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Immaculate Grid 90 9/9: IMMACULATE! 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩   Several of these took a while to think of, but they're all gettable if you've watched baseball for like 40 years.

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Finally in my wheelhouse and finally immaculate. Sub 100 rarity too. Immaculate Grid 106 9/9: Rarity: 89 IMMACULATE! 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩      

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⚾️ Immaculate Grid 115 9/9:
Rarity: 30
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Thank you Edwin Jackson!

I was a little surprised my rarity score was so low. The only obscure guy I picked was Zaun and that was only because of my Baltimore Orioles fandom and the fact I still kind of resent the 1997 Marlins.

 

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Angels are a pretty big black hole for me prior to like 2000.  I actually just guessed on my SF/LAA one because I thought I recalled that dude playing with LAA.  Used to always watch him on WGN so kind of kept up with him lol 

Also went with one of my fallbacks for LAA/SD lol 

 

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I am still confused about the rules...sometimes the intersection does not have to be in the same season, and sometimes it does...

Bobby Grich has a closet full of GGs, but he did not win one with the Angels.

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I had a couple of guys that fit in multiple squares.  Edmonds could have gone anywhere in the right column.  I thought Ozzie would be most commonly used in the GG spot so I moved him over to the SD square.

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Rarity: 64

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On 7/25/2023 at 6:51 AM, Scraps said:

Note to self....don't do this when I wake up.

Fucked myself in my head thinking the 200 hit only had to play for a team so instead of going with my layup for Toronto I decided to pick someone else who I knew had 200 hits with another team but not with Toronto. Idiot.

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I did the same thing today. Put Kevin Mitchell for the Padres b/c he hit 40 HR and played for the Pads, but not at the same time.  I get screwed up seemingly 2x a week with that shit. Did they have to win ROY the same year they hit 40 HR- shit like that. 

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My Immaculate Immaculate Grid
As mentioned, many of you Brilliant Readers have challenged me to write about playing Immaculate Grid. I wasn’t going to do it; I absolutely play every morning, but I have mixed feelings about it. Some days I love IG. Some days, when I’m getting a terrible headache trying to think about who played for the Rockies or Rays, I kind of hate it. Sometimes my strategy is just to pick the most obvious players and get through. Some days I try to go as obscure as I can go and shoot for the lowest rarity score. I feel way too much pressure playing it. Who needs that?

Rarity scores, again for those of you who don’t know, deal with the percentage of people who selected the player you selected. For example, let’s say that you have to find a player who played for both the Washington Nationals and San Diego Padres. I imagine that Juan Soto would probably be selected by 70% or more of the people playing; he’s the obvious one. So that would be 70-plus points on your rarity score.

But if you chose, I don’t know, Nate Colbert — who played for the Padres and spent a few weeks in Montreal, the Nationals’ predecessor — I would bet that fewer than 1% would choose him. So that would mean less than 1 point on your rarity score.

On Wednesday, I saw that the Royals were one of the teams … this is a big advantage for me because, as you might know, I was columnist at The Kansas City Star for 15 years when the team was awful and the players obscure. Also, one of the categories was “All-Star.” There probably aren’t too many people on earth more versed on terrible Royals All-Stars. I immediately thought: “OK, I can choose Ken Harvey, Mark Redman, Mike MacDougal or Old Aaron Crow Medicine Show, and that’s a guaranteed less than 1%.”

And that’s when I said: OK, I’m going for a less than a 5 rarity score on this one. And then I’m going to retire in glory and start enjoying my life by not even going for rarity scores when playing Immaculate Grid.

So, Royals All-Star: I went for Ken Harvey. He’s probably my favorite obscure Royals All-Star; in his marvelous career he once threw a ball directly into a pitcher’s face and he once was hit in the back with a cutoff throw because he was facing home plate for some reason. He was a pretty good hitter, though; I remember he had this weird thing where he put his right hand over his left when swinging the bat. So I went for Harvey … and he was chosen by 0.3%. Winner!

There’s another reason I went for Harvey — the box to the left asked me to pick a player who was on the Royals and Marlins. And I remembered that Mark Redman, my other choice for obscure Royals All-Star*, had pitched for the Marlins in their 2003 championship season. I vividly remember him getting lit up by the Yankees in that World Series. So I went with Redman — 0.2%. Winner!

*I got into a sort of spat with White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen over Redman — he chose Redman for that All-Star Game in 2006, and I took him to task over it, and he, well, let’s just say he didn’t like that.

One box to the left — Royal and Astro. Hmm. I immediately thought of Carlos Beltrán, of course, every Royals fan remembers that 2004 trade (and remembers Beltrán going absolutely bonkers in the playoffs) but that seemed WAY too obvious. I banged my head against the wall for a while and came up with a crazy good one — Runelvys Hernandez. He was a hilariously hotheaded pitcher for Kansas City in their charmed season of 2003 … and I remembered him being on the Astros because he got suspended for a positive drug test while with them. I knew Runelvys would be a big-time rare choice — and he was, 0.05%. Winner!

OK, now, sadly, I had to move away from the Royals. An A’s All-Star? The name Carney Lansford immediately popped into my head for some reason. It was actually a lucky choice; for some reason, I thought Lansford had won his batting title with the A’s. He hadn’t — that was with the Red Sox. But he was an A’s All-Star (whew) and that was 0.8%. Winner!

A’s and Marlins? Oh, I had no idea … until I thought of someone super-obscure who I know. Well, I know his dad better — Brad Ziegler! Remember him? I did a big story on him at one point; he’s from Kansas, and while in the minor leagues he was hit in the head with a line drive and, if memory serves, his life was in the balance. He recovered and ended up having an excellent career throwing Dan Quisenberry-style submarine sinkers. I knew he’d played for Oakland and I thought I remembered him playing for the Marlins at the end of his career. And: 0.5%. Winner!

A’s and Astros. I thought: OK, I’m going old school — I’m going to pick a Kansas City A’s player. And, the first name that came to mind was Jim Gentile. Well, that’s not right: The first name that came to mind was Gus Zernial, but I thought he probably retired before the Astros even existed. Did Jim Gentile play for the Houston Astros? For some reason, I thought he did. I closed my eyes and tried to imagine a Jim Gentile Astros baseball card.* I pulled the trigger: 0.03%. Winner!

*One does exist … but being honest, this was not the one I pictured:


OK, now I was getting nervous — I had a real shot here at my ultimate Immaculate Grid. I needed a Mets All-Star. I thought back to my childhood and Joel Youngblood came to mind quickly. But I had two concerns. One, was Youngblood ever actually an All-Star? He had to be, right? I mean those Mets teams of the 1970s and early 1980s were terrible, and he was typically their best player, no? He had to be a multiple-time All-Star, right?

My second concern was that Mets fans, going for the low rarity score, would choose him, too. But I couldn’t think of a better choice (was Felix Millan* an All-Star?) so I went for it. And two things happened.

I was right and wrong at the same time. Youngblood WAS a Mets All-Star, but it was during the garbage strike season of 1981, and he played only 43 games that year. I got SO lucky on him.

His rarity score was 0.07% so Mets fans did not go with him. Winner!

*Good thing I didn’t choose Felix Millan — he was a three-time All-Star, but never with the Mets. All three came when he was playing with Atlanta.

OK, two more to go. I’m shaking.

Met and Marlin. My first thought: Jeff Conine. Whenever I think of the Marlins, my first thought is Jeff Conine (I thought of him, too, with the Royals and Marlins because I remember him in Kansas City). But I thought: Too obvious. I don’t know, is he too obvious? I just punched him into Immaculate Grid and — 1%. I’m glad I didn’t pick him.

But who was a Met and Marlin that is less obvious than Jeff Conine (who played just 21 games for the Mets?). I had a quirky idea — one of my favorite 1980s Mets was Dave Magadan. Remember him? Super-light hitting, high-average corner infielder. I thought Mags would win a batting title, so for a time I collected his rookie cards.

But did Dave Magadan play for the Marlins? He just seemed like the kind of guy who played for the Marlins. I didn’t feel confident at all in this one; but once I was down the Dave Magadan path, I couldn’t quite move on. Magadan had to play for the Marlins, right? I mean, what’s even the point of there being a Marlins team if Dave Magadan didn’t play for them?

So I closed my eyes and pressed the button and — 0.3%. Oh my gosh: Winner! As it turns out, Magadan didn’t just for the Marlins, he played for them twice. They signed him in December 1992, traded him to Seattle in June of 1993, and traded to get him back in November 1993. My gut, for once, was right! And I was one square away from near-perfection.

And the last square — Astro and Met — I immediately, and I do mean immediately, thought “Danny Heep, Danny Heep, Danny Heep!” I vividly remembered him as an Astro and vividly remembered him as a Met, I totally loved Danny Heep. And so I had just one more question: Would Danny Heep be obscure enough?

Here was my thinking: There are some SUPER-obvious players who played for the Astros and Mets. I mean, you start with Nolan Ryan, but there’s also Carlos Beltrán and Mike Scott, I mean, everybody would remember Mike Scott because of the 1986 playoffs, right? I thought: You gotta pull the trigger on Danny Heep.

And so I did: 0.4%. Winner!

And my total rarity score was … 3.

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You might have had a lower rarity score than 3. I suspect many people have. But that’s the lowest score I’m ever getting on this crazy game. I’ve climbed as high on the mountain as I’m willing to go. I spent like three hours on this crazy game, and I just can’t do that again. From now on, I’m going to pick the obvious players and just get through it.

 

I had Harvey and Magadan on mine that day.

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⚾️ Immaculate Grid 117 8/9:
Rarity: 219
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Got a black and white pic in there.

 Hough was a little lucky as it turns out he only barely got over 200 once.  I didn't want to use the obvious Nolan or Yu.

I could have sworn Vinny Castilla had played for the Pirates.  I should have thought of Clint Hurdle Barmes.

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5 minutes ago, Scraps said:

Fuck I finally thought of this dumbass.  Fucked myself cause should have used my RP for the Hurdle square then I wouldn't have had this much trouble lol 

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Rarity: 196
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+rep for the Bonham Bullet.  I knew he played for those two teams but didn't think of him.

 

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⚾️ Immaculate Grid 117 8/9:
Rarity: 265
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So Jeff Francis never had a 200K season...huh. But he did play for the Reds! Ubaldo Jimenez DID have a 200K season! Wahoo! But then I couldn't get an immaculate grid...which was just as well since I couldn't think of anybody who played for the Rockies and the Pirates.

Oh and always like the ability to use Drew Stubbs.

 

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⚾️ Immaculate Grid 118 6/9:
Rarity: 440
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I’m very proud of my Red Sox/Oriole… and also a bit surprised 0.3% put him.

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But I blew two guesses on White Sox Cy Young (Buehrle, Thigpen…I feel better that there were only 3 total answers), and can’t believe Sale never won 20 with Boston)

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This game has me feeling nostalgic and randomly decided to relive my childhood Saturday mornings by watching an old episode of TWIB. 
I think I’ve tapped in to the cheat code for this game. So many great names I had forgotten about 

(and never knew the Yankees drafted and traded away McGriff).

 

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⚾️ Immaculate Grid 118 9/9:
Rarity: 100
IMMACULATE!
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Play at:
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Spahn and Sain and pray for Edwin Jackson

Devereaux was one of my favorite players as a kid, the way he would jump over the wall and steal home runs at Camden Yards. I wanted him to win the World Series and he did...with the Braves goddamnit.

 

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Palmer was such a high % that I looked at what the other options are. Only 3 others have won it for balt- and fun fact Palmer was on the roster for all 3 of those seasons. 
 

also was fun using Ruth for a Boston pitching stat square. 

 

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Yeah I had to think about if Steve Stone, Mike Flanagan, or Mike Cuellar was the most obscure so I went with the oldest.

You would think Mike Mussina or Scott McGregor would have won one but nope.

 

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⚾️ Immaculate Grid 119 9/9:

Rarity: 231

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I'm happy with this one

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I carried over the 3K strikeouts theme to the middle column, although Greinke isn't quite there yet

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Nice right column, WBT.

 

went with a lot of low hanging fruit on this one.

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But got burned by them moving this to 8am/ not awake yet.

went with the Big Train for 3000K in the middle row… nope. Wrong Washington team, dummy 

 

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