I missed 2 since 2007 (which was when i started following the Pirates), the 2B of 2010 (i had the right answer, but it wouldnt accept, since i gave his full name), and the 3B from 2007 :D
Same thing happened to me — I tried again with Aki and it accepted it. I also got cheaped out on the misspelling of Jeromy Burnitz.
129/180, remembering the beginning and the end best — I missed three from 1991-1994 and one (not counting Burnitz) from 2006-2010. I missed some real headscratchers; like I said “Bobby Hill came over in that one trade, I’ll try him,” but I forgot to try Aramis Ramirez. I was like, “Who was playing third base all those years?” Also I didn’t get Lastings.
I was staring at 1992, wondering who led off in right — Kirk Gibson? When the heck did that happen?
Don't remember him as a Pirate at all, but from what I can find on the internet
The Pirates traded Neal Heaton to the Royals for him on March 10, 1992 to try to help fill the void left by Bobby Bonilla. He played 16 games and struggled (batted just .196) so the Pirates released him on May 5. He was essentially going to retire as no team was interested in him anymore. The following season, Sparky Anderson convinced him to come back to baseball and play for the Tigers. He played 3 years for them, highlighted by a mini-resurgence in 1994 (23 HRs, .906 OPS), before officially calling it quits.
I got 136. I filled out the rosters for 1991, 1993, 1997, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010. If I had only remembered that Kirk Gibson was on the 92 team for a little while, I could have had that one too.
But yeah, missed some obvious ones like Francisco Cordova, Don Slaught, Derek Bell, Reggie Sanders and Jason Schmidt.
117 was my score, though I admit I "cheated" a bit by using common names as guesses.
One’s I should’ve gotten but didn’t, Tony Womack, Guillen, Cordova (the guy had the same ERA compared to league average as Nolan Ryan for pete’s sake), Jose Lind because of Sports Talk baseball, Randall Simon for obvious reasons , Kip Wells cause for some reason he’s memorable to me, Milledge and Clement cause they’re so recent, and a few more. Still don’t think I did TOO bad.
Saw a promo on MLB network last night for a new show, and in the promo, they asked if you could name the 1960 bucs lineup which literally I rattled off in about 6 seconds. Took me a bit longer, maybe 10 sec each, for 71 and 79.
I could do a reasonable attempt at the non-winning teams of the 60s, maybe grade out at 75%; maybe 50% for the non winning teams of the 70s; 1980 on….uh, no.
Would I get any points for remembering Joggin’ George Hendrick? Because I’d really like to forget him.
Would I get any points for remembering Joggin’ George Hendrick? Because I’d really like to forget him
Talk about a guy playing for nothing but a paycheck. Saw I clip of him as a Pirate and in a game againist the Mets at Shea. Hendrick was coming home and the Met catcher had the ball blocking HP and Hendrick did absolutely nothing to try and push him off to knock the ball off.
looking back through my sporcle stats, I scored a 156 the first time I gave this a try… jose guillen and oliver perez were among the biggest misses… most of them were best forgotten (mike benjamin! humberto cota!)
I just became a Pirates fan around ‘08 or so, so I did well with the recent years, and I remember the bulk of the guys from the early 90s teams, but from "95-’05 or so it was an abyss. Most of the names I got from those years came from reading BD posts from some of you reminiscing. “Remember when Bonifay/Littlefield signed ________? Man that guy sucked!”
I also tried to recall all the ringers who played well for us in ‘03, but I couldn’t come up with Lofton, Reese, or Sanders. I have a Pokey Reese bobble head, for cryin out loud.
since the Pirates love promotions and the bobblehead concept might be getting a bit stale, what about making an Andrew McCutchen bobbleDREADS where it’s just the hair coming out of his cap that bobbles. It would give them another chance to promote Cutch…
My best position was catcher. I only missed one, and I have my doubts that Mark Parent is a real person.
My worst was a tie for 3B and CF, 10/20 each. Blanking out on Aramis Ramirez will do that to you, and I really should’ve remembered some of the miscellaneous CFs between Van Slyke and Duffy but damn there were a lot of them. Only one I got was Hermansen.
I shoulda remembered him from when the Pirates’s 1-2 hitters came up to Billy Joel songs (Movin’ Out for Anthony Womack-ack-ack-ack-akc, Allentown for Jermaine).
RIP Vince Lascheid. You were one of the lastest, and the bestest.
Seriously though, that’s a great topic for a time when offseason acquisitions seem to have stopped and pitchers and catchers are still a few weeks away.
Some of them are pretty hilarious, intentionally or not:
Matt Holliday, Colorado Rockies: “Holiday”, Madonna
Craig Counsell, Milwaukee Brewers: “All Along the Watchtower”, Jimi Hendrix; “Ring of Fire,” Johnny Cash
Paul Lo Duca, New York Mets: “Boogie Shoes”, KC and the Sunshine Band; “Stayin’ Alive”, Bee Gees ; “Rockit”, Herbie Hancock; “No Sleep till Brooklyn,” Beastie Boys
Al Hrabosky, St. Louis Cardinals: “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2”, Franz Liszt
Link for above (Hrabsoky).
There’s also a list of players who specifically request that no music be played.
.
Via Jeff Sullivan, SBN
If I tried i think i would’ve gotten maybe 9 for last year’s roster and that’s about it lol….
The player’s names I know. The problem is placing them in the years….
God, that’s exhausting. I remembered guys like Rich Aude, Mike Kingery, and Kevin Elster, but forgot Jose Guillen, Ty Wigginton, Ian Snell, and Ronny Cedeno (!).
It killed me a little bit to see Mike Benjamin’s name show up three times…
How could you miss Cedeno? I mean, we got him in exchange for his predecessor!
That was why I remembered Rios – because I knew we’d gotten him in the Schmidt trade (although damned if I could actually recall his name; it was more, “Oh yeah, we got an OF for Schmidt, he didn’t play long, but maybe he opened once?”).
And I might add that I wasn’t actually a fan of the team until ’94 – although the names of the division winners were/are famous enough that I did well on those.
Players I remembered but couldn’t come up with the names: Slaught, Benjamin, Ritchie, Moss, Rios; that would have given me 7 more.
Players I can’t believe I forgot: Merced, Allensworth, Clement, Casey; another 9.
I got every Opening Day pitcher except Wakefield (before my time; I guessed Smiley, Walk, and Neagle for that era) and Wagner. OK, I didn’t remember Ritchie’s name, but I knew it started with an R, and I could have described his career arc to you.
and I missed some easy ones (Guillen, Martin, many of the pitchers for some reason). I did very well with the early 90s and recent years. I was suprised by how poorly I did in the 2004-6 range, but I guess things were rather bleak. However, I think my worst area was the late 90s; I was in college… need I say more?
4 complete lineups (2000, 2001, 2009, 2010). Forgot Bautista, Paulino, Duffy, Santiago, etc. Some of those are unacceptable. Definitely showed my age by not remembering most of 1991-1997.
on that 1997 team looked like a fixture at 2B for many years to come. Don’t remember him getting hurt, but his career went into the toilet quickly for some reason.
ARGH. so frustrated!
I forgot Nyjer Morgan for LF in 2009 otherwise i’d have got entire bottom row. Super angry i couldnt remember jose Guillen and Jeff king.
I tried about 10 different spellings of mackowiak. couldnt believe he was never a starter. I guess he was my favorite player in middle school or whatever. Rather proud that from 2004 on i only missed 3 players total!
passed this along to some dudes at work can’t for their results. There’s this one guy who’s 28 and grew up an INSANE buccos fan, now is pretty much the most jaded sports fan in the universe. I bet he gets at least a 140 i’ll let you guys know haha. So pumped!
It’s alright, I got Tike Redman and Chris Duffy right off the bat, but spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to remember who our center fielder in 2010 was.
For the life of me I couldn’t remember Joe Randa. I spent probably 2 minutes trying to remember his name. The only full lineups I got were 1999, 2003, and 2005.
Got all of 2006-2010. Not that much before 2000. Only one in 1995. In my defense, I was 4 at the time. So, perfect from my age 15 and up years, and not much from before I was 10. I will call that a decent showing.
He got mentioned here a couple of weeks ago because his wife is on that awful baseball housewives show. He was also one of the more prominent Pirates mentioned in the Mitchell Report, for taking HGH.
Decent lefty swingman, on the whole, but very wild – career BB/9 well over 4, IIRC.
was one of my favorite Bucs, it was tough to see the trade to St. Louis, even though it helped the team in the long run.
For those too young to have seen Pena play with the Pirates, he was fun to watch, one of those players who enjoyed playing the game. Excellent offensive production for a catcher, and defensively, was known for his unorthodox style. He got low like Sanguillen, but also contorted his legs in getting into position. At times, Pena would crouch down in one knee, with the other leg extended. Probably wasn’t fundamentally sound, but it worked for Pena.
Johnny Ray was the first favorite player I ever had. I cried when they traded him.
Stupid Miguel Garcia. I must’ve pulled 500 of his cards out of ‘89 Donruss packs, and every time I did, it’d remind me of Ray getting traded and I’d get pissed off all over again.
“The Hit Man”, Mike Easler was another favorite of mine from the 80s, wore # 24 before Bonds did. Easler was the definition of a late bloomer, finally got a chance to play regularly with the Bucs in the early 80s, and was a consistent run producer.
A lethal hitter who probably deserved his chance years earlier, was something like 27 or 28 before emerging with the Pirates.
Only completed the 2010 lineup, but I managed to get at least one guy for each year (which is something, I guess, since I wasn’t even alive for a few of them).
Whiffed on Womack, Ramirez, Bell, Martin, and a large smattering of nobodies. And like a bunch of other folks, I had no idea Kirk Gibson ever played for us.
Did good on the early 90’s, and the last few years, was blanking out on 97-05. How quickly I forget Duffy, Morgan, Guillen, Garcia. Just couldn’t remember the names for Stynes and Villone.
Huge respect
to the guy who can do that without cheating
BillBraskie - January 20, 2012
I look at a couple of players
But I did about 90 percent of it by just thinking of players in my head.
Bradley James McEachern - January 20, 2012
i got 90/180
I missed 2 since 2007 (which was when i started following the Pirates), the 2B of 2010 (i had the right answer, but it wouldnt accept, since i gave his full name), and the 3B from 2007 :D
BurgherKing - January 20, 2012
I typed in Iwamura and it accepted it.
Also, they misspelled Jeromy Burnitz….
IAPiratesFan - January 20, 2012
not sure
maybe i typoed, but i think it might be that i typed in full names… akinori iwamura, and i think they list it as aki iwamura… not sure if thats it
BurgherKing - January 20, 2012
that's it
Same thing happened to me — I tried again with Aki and it accepted it. I also got cheaped out on the misspelling of Jeromy Burnitz.
129/180, remembering the beginning and the end best — I missed three from 1991-1994 and one (not counting Burnitz) from 2006-2010. I missed some real headscratchers; like I said “Bobby Hill came over in that one trade, I’ll try him,” but I forgot to try Aramis Ramirez. I was like, “Who was playing third base all those years?” Also I didn’t get Lastings.
I was staring at 1992, wondering who led off in right — Kirk Gibson? When the heck did that happen?
WHYG Zane Smith - January 20, 2012
I don't remember Gibson at all
Couldn’t have got that one right to save my life.
Raybin - January 20, 2012
No kidding!
I have absolutely no recollection Kirk Gibson playing for the Pirates.
King Oskar - January 20, 2012
Don't remember him as a Pirate at all, but from what I can find on the internet
The Pirates traded Neal Heaton to the Royals for him on March 10, 1992 to try to help fill the void left by Bobby Bonilla. He played 16 games and struggled (batted just .196) so the Pirates released him on May 5. He was essentially going to retire as no team was interested in him anymore. The following season, Sparky Anderson convinced him to come back to baseball and play for the Tigers. He played 3 years for them, highlighted by a mini-resurgence in 1994 (23 HRs, .906 OPS), before officially calling it quits.
wv12 - January 20, 2012
You don't remember...
this?
MBandi - January 24, 2012
I didn’t remember that at all, but it’s awesome.
Vlad - January 25, 2012
I got 126
But missed so many obvious ones. I ran out of time, before I ran out of players. I should have been quicker.
Midnight Moose - January 20, 2012
You mean there's a time limit on this?
And you said it would be open-book, right?
Lino Donoso - January 20, 2012
132
I could have described like 5 others to a police sketch artist but couldn’t remember their names. I had 5 perfects and 2 others with 1 missing.
I imagine it’s a lot easier if you were a fan all 20 years, I only have about half that and I only got 1 pitcher from pre-2001.
Mr. E - January 20, 2012
Well then....
I got 136. I filled out the rosters for 1991, 1993, 1997, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010. If I had only remembered that Kirk Gibson was on the 92 team for a little while, I could have had that one too.
But yeah, missed some obvious ones like Francisco Cordova, Don Slaught, Derek Bell, Reggie Sanders and Jason Schmidt.
IAPiratesFan - January 20, 2012
How can you get Jay but not Derek?
Mr. E - January 20, 2012
My memory obviously likes me.
WHYG Zane Smith - January 20, 2012
Because he typed it that way.
If he’d’ve typed “Bell,” it would have given both.
cocktailsfor2 - January 20, 2012
Yep.
IAPiratesFan - January 21, 2012
112
If you do this, be warned, The names in red are really scary. Mike Benjamin …. gave me chills.
NHpiratefan - January 20, 2012
things i shouldn't be thinking about at 7 am
Who started at 3B for the Pirates after Chris Stynes but before Joe Randa?
gorillagogo - January 20, 2012
NOTE:
You only have to type in LAST NAMES
cocktailsfor2 - January 20, 2012
Which is a big deal
on a team with multiple Wilsons, Bells, and Browns.
Plus, I only got Daryle Ward because I remembered Turner Ward.
JRoth95 - January 20, 2012
117 was my score, though I admit I "cheated" a bit by using common names as guesses.
One’s I should’ve gotten but didn’t, Tony Womack, Guillen, Cordova (the guy had the same ERA compared to league average as Nolan Ryan for pete’s sake), Jose Lind because of Sports Talk baseball, Randall Simon for obvious reasons , Kip Wells cause for some reason he’s memorable to me, Milledge and Clement cause they’re so recent, and a few more. Still don’t think I did TOO bad.
Justin Mos - January 20, 2012
I did try Smith and Gonzalez
just in case.
Should have tried Brumfield – it’s so common!
Actually, I really should have tried Johnson, although that’s only 1 hit.
JRoth95 - January 20, 2012
150
I think I did this once before, though. So that may be considered cheating.
MBandi - January 20, 2012
140
Same for me.
cocktailsfor2 - January 20, 2012
Actually,
I think it was a similar one, not this particular one.
cocktailsfor2 - January 20, 2012
Similar situation
I’ve done this quiz before so I remembered guys that I had no business knowing were opening day starters (Kirk Gibson?) but FWIW 153
KentuckyPirate - January 20, 2012
They have quite a few
Pirates quizzes here.
Some are pretty tough!
cocktailsfor2 - January 20, 2012
100% on this is impossible.
Kosstic518 - January 20, 2012
agreed
some of the guys on that list wouldn’t even get themselves.
theatrain - January 20, 2012
+1
JRoth95 - January 20, 2012
wouldn't even try
Saw a promo on MLB network last night for a new show, and in the promo, they asked if you could name the 1960 bucs lineup which literally I rattled off in about 6 seconds. Took me a bit longer, maybe 10 sec each, for 71 and 79.
I could do a reasonable attempt at the non-winning teams of the 60s, maybe grade out at 75%; maybe 50% for the non winning teams of the 70s; 1980 on….uh, no.
Would I get any points for remembering Joggin’ George Hendrick? Because I’d really like to forget him.
mocasdad - January 20, 2012
Would I get any points for remembering Joggin’ George Hendrick? Because I’d really like to forget him
Talk about a guy playing for nothing but a paycheck. Saw I clip of him as a Pirate and in a game againist the Mets at Shea. Hendrick was coming home and the Met catcher had the ball blocking HP and Hendrick did absolutely nothing to try and push him off to knock the ball off.
What an embarassment.
Bradley James McEachern - January 20, 2012
I used to go sit in right field in Angels Stadium just to boo Hendrick.
BarryJT - January 23, 2012
You
are the Man.
cocktailsfor2 - January 23, 2012
looking back through my sporcle stats, I scored a 156 the first time I gave this a try… jose guillen and oliver perez were among the biggest misses… most of them were best forgotten (mike benjamin! humberto cota!)
Captain Easychord - January 20, 2012
140
And now I want to drink heavily.
REALLY pleased with myself for remembering Mike LaValliere I must say.
Raybin - January 20, 2012
ha
That was one of the first ones I typed in. Showing my age.
WHYG Zane Smith - January 20, 2012
I got the spelling right on my first attempt!
King Oskar - January 20, 2012
88 (just short of .500!)
I just became a Pirates fan around ‘08 or so, so I did well with the recent years, and I remember the bulk of the guys from the early 90s teams, but from "95-’05 or so it was an abyss. Most of the names I got from those years came from reading BD posts from some of you reminiscing. “Remember when Bonifay/Littlefield signed ________? Man that guy sucked!”
biggyv - January 20, 2012
+1
I did try to conjure those up, but mostly failed.
I also tried to recall all the ringers who played well for us in ‘03, but I couldn’t come up with Lofton, Reese, or Sanders. I have a Pokey Reese bobble head, for cryin out loud.
JRoth95 - January 20, 2012
Speaking of Pokey Reese bobbleheads
since the Pirates love promotions and the bobblehead concept might be getting a bit stale, what about making an Andrew McCutchen bobbleDREADS where it’s just the hair coming out of his cap that bobbles. It would give them another chance to promote Cutch…
KentuckyPirate - January 20, 2012
by position
My best position was catcher. I only missed one, and I have my doubts that Mark Parent is a real person.
My worst was a tie for 3B and CF, 10/20 each. Blanking out on Aramis Ramirez will do that to you, and I really should’ve remembered some of the miscellaneous CFs between Van Slyke and Duffy but damn there were a lot of them. Only one I got was Hermansen.
WHYG Zane Smith - January 20, 2012
Adrian Brown, dude! ADRIAN BROWN!!!
King Oskar - January 20, 2012
Yeah, him, Allensworth, and Tike are the ones I feel bad about not getting. Pelfrey and Brumfield, not so much.
WHYG Zane Smith - January 20, 2012
I was a bit surprised
that Duffy came up twice – I thought he was more a flash in the pan.
Same deal with Redman, actually.
JRoth95 - January 20, 2012
I didn’t get any of those guys outside of Hermansen. Repression is a wonderful thing.
King Oskar - January 20, 2012
The only reason I got Allensworth was the SNL sketch featuring Tracy Morgan as Jermaine Allensworth.
dswoager - January 20, 2012
I shoulda remembered him from when the Pirates’s 1-2 hitters came up to Billy Joel songs (Movin’ Out for Anthony Womack-ack-ack-ack-akc, Allentown for Jermaine).
RIP Vince Lascheid. You were one of the lastest, and the bestest.
WHYG Zane Smith - January 20, 2012
I still remember
The Andy Griffith theme, for John Mabry.
JRoth95 - January 20, 2012
oh god I just thought of the greatest sporcle quiz
Name the Pirates’ batters walkup songs from 1990 to whenever Lascheid stopped doing them.
Unfortunately to do this we’d have to find someone who knew the answers.
WHYG Zane Smith - January 20, 2012
Someone needs to put up a post
Maybe someone with front page privileges….
Seriously though, that’s a great topic for a time when offseason acquisitions seem to have stopped and pitchers and catchers are still a few weeks away.
JRoth95 - January 20, 2012
This is outdated, and by no means complete,
but has a lot of walkup songs.
Some of them are pretty hilarious, intentionally or not:
Link for above (Hrabsoky).There’s also a list of players who specifically request that no music be played.
.
Via Jeff Sullivan, SBN
cocktailsfor2 - January 21, 2012
I wonder how many people got Tike by guessing for Mark Redman
Mr. E - January 20, 2012
I guessed Tike
Because Mark Redman wasn’t around long enough for me to care and because of opening day 2005.
Bradley James McEachern - January 20, 2012
i got brown cuz i thought there has to be at least one brown in there
theatrain - January 20, 2012
BONUS:
When you type “Brown,” you also get BRANT
cocktailsfor2 - January 20, 2012
I was just bummed
That Emil never made it.
JRoth95 - January 20, 2012
I didn't even try
If I tried i think i would’ve gotten maybe 9 for last year’s roster and that’s about it lol….
The player’s names I know. The problem is placing them in the years….
lfhlaw - January 20, 2012
No - you just type names.
The quiz places them.
For instance, “Doumit” will be placed in all of the appropriate years.
Go on, try it.
cocktailsfor2 - January 20, 2012
doing it right now
but my memory is failing me badly lol
lfhlaw - January 20, 2012
can't even remember the bad 1st baseman
from last year who had a nickname of last year…oh just remembered overpaid…lol
lfhlaw - January 20, 2012
darn they didn't include 2011 lol
so it didn’t matter
lfhlaw - January 20, 2012
Pathetic
78 total players.
lfhlaw - January 20, 2012
my best years were
1991(the playoff runs) and 2010 lol
lfhlaw - January 20, 2012
159
God, that’s exhausting. I remembered guys like Rich Aude, Mike Kingery, and Kevin Elster, but forgot Jose Guillen, Ty Wigginton, Ian Snell, and Ronny Cedeno (!).
It killed me a little bit to see Mike Benjamin’s name show up three times…
Vlad - January 20, 2012
Dude
How could you miss Cedeno? I mean, we got him in exchange for his predecessor!
That was why I remembered Rios – because I knew we’d gotten him in the Schmidt trade (although damned if I could actually recall his name; it was more, “Oh yeah, we got an OF for Schmidt, he didn’t play long, but maybe he opened once?”).
JRoth95 - January 20, 2012
A mental lapse. Seems strangely appropriate, somehow.
Vlad - January 20, 2012
Absolutely
JRoth95 - January 20, 2012
i also missed cedeno
and Blastings milledge
theatrain - January 20, 2012
I'm lucky
I can remember to drink this coffee in front of me.
bucdaddy - January 20, 2012
I got 110/180, 77th pecentile
my only complete lineup was 2008, and my worst team was 1997 (2 of 9) :facepalm:
among recent players, I couldn’t remember Jose (Castillo)’s last name, and I forgot about Milledge, Moss, and Nyjer Morgan.
I can’t believe I forgot Jeff King, Al Martin, Jose Guillen, and also Wakefield, Cordova, Lieber, Ritchie, and Schmidt
I was glad to have forgotten Paulino, Burnitz, and Simon, though
gonfalon - January 20, 2012
tried again... 161/180, 91st percentile
forgot Meares this time, and forgot Womack again :doh:
gonfalon - January 20, 2012
I got 1/180
Ron Villone. Then I blanked.
Dan H - January 20, 2012
Villone was the first one I entered
JRoth95 - January 20, 2012
134
And I might add that I wasn’t actually a fan of the team until ’94 – although the names of the division winners were/are famous enough that I did well on those.
Players I remembered but couldn’t come up with the names: Slaught, Benjamin, Ritchie, Moss, Rios; that would have given me 7 more.
Players I can’t believe I forgot: Merced, Allensworth, Clement, Casey; another 9.
Years I got in their entirety: 2007, 2008
Years I got 8 of 9: ’91, ’01, ’09, ’10
JRoth95 - January 20, 2012
Oh, and
I got every Opening Day pitcher except Wakefield (before my time; I guessed Smiley, Walk, and Neagle for that era) and Wagner. OK, I didn’t remember Ritchie’s name, but I knew it started with an R, and I could have described his career arc to you.
JRoth95 - January 20, 2012
115
and I missed some easy ones (Guillen, Martin, many of the pitchers for some reason). I did very well with the early 90s and recent years. I was suprised by how poorly I did in the 2004-6 range, but I guess things were rather bleak. However, I think my worst area was the late 90s; I was in college… need I say more?
King Oskar - January 20, 2012
Looking back
No, it’s no surprise at all that we have sucked since 1992. Rich Aude? Ed Sprague? Lou Collier? Ron Villone?
/starts drinking
Best 15 minutes of the day, ’til the wife and I get home tonight…
wrecking_ball - January 20, 2012
Also
124/180, with a handful of nudges from you folks.
wrecking_ball - January 20, 2012
Aude was probably just behind Mark Parent as my "who the #@@#$@! is that guy?" guy
Though that was the American Flag game, wasn’t it? I should probably remember it.
WHYG Zane Smith - January 20, 2012
He was actually a decent prospect, way back when.
Second-round pick, made it to AAA by age 21, and had a .295/.353/.498 line there from 21-25.
Oh well.
Vlad - January 20, 2012
130/180
4 complete lineups (2000, 2001, 2009, 2010). Forgot Bautista, Paulino, Duffy, Santiago, etc. Some of those are unacceptable. Definitely showed my age by not remembering most of 1991-1997.
blackjackfishtaco - January 20, 2012
Warren Morris
on that 1997 team looked like a fixture at 2B for many years to come. Don’t remember him getting hurt, but his career went into the toilet quickly for some reason.
SteelStealth - January 20, 2012
115
ARGH. so frustrated!
I forgot Nyjer Morgan for LF in 2009 otherwise i’d have got entire bottom row. Super angry i couldnt remember jose Guillen and Jeff king.
I tried about 10 different spellings of mackowiak. couldnt believe he was never a starter. I guess he was my favorite player in middle school or whatever. Rather proud that from 2004 on i only missed 3 players total!
Mingy - January 20, 2012
passed this along to some dudes at work can’t for their results. There’s this one guy who’s 28 and grew up an INSANE buccos fan, now is pretty much the most jaded sports fan in the universe. I bet he gets at least a 140 i’ll let you guys know haha. So pumped!
Mingy - January 20, 2012
can’t wait*
Mingy - January 20, 2012
the misery guy tied me right on the nose at 115.
dude i spent 3-5 minutes trying to remember Guillen’s last name. I KNEW his first name was Jose too.
other proud moments:
Humberto Cota, Ian Snell, Matt Lawton
Mingy - January 20, 2012
Guillen
I probably spent 3 of the 15 minutes trying to remember his damn name.
Both Giles and Bay popped into my head shockingly late.
I was surprised at how few times Freddy appeared.
JRoth95 - January 20, 2012
It’s alright, I got Tike Redman and Chris Duffy right off the bat, but spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to remember who our center fielder in 2010 was.
thecheeseisblue - January 20, 2012
HA!
JRoth95 - January 20, 2012
Brian Giles
Remembered Bobby Hill and Armando Rios, but somehow forgot Brian Giles.
mah98 - January 20, 2012
i remembered Hill too
and forgot Brian Giles….but I also forgot Jason Bay lol…
lfhlaw - January 20, 2012
145
For the life of me I couldn’t remember Joe Randa. I spent probably 2 minutes trying to remember his name. The only full lineups I got were 1999, 2003, and 2005.
Spamrahan - January 20, 2012
111
Got all of 2006-2010. Not that much before 2000. Only one in 1995. In my defense, I was 4 at the time. So, perfect from my age 15 and up years, and not much from before I was 10. I will call that a decent showing.
thecheeseisblue - January 20, 2012
90, but hey, I'm only 21
ATribeCalledGreg - January 20, 2012
163
People like Brumfeld, Lawton, Aude and Parent aren’t worthy of memory space. I’m very happy I forgot Nyjer Morgan too.
Rubble44 - January 20, 2012
and Chris Duffy
Rubble44 - January 20, 2012
I got Lawton cause when I thought of Kendall
BigB2323 - January 20, 2012
Meanwhile
Anyone else notice that our host put up this thread, but hasn’t posted a score.
Inquiring minds want to know, Charlie!
JRoth95 - January 20, 2012
117
Really tough and the one’s missed were fairly common players…Randall Simon, Joey Bats, Kris Benson…etc.
ibleedblackandgold1 - January 20, 2012
138 not bad missed
Joey bats, I missed the most recent Nyjer Lastings Moss
BigB2323 - January 20, 2012
147
Seeing some of the names I put in there and having the thing light up was pretty depressing.
northsidenotch - January 20, 2012
146/180
two complete lineups – 99 and 01.
theatrain - January 20, 2012
Impressively consistent
You got a dozen more names, but no more lineups – you must have had mostly 8/9 and 7/9
JRoth95 - January 20, 2012
a lot of the pitchers stumped me
theatrain - January 21, 2012
173/180 not bad at all
Took me awhile but I finally thought of Pat Meares and Warren Morris.
Had no idea Zane Smith was a OD starter for us.
BTW who the hell is Brian Hunter, Rich Aude, Ron Villone, Paul Wagner and Mark Parent?
Bradley James McEachern - January 20, 2012
*glares*
WHYG Zane Smith - January 20, 2012
I knew that would get a reaction out of you.
Bradley James McEachern - January 20, 2012
Ron Villone
threw the first pitch in PNC Park, my friend.
Also had one of the all time journeyman careers. Played for almost 20 teams, IIRC.
JRoth95 - January 20, 2012
He got mentioned here a couple of weeks ago because his wife is on that awful baseball housewives show. He was also one of the more prominent Pirates mentioned in the Mitchell Report, for taking HGH.
Decent lefty swingman, on the whole, but very wild – career BB/9 well over 4, IIRC.
Vlad - January 21, 2012 via mobile
He also comes up in conversations along the lines of “Remember when Ron Villone was the opening day starter? God, that was embarrassing.”
WHYG Zane Smith - January 21, 2012
Yeah, well, there's THAT, too....
[facepalm]
cocktailsfor2 - January 21, 2012
+1
JRoth95 - January 21, 2012
This sounds like a good game: name the OD lineups from 70-89
http://www.sporcle.com/games/tunnel/pirates
Bradley James McEachern - January 20, 2012
Got a 113/180 on the 70-89 OD lineup game
Bradley James McEachern - January 20, 2012
58/180. not bad.
Mr. E - January 20, 2012
I got 99 on the 70-89 one.
That’s embarrassing. I missed so many I should have known.
Midnight Moose - January 21, 2012
1980s Catcher Tony Pena
was one of my favorite Bucs, it was tough to see the trade to St. Louis, even though it helped the team in the long run.
For those too young to have seen Pena play with the Pirates, he was fun to watch, one of those players who enjoyed playing the game. Excellent offensive production for a catcher, and defensively, was known for his unorthodox style. He got low like Sanguillen, but also contorted his legs in getting into position. At times, Pena would crouch down in one knee, with the other leg extended. Probably wasn’t fundamentally sound, but it worked for Pena.
SteelStealth - January 20, 2012
He was the only 80s Pirate I knew
As a young Mets fan. Well, him and Johnny Ray, but that’s just because of “Come On, Eileen”.
JRoth95 - January 20, 2012
Johnny Ray was the first favorite player I ever had. I cried when they traded him.
Stupid Miguel Garcia. I must’ve pulled 500 of his cards out of ‘89 Donruss packs, and every time I did, it’d remind me of Ray getting traded and I’d get pissed off all over again.
Vlad - January 21, 2012 via mobile
+1
that April Fools Day trade was tough for me to stomach, at the time…
gonfalon - January 20, 2012
Mike Easler
“The Hit Man”, Mike Easler was another favorite of mine from the 80s, wore # 24 before Bonds did. Easler was the definition of a late bloomer, finally got a chance to play regularly with the Bucs in the early 80s, and was a consistent run producer.
A lethal hitter who probably deserved his chance years earlier, was something like 27 or 28 before emerging with the Pirates.
SteelStealth - January 21, 2012
Tony Pena was the best catcher I’ve ever seen at throwing guys out from his knees. Truly remarkable arm.
Vlad - January 21, 2012 via mobile
Got 99/180.
Only completed the 2010 lineup, but I managed to get at least one guy for each year (which is something, I guess, since I wasn’t even alive for a few of them).
Whiffed on Womack, Ramirez, Bell, Martin, and a large smattering of nobodies. And like a bunch of other folks, I had no idea Kirk Gibson ever played for us.
wg1of5 - January 20, 2012
Amos Otis
Luis Tiant, Gene Tenace, were among other unlikely Pirates.
SteelStealth - January 20, 2012
142
Easiest answers that I missed: Milledge, Nady, Morgan, Benson, Bautista, Wells.
Hardest answers that I got: Parent, Wagner, Stynes, Villone, Elster, Benjamin.
matskralc - January 21, 2012
Jose Lind
How we will remember you…
CO_Bucs - January 21, 2012
101
Did good on the early 90’s, and the last few years, was blanking out on 97-05. How quickly I forget Duffy, Morgan, Guillen, Garcia. Just couldn’t remember the names for Stynes and Villone.
Brian Cartwright - January 23, 2012
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