is now against the rules? No, so why should Bonds be villified for using steroids at a time when they were not only legal in baseball, but encouraged? It’s obvious that McGuire woulda never hit all those homers and gotten all those endorsement deals without the help of steroids, so why should Bonds be treated any differently than McGuire? The fact that baseball encouraged steroid use is baseball’s fault, not Bonds’s fault. He saw an opportunity to improve his game, and make himself better and his team better. And he did so in a way that he knew could potentially hurt his own health. He did what all the great ones do: He put it all on the line to improve his game within the framework of the rules. And you people, who call yourselves baseball fans, continue to boo him.
Hardest questions of the week
See how ya do with the toughest questions of the week. Answers are after the jump. Lots of new blood won this week. Details this afternoon.
1. What is the only mammal with a poisous sting?
2. In what European city is NATO headquartered?
3. This creature with a vicious sting is actually a colony of specialize polyps and medusoids. (Hint: It’s not a jellyfish)
4. What 1984 movie had the tagline, “It’s the time of your life that may last a lifetime”?
5. Memorial Day was originally conceived to honor soldiers from what war?
6. What future baseball Hall of Famer was drafted by the San Diego Padres, the Minesota Vikings, and the Atlanta Hawks in 1973?
7. Charles Dickinson was a renowned duelist, having killed 26 men until he himself was killed on May 30, 1806. Who killed him in a duel?
8. What two enormous North American breweries merged in February of 2005?
9. What movie from the 2000s had the tagline, “Family isn’t a word. It’s a sentence.”?
10. What EU nation has a national language that less than 10% of the population speaks fluently, and which over a third of the population can’t speak at all?