August 27, 20241 yr ALL MARLINS TRIVIA Rules: No cheating Correct answers will be revealed around a week What Marlin was nearly traded for Chipper Jones? How did Cliff Floyd break his arm? What Rockies player hit the longest HR in Pro Player Stadium? What Marlin player supposedly looked like Vanilla Ice? Who was the Marlins starting pitcher for the Marlins' first game in team history? Edited August 27, 20241 yr by K-Jazzzz
August 27, 20241 yr 2 minutes ago, K-Jazzzz said: ALL MARLINS TRIVIA What Marlins was nearly traded for Chipper Jones? How did Cliff Floyd break his arm? What Rockies player hit the longest HR in Marlins Park? What Marlin player supposedly looked like Vanilla Ice? Who was the Marlins starting pitcher for the Marlins' first game in team history? You should have added a caveat that answers and guessing have to be off the top of your head otherwise anyone could probably find the answers in less than a minute on a search engine. So with that being said I will try to answer this with honesty and integrity and say I have no idea about any of the answers. I can only make a guess and try to see if I remember hearing about any of that at sometime in the past 20+ years of being a Marlins fan. For Question #3 I’m thinking either Todd Helton or Andres Galaraga(probably messed up the spelling).. but it’s tricky could be Charlie Blackmon. My Final Answer will be Andres G. 😂 For question 5 it’s bugging me because I knew the answer at one point.. and because I don’t want to cheat and look it up.. ugh.. I know it was a veteran pitcher who had been around for while in MLB.. but dang.. the name escapes me.. Brian Harvey is popping up from memory but part of me thinks he was a closer.. I’m trying to remember memories of watching that opening day game on YouTube.. Chuck Carr is a name that comes to mind but he wasn’t a pitcher. Ugh.. I can’t remember.. but I won’t look it up and post the answer to maintain the integrity of the trivia game. I mean I’ll look it up, but won’t post the answer now that I’ve officially given up. Be right back.. Ok I’m back.. ugh that name escaped me.. but yeah. Great idea for the trivia game!
August 27, 20241 yr 5 minutes ago, SirFishFan said: For Question #3 I’m thinking either Todd Helton or Andres Galaraga(probably messed up the spelling).. but it’s tricky could be Charlie Blackmon. My Final Answer will be Andres G. 😂 Wait a minute.. on that question you said longest HR hit by a Rockies player in “Marlins Park”. By that are you referring to loanDepot park or also including Pro Player Stadium/5 other names of that same place? Because if you’re only talking about Marlins park/loanDepot park I have no idea. Maybe Charlie Blackmon.
August 27, 20241 yr Author 25 minutes ago, SirFishFan said: You should have added a caveat that answers and guessing have to be off the top of your head otherwise anyone could probably find the answers in less than a minute on a search engine. So with that being said I will try to answer this with honesty and integrity and say I have no idea about any of the answers. I can only make a guess and try to see if I remember hearing about any of that at sometime in the past 20+ years of being a Marlins fan. For Question #3 I’m thinking either Todd Helton or Andres Galaraga(probably messed up the spelling).. but it’s tricky could be Charlie Blackmon. My Final Answer will be Andres G. 😂 For question 5 it’s bugging me because I knew the answer at one point.. and because I don’t want to cheat and look it up.. ugh.. I know it was a veteran pitcher who had been around for while in MLB.. but dang.. the name escapes me.. Brian Harvey is popping up from memory but part of me thinks he was a closer.. I’m trying to remember memories of watching that opening day game on YouTube.. Chuck Carr is a name that comes to mind but he wasn’t a pitcher. Ugh.. I can’t remember.. but I won’t look it up and post the answer to maintain the integrity of the trivia game. I mean I’ll look it up, but won’t post the answer now that I’ve officially given up. Be right back.. Ok I’m back.. ugh that name escaped me.. but yeah. Great idea for the trivia game! Yeah no cheating 😄 Sorry, longest HR in Pro Player Park. Need to edit some things.
August 27, 20241 yr If memory serves it was Mantei who they claimed looked like Robert VanWinkle (aka Vanilla Ice)
August 28, 20241 yr 15 hours ago, K-Jazzzz said: ALL MARLINS TRIVIA Rules: No cheating Correct answers will be revealed around a week What Marlin was nearly traded for Chipper Jones? How did Cliff Floyd break his arm? What Rockies player hit the longest HR in Pro Player Stadium? What Marlin player supposedly looked like Vanilla Ice? Who was the Marlins starting pitcher for the Marlins' first game in team history? What Marlin was nearly traded for Chipper Jones? Gonna say this was probably 1995 or so, so Maybe Gary Sheffield. How did Cliff Floyd break his arm? Dan Marino Piss Missile in practice What Rockies player hit the longest HR in Pro Player Stadium? Andres Galaraga What Marlin player supposedly looked like Vanilla Ice? Jim Leyland Who was the Marlins starting pitcher for the Marlins' first game in team history? Charlie Hough
August 28, 20241 yr Who was the Marlins starting pitcher for the Marlins' first game in team history? Wouldn't this be John Lynch the football player?
August 28, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, SilverBullet said: Who was the Marlins starting pitcher for the Marlins' first game in team history? Wouldn't this be John Lynch the football player? Spring training doesn't count
August 28, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, hovertical said: Spring training doesn't count Charlie Hough is too easy of an answer, I'm thinking the original question is asking of the first game in the entire organization's history.
August 28, 20241 yr 1 minute ago, SilverBullet said: Charlie Hough is too easy of an answer, I'm thinking the original question is asking of the first game in the entire organization's history. He was being kind so everyone could feel good about themselves. We all know about Lynch too so either/or I guess
August 28, 20241 yr Author 1 hour ago, hovertical said: We all know about Lynch too so either/or I guess I didn’t, LOL
August 29, 20241 yr Author 14 hours ago, SilverBullet said: Charlie Hough is too easy of an answer, I'm thinking the original question is asking of the first game in the entire organization's history.
August 29, 20241 yr Author 19 minutes ago, Piazza31 said: Need sources on that Chipper one, would be interesting. I’ll give the answer & the reason why the fish decided to pass in a couple days
August 30, 20241 yr Author Why wait any longer. Round 2 will be posted after this completion. SUMMARY: This sad fan base scored pretty low as a collective unit. The brainiac of the bunch was Piazza31 with 2 correct answers, (WOW). But I had to shrug Piazza off like a pitcher with his sitcom antics. The hardest question answered was by Hovertical, a great guess for someone who peeks into other phones that don’t belong to him. SilverBullet, more like RustBullet and SirFishFan did a lot of talkin and not a lot of walkin. On a serious note you guys did ok. BOX SCORE: 3 out of 5 ANSWERS: 1) Bryan Harvey. Braves needed a closer but the Marlins declined thinking team chemistry with Harvey’s leadership was the right move. Ouch!! You can YouTube it “Miami Marlins A great beginning”. It’s 60 min but better than watching marlins baseball. 2) Cliff Floyd broke his arm when he extended it past the first base line on an errand throw to first. The runner ran through the arm and it snapped & broke. All these questions/answers are from memory I didn’t look them up. If I remember his arm was nearly severed in half. 3) Andres Galaraga I looked up the distance it was originally 573ft and then changed 529ft. 4) Matt Mantei I also thought they said this guy was the next great closer. Looks are deceiving. 5) Charlie Hough I only remember this gizzard because he looked like an old farmer from Iowa Round 2 will be posted shortly. @SilverBullet @hovertical @SirFishFan @Piazza31 Edited August 30, 20241 yr by K-Jazzzz Sorry
August 30, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, K-Jazzzz said: Why wait any longer. Round 2 will be posted after this completion. SUMMARY: This sad fan base scored pretty low as a collective unit. The brainiac of the bunch was Piazza31 with 2 correct answers, (WOW). But I had to shrug Piazza off like a pitcher with his sitcom antics. The hardest question answered was by Hovertical, a great guess for someone who peeks into other phones that don’t belong to him. SilverBullet, more like RustBullet and SirFishFan did a lot of talkin and not a lot of walkin. On a serious note you guys did ok. BOX SCORE: 3 out of 5 ANSWERS: 1) Bryan Harvey. Braves needed a closer but the Marlins declined thinking team chemistry with Harvey’s leadership was the right move. Ouch!! You can YouTube it “Miami Marlins A great beginning”. It’s 60 min but better than watching marlins baseball. 2) Cliff Floyd broke his arm when he extended it past the first base line on an errand throw to first. The runner ran through the arm and it snapped & broke. All these questions/answers are from memory I didn’t look them up. If I remember his arm was nearly severed in half. 3) Andres Galaraga I looked up the distance it was originally 573ft and then changed 529ft. 4) Matt Mantei I also thought they said this guy was the next great closer. Looks are deceiving. 5) Charlie Hough I only remember this gizzard because he looked like an old farmer from Iowa Round 2 will be posted shortly. @SilverBullet @hovertical @SirFishFan @Piazza31 Thanks for posting the answers. What’s up with the roasting, man? Well.. to be fair.. if you would have asked me these questions back in like 2006-2010, I probably would have gotten at least 3/5 off the top of my head.. that was the height of my Marlins fandom those years.. where I lived and breathed Marlins baseball and would faithfully sit there every night almost and watch every pitch of every game for 3+ hours a day. Well I’ve been a fan since the beginning of ‘03 (I always like to clarify I officially became a Marlins fan in the beginning of the 2003 season.. not after the WS like so many bandwagoners. My first Marlins game was early May of 03 a couple of weeks before Jeff Tourborg was fired and Jack McKeon hired.) Was a very fortuitous time to become a Marlins fan! But yeah, to be honest I basically stopped watching baseball and following the Marlins around 2011/2012 until the COVID time in 2020 when I had some free time stuck in the house and decided to get back into baseball. And of course the Marlins made the playoffs that year so another fortuitous time to pick up watching the Marlins again! Of course since that 2020 season things have gone on a downward slope for the Marlins as usual or I should say like the same pattern repeating itself over and over. At this point I’m just a Marlins fan for ceremonial purposes.. just mainly because of sentimental value and memories of those fun years being a Marlins fanatic when I was a youngster in the mid 2000’s. But yeah.. I’m just here on this forum for the jokes and stuff. But in reality I haven’t really even watched a full Marlins game since maybe May or even April. So surprised even myself I got the Galaraga answer correct. I probably learned about that tidbit back in like maybe 2006-07 and saw a highlight from that game that happened sometimes in the 90’s I guess, surprised it was still in my memory somewhere. 😂 Edited August 30, 20241 yr by SirFishFan
August 30, 20241 yr Author 13 minutes ago, SirFishFan said: Thanks for posting the answers. What’s up with the roasting, man? Well.. to be fair.. if you would have asked me these questions back in like 2006-2010, I probably would have gotten at least 3/5 off the top of my head.. that was the height of my Marlins fandom those years.. where I lived and breathed Marlins baseball and would faithfully sit there every night almost and watch every pitch of every game for 3+ a day. Well I’ve been a fan since the beginning of ‘03 (I always like to clarify I officially became a Marlins fan in the beginning of the 2003 season.. not after the WS like so many bandwagoners. My first Marlins game was early May of 03 a couple of weeks before Jeff Tourborg was fired and Jack McKeon hired.) Was a very fortuitous time to become a Marlins fan! But yeah, to be honest I basically stopped watching baseball and following the Marlins around 2011/2012 until the COVID time in 2020 when I had some free time stuck in the house and decided to get back into baseball. And of course the Marlins made the playoffs that year so another fortuitous time to pick up watching the Marlins again! Of course since that 2020 season things have gone on a downward slope for the Marlins as usual or I should say like the same pattern repeating itself over and over. At this point I’m just a Marlins fan for ceremonial purposes.. just mainly because of sentimental value and memories of those fun years being a Marlins fanatic when I was a youngster in the mid 2000’s. But yeah.. I’m just here on this forum for the jokes and stuff. But in reality I haven’t really even watched a full Marlins game since maybe May or even April. So surprised even myself I got the Galaraga answer correct. I probably learned about that tidbit back in like maybe 2006-07 and saw a highlight from that game sometimes in the 90’s I guess, surprised it was still in my memory somewhere. 😂 The roasting is for laughs but I thought it necessary by provoking some competitive competition and draw some more players in 😆 I know you are very knowledgeable, more than I. I’ll try and level the playing field with all eras.
August 30, 20241 yr 4 hours ago, K-Jazzzz said: SilverBullet, more like RustBullet and SirFishFan did a lot of talkin and not a lot of walkin
August 30, 20241 yr 4 hours ago, K-Jazzzz said: The roasting is for laughs but I thought it necessary by provoking some competitive competition and draw some more players in 😆 I know you are very knowledgeable, more than I. I’ll try and level the playing field with all eras. The only one I didn't know was the Chipper thing. I had never heard that in all my years as a fan. I just answered the one question about Mantei since nobody else had and didn't want to hog the whole thread. Roast away!
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