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Ok, clarifying. The seasons were 2022 and 2023. No interruptions. It's a single season stat, accomplished both seasons. The stat alone won't give you the answer, but the context around it will. Example: Barry Bonds hit 77 homecruns in a single season. That's a stat. No one else ever hit that many. That's what makes the stat significant. Luis Arraez did something significant [not THAT significant, but still impressive AND recognized] two years in a row. Something changed from 2022 to 2023 that altered the significance of his achievement, making it something no one had ever done before. The change was to Arraez, not to the sport.

This achievement took two years. It could not have been accomplished in one. WW's guesses are also incorrect. I wouldn't expect to find either on a baseball card. So here's what's important: It IS a single season stat. It was over two CONSECUTIVE seasons. That's part of what made it interesting. Another part: something significant changed between 2022 and 2023 that focuses this achievement. Without that change, it still would have been impressive. Just not as unique.

um. fielded 1.000 IS a one-season stat. Your guess contradicted your premise. Your guess was wrong. More importantly, your premise was wrong.

No, nothing that obscure. This is an achievement/stat that is more simple, a stat you would find on a baseball card without other metrics getting in the way. Simple stat: Home Runs in a season. Other metrics getting in the way: Home runs with runners on base. Leadoff home runs. Home runs with two outs. Home runs with runners in scoring position. This is a simple stat for which he would receive recognition. (MVP is not a stat. Golden Glove is not a stat).

And then there was one. WordWolf?

Curb Your Enthusiasm

I try not to get too excited about it when it comes on.

Miami Marlins second-baseman Luis Arraez did something in 2023 that had never been done in the history of Major League Baseball. It took him two years to do it. What was it?

if only it were that interesting. The Webcam was pointed at a coffee pot, so people going on break would know whether it was full.

you are

Patrick Swayze

Pot. J/K. Almost.

Ok, free post. "Ok, this might help, might not. I know most book-to-movie adaptations don't get this convoluted, but that's part of the fun." The name of the movie is Adaptation.

Ok, this might help, might not. I know most book-to-movie adaptations don't get this convoluted, but that's part of the fun. Anyway: There are a couple of scenes in which the screenwriter is on the (fictitious) set of another movie (let's call it BJM). That other movie (BJM) is real, written by the same screenwriter and made by the same director. In real life, the screenwriter was tasked with adapting the book while production was underway for BJM. So having a scene set on the set of BJM brought everything back full circle. Now listen carefully, I've given you the name of the movie, and then some.

I wanna be like Louie.

No, Stranger Than Fiction is more surreal, about a man who realizes he's a character in an author's book.

First came the book. Then came the movie rights. A screenwriter was hired to turn the book into a movie. He failed. Couldn't do it. So he turned in a script, expecting to be fired. The script was about his failed effort to write a script based on the book. He became a character in the script. So did the author. The screenwriter even invented a collaborator, his own twin brother, who, it must be noted, does not exist in real life. The actor they got to play the screenwriter played the twin brother, too. In one scene where they both appear in the same frame, we're actually seeing the actor, who is facing the camera, and the back of the actual screenwriter, standing in for his twin brother, who doesn't exist. He does exist in the movie, though. And, peculiarly, he was given an onscreen credit for his work on the screenplay. It may be the first time in which the Academy nominated someone for an Oscar knowing full well he does not exist. The existing brother was nominated too. They both lost. The actor who played them was also nominated and lost. Name the movie.

Yes

Too easy?

"Whoa, whoa. You better watch what you say about my car. She's real sensitive." *** "God I hate rock and roll."

Yes and yes

So I'm up?

Peggy Sue Got Married

No and yes

Ok, this should be easy enough: The Michael Jackson song "Beat It" features a really cool guitar solo that lasts about 30 seconds. It took the guitarist about 10 minutes to compose it. Who was he, and (bonus) how much was he paid?