Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Off-Day Puzzle #3: Solution

Question: Where should Clayton Kershaw live? Answer: In Apartment Complex "B", with the Dodgers! Each complex and its tenants is a veiled representation of an NL West team and its starting rotation, as per the initials of the tenants:

Complex A ≡ Diamondbacks
  Barry Williams ≡ Brandon Webb
  Dustin Hoffman ≡ Dan Haren
  Michael O'Keefe ≡ Micah Owings
  Raul Julia ≡ Randy Johnson

Complex B ≡ Dodgers
  Harvey Keitel ≡ Hiroki Kuroda
  Bill Paxton ≡ Brad Penny
  Denis Leary ≡ Derek Lowe
  Christian Bale ≡ Chad Billingsley

Complex C ≡ Giants
  Ted Levine ≡ Tim Lincecum
  Macaulay Culkin ≡ Matt Cain
  James Spader ≡ Jonathan Sanchez
  Billy Zane ≡ Barry Zito

Complex D ≡ Padres
  Robert Wagner ≡ Randy Wolf
  Gabriel Macht ≡ Greg Maddux
  Chow Yun-Fat ≡ Chris Young
  Jason Patric ≡ Jake Peavy

As per my 3rd hint, I wanted to be complete and include all 5 NL West teams, but alas I could not find a Hollywood equivalent for Rockies starter Ubaldo Jimenez.

Quad "The Puzzle Yoda" Sevens (I'm willing to bet that five-word sequence has never before been uttered in the 14 billion years of the universe's history) once again solves this one - this time after the 2nd hint - and SoSG's own Orel after the 3rd hint. Congrats guys.

Next puzzle June 23!

3 comments:

Steve Sax said...

Ubaldo Jimenez looks like he's the only player in baseball reference with the initials U J.

Orel said...

R U Jesting?

cigarcow said...

My brain hurts.