Am I being unrealistic in my expectations?

I dont know the age of the on air personalities, but it’s not unusual for people to be totally unfamiliar with anything that happened more than a generation back. And you are not (OK Sarge, a little) sports snob. Hehehe.

And I consider myself to be semi-snobbish when it comes to useless baseball trivia.

You’re just super!

While doing some research on the late great Charlie Root I ran across this. Is it unrealistic for one of the most read blogs in the 4th best baseball town in the AL West to be able to finish a Top 50 list within 3 years of starting it? Or am I just a super baseball blog snob?

I know 99% of the obscure trivia questions posed to me. Usually I’m the one who thinks people should know what I know.

But I didn’t know this. I’m only vaguely aware of Charlie Root and, while I’m sure I heard it at some point, I did not know he gave up the called shot.

is Root? Google news him and this is the first story that pops up.
Snob.

I don’t know how a team can shoot outside like this. The difference in adjusted 3P% between them and the #2 team is, I believe, the same size as the difference between the #2 team and the #96 team.

It’s so damn frustrating because it is and always has been WSU’s weakness. Not many teams can shoot that well, so it’s not a big deal, but when we play a team that can hit threes seemingly at will there’s nothing we can do to stop it and it just makes me cry.

I think they had a great shot at the Elite 8, maybe even Final Four, in 2007, but noooooooooo Vandy beats us in double OT thanks to being the best three point shooting team in the country and being in our bracket.

(no cheating)

1. Name the inaugural National Baseball HoF class.

2. Put these 10 hitters in order from most home runs to least. Hint, they fall at or near the 50 HR marks beginning at 100 (ie 100, 150, 200, etc) up to 550.
Lou Brock, Jeff Bagwell, Gary Sheffield, Honus Wagner, Andres Galaragga, Buddy Bell, Robin Yount, Chili Davis, Alex Rodriguez, Rogers Hornsby.

3. Everyone knows Ichiro Suzuki broke George Sisler’s single season hit mark in 2004. What year did Sisler set the mark and how many hits did he have?

4. Name the past 4 commissioners of Major League Baseball in order.

5. The Yankees dominate all clubs with 26 world series titles. Which clubs are 2nd and 3rd on that list… and with how many titles?

the rest of you suckers can take a stab if you like… but I’d really love to see how a baseball snob like AJM does on this quiz first ;)

If Rich and Matt have heard of Andre Johnson or Lance Berkman, they’ve got something on most Dallas sports radio personalities.

snob

Minutiae. No body cares.

It’s not even interesting trivia.

Do you ever listen to Charlie Pallilo? I think he is without question the best sports radio guy in Houston.

In fact, I wish he was up in the Dallas area to talk Rangers baseball. He knows his shit and unlike 95% of sports talk guys he is able to evaluate talent based on stats other than HR and RBI.

1560 the game is newer, and has already surpassed 610 in the morning show ratings. I surmise that the afternoon crowd will shift to 1560 as well once their signal becomes 24-hour in July.

he’s kind of an arrogant prick from my own personal experience.

I was at one of his off-site shows one day last year when he had just finished talking with Joe Theismann talking about Art Monk’s chances to get one of the 6 spots available for induction into the HOF.

At the break, I just casually mentioned to him that they changed it to 7 spots available and after ignoring me, I repeated myself quietly just in a “heads up” kind of way, and he proceeded to argue with me that I was wrong. Mind you, he had a computer right in front of him that he could have used to look it up.