Cards are live!

The community has spoken...
Cabrera Miguel 2013
Parker Dave 1978
Scherzer Max 2013
Trout Mike 2013
Harper Bryce 2015
Fingers Rollie 1972
Hisle Larry 1978
Ramirez Hanley 2009
Foxx Jimmie 1938
Hamilton Josh 2010
Delahanty Ed 1899
Horlen Joe 1964
Murphy Dale 1983
Tejada Miguel 2002
Williams Ken 1922
Johnson Howard 1989
Munson Thurman 1977
Price David 2012
Schoendienst Red 1953
Varitek Jason 2004
Kent Jeff 2000
Morris Jack 1986
Adcock Joe 1956
Dye Jermaine 2000
Hunter Catfish 1975
Lezcano Sixto 1979
Soriano Alfonso 2006
Thome Jim 2002
Votto Joey 2010
Greinke Zack 2015
Konerko Paul 2005

Voted IN in the run off....
Stennett Rennie 1977
Sale Chris 2014
Leiter Al 1998
Arrieta Jake 2015
Vernon Mickey 1946
Utley Chase 2008
Buckner Bill 1980
Bottomley Jim 1928
Joost Eddie 1949
Anderson Garrett 2003
Finley Steve 1996
Colavito Rocky 1958
Nevin Phil 2001
Kiner Ralph 1951
McGriff Fred 1992
Fothergill Bob 'Fats' 1927
Brouthers Dan 1886
Bichette Dante 1995
Runnels Pete 1958

I'll be packaging this up and sending it over to SOM tonight. Thank you to everyone who participated at every level.

I'll post more details soon on what this process could mean for us going forward.
Tks
Rosie

Rosie you did a very good job in organizing and herding the 100 cats in this community and getting the 50 players selected, job well done, it was not easy and you did it.

Thanks for putting this together, Rosie. Nice job!

Thanks for putting this together, Rosie. Nice job!

I'll drink to that! I was impressed at how organized this was. I haven't felt this much buzz about ATG in the 3 plus years I've been online.

Rosie, I don't know what chord you hit during your interactions with SOM to get this started but I thank you for being able to do that.

I'd also like to express my gratitude to all of those who have undertaken this task and compiled the well researched player options especially the long time vets who, despite previous disappointments with management both at the current site and at the Sporting News before this. were very active in the project as well. Hopefully management will follow through on their end with similar enthusiasm and, beyond that, hopefully they will begin to address other issues with the game as well.

Just excellent, Rosie. I really appreciate all the effort you put into this. I equally appreciate the contributions from those who worked so hard on the pre-voting vetting, particularly Andy, Druid and FRANKMANSUETO, with whom I worked.

Well done Rosie! GREAT JOB! Great participation by the SOM Community. Lets keep this process rolling not just with card additions but also the overall game improvement.

Nice job Rosie! You pulled this together in a timely manner, now let's hope Strat does the same with the cards.

In the future I would like to see five polls (by era, with the 2000+ players split into a new '21st Century' era), so we get an equal number of cards added across eras. This add had 40% plus come from the '21st Century' era.

Also, since you seem to have Strat's ear, can we PLEASE get the 2008 Rays added? (1 Ray out of 50 cards and 21 of those cards came from 2000+...at that rate it will take forever just to get to 5 Rays cards in the set).

Thanks,
Bill

Good job Rosie. Thanks for volunteering and getting this done.

I am a bit concerned about the next part in the process. Garcia didn't even bother to post his blog yesterday, I had hoped there might be some mention by SOM about how long it might take them to get the additions done and available for use, and also some forthcoming card images.

Next round of this, perhaps you could ask SOM to put out a card image for every candidate -which they can easily do- just so we can see exactly what we are voting for.

Thanks all, again many folks made this waaaaaaay easier, Andy topping that list and the fact that a lot of you worked with Bill on his master list was an awesome foundation.

I anticipate this card add will happen in mid August as I know they are in the middle of adding the '82 season and it is the summer...we are all taking time off. So continued patience is probably the theme of the day. LOL

Personally I'm already moving off of this add and thinking about the next one. I'll be analyzing the cards we did vote in and providing my suggested 'next grouping'. I'm anxious to see if this Ambassador concept has legs and will continue to operate without too much push. Ultimately the goal is to continue the debates and discussions and always have a vetted, ranked list of next cards so that when we get the call there isn't any delay and we flip SOM our picks in 48 hours tops...as I'm very conscious of the time this took us this time around.

R