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Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 10:28 am**

Johnny Carwash wrote:Florida? I know it was sparsely populated until the early-mid 20th century.

Pretty gradual growth - a max of +4.

California would be first if not for a pretty big technicality...

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 10:37 am**

Is this going from zero to statehood?

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 10:42 am**

Sort of?

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 10:52 am**

West Virginia

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 11:04 am**

Texas?

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 11:07 am**

Texas is +8. Getting there.

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 12:20 pm**

Virginia after Reconstruction?

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 12:48 pm**

That is correct

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 3:03 pm**

What year?

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 3:06 pm**

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 3:10 pm**

Not 1980. I'll put wrong guess maps in spoilers.

[+] spoiler: Pretty close though.

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 3:17 pm**

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 3:18 pm**

One of Eisenhower's wins.

1956?

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 3:30 pm**

1920?

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 3:31 pm**

Not 1968 or 1956

[+] spoiler: 1968 was the Wallace election.

[+] spoiler: The yellow in 1956 was for the "States Rights" candidate, T. Coleman Andrews.

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 3:33 pm**

Not 1920

[+] spoiler: The green is for the socialist Eugene T. Debs, who naturally was most popular in Texas.

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 3:35 pm**

Democrats in blue?

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 3:36 pm**

Steve of phpBB wrote:Democrats in blue?

As always.

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 3:39 pm**

Rex wrote:
Steve of phpBB wrote:Democrats in blue?

As always.

As always since 2000 anyway.

I'll guess 1924. I know very little about US history for the first half of the 20th century - and this map looks like it would be from that time. Although it's always tricky trying to see who won a state based on the geographical sizes of the counties won.

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 4:19 pm**

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 4:36 pm**

Rex wrote:Not 1920

[+] spoiler
The green is for the socialist Eugene T. Debs, who naturally was most popular in Texas.

OK, that's weird. Like one county over from me....kinda wanna read up on that.

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 4:49 pm**

Steve of phpBB wrote:
Rex wrote:
Steve of phpBB wrote:Democrats in blue?

As always.
As always since 2000 anyway.

I'll guess 1924. I know very little about US history for the first half of the 20th century - and this map looks like it would be from that time. Although it's always tricky trying to see who won a state based on the geographical sizes of the counties won.

[+] spoiler: The green is the progressive, La Follette.

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 4:52 pm**

duff wrote:1984

[+] spoiler: That's what a 49-state blowout looks like.

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 5:08 pm**

1976.

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 5:13 pm**

DSafetyGuy wrote:1976.

[+] spoiler: For a close election, this was a rather broad-based win.

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 5:35 pm**

Because this is a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack, I'll award Pruitt a half-star for guessing the right winner but the wrong year. This was the 1952 map.

12 years later, the map looked like this.

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 5:38 pm**

1928?

There can't be that many other options left where the Democrats took all of Georgia-Alabama-Mississippi, and not much else.

Posted: **Mon Nov 07, 2016 5:43 pm**

1928 is when adding a Catholic to the race confused the solid south a little bit:

[+] spoiler

Posted: **Thu Jan 12, 2017 2:45 pm**

Who won the 2015 Sports Emmy for "Outstanding Sports Personality - Studio Analyst"

Posted: **Thu Jan 12, 2017 3:49 pm**

Ryan wrote:Who won the 2015 Sports Emmy for "Outstanding Sports Personality - Studio Analyst"

Simmons?

Posted: **Thu Jan 12, 2017 4:39 pm**

Harold Reynolds.

Posted: **Mon Mar 06, 2017 6:39 pm**

Who had the highest WAR of any position player in the American League in 1995?

Posted: **Mon Mar 06, 2017 8:08 pm**

Johnny Carwash wrote:Who had the highest WAR of any position player in the American League in 1995?

Cal Ripken Jr?

Posted: **Tue Mar 07, 2017 7:38 am**

I think I know this, especially since it's you asking, but I'll wait a bit

Posted: **Wed Apr 19, 2017 7:57 am**

IT WAS JOHN VALENTIN!

Courtesy of Sporcle...

What team is responsible for 5 of the 10 most recent sets of teammates with 20 HR-20 SB seasons?

Posted: **Thu May 25, 2017 12:35 pm**

I'm going to name a year. Your job is to name as many pitchers that got a win, loss, or save on today's date in that year as you can. You may post up to 10 total names and I'll count every correct answer. Winner gets a gift certificate to the ShrimPotato Corral. Post your lists here by 3:00 PM ET.

Today, we're looking for May 25, 1988. 13 winners, 13 losers, 6 saves. Go.

Posted: **Thu May 25, 2017 12:39 pm**

Tom Browning
Danny Jackson
Greg Maddux
Mike Maddux
Lee Smith
John Franco
Dwight Gooden
Mike Scott
Nolan Ryan
Charlie Hough

Posted: **Thu May 25, 2017 12:54 pm**

Orel Hershiser
Dave Righetti
Dennis Eckersley
Nolan Ryan
Roger Clemens
Dave Stieb
Storm Davis
Dave Stewart
Bruce Hurst
Bert Blyleven

Posted: **Thu May 25, 2017 1:16 pm**

Will try to avoid duplicates and just come up with a "Hey, remember these guys?" list:

Mark Gubicza
Steve Bedrosian
Jesse Orosco
Dave Smith
Ron Darling
Frank Viola
Bob Welch
Tim Belcher
Jeff Reardon
Mark Langston

Posted: **Thu May 25, 2017 1:24 pm**

Dennis Martinez
Bruce Sutter
Roger McDowell
Frank Viola
Dave Stewart
Roger Clemens
Mario Soto
Randy Myers
Rob Dibble
Norm Charlton

Figured I would list all the Nasty Boys. Gotta hit one, right?

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