Straw, Gooden, Davey, Cashen to Mets HoF

[seawolf17]

Not verified anywhere other than Steve Popper (Bergen Record) and his Twitter account, but...

YAY!

(edited to remove "?" from title)

[ashie62]

I love the first two!

[metirish]

Not all of us can get twitter at work , can you cut & paste

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Snooze's got it:

Mets Hall of Fame inductees � BY ANTHONY MCCARRON The Mets are having a conference call at 2 p.m. today to announce that Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Davey Johnson and Frank Cashen will be inducted into the Mets� Hall of Fame. It�s the first time in eight years that they�ve made an induction and certainly a step toward addressing what some believe is a lack of appreciation for their own history at Citi Field. Interesting, too, is that Gooden and Strawberry have come full circle. There was a time when they were both sort of divorced from the organization, remember? The bowtie-sporting Cashen and Johnson are, obviously, two of the bigwigs from those great 1980s Mets teams, including the 1986 World Champs.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/mets/2010/01/mets-hall-of-fame-inductees.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nydnrss%2Fblogs%2Fmets+%28Blogs%2FSurfing+the+Mets%29#ixzz0d4etEzb7

[Guest Edgy DC]

Amost too perfect.

Any word from Jane Jarvis's spokesman?

[metirish]

Who's the point man for the press conference I wonder.

[Ceetar]

Who's the point man for the press conference I wonder.[/quote:1alhyls9]


Don't think they've drawn the straws for that yet.

[Frayed Knot]

Who's the point man for the press conference I wonder.[/quote:1iku4mi8]

Doesn't matter because they all do them so well.


OK, who didn't know that, after ignoring this for years, they were going to make up for it by going overboard and induct a busload all at once.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

You want your history? You got your history! Now leave us alone!


Kinda seems that way, but I don't care. These moves are long overdue and I'm glad to see it.

Obviously Doc and Darryl have big flaws, which means they're human. It's not hall of role models, but a hall of people who had a major influence on the Mets on and off the field.

Now get one of Frank's bowties to go with that slice of wall Doc signed and get them on display!

[Valadius]

Okay, now who wants to speculate who will end up going in from the 1999-2000 Mets?

[Guest Edgy DC]

You want your history? You got your history! Now leave us alone!![/quote:30dt1eq8]

Easy cowboy.

[Guest Edgy DC]

They're all going in on August 1.

I might want to spread that out.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Spreading it out would be ideal: give each man his due, and-- as the office cynic might point out-- provide a decent PR smokescreen in case of another 70-80 win song-and-dance.

But, yeah, I'm smiling pretty unequivocally on this one.

[Vic Sage]

what were the results of our Mets HOF CPF poll? Who were the top 4 candidates?

[Benjamin Grimm]

yeah, nicely done.

How does that compare with our internal results? Did we ever wrap that one up?

[Guest Edgy DC]

This aligns with our voting, with two different voters actually and independently going so far as to suggest that this exact foursome should be the next class.

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12908

Giving eight points for first, seven for second, etc., it's...

	Frank Cashen	Dwight Gooden	Jane Jarvis	Davey Johnson	Mike Piazza	Darryl Strawberry	Bobby Valentine	Rube Walker
metirish	4	7	1	5	8	6	3	2
Edgy DC	7	3	8	6	1	4	1	5
Ben Grimm	8	5	1	7	2	4	3	6
G-Fafif	5	7	3	6	2	8	1	4
John Cougar Lunchbucket	4	7		3	6	8	2	5
HahnSolo	5	7		4	8	6	2	3
LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr	7	4	5	6	2	3	1	8
Swan Swan H	7	5		4	8	6	2	3
Rockin' Doc	8	6	1	5	4	7	2	3
TransMonk	4	6	1	7	8	5	3	2
metsguyinmichigan	6	7	1	5	4	8	3	2
RealityChuck	7	5	1	3	8	4	2	6
themetfairy	8
Vic Sage	5	8	1	6	4	7	3	2
kong76	1	5	8	7	6	4	3	2
bfmc1	6	7	4	3	5	8	2	1
MFS62	6	8		5		7		3
Totals	98	97	35	82	76	95	33	57

[Benjamin Grimm]

So I went Cashen-Davey-Rube-Doc-Darryl?

No wonder I'm pleased with these results. If you take out Rube Walker, who probably never had much of a chance, this selection matches my preferences.

[seawolf17]

All that way and I forgot to vote in the final vote? Pfft.

[metirish]

I of course knew what I was doing .......

[metirish]

Jeff

�It was very important to re-establish the Mets Hall of Fame Committee,� said Mets COO Jeff Wilpon, who serves as Ex-Officio for the Selection Committee. �The committee made great choices and all four inductees played a vital role in our success during the 1980s. Each individual was a unanimous recommendation and on behalf of myself and the rest of Ownership I was pleased to approve them.�

The Mets Hall of Fame now has 25 members. The 21 previous Hall of Fame members in order of the year they were inducted are: Joan Payson (1981); Casey Stengel (1981); Gil Hodges (1982); George M. Weiss (1982); William A. Shea (1983); Johnny Murphy (1983); Ralph Kiner (1984); Bob Murphy (1984); Lindsey Nelson (1984); Bud Harrelson (1986); Rusty Staub (1986); Tom Seaver (1988); Jerry Koosman (1989); Ed Kranepool (1990); Cleon Jones (1991); Jerry Grote (1992); Tug McGraw (1993); Mookie Wilson (1996); Keith Hernandez (1997); Gary Carter (2001); and Tommie Agee (2002).

The plaques of all the inductees will be one of the main attractions at the new Mets Hall of Fame and Museum which will open this season.

The Mets Hall of Fame committee was re-formed in November. The seven-member committee is comprised of a combination of media members with long-standing connections to the club and the Mets front office staff. The members are: Dave Howard, Executive Vice President, Business Operations who has been with the organization for 18 years; Jay Horwitz, Vice President, Media Relations who enters his 31st season with the team; Tina Mannix, Senior Director, Marketing who has been with the Mets for nine years; former Mets pitcher Al Jackson, a pitching consultant who is entering his sixth decade with the Mets; Marty Noble, the Mets.com beat writer who is entering his fifth decade covering the team; Gary Cohen, the New York native and voice of the Mets on SNY who has been a Mets broadcaster for 21 years; and Howie Rose, a Queens native and radio voice of the Mets on WFAN who has covered the team for 21 years on radio and televisio

[Valadius]

How come we didn't make that an actual poll?

[G-Fafif]

This is outstanding. Perfect quartet.

[Guest Edgy DC]

How come we didn't make that an actual poll?

[stevejrogers]

Okay, now who wants to speculate who will end up going in from the 1999-2000 Mets?[/quote:1mxp8ai5]

I'd only go with Piazza and Alfonzo, but I'd guess Franco and Leiter would somehow get in.

[Guest Edgy DC]

"Somehow"... as if they'll find some devious back-channel technique.

[stevejrogers]

Pretty much. See the story about how Rick Ferrell got into the Baseball HOF.

Hell, just look at the years Frankie Frisch was on the Veterans Committee!

I'm just saying Leiter and Franco just have some friends in high places at this point in time.

You could make a case for Leiter, but then Darling and Matlack supporters would be wondering when their guy will get in. And Franco, well fine if Ed Kranepool is in because he was around for so long.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Franco will try it your way, the front-door way... for now.

But he's got friends. He's not saying, he's just saying.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Maybe the Mets Hall of Fame can be an active instituion for 24 full hours begore the paranoia creeps in. I'm not sayin'. I'm just sayin'.