UMDB's All-Time Top 20 lookups anaylsis

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

By the way, as far as I can tell, the first (and probably still the best) old fashioned Mets Listserv style mailing list is the one on AOL's Listserv still going strong for almost 10 years now

Not sure about ONElist/Yahoo/whatever mailing lists, I've been on some of those (Amazin@groups.yahoo.com is probably the biggest/oldest)

And I'm sure rec.sports or alt.sports whatever is still chugging as a newsboard

So what was the reason for creating CPF? Just a clean break from MOFO?

By the way, I love how this started as a disscussion of why the 20 most popular lookups at UMDB are that way to a history of the Internet Met Community!

Steve

[Guest Edgy DC]

The original place was created for hardcore addicts to retreat to when trolls were attacking.

Then MOFo got hit with something worse than trolls --- hostile fools. So we retreated full-time.

So don't be a hostile fool.

[Willets Point]

Edgy DC wrote: Then MOFo got hit with something worse than trolls --- hostile fools. So we retreated full-time.

Elitist!

[Willets Point]

This was the link of the Mets Online Forum at ezboard by the way: http://pub19.ezboard.com/bmetsonline

I don't remember the MOFO nickname catching on until after I stopped participating there (which was fall of 2001).

[Valadius]

I've got that one working somewhat as well!

New York Mets Forum, Circa October 2001:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010813103329/pub19.ezboard.com/fmetsonlinenewyorkmets

It seems that it had also moved to metsonline.net by November 2, 2001.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

This week the UMDB has seen two old-timers win the daily prize for the first time.

Jay Hook was the leading lookup a few days ago, on his birthday, and yesterday it was Harry Chiti.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

UMDB lookups history

[Guest Edgy DC]

October 2003, Don Zimmer gets thrown to the grown by Pedro and is number one for seven straight days. Lee Mazzilli, his brother on the Yankee bench, shows mercy by interviewing for and getting hired as Baltimore's manager and displacing Don for the next two weeks.

That all makes sense. Now tell me how Tom Gorman and Dicky Gonzalez entered into it.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

It looks like Dicky was rewarded for having a birthday.

Tom Gorman I can't explain.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Hey, you changed the All-Time Roster page. Nice.

Here's a question. You have Rey Ord��ez all decked out respectfully with the spanish characters in his name. Is there any thought to retrofitting the names of guys like Edwin Nu�ez with the tildes that Major League Baseball denied them?

Serious baseball historians have forsaken the past oversights and mistakes and now refer to Honus Wagner as John Wagner. Why not restore the names of guys like Edwin?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Edwin Nu�ez

I also fixed some opposing Nu�ezes: one Vladimir, two Joses, and two Abrahams.

John Wagner is more correct than Honus? I would have thought it was the other way around. (Like when Roberto Clemente was referred to as "Bob.")

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

And we can add "Honus" to the list of nicknames that would be better than "Nightcrawler" for Billy Wagner.

[Elster88]

Wagner has a nickname already. It's Billy.

Does anyone call him Wags?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Wow, I type it and it happens.

Yeah, Honus was apparently just a bad job by a sportswriter recording the Johannes tag his parents gave him. History shows he and his teammates referred to him as John.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: And we can add "Honus" to the list of nicknames that would be better than "Nightcrawler" for Billy Wagner.

Just a fair warning, I may have to do some BAMPF-ing every IGT when Wagner gets the save!

HAHAHAHA

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Isn't Wagner's intro music Enter Sandman?

If so, then he should be The Sandman, IMO.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Burning All My Porn Files?

Braying At My Pastor's Family?

Being A Magificent Partridge-type Family?

Brandishing A Mike Piazza Fantasy?

[Elster88]

ScarletKnight41 wrote: Isn't Wagner's intro music Enter Sandman? If so, then he should be The Sandman, IMO.

How about we just call him "Billy Wagner"?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Makes sense to me. It is, after all, his name.

[seawolf17]

But then nobody gets to put a "created by" line in their signature.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

That's another plus.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

seawolf17 wrote: But then nobody gets to put a "created by" line in their signature.

Says who?

________
Creator of "Billy Wagner"

[Guest Edgy DC]

Can we be 3.2% original and be the team that doesn't send their closer out there to "Enter Sandman"?

[Elster88]

OlerudOwned wrote: ="seawolf17"]But then nobody gets to put a "created by" line in their signature. Says who? ________ Creator of "Billy Wagner"

I created Billy Wagner. I'm going to sue your ass.
________
Creator of "Billy Wagner"

[Guest Edgy DC]

Other tildes that jump to mind among Met opponents are the Cede�os --- Andujar and Cesar joining Roger in the Astro Cede�o Trinidad.

There are Pe�as out there, also, including the Mets' own Alejandro.

[Guest Edgy DC]

And while I'm on this annoying tip, it occurs to me that "Jos�" is more correctly spelled with an accented �. That may or may not be the way all such players would have it, but here's Jos� Cruz, Jr.'s autograph, and I imagine his dad spelled it the same way:

http://www.grandstandsports.com/images/5198.jpg

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Edgy DC wrote: Other tildes that jump to mind among Met opponents are the Cede�os --- Andujar and Cesar joining Roger in the Astro Cede�o Trinidad.

There's also Ronny Cede�o, who I don't think I'd ever heard of.

[metirish]

Wagner is known to all (even Jimmy Plummer) as Wags...

[Guest Edgy DC]

And if you really want to have fun, list the names of Asian-born players parenthetically in the characters of their native lands:

Takashi Kashiwada: 柏田 貴史
Satoru Komiyama: 小宮山 悟
Kazuo Matsui: 松井 稼頭央
Hideo Nomo: 野茂 英雄
Tsuyoshi Shinjo: 新庄 剛志
Shingo Takatsu: 高津 臣吾
Masato Yoshii: 吉井 理人

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Edgy DC wrote: There are Pe�as out there, also, including the Mets' own Alejandro.

13 guys named Pe�a:

+----------+-----------+
| Pe�a     | Alejandro |
| Pe�a     | Hipolito  |
| Pe�a     | Tony      |
| Pe�a     | Bert      |
| Pe�a     | Geronimo  |
| Pe�a     | Jim       |
| Pe�a     | Angel     |
| Pe�a     | Orlando   |
| Pe�a     | Wily Mo   |
| Pe�a     | Jose      |
| Pe�a     | Roberto   |
| Pe�a     | Carlos    |
| Pe�a     | Brayan    |
+----------+-----------+