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Astros Trivia: Dome disaster
« on: May 02, 2007, 03:47:33 pm »
What former Astro once hit .344/.394/.545 with 12 homers and 65 RBIs away from the Dome in a single season? This player never had a 100 RBI season in his career.
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Re: Astros Trivia: Dome disaster
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2007, 03:59:49 pm »
Sean Berry was close in '96:  .294 / .333 / .556  13 HR, 64 RBI
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Re: Astros Trivia: Dome disaster
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2007, 04:08:46 pm »
The player in mention hit .276 with 0 homers and 30 RBIs in the dome that year.
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Re: Astros Trivia: Dome disaster
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2007, 04:10:08 pm »
Derek Bell?
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Re: Astros Trivia: Dome disaster
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2007, 04:11:34 pm »
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Re: Astros Trivia: Dome disaster
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2007, 04:11:51 pm »
Quote from: BudGirl on May 02, 2007, 04:10:08 pm
Derek Bell?

No, not operation shutdown.
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Re: Astros Trivia: Dome disaster
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2007, 04:13:10 pm »
Mike Simms?
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Re: Astros Trivia: Dome disaster
« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2007, 04:14:20 pm »
Nevermind, Simms never hit more than 9 homeruns for the Houston Astros.
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Re: Astros Trivia: Dome disaster
« Reply #8 on: May 02, 2007, 04:14:46 pm »
Ahh, no. Said former player is still in uniform.
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Re: Astros Trivia: Dome disaster
« Reply #9 on: May 02, 2007, 04:16:19 pm »
Quote from: mihoba on May 02, 2007, 04:11:51 pm
No, not operation shutdown.

Yeah, I already realized I was mistaken.

You and your hard trivia. 
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Re: Astros Trivia: Dome disaster
« Reply #10 on: May 02, 2007, 04:17:52 pm »
Hard? With all these clues I'm giving?
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Re: Astros Trivia: Dome disaster
« Reply #11 on: May 02, 2007, 04:18:03 pm »
Quote from: mihoba on May 02, 2007, 04:14:46 pm
Ahh, no. Said former player is still in uniform.

Cheo Cruz?
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Re: Astros Trivia: Dome disaster
« Reply #12 on: May 02, 2007, 04:20:09 pm »
Quote from: Noe in Austin on May 02, 2007, 04:18:03 pm
Cheo Cruz?

Ding! Ding! Ding!

Seems incredible his home/road splits. If he could have hit the same at home, he would have given Ryneberg a run for the MVP in 1984.

Good job Noe!
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Re: Astros Trivia: Dome disaster
« Reply #13 on: May 02, 2007, 04:21:01 pm »
Quote from: mihoba on May 02, 2007, 04:20:09 pm
Ding! Ding! Ding!

Seems incredible his home/road splits. If he could have hit the same at home, he would have given Ryneberg a run for the MVP in 1984.

Good job Noe!

"former" and "still in uniform" were a dead giveaway.  It was tough before that.
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Re: Astros Trivia: Dome disaster
« Reply #14 on: May 02, 2007, 04:22:34 pm »
Quote from: Noe in Austin on May 02, 2007, 04:21:01 pm
"former" and "still in uniform" were a dead giveaway.  It was tough before that.

Cheo was such a line drive machine, I never realized he was affected by the dome so much. Strange fact.
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Re: Astros Trivia: Dome disaster
« Reply #15 on: May 03, 2007, 08:46:27 am »
Quote from: Noe in Austin on May 02, 2007, 04:21:01 pm
"former" and "still in uniform" were a dead giveaway.  It was tough before that.

Of course you didn't say "still in Astros uniform".  Had you said that, it would have been too easy.
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Re: Astros Trivia: Dome disaster
« Reply #16 on: May 03, 2007, 09:32:16 am »
Quote from: ValpoCory on May 03, 2007, 08:46:27 am
Of course you didn't say "still in Astros uniform".  Had you said that, it would have been too easy.

My assumption and it worked.
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Re: Astros Trivia: Dome disaster
« Reply #17 on: May 03, 2007, 09:56:48 am »
Quote from: ValpoCory on May 03, 2007, 08:46:27 am
Of course you didn't say "still in Astros uniform".  Had you said that, it would have been too easy.

I'll put together another one for today.
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Re: Astros Trivia: Dome disaster
« Reply #18 on: May 03, 2007, 11:46:51 am »
This may have been suggested before but these trivia threads would be a great section on their own.   I'm not very good at the answers and the amount of baseball history that comes of them is incredible.   Anyway, just a thought I had.  I figured it might help on the off days if I could go back and find different trivia threads to help me procrastinate at work.   If anyone knows of a search criteria for that, let me know. 
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Re: Astros Trivia: Dome disaster
« Reply #19 on: May 03, 2007, 12:02:52 pm »
Quote from: El Guapo on May 03, 2007, 11:46:51 am
This may have been suggested before but these trivia threads would be a great section on their own.   I'm not very good at the answers and the amount of baseball history that comes of them is incredible.   Anyway, just a thought I had.  I figured it might help on the off days if I could go back and find different trivia threads to help me procrastinate at work.   If anyone knows of a search criteria for that, let me know. 

It was discussed at one time to have the Reverend Wild Dog Saturday Morning Church of the Holy Trivia section in our offerings.  But the right reverend and his high priest mihoba were too busy to make it happen.

I'm sure mihoba would love to revisit this at some point with someone and perhaps get his own group of trivia researchers together for it.  But there are no plans rights now for a formalized way of delivering the trivia.  Perhaps someday soon though.
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Re: Astros Trivia: Dome disaster
« Reply #20 on: May 03, 2007, 12:43:01 pm »
Quote from: Noe in Austin on May 03, 2007, 12:02:52 pm
It was discussed at one time to have the Reverend Wild Dog Saturday Morning Church of the Holy Trivia section in our offerings.  But the right reverend and his high priest mihoba were too busy to make it happen.

I'm sure mihoba would love to revisit this at some point with someone and perhaps get his own group of trivia researchers together for it.  But there are no plans rights now for a formalized way of delivering the trivia.  Perhaps someday soon though.

Read: I'm holding out for a better contract, the DQ of trivia!

We may have to look into this again Noe, it seems to be a popular item.
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Re: Astros Trivia: Dome disaster
« Reply #21 on: May 03, 2007, 12:49:42 pm »
I enjoy finding obsecure stats that you never knew, and part of the fun is taking the time to use the interweb to research said answer if you have no clue, so i'd willing to participate in something like this.
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Re: Astros Trivia: Dome disaster
« Reply #22 on: May 03, 2007, 01:10:02 pm »
Thanks guys.  Seriously, I meant simply taking the existing trivia threads, and the new ones as they arise, and put them in their own section.  It never occurred to me that you twisted folks actually research obscure stats to amaze and inspire the rest of us.  Thanks for sharing the fruits of your labor!
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