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Sosa 5 Easley 2 Wright 1 Gomez 1 Lo Duca 1

Nymr83 wrote: Zambrano 6 Floyd 4 Now THAT'S funny!

Green 2 Maine 1

Wright 2 Delgado 1.5 Reyes 1.5 Feliciano 1 Smith 1 Heilman 1 Beltran 0.5 Easley 0.5 Chavez 0.5 Glavine 0.5

Johnny Dickshot wrote: That was back when Arizona used to beat us. Attn: Baseball Gods...Please disregard above comment until the evening of June 3. Thx.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN199905290.shtml Horrible game. Horrible series. Horrible homestand. Horrible eight-game losing streak that cost three coaches their jobs. Prelude to the 40-15 stretch that made 1999 something special. Could do without seeing Kim ever again anyway.

Three more or less contemporary accounts of the Agee HR: "Agee...hit two home runs, one of them an unbelieveable smash into the fifth (and top) deck in the left field corner, an unmeasureable shot of something more than 500 feet." --Leonard Koppett, "The New York Mets" "Agee unshackled himself from [a] long, lean winter in the second inning when Larry Jaster tried to slip the 3-and-1 pitch over the plate. Agee rocked it off the uppermost deck of the five-tiered stadium in left field, 100 feet above the ground in a no man's land of empty green seats." --Joe Durso, "Amazing: The Miracle of the Mets" [Note: Upper deck seats used to be green.] "Tommie Agee [hit] two home runs in one game for the first time in his pro career, including an unprecedented smash inot the upper deck in left...Ron Swoboda said, "That one today would have gone over the third fence and hit the bus in the parking lot if it hadn't hit the seats." --Larry Fox, Daily News 4/11/69

Don't remember '75 winner (Rusty is the logical choice) but I feel fairly certain Koosman edged Kingman in '76, something like 86 to 85 points. Kooz finished up strong and Kingman lost so much time due to injury.

Thirty-six games in, I just want to say I'm enjoying the heck out of POTG voting, my first season participating. It's very challenging. Having restricted myself to slicing and dicing no thinner than by the half-point, I find the greatest (and most enjoyable) task is to find points for everybody in a great win like yesterday's. I probably shortchanged Mr. Perez because of all the offensive contributions that also defined the game, but I'll stand by it because there were enough big hits to go around. On one or two occasions I could feel slight personal biases creeping in, not in a "I don't like him, he gets nothing" sense but rather in a judgmental way. There was a game when Wright seemed to be breaking out but I withheld support because I was growing impatient with his sporadic performance. "You got points in such-and-such game and you let me down for the next three days" was my thinking. It was bizarre reasoning, but across 162 games, I don't expect it will be the last time my logic twists and turns. Wasn't the original mid-'70s Schaefer voting awarded on a 6-3-1 basis? I can remember a rather depressing 5-0 type of loss after which Bob Murphy rather harshly (for Murph) noted no points would be awarded. Wow, I thought, it was that bad. Anyway, just wanted to tip my cap to Yancy and all who got and keep this thing going. It's become a most welcome ritual in my rooting experience.

Centerfield wrote: Only Steinbrenner would think to respect freedom by chaining people in and telling them what to do. First name George. Last name Orwell.

Perez 3.5 Easley 2 Gomez 1.5 Wright 1.5 Beltran 0.5 Reyes 0.5 Castro 0.5

Newhan 4 Green 2 Feliciano 1

Dude, you gotta be Ken Henderson, one of the Henderson Men as Murph called you when you and your outfield brother Steve were laying lumber to horsehide. Me? I was handed a starting outfield job in the middle of a pennant race despite no experience at the position.

Anybody else typing in the letters S-o-s-a and staring at the resulting name and doing a doubletake?

Sosa 2 Delgado 2 Felicano 1.5 Wagner 1.5 Wright 1 Easley 1 Lo Duca 1

Great linkage, Gwreck. Thanks. (Nothing is too long to read if it's good.) While this certainly amplifies just about every assumption I hold about Giuliani's nature (a Yankee fan is a Yankee fan is a Yankee fan), there were at least three mistakes in the article that makes me wonder how much else of a more substantive nature may be off, which Rudy apologists could point to so as to dismiss all of it. --Yogi Berra was presented with newly minted replacements for lost rings in 1999 after he was lured back into the fold. Joe DiMaggio, on the other hand, died early that season, thus making it unlikely that he would need new rings. --The Mets were sure as shootin' trying to get a new ballpark before 2000. They began their quest in earnest in April 1998 when the retractable-field model was unveiled. --And, though this is a bit on the fan-pickiness side, the Mets were not "big-time losers" for most of Giuliani's tenure unless not winning four World Series is the same as losing big-time. They had three losing seasons followed by five winning seasons, two of which culminated in a playoff spot and three that had them contending until mid- to late September. Attendance topped 2.2 million four consecutive years, the entirety of Giuliani's second term, giving lie to the notion that Shea was regularly half-empty. There's a lot of valuable stuff in this piece, yet it always gives me the heebie-jeebies when non-baseball writers blow the baseball details.

I'm glad Reyes contributed materially to the win today because otherwise I'd be ethically conflicted on whether I should toss him a tenth of a point strictly in appreciation for his hairy individuality. Keep your cap on, kid. And run!

Wright 3 Delgado 2 Maine 1.5 Gotay 1 Schoeneweis 0.5 Heileman 0.5 Wagner 0.5 Reyes 0.5 Lo Duca 0.5

Glavine 3 Reyes 2 Wright 2 Beltran 1 Lo Duca 1 Feliciano 0.5 Wagner 0.5

Bald Busters Prevail... http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=270508126

Don't want to be a wet (or Met) blanket, but ever since IP was sold, its newsstand distribution has pretty much disappeared. I haven't seen it anywhere at retail except for the team store at Shea in the last two years. Not even at the Clubhouse Shops.

Gotay 1 Perez 0.5 Reyes 0.5 Green 0.5 Easley 0.5

I'm lazy. I'll take David Newhan.

Castro 1 Chavez 1 Reyes 1 Feliciano 1

Sosa 3.5 Green 2.5 Delgado 1 Lo Duca 1 Heilman 0.5 Feliciano 0.5 Reyes 0.5 Beltran 0.5