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Did David Wright ever get his award?

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Bump.And to keep it relevant, here's a cut & paste from UMDB:This Date in Mets HistoryToday is January 19Born on this date: * Jon Matlack (1950) * Anthony Young (1966) Transactions:Seattle Mariners signed Brent Mayne of the New York Mets as a free agent on January 19, 1997.New York Mets signed free agent Allen Watson of the Anaheim Angels on January 19, 1999.Colorado Rockies signed Steve Reed of the New York Mets as a free agent on January 19, 2003.

My all time favorite Mets (alphabetical order): Benny Agbayani Edgardo Alfonzo Lenny Dykstra Sid Fernandez Butch Huskey Howard Johnson Bobby Jones (1993 - 2000) Ray Knight Lee Mazzilli John Olerud Tom Paciorek Roberto Petagine Rick Reed Tsuyoshi Shinjo Rusty Staub Tim Teufel Bobby Valentine Turk Wendell Mookie Wilson

This movie was playing on an airplane but I wasn't listening and every time I looked up some kind of weird visual effect was happening. Actually, it looked weird enough that I might have liked it.

Do they fight ham or do they fight on behalf of ham?

All Japanese baseball teams play in Nippon.

New scouting report on my little guy (Hochmeister is a contributing writer).

Since we're posting Bobby V photos, here he is with another Stamford boy at Camden Yards in 1997. (damn I needed a shave)

Our Band Could be your Life is on my reading list. I look forward to your review.I'm currently reading:I'm a fan of Toni Morrison, took a couple of classes that included her work in college. My big coup was when I had an interpretation of Jazz contrary to my professor's view, but then I found a direct quote from Morrison that backed-up my interpretation (the next best thing to having Marshall McLuhan help settle an argument for you while in line for a movie). Anyhow, Love is Morrison's most recent novel (albeit, three years old) and is more accessible than some of her other works. Despite that, I felt like an idiot trying to figure out the relationship among the characters. All is revelaed on page 131 and it is jaw-dropping -- a total mindfuck.

Some of us are librarians too.

Why do you care what people think about you? A boy's night out for a cowboy film would be fine if I knew someone who wanted to see it. Of course, I live in a place where I won't get beat up for people thinking I'm gay.

That's more like news that news is coming.

Crane Pool Rankings do not lie.

I was going by the Crane Pool rankings wherever possible and Buddy ranks over Elster. Sorry.

I always wondered why it was "Strat-O-Matic" not "Stat-O-Matic". Now, I know.

Not being thread police, but as a public service here's a link to an earlier conversation about Strat-0-Matic from last month.

Here are the rosters for a six-team tournament made up of all-time Mets by country of birth: United States SP Tom Seaver SP Dwight Gooden SP Jerry Koosman RP John Franco RP Tug McGraw RP Sid Fernandez C Mike Piazza 1B Ed Kranepool 2B Jeff Kent SS Bud Harrelson 3B Howard Johnson OF Darryl Strawberry OF Cleon Jones OF Mookie Wilson Puerto Rico P Dicky Gonzalez P Julio Valera P Roberto Hernandez P Pedro Feliciano P Edwin Nu�ez P Juan Padilla C Orlando Mercado 1B Carlos Delgado 2B Felix Millan SS Luis Lopez 3B Felix Mantilla OF Carlos Beltran OF Jerry Morales OF Raul Gonzalez Venezuela With no Venezuelan catchers available the versatile Melvin Mora will squat behind the plate SP Juan Castillo SP Tony Castillo SP Victor Zambrano RP Orber Moreno RP Julio Machado C Melvin Mora 1B Roberto Petagine 2B Edgardo Alfonzo SS Elio Chacon 3B Alvaro Espinoza OF Roger Cede�o OF Richard Hidalgo OF Alex Escobar Dominican Republic SP Pedro Astacio SP Pedro Martinez SP Nino Espinosa RP Yorkis Perez RP Armando Benitez RP Octavio Dotel C Alberto Castillo 1B Jos� Offerman 2B Jos� Vizcaino SS Jos� Reyes 3B Amado Samuel OF Timo Perez OF Juan Samuel OF Victor Diaz Americas All-Stars Cheating here to get in players from remaining countries in the Western Hemisphere SP Armando Reynoso (Mexico) SP Bruce Chen (Panama) SP Ray Daviault (Canada) RP Ron Taylor (Canada) RP Ken MacKenzie (Canada) RP Juan Acevedo (Mexico) C Alex Trevi�o (Mexico) 1B Tim Harkness (Canada) 2B Ralph Milliard Netherlands Antilles SS Rey Ord��ez (Cuba) 3B Chico Fernandez (Cuba) OF Jos� Cardenal (Cuba) OF Karim Garcia (Mexico) OF Joe Christopher (US Virgin Islands) Additionally, on the basis of his nickname alone, Keith Hernandez will be on the bench and ready to take over first base if needed. Eurasiaustralian All-Stars Cheating even more here as three US-born Mets with ethnic-sounding names are helping out this Eastern Hemisphere squad. SP Masato Yoshii (Japan) SP Hideo Nomo (Japan) SP Jae Seo (South Korea) RP Graeme Lloyd (Australia) RP Takashi Kashiwada (Japan) RP Dae-Sung Koo (South Korea) C Bruce Bochy (France) 1B Tom Paciorek (Polish-American Hall of Famer) 2B Kazuo Matsui (Japan) SS Ron Gardenhire (Germany) 3B Craig Shipley (Australia) OF Tsuyoshi Shinjo (Japan) OF Lenny Dykstra (Dutch-American) OF Lee Mazilli (Italian-American) I don't know about you, but I think the USA is going to kick ass.

Ugh, five pages that should be in the Rico Brogna thread.

Anyone adopted him yet?

I just looked up Billy Wynne for old-time's sake. Looks like YSG found a picture for him at last.

Billy Wynne, unusually popular Met. Hee, hee!

] "If you need a pep pill because you're living large, maybe you'll cut that back," Bouton said. "Maybe guys will drink less and go to bed earlier. Mix in a salad." This isn't going to fly with the fans/writers who mourn the loss of "larger than life characters." Can you imagine: "Slugger McBride won the annual salad-eating contest on Coney Island consuming 14 bowls of the healthy mix of vegetables in 5 minutes, all washed down with three liters of V8 juice."

Which Met is not participating in the revolution?

Here's a list of adaptations from wikipedia: Film and television adaptations Pride and Prejudice has been the subject of many film and television adaptations [1]. * 1940: Pride and Prejudice starring Laurence Olivier in the role of Darcy, and Greer Garson as Elizabeth. * 1952: Feb 2nd to March 8th. The BBC broadcast a five-episode mini-series live. This starred Ann Baskett and Peter Cushing as Mr. Darcy. * 1980: Pride and Prejudice, television series starring Elizabeth Garvie as Elizabeth and David Rintoul as Darcy, adapted by Fay Weldon. * 1995: Pride and Prejudice, television series starring Colin Firth as Darcy and Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth, adapted by Andrew Davies. This version is usually considered the definitive adaptation of the novel. * 2001: Bridget Jones's Diary, starring Renée Zellweger and Colin Firth as [Mark] Darcy. * 2003: Pride and Prejudice: A Latter-day Comedy. * 2004: Bride and Prejudice, the Bollywood version, directed by Gurinder Chadha and starring Anupam Kher, Aishwarya Rai, and Naveen Andrews. * 2005: Pride and Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFadyen. There were three additional BBC television productions of Pride and Prejudice made in 1938, 1958, and 1967