Pics for the UMDB

[Farmer Ted]

Wayne Housie?

[Valadius]

It's down again... an "internal server error".

[Valadius]

It's back up now.

[Valadius]

And now it's down again. What is going on?

[metirish]

I'm sure Yancy is out back working on it Val...

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Where's the find the rosters for MBTN thread?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Valadius wrote: And now it's down again. What is going on?

I haven't received an explanation yet for this latest outage, but it does appear to be back.

The hosting company is usually pretty responsive. They seem to be having a bad week, though.

[Zvon]

="Zvon"]Update: Dont bother registering- all pics in this section contain the watermark even when logged in. Thats F'd up. Join Corbis- they remove the watermark upon registration.

on a further side note:

While I was at the Gettyimage site, I figured id purchase one just for the hell of it.
To see the possible price range.
I picked the most worthless image I could find, a picture of Perez dancing over the baseline on his way off the mound.
Figuring the image had no baring on the game, I figured it would be on the cheaper end of the spectrum, if they defferentiate.

So, for:
Subject: Perez off the mound
Image size: Medium
Usage: Web page
Time: for a 6 month period starting with purchase.

135$
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIVE BUCKS!

What a joke.

[Valadius]

Some blue-hat pics to replace black-hat pics:



Jay Bell



Turk Wendell



Robin Ventura



Robin Ventura (again)



Orel Hershiser



Kenny Rogers



Glendon Rusch

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Those are nice, and thank you, but given that $135 usage fee, I may have to steer clear of Getty images.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

New feature

[Guest Edgy DC]

That's a fun toy.

Cliff Floyd, despite the time he's missed, is on a three-year streak as the Mets most plunked batsman.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: New feature

Don't be dissing Richie Ashburn's 424 OBP in '62 however. That was the Met standard for 36 years!

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

It looks like he fell short of the 500 plate appearances he'd need to qualify.

161 games times 3.1 is 499.1.

Ashburn had only 473 plate appearances.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Yeah, just noticed that.

[Zvon]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: New feature

That is an excellent page of info there.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Here's one. If I dial up Bobby Valentine (or Willie Randolph or Dallas Green or Mike Cubbage, etc.) I get the dates that they were acquired or divested as players by the Mets, but I don't get the dates they were hired or fired as managers. Is that do-able?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I think so. It would require a little coding, and I'd have to track down the dates for each manager, but it's something I can add to my mental to-do list.

[stevejrogers]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: I think so. It would require a little coding, and I'd have to track down the dates for each manager, but it's something I can add to my mental to-do list.

I think I may have included the hire and fire dates in that long year by year coaches posts a few weeks ago in the triva thread about Manny Acta.

[Gwreck]

Umm, that Jay Bell picture (above) looks a lot like Tom Glavine.

Especially considering that Bell didn't bat left.

[seawolf17]

Henry Owens has a blue-hat photo on his 2006 Topps insert card:



This was the only image I could find, but I'll try to track down a bigger scan.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Somebody just wrote to me and said that this isn't Doug Saunders:

http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/profile.php?PlayerCode=0491

He said it's Darren Reed.

I have no memory of what Doug Saunders looked like. I got the image from MetsCollector.com. Anyone have any opinion on this, one way or the other?

Thanks.

[metirish]

can't find another image of Doug Saunders....but reed doesn't look like him.

UMDB Reed pic...



I think the guy is wrong.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Darren's hitting lefty in that card when he's listed as a righty. Might explain the .205 BA.

[soupcan]

Whichever of those guys those pictures are of, in each pic the dude has the same freaky Spock-like eyebrows.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Today is Derek Bell's birthday. And it's also Jay Bell's birthday.

So who's the leading UMDB hit-getter so far today?

Gus Bell

Maybe people are checking to see why he wasn't also born on December 11. It would have been cool if he was.

[nymr83]

where do you see that? or is this something only visible to admins?

[stevejrogers]

Nymr83 wrote: where do you see that? or is this something only visible to admins?

THE admin can only see the tracking. You should see a notice about it when the daily lookup section of the All Time Roster page changes automatically tommorrow

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Nymr83 wrote: where do you see that? or is this something only visible to admins?

Yes. I can peek under the covers and see who's leading for the day. I don't have it exposed to visitors because they might be tempted to manipulate the results.

It's been known to happen!

[Willets Point]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: ="Nymr83"]where do you see that? or is this something only visible to admins? Yes. I can peek under the covers and see who's leading for the day. I don't have it exposed to visitors because they might be tempted to manipulate the results. It's been known to happen!

Who would do a thing like that? It would be unfair to the Billy Wynne's of the world.