An Offday Thinker: An Epic Journey

by Kyle Lobner on May 3, 2010 3:00 PM CDT in Events

This weekend's four game series in San Diego seemed to drag on for weeks, but somehow we never discussed one piece of exceptionally irrelevant minutiae: This weekend's series featured a meeting of three of baseball's most traveled journeymen: Matt Stairs (12 teams in 18 seasons), Gregg Zaun (9 teams in 16 seasons) and LaTroy Hawkins (8 teams in 16 seasons).

Over the last couple of decades, these three players combined have been a part of:

At least three teams in five of baseball's six divisions, including every team in one division.
Eight playoff teams (1997 for Zaun, 1995, 2000, 2008 and 2009 for Stairs, and 2002, 2003 and 2007 for Hawkins).
Two World Series champions.
One current franchise in its previous city.

Actually, it might be easier to tell you which teams these three guys haven't played for. Let's do that instead. Ten teams have never used Stairs, Zaun or Hawkins in a major league game. How many can you name in two minutes?

The same rules apply here that apply to offseason Thinkers:

Post your score in the comments.
There's no reason to cheat here.
Don't spoil any answers in the comments until after 6 pm Central time, so people can take the quiz without having it spoiled for them.
If you get them all (and someone likely will), post your time along with your score.

Have fun, and don't forget to post your score in the comments!

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8

An interesting list of teams

by nullacct on May 3, 2010 3:04 PM CDT reply actions

10

finally completed one!

"Cubs fans boo again – 99% of these people can’t see the plate." -Ueck

by dux2bux on May 3, 2010 3:14 PM CDT reply actions

I figured someone would

Mainly because of the fact that, if you’re quick enough, you can attempt all 30 MLB teams in 2 minutes.

Now that's great tasting chicken!

by Kyle Lobner on May 3, 2010 3:46 PM CDT up reply actions

That's what I did.

Got all of ’em.

"Probably won't make a decision until after the decision starts"

by Noah Jarosh on May 3, 2010 3:47 PM CDT up reply actions

Same story

Got the 10th one with 2 seconds to spare, which delighted me.

by Et tu Brewte on May 3, 2010 4:07 PM CDT up reply actions

Bonus factoid:

The Milwaukee Brewers are the only team to have employed all three.

Ryan Braun: He loves it.

by SRB on May 3, 2010 3:30 PM CDT reply actions

8

But it was more of a “how many teams can i think of/type” in 2 minutes than actually knowing what teams hadn’t had those guys

by placidity on May 3, 2010 3:46 PM CDT reply actions

9

same strategy

by Jeo on May 3, 2010 4:09 PM CDT up reply actions

9

and yeah, just naming teams.

Applying Simpsons and Star Wars quotes to Brewers discussions since 2009.

by Yar Nivek on May 3, 2010 4:47 PM CDT up reply actions

Same strategy.

Same score.

My goodness.

by BrewHaHeather on May 3, 2010 8:51 PM CDT up reply actions

9 this way.

by Zorakathura on May 4, 2010 12:11 AM CDT up reply actions

I can't take the quiz until like 7:30

Woe is me

Yeah, well, sometimes I drink.

by Dikembe Meiztombo on May 3, 2010 3:49 PM CDT reply actions

me neither

sadly, sporcle is blocked at work =(

by dtmeyers on May 3, 2010 3:52 PM CDT up reply actions

7

by CSchuh on May 3, 2010 4:41 PM CDT reply actions

Great success!

All 10 with 17 ticks left on the board. And I didn’t even go with the brute force method!

"Career highlights? I had two. I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets." - Bob Uecker

by texwestern on May 3, 2010 5:44 PM CDT reply actions

Me too

Though I had a number of wrong guesses.

Failure is just success rounded down.

by TheJay on May 3, 2010 7:19 PM CDT up reply actions

by molitorfan on May 3, 2010 9:43 PM CDT reply actions

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