Schaefer Voting Discussion Thread

[Benjamin Grimm]

Tuesday's loss to the Cardinals, and Wednesday's win, will close some time over the weekend. (Or on Monday.) Surprisingly, there are currently more votes for a game in which the Mets lost a two-hit shutout than there are for an 11-0 victory. Regardless, if you plan to vote for either of these games, try to do so today. I may, if I get the opportunity, close them out as early as tomorrow morning.

• Schaefer POTG 6/23/09 - Cardinals 3, Mets 0
• Schaefer POTG 6/24/09 - Mets 11, Cardinals 0

[Fman99]

Voting is quick when so few of the Mets do anything worth a damn.

[Guest Edgy DC]

It's so easy to vote for scrubs
It's so easy to vote for scrubs
Batters swing and batters miss
My ballot ain't got room for this

Seems so easy (so easy)
Yeah, so doggone easy (so easy)
Oh it seems so easy (so easy)
Yeah when the Mets suck ass
My vote comes fast

It's so easy to vote for scrubs
It's so easy to vote for scrubs
Pitcher's bombed in six again
Save the beer for mopup men

Seems so easy (so easy)
Yeah, so doggone easy (so easy)
Oh it seems so easy (so easy)
Yeah when Mets lay bricks
My vote comes quicks

Seems so easy (so easy)
Yeah, so doggone easy (so easy)
Oh it seems so easy (so easy)
Yeah when Mets blow goats
We cast our votes

Oh, it's so easy to vote for scrubs
It's so easy to vote for scrubs

[Fman99]

It's so easy to vote for scrubs
It's so easy to vote for scrubs
Batters swing and batters miss
My ballot ain't got room for this

Seems so easy (so easy)
Yeah, so doggone easy (so easy)
Oh it seems so easy (so easy)
Yeah when the Mets suck ass
My vote comes fast

It's so easy to vote for scrubs
It's so easy to vote for scrubs
Pitcher's bombed in six again
Save the beer for mopup men

Seems so easy (so easy)
Yeah, so doggone easy (so easy)
Oh it seems so easy (so easy)
Yeah when Mets lay bricks
My vote comes quicks

Seems so easy (so easy)
Yeah, so doggone easy (so easy)
Oh it seems so easy (so easy)
Yeah when Mets blow goats
We cast our votes

Oh, it's so easy to vote for scrubs
It's so easy to vote for scrubs[/quote:3ffl3fuj]

Bravo.

See, this is why I'll never win the CPF song parody contest. You guys are in training year round.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I haven't been very Mets-motivated lately, but I finally got myself caught up this morning... I updated the stats and pasted five box scores into the UMDB. Now it's time to catch up on Schaefering. Four games will close some time on Wednesday, the series finale against the Cardinals (a win!) and all three games from the Citi Field Subway Series games against the Yankees. Understandably, not a whole lot of votes for the three losses, but if you still have points to award, please try to do so today.

• Schaefer POTG 06/25/2009 Mets 3, St. Louis 2
• Schaefer POTG 6/26/09 - Yankees 9, New York 1
• Schaefer POTG 6/27/09 - MFYs 5, Mets 0
• Schaefer POTG 6/28/09 - MFYs 4, Mets 2

[Benjamin Grimm]

Voting for Monday night's loss in Milwaukee will close some time on Thursday.

• Schaefer POTG 6/29/09 - Brewers 10, Mets 6

[Centerfield]

I haven't been very Mets-motivated lately [/quote:cenzbas7]

Understandable. Neither have the Mets.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm really up in the air on wh the PotM is going to be. Sheffield, I guess. Nieve gets the pitching nod and Greeen maybe the relief slot.

[Guest themetfairy]

I'm missing something - what did Evans do to earn so many Schaefer votes today?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Well, there are ten votes and he looks like this on the ten ballots

0
0
0.25
0.5
0
0
0
0.5
0.16
0.2

That's an average of .16 points per ballot, so I'd dispute that he's getting any meaningful support. What he did was hit a double and finish a few doubleplays. Not much, in the light of a GiDP and a couple of LoBs including one in scoring position wth two out. Not much, but neither did he get much.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Voting for Tuesday night's loss in Milwaukee, and the entire month of June, will close some time over the three-day weekend.

• Schaefer POTG 6/30/09 - Brewers 6, Mets 3

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm going to fall a little behind on the tallying, since I have some box score fixing to do on the UMDB. I'll probably get us caught up later in the week, but feel free to keep voting on any games from the month of July.

Also, I'll be disappearing for two weeks shortly after the All-Star break, but all will be caught up not too long after I return in early August.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Okay, I'm ready sooner than I thought I would be.

We have five games closing tomorrow:

• Schaefer POTG 7/1/09 - Mets 1, Brewers 0
• Schaefer POTG 7/2/09 - Mets 9, Pirates 8
• Schaefer POTG 7/3/09 - Phillies 7, Mets 2
• Schaefer POTG 7/4/09 - Phillies 4, Mets 1
• Schaefer POTG 7/5/09 - Phillies 2, Mets 0

If you still have votes to cast for any of these games, please try to do so today.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Nobody had anything but harsh words to say about Oliver Pere'x performanc in the IGT last night, but he's getting serious Schaefer support.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It was only five innings, and he walked too many guys, but he only gave up 2 runs. (That's a 3.60 ERA for the day.)

I think that's worth a point or two.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I think he's leading on everybody's ballot but mine.

That performance is defensible, but hardly laudable. He was very lucky and one bounce away from a pear-shaping the whole game.

Daniel Murphy had two doubles --- the first an emotional breakthrough --- and performed a magic trick, which was an emotional lift all its own. Reed had a single, double, walk, run, and RBI. Wright had two hits, a run, an RBI, and bailed out Perez by gloving a liner in the third and starting a double play in the fourth, ending both innings.

These are the performances the Mets have been missing.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I think he's leading on everybody's ballot but mine.[/quote:3sqz8j1j]

And on mine. My eyes told me he was laboring-- reading a gamescore of 46 and 11 total baserunners in 5(!) innings when I got home confirmed what they saw. He gets a point for not falling apart with men on base-- the evening could have gone squash-shaped in the first-- and getting the win.

The WTF play on Loretta will stick (even though he was safe, methinks).

[Gwreck]

Reed leads on my ballot.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Great. m.e.t.b.o.t. was similarly dispassionate in witholding points from Ollie.

Early intervention seems to have been something of a cure, as the day is turning into a Reed/Murphy/Wright dogfight.

Reed 16.92
Murphy 16.22
Wright 15.27
Parnell 11.66
Perez 9.49
Castillo 7.71
Schneider 5.25
Feliciano 4.65
Rodriguez 3.55
Green 2.99
Church 1.99
Sheffield 1.00

[Benjamin Grimm]

All three games from the Dodgers series at Citi Field will close some time on Tuesday afternoon.

• Schaefer POTG 7/7/09 - Dodgers 8, Mets 0
• Schaefer POTG 07/08/09 - Mets 5, Dodgers 4
• Schaefer POTG 7/9/09 - Dodgers 11, Mets 2

[Guest The Second Spitter]

I feel kinda obligated to vote for the last Dodger game, but I'm afraid I had too many soda pops that night.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Just bumping this to the current page, in case there are a few more voters out there.

All three games from the Dodgers series at Citi Field will close some time on Tuesday afternoon.

• Schaefer POTG 7/7/09 - Dodgers 8, Mets 0
• Schaefer POTG 07/08/09 - Mets 5, Dodgers 4
• Schaefer POTG 7/9/09 - Dodgers 11, Mets 2

[/quote:cqny4rpt]

I'll close the series against the Reds on Friday. (And I'll post the "official annoucement," with links, on Thursday.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Number of POTG wins by Mets players so far this season, through July 9:

Johan Santana�	13
Livan Hernandez�	10
Mike Pelfrey�	9
Carlos Beltran�	6
David Wright�	5
Fernando Nieve�	5
John Maine�	5
Carlos Delgado�	4
Ken Takahashi�	3
Luis Castillo�	3
Ryan Church�	3
Tim Redding�	3
Daniel Murphy�	2
Fernando Tatis�	2
Gary Sheffield�	2
Brian Schneider�	1
Brian Stokes�	1
Elmer Dessens�	1
Jeremy Reed�	1
Jos� Reyes�	1
Oliver Perez�	1
Pat Misch�	1
Ramon Castro�	1
Wilson Valdez�	1

[Guest Edgy DC]

Fernando Nieve with as many wins as Wright.

[Benjamin Grimm]

All three games from this past weekend's series against the Reds at Citi Field will close on Friday morning. This will be the last tally before I go away for a couple of weeks. Please keep voting and I'll get us caught up when I return in early August. (I may do some posting and voting while I'm away, since we recently got a cheap laptop that we'll be traveling with.)

• Schaefer POTG 07/10/09 - Mets 0, Redlegs 3
• Schaefer POTG 7/11/09 - Mets 4, Reds 0
• Schaefer POTG 07/12/09 Mets 9, Cincinnati 7

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Fernando Nieve with as many wins as Wright.[/quote:34eajpkf]

Lower power numbers + smacking the ball around the yard otherwise = whole lotta points in smaller clusters.

[Frayed Knot]

We suck at Schaefer-ing lately.

Without the threat of a deadline hanging over out heads we've let our PotG voting go to pot over the last week or so.
I've just gone back and caught up after 5 days of neglect - and there are some games from the Brave series now on page 3 with only a handful of votes on them.

Yeah, voting after losses suxx but (with the usual caveat where nothing is mandatory around here) we'd hate to see this project die of neglect.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Vote after losses, folks. It's fast and easy!

[metsmarathon]

i am flat out awful at schaeffer voting this year. i need to get myself back on track...

[Guest Kong76]

According to Vacation thread, you know who is gonna be back soon.

VOTE
VOTE
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The Schaefer Siesta is over.