Spinoff Question From "42" Thread

[MFS62]

]Should all the Mets players on the roster last night be added to #42 on the Mets By The Numbers site? And, should they be there with an asterisk? (and explanation)

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[Benjamin Grimm]

MBTN.net wrote: I'll address how to integrate this event into the database when I've had some time to think about it.

[Guest Triple Dee]

Although my opinion on this counts for very little, I believe it should be disregarded because;

- The number is officially retired.
- The number is not "assigned" to the players who wear it.
- The purpose of wearing the number is to commemorate another player, not as a source of identifying the player who wears it.
- If this happens in other seasons, then you have you're just going to have a long list of 25 man rosters from those particular years.
- The number will lose its significance for Mets who actually wore it as their assigned number.

[stevejrogers]

="Triple Dee"]Although my opinion on this counts for very little, I believe it should be disregarded because; - The number is officially retired. - The number is not "assigned" to the players who wear it. - The purpose of wearing the number is to commemorate another player, not as a source of identifying the player who wears it. - If this happens in other seasons, then you have you're just going to have a long list of 25 man rosters from those particular years. - The number will lose its significance for Mets who actually wore it as their assigned number.

The MBTN project though is just that the player (or manager and coach) has to get into a regular season game wearing said number.

If David Wright today decided to switch to # 4, but ends up taking tonight's game off and then decides he really ought to stay at # 5 and is back in # 5 for Friday night in Philly, then MBTN will not count David Wright as ever wearing # 4, despite whatever photographic or video evidence of Wright in # 4 tonight in the dugout would come up.

[MFS62]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ="MBTN.net"]I'll address how to integrate this event into the database when I've had some time to think about it.

Yes, but I was asking the CPF-ers to tell how they feel about this, and maybe even offer suggestions about how it should be handled.

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[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I think I'm just going to note it as a special circumstance on the "Player" pages of each guy who participated. It doesn't look like I noted that Randolph wore 42 last season and no one has yet complained.

[Theoldmole]

I'm with DDD -- this isn't really a Met number, it's a baseball tribute number. Maybe noted as a footnote.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Something like this, I'll eventually do to all of them. Thanks for the input. To integrate that circumstance would be to "interrupt" all the instances I have now for additional ones, it's kinda silly.

http://mbtn.net/player/reyes-jose

[metirish]

Perfect .