Pics for the UMDB

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Lee Mazzilli ends up winning the day.

Sorry, Gus.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

For the first time ever, Hubie Brooks was the most popular UMDB daily lookup.

On the UMDB popularity index, he had been the 13th highest ranking player who had never previously won a daily title.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Strange. I was doing some Hubie Brooks research about a week ago, but I guess not enough to boost him all by myself.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Is Joe Quesada chasing them there?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

That could be. There may have been a few people who read that article and said, "Who the hell is Hubie Brooks?"

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Some interesting Jerry Grote stuff has been posted recently.

[Guest cooby]

That's a good story. I guess we all had high hopes that year.


I forgot about DJ Dozier, he wasn't a local guy but around here we were excited for him because he played football for Penn State and then played for the Williamsport Bills, who were then affiliated with the NY Mets. I guess I was even more excited about him than the Vikings/Mets fan guy.
We drove up to Bellefonte High School to get his autograph on his card; I am sure my daughter still has it somewhere.

He's a minister now, I believe. Sad about his dual careers, but at least he's not selling cars


PS, I saw DJ Dozier while scrolling down...

[Guest Edgy DC]

That "The Ghost of Bad Met Trades Past" poster sounds like a great contributor.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

"Ghost" makes Shari look like a ray of sunshine, doesn't he/she?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Yesterday: a four-way tie: http://leaptoad.com/mets/lookups.php?MonthNum=12&year=2006

[Guest Edgy DC]

Was Downey, CA celebrating Rich Rodriguez Week earlier this month?

[stevejrogers]

Edgy DC wrote: Was Downey, CA celebrating Rich Rodriguez Week earlier this month?

College football coach with the same name Current coach of West Virgina was in talks with Alabama about their job before re-upping with WV and that was the latest "College coach tries to leverage a better deal out of current place of employment based on overtures from another school" controversy

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Our friends at Faith and Fear are looking to propel Roy McMillan to his first-ever daily victory.

His hit count for today isn't huge, but nobody's running away with it today, and Roy is currently on top.

[G-Fafif]

I had no idea Roy was in the running until JD spurred me to look up Mark Bradley, and am thus weirdly gratified that the Gerald Ford of Mets managers hung on. Huzzah for the interim skippers of the world!

Never underestimate the power of warped sensibilities on a slow Mets news day.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I think I saw a story on CNN this morning that referred to Gerald Ford as the "Roy McMillan of U.S. Presidents."

Or maybe I was hallucinating again. I should stay away from eating Frosted Mushroom Pop-Tarts for breakfast.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Not surprisingly, New Year's Day tends to be Danny Frisella Day.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I don't know where the Wifey Watch Thread is at this point, but Pam Frisella is a Council Woman (and Vice Mayor!) in Foster City, CA.

Pam Frisella, Vice Mayor

Term Expires November 2009

http://www.fostercity.org/city_hall/council/images/Frisella_for_bio_(2).jpg

On November 5, 2005 Pam Frisella took office and will serve a four year term on the City Council. Pam is currently serving as Vice Mayor.

Pam has been a resident of Foster City for 28 years. She moved here with newborn Daniel and her three year old son Jason in 1977.

Pam coached Little League for 8 years and was on the AYSO Board of Directors for 5 years. She lobbied as the Chairperson of the Citizen's Committee for Development and Construction of Sea Cloud Park. She was also the Chairperson for the Committee to reconstruct Serra High School Baseball Field and named it Danny Frisella Memorial Field. She has most recently been on the Parks and Recreation Committee. In October 2005 Pam was inducted to the Sports Wall of Fame at Sea Cloud Park.

Pam has been a volunteer for Samaritan House for almost 20 years and in that time has served on their Board of Directors and most recently their Community Outreach and Volunteer Coordinator. She has been named Volunteer of the year in 1995 for her work at Samaritan House and 1999 named Volunteer of the Year for her work at the Safe Harbor Homeless Shelter. Most recently she does prison ministry at San Quentin Prison.

Pam has been an Ambassador for the Foster City Chamber of Commerce and has been a member of the Rotary Club of Foster City for five years. She currently serves on the Board of Directors as the International Chairperson for the club.

Pam was born and raised in 1946 in Detroit, Michigan. After attending Western Michigan University for two years she worked for General Motors before moving to New York City for a career change. Pam then moved to California in 1969. While married she moved to several different cities before finally coming to Foster City after being widowed in 1977.

After graduating from the Leadership program in 1998 sponsored by several Bay Area Cities, Pam realized that community service was ingrained in her soul and began to think about a role in city government. The last decade her service was directed more county wide and now her commitment will be directly to the City she loves.....Foster City.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Brand new UMDB feature debuts today.

Read the announcement, give it a try, and let me know what you think:
http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/index.php

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ooh, that 6.75 relief ERA of Seaver's is fugly.

Really, great job.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

That relief appearance in April of 1969 is a strange one.

From Retrosheet:

] CUBS 9TH: Kessinger walked; Beckert grounded out (first unassisted) [Kessinger to second]; Williams reached on an error by Boswell [Kessinger to third]; Santo reached on an error by Collins [Kessinger scored (unearned), Williams to third, Santo out at second (first to right to second)]; Banks singled to right [Williams scored (unearned)]; Hundley homered (unearned) [banks scored (unearned)]; Spangler walked; SEAVER REPLACED KOONCE (PITCHING); Phillips walked [spangler to second]; Regan was called out on strikes; 4 R (0 ER), 2 H, 2 E, 2 LOB. Cubs 8, Mets 6.

It was the first game of a doubleheader at Shea. Seaver had started and pitched 7 innings two days earlier. Strange that he came into the game after the Cubs had scored four runs in the ninth to take a two-run lead.

You'd never see that today.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I ran a list of three-whiff games by Dave Kingman -- neat.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Rusty's last homer was a pinch three-run jobbie off of Jeff Reardon.. But Orosco and McDowell coughed up the lead he gave them.

[seawolf17]

GREAT new feature! Two additional requests: a dropdown with "as a Met"/"against the Mets", and the addition of "all postseason" as an option in the regular season/postseason dropdown.

Stunning work, Yance.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Both good ideas, Seawolf, and I'll put them on my to-do list. The next step will be to extend this search feature to opposing players. (I can probably do it with just a few lines of code.) It will make it easier, for example, to find all multi-home run games that Billy Williams had against the Mets.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Break the transactions down by year.

But before any of that, the Mug Shots page is broken.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

The mug shots page is fixed. (I wonder how long it was broken?) Thanks for pointing it out.

I'm not sure about breaking transactions down by year. That's already been done on pages like this one:

http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/metannual.php?ThisYear=2006&tabno=5

I think there are some who like seeing the transactions all on one big page. (Admittedly, though, it's a very big page.) I don't think I'll be putting that one on the to-do list.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Excellent point. Sorry. I guess that's not where the drop-down needs to be.

The real drop-down menus I want, I guess, are on the Birthplaces page, and, especially, the Post-Season games page.

[seawolf17]

Plus I want a feature on each living player's page where I can e-mail them directly and invite them over for dinner and a rousing game of Boggle.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Edgy DC wrote: The real drop-down menus I want, I guess, are on the Birthplaces page, and, especially, the Post-Season games page.

I do plan to eventually break the post-season games page down as you suggest. Maybe I'll get to that before Opening Day. I hadn't thought about it for the birthplaces page, but that's not a bad idea. I'll put that on the list, too.

="seawolf17"]Plus I want a feature on each living player's page where I can e-mail them directly and invite them over for dinner and a rousing game of Boggle.

That's in the works, but, unfortunately, only for the dead players. The living ones are too busy playing golf to get involved with Boggle. Sorry.

[seawolf17]

Good. I look forward to kicking Don Rowe's ghost's ass.