Cowtipper

Flushing Baseball would be good, the logo could be a baseball (or the Mets logo) being flushed down a toilet, reminiscent of how Mets fans feel about the team each year come August or September.

All three of Yan's outs were strikeouts.

Phenom and future superstar Chris Suero hits a home run!

Kevin Parada might never live up to that 1st round billing :-( Mets up 5-2 now, though. No walks by Mets pitchers yet, too.

Game tied 2-2 :-( Now I'm crankier than a retiree in a HOA!

MLB Gameday. https://www.mlb.com/gameday/nicaragua-vs-mets/2026/03/03/831434/live

Mets up 2-1! I'm giddier than a schoolgirl!

So it's former Met Erasmo Ramirez vs. current Met Jonah Tong.

I think the real Mets might have copyright or trademark or whatever issues with Meet the Mets considering that phrase is so commonly associated with the actual team. Also it doesn't really actually convey what the site is about. Mets Baseball Pool is kind of clunky, two many monosyllabic words, especially at the bookends. Pool itself is a clunky word. Use a catchier word like Haven. Mets Baseball Haven. Mets Haven. Whatever. I'm not picking on your selections specifically, so don't take offense. TBH words is what I went to college for.

How about something that reeks of 2000s GeoCities like "Mets Mania," with a shoddy logo made in WordArt or Microsoft Paint?

Oops, wrong thread.

I second this one.

How about Supercalifragilistic METS pialidocious. Very easy to remember and type into the search bar. Or you could get into the Hub theme, Mets Hub. It would be my second favorite Hub, outside of GrubHub of course. Or think of basic things like Mets Galore, Mets Essential, the Mets Line (oh it's like a subway reference too!!), or something punny like Nice to Mets You or Glad We Mets or something. Actually the Mets Mint is alliterative and memorable. Mets Vault makes it seem like an archive of sorts, which it kind of is. Mets-Turbate is probably available, Gen Z would love it.

Thank you for your participation. We're trying to make it more 'our' Hall of Fame; give it time. Should this forum be around in some form in 10 years and we're all still here and this project is still going, this will seem organically ours. Looking back I ran quite a few projects that ran for years.

But we do have the wealth of talent from American Samoa at our disposal.

According to Baseball Reference, he is currently most similar statistically to another former Met, Marlon Byrd. Gregg Jefferies is also on his most similar list.

Someone is being cantankerous just for the sake of being cantankerous, methinks.

This thread alone brought back a lot of our dormant members I think. Maybe Brock is the true MVP after all.

I think I explained how you can reasonably deduce who does or does not get to 75% multiple times in multiple ways above. If it causes consternation, we can use an external polling source, however that sort of thing just diminishes participation, as I've found through running quintillions of polls in past lives.

According to the Mets schedule it is. No probable starters listed yet, though. We shall find out tomorrow I guess.

From Copilot: [bLOCKQUOTE]Here’s the crux: with the info you’ve given, the exact number of voters isn’t uniquely determined—but we can tightly bound it and still answer the percentage questions. Step 1: Tally and known ballots Total selections: 17 Option counts: Benny Agbayani: 4 Wally Backman: 2 Armando Benitez: 2 Ken Boswell: 2 Hubie Brooks: 5 None of the above: 2 Everyone else: 0 Known individual ballots: Voter A (Brooks-only): Brooks Voter B (you): Benitez, Agbayani, Brooks Voter C: None of the above Voter D: None of the above So far: Voters accounted for: 4 Selections accounted for: 1 + 3 + 1 + 1 = 6 Selections remaining: 17 − 6 = 11 Remaining counts to be supplied by unknown voters: Agbayani: 3 Backman: 2 Benitez: 1 Boswell: 2 Brooks: 3 Step 2: Possible number of voters Each voter can choose between 1 and 5 options. Remaining selections: 11 Minimum additional voters: ⌈ 11 / 5 ⌉ = 3 Example feasible pattern: three voters with 5, 4, and 2 picks respectively (you can assign them to match the remaining counts without conflict). Maximum additional voters: 11 (if each of those 11 selections is from a different single-choice voter). So: Total voters 𝑁 is between: 4 + 3 = 7 and 4 + 11 = 15 i.e. 7 ≤ 𝑁 ≤ 15 We cannot pin down a unique 𝑁 from the given data. Step 3: Who received at least 75% of the vote? To get at least 75% of the voters, a candidate must be chosen by at least 0.75 𝑁 distinct voters. The maximum possible support for any candidate is bounded by their total selections: Hubie Brooks: 5 selections → at most 5 distinct voters Others have ≤4 selections Given 7 ≤ 𝑁 ≤ 15 : Max possible fraction for Brooks: 5 7 ≈ 71.4 % < 75 % For larger 𝑁 , the fraction only decreases. So: No candidate can possibly reach 75% of the voters. Answer: Nobody received at least 75% of the vote. Step 4: Who received at least 5% of the vote? Now we look for candidates who definitely have ≥5% of the voters, for any feasible 𝑁 in [ 7 , 15 ] . A candidate with at least 1 selection is supported by at least 1 voter. The worst case (smallest fraction) is when 𝑁 is largest: 𝑁 = 15 . Then: 1 15 ≈ 6.7 % > 5 % So anyone with at least 1 selection necessarily has ≥5% of the voters, regardless of the exact 𝑁 in the allowed range. Those are: Benny Agbayani (4) Wally Backman (2) Armando Benitez (2) Ken Boswell (2) Hubie Brooks (5) None of the above (2) Everyone else has 0 and thus 0%. Direct answers Who received at least 75% of the vote? No one. Who received at least 5% of the vote? Agbayani, Backman, Benitez, Boswell, Brooks, and “None of the above”. How many total voters were there? Not uniquely determined; the total number of voters is between 7 and 15 inclusive.[/bLOCKQUOTE] And from Grok: [bLOCKQUOTE]No one received at least 75% of the vote. The candidates who received at least 5% of the vote are Benny Agbayani, Wally Backman, Armando Benitez, Ken Boswell, and Hubie Brooks (all others at 0%). The percentages are relative to the number of voters (ballots), not total selections. This is the standard way "percentage of the vote" is interpreted in multi-select limited-choice voting systems (e.g., Hall of Fame-style ballots where voters select up to 5, and thresholds like 75% refer to share of ballots received). The data's listed percentages (e.g., 29% for Brooks = 5/17) are instead share of total selections, which is a different (and less common for thresholds) metric. The total number of voters cannot be uniquely determined from the given information, but there are constraints: Minimum voters: 7 (the fewest possible consistent with the rules, vote counts, one single-player Brooks voter, two "none of the above" voters, your 3-vote ballot, max 5 per voter, and no other single-player voters for any candidate). This uses maximal bundling of the remaining 11 votes into 3 efficient multi-selection ballots (as in one with 5, one with 4, one with 2—all including Agbayani + Brooks to cover their high remaining counts). Maximum voters: Fewer than 17 (since some voted multiple), but more precisely up to around 13–15 depending on how much splitting is possible without creating forbidden extra single-player ballots. Since the number of voters is at least 7, the maximum possible approval percentage any candidate can have is 5/7 ≈ 71.4% (Hubie Brooks). No candidate reaches 75% in any possible configuration (larger voter counts would only decrease the percentages further). For the 5% threshold (at least 0.05 × voters): In the minimal case (7 voters), 5% = 0.35 → any candidate with ≥1 vote has at least 1/7 ≈ 14.3% > 5%. In larger cases (higher voters), percentages drop, but even in the highest plausible voter counts, the candidates with votes still clear 5% (Brooks with 5 votes would need >100 voters to drop below 5%, impossible given only 17 total selections). Thus, the same five candidates who got any votes at all meet ≥5% in all possible cases. Summary: ≥75%: No one. ≥5%: Benny Agbayani, Wally Backman, Armando Benitez, Ken Boswell, Hubie Brooks. Total voters: Unknown exactly, but at least 7 (most likely 7 if assuming efficient / minimal-voter configuration typical in such logic problems).[/bLOCKQUOTE] The more data we get and the more people that post who they vote (or don't vote) for will provide more givens which can allow for greater clarity later on. (or I could just switch to an external polling source that uses more traditional tabulation methods). We could theoretically do it without a poll and just have people post their individual lists, but having done this project for ~15 years or so on the other website, I found that that slightly more effort-demanding step limits participation a bit.

Not really. I've gathered enough data and there's enough constraints and known knowns that the power of AI can easily calculate who has hit the magic number. It's a lot of logic and working backwards. I'm running it through three different AIs to double- and triple-check just to be sure.

You can see the whole membership of the Hall of Fame (and what we're trying to trim down)... ...if you look at the first post above. :-) Also, for those keeping track at home, Hubie Brooks is the only one with > 75% of the vote so far.

Respectfully ... it's spelled out in the first post.

Frank Vieira died. https://patch.com/connecticut/newhaven/legendary-college-baseball-coach-frank-vieira-dies-91 Who was Frank Vieira? Florindo “Frank” Vieira (1933–April 25, 2025) was a legendary American college baseball coach best known for his 44-year tenure at the University of New Haven from 1963 to 2006. He retired as the most successful coach in NCAA Division II history, compiling a 1,127–323–6 record and leading his teams to 17 College World Series appearances (two NAIA and 15 Division II). Before coaching, Vieira starred in basketball at Quinnipiac College, setting school scoring records, and as a high school player he once outscored future NBA Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain. At New Haven (formerly New Haven College), Vieira built a powerhouse program that became a regular presence in NAIA and later NCAA Division II postseason play from the 1960s through the 1990s. In 1986, the university named its baseball facility Vieira Field in his honor, and his career came to symbolize sustained excellence and long-term program building in Division II college baseball. Also... Don DiChiara (1938–2025): Don DiChiara was a left-handed outfielder and first baseman who played briefly in the minor leagues in 1961–1962 after being signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates out of Colgate University. His career highlight came with the Batavia Pirates in 1961, when he hit four consecutive home runs in a single game, though he struggled overall and retired after the 1962 season. Jerry Nelson (1934–2025): Jerry Nelson was a right-handed pitcher who spent nine seasons in the minor leagues from 1955 to 1964, reaching the AAA level in most years and compiling a 79–80 career record. He starred in the Puerto Rican Winter League in 1958 with a 1.51 ERA and an 18-inning scoreless performance in the Caribbean Series, and later finished his career with three strong seasons for the Oklahoma City 89ers.