From: jpalmer@uwovax.uwo.ca (The Econoclast)
Subject: FED Contest: Final call for Entries
Organization: University of Western Ont, London
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:18:02 GMT

This is the final repost and update for the 

		FED (First Expansion Draftee) Contest

Who will be the first player taken in the expansion draft?

E-mail (don't post) your entries to me, and I'll tabulate them. The winner 
will be the person whose candidate goes highest in the expansion draft.
I must receive your entries by noon on Tuesday for them to count.

There has been a notably low turnout from Minnesota voters and from
prominent netsters named "Roger".

And please remember, fans, I'm just tabulating the entries; I'm not
responsible for what other people send me in e-mail.

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The predictions so far:
name                team          number of votes

Tartabull, Danny    NY Yanks       10
Nied, David         Atlanta         8
Smith, Pete         Atlanta         7
Mercker, Kent       Atlanta         5
Blauser, Jeff       Atlanta         4
Greenwell, Mike     Boston          4
Hunter, Brian       Atlanta         4
Dawson, Andre       Chicago Cubs    3
Meulens, Hensley    NY Yanks        3
Reimer, Kevin       Texas           3
Sanders, Deion      Atlanta         3
Bell, Derek         Toronto         2
Fariss, Monty       Texas           2
Gruber, Kelly       Toronto         2
Maas, Kevin         NY Yanks        2
Mitchell, Keith     Atlanta         2
Morris, Jack        Toronto         2
Murray, Eddie       NY Mets         2
Wallach, Tim        Montreal        2
Berryhill, Damon    Atlanta         1
Calderon, Ivan      Montreal        1
Dunston, Shawon     Chicago Cubs    2
Eichhorn, Mark      Toronto         1
Franco, Julio       Texas           1
Gardner, Mark       Montreal        1
Girardi, Joe        Chicago Cubs    1
Gladden, Dan        Detroit         1
Hill, GlenAllen     Cleveland       1
Huisman, Rick       San Fransisco   1
Hurst, Bruce        San Diego       1
Hurst, Jonathon     Montreal        1
Knoblauch, Chuck    Minnesota       1
Lemke, Mark         Atlanta         1
Lewis, Scott        California      1
Leyritz, Jim 8-)    NY Yanks        1
Maurer, Rob         Texas           1
Mitchell, Kevin     Seattle         1
Nixon, Otis         Atlanta         1
Reed, Jody          Boston          1
Ripken, Billy       Baltimore       1
Sabo, Chris         Cincinnati      1
Sax, Steve          Chicago WS      1
Sharperson, Mike    Los Angeles     1
Sierra, Ruben       Oakland         1
Silvestri, Dave     NY Yanks        1
Slaught, Don        Pittsburg       1
Stairs, Matt        Montreal        1
Stanton, Mike       Atlanta         1
Stottlemyer, Todd   Toronto         1
Thigpen, Bobby      Chicago WS      1
Wedge, Eric         Boston          1
West, David         Minnesota       1
Wilson, Nigel       Toronto         1
Zupcic, Bob         Boston          1

Total votes cast:                 106

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The individual predictions to date have been:

From: tedward@cs.cornell.edu (Edward [Ted] Fischer)
	Mike Greenwell (I hope).
From: arrow@netcom.com (Les Arrow)
	Pete Smith
From: tml@druhi.att.com(Tim Larison)
	Brian Hunter 1b Atlanta
From: Joe Lundy <jlundy@encore.com>
	Chris Sabo
From: mintz@biology.ucsc.edu (Eric Mintz)
	My pick is Hensley "Bam-Bam" Meulens of the Yankees.
From: ksm@be.seas.upenn.edu (Ken MacFarlane)
	My pick is:  Kevin Maas, Yankees.
From: V085F2WD@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (Ted Kury)
	Danny Tartabull. By the way, Jim Leyritz thinks that he [Leyritz] 
	will be #1. I think that constitutes Jim's entry.
From: jpalmer@uwovax.uwo.ca (Doc Palmer)
	Tim Wallach 
From: <sullis@rpi.edu> (Sean Sullivan)
	My prediction:  Hensley Meulens
From: Kurt "Some Guy" Bose <kbos@carina.unm.edu>
	I'll put my money on Joe Girardi.
From: Natraj Kini <nkini@lookout.it.uswc.uswest.com>
	Jeff Blauser
From: paladin@ikos.com ( Jason Gische )
	Deion Sanders
From: <tcj@math.ufl.edu> Chad 'Mr.B' Jackson
	Going out on a limb here, but...  Todd Stottlmyre, SP, Toronto
From: jsosa@edison.encore.com (Joe Sosa)
	Derek Bell, Toronto.
From: Terry Stewart <stewart@healthy.uwaterloo.ca>
	Kelly Gruber, 3B, Toronto. 
From: "Stephen P. Twombly" <stwombly@cs.ulowell.edu>
	Mike Greenwell
From: "Bill Wagnon"  <WAGNONB@urserver.msstate.edu>
	Jeff Blauser
From: Mark Anania Jr. <ananim@rpi.edu>
	Kevin Maas of the yankees.
From: Nelson Lu <nlu@CS.Stanford.EDU>
	My guess: Brian Barnes.
	I'd like to change my pick to Danny Tartabull.
From: dxf12@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas Fowler)
	Kelly Gruber.
From: Greg Franklin <F67700241@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU>
	Danny Tartabull, no question. Phil Plantier will be #2.
From:	carlo@electro.uucp (Carlo Sgro)
	I vote for Danny Tartabull.
From: GINDIN@RALVM5.VNET.IBM.COM (Jim Gindin)
	First Pick: David Nied. Second Pick: Brian Barnes
From: F0SH000 <f0sh%usouthal.bitnet@utcs.utoronto.ca> (Jim Swofford)
	My draft contest pick is Daymon Berryhill, Atlanta.
From: jon@hogpa.att.com (Jon K Lyons)
	Wild guess time. How about Dodger All-Star from 92: Mike Sharperson
From: rvesterm%irishvma.bitnet@utcs.utoronto.ca (Bob Vesterman)
	danny tartabull
From: jesse@masc1.rice.edu (Jesse Elliott Money)
	Jeff Blauser will be the first player selected.
From: Harold_Brooks <hbrooks@uiatma.atmos.uiuc.edu>
	Rob Maurer
From: vince@vaxr.sscl.uwo.ca (Vince Gray)
	Kevin Reimer, if Denver chooses first; Danny Tartabull,if Miami.
From: zuhars@eecs.ucdavis.edu (Gary I'm Voting Twice Huckabay)
	Pencil me in for Keith Mitchell. 
From: MCMASTER@stortek.com (Jim McMaster)
	Deion Sanders.
From: rja@mahogany.cray.com (Russ Anderson)
	Please, God, let it be David West!
From: <CLGS11@VAXE.STRATHCLYDE.AC.UK> (?)
	Andre Dawson
From: "Brian W. Merritt" <bm2m+@andrew.cmu.edu>
	How about GlenAllen Hill.
From: libwca@unix.cc.emory.edu (Bill Anderson)
	Brian Hunter of the Atlanta Braves.
From: "M_PEDE" <MSPEDE@thor.nafb.trw.com> Mark Pede
	Scott Lewis - Cal Angels  (by the marlins)
From: "hayosh-t" <hayosh-t@gamma.corp.mot.com>
	My guess is laden with wishful thinking.  Dan Gladden.
From: dfl@math.wayne.edu (David Frohardt-Lane)
	Just a wild guess, but I'll say Monty Fariss.
From: blomberg cepeda <ST402747@BROWNVM.brown.edu>
        Bob Zupcic
From: Doug Mraz <jdm42241@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
	Bobby Thigpen, Chicago White Sox
From: "Michael S. Matusiewicz" <34EX5PH@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
	With the news I heard today I believe it would have to be J. Morris.
From: camden@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu (Rany Jazayerli)
	Kent Mercker.
From: Shawn.T.Burgess@dartmouth.edu (Shawn T. Burgess)
	My guess would be Pete Smith.
From: Amit Likhyani <al1x+@andrew.cmu.edu>
	Keith Mitchell Atlanta
From: barrym@informix.com (Barry Mednick)
	Kevin Mitchell
From: Wendell Gee <wilbanks@spot.Colorado.EDU>
	I'm ASSUMING the Rockies get first pick, so I take Kevin Reimer.
From: Dale Stephenson <steph@sal.cs.uiuc.edu>
	Kent Mercker (Atlanta Braves)
From: kim@bull.UCSD.EDU (Isaac Kim)
	Bruce Hurst
From: Micha Verhagen <mkaverha@cs.ruu.nl>
	My guess would be Chuck Knoblauch, but he's probably protected.
From: gritter@cs.purdue.edu (Carl R. Gritter)
	My prediction:  Mark Gardner, rhp, Montreal Expos
From: dave@snitor.sni.ca (Dave Till)
	I predict Otis Nixon.  (Apparently, the Braves are protecting only
	one of Nixon and Sanders.)
From: roberts@leland.stanford.edu (Jake _?_)
	Put me down for Pete Smith.
From: spl2@po.cwru.edu (Sam Lubchansky)
	Deion "Prime Time" Sanders will be taken first 
From: EEBONAR@LSUVAX.SNCC.LSU.EDU (Dave Bonar)
	Gilkey, StL.
        Since we are allowed to change our votes I'll change mine.
        My new vote is Jeff Juden, p, Houston Astros.
        My reasoning is the same; if I'm going to win, I'll win on a long shot
From: Kent Ostby <oz@hpkslx.mayfield.hp.com>
	Brian Hunter, ATL, especially if colorado chooses first.
From: dfcleary@ucdavis.edu (Captain Caveman)(Dennis Cleary)
	Julio Franco (2B-Tex).  I read that he may not be protected.
From: Chuck Starkey II <cstarkey@polaris.unm.edu>
	I gotta get in my 2 cents on this, he will be...   Steve Sax
From: twhite@dvorak.amd.com (Tom White)
	I agree with Valentine:  Mike Greenwell, I hope, I hope!
From: chernesk@cs.UMD.EDU (Michael Chernesky)
	I hope and pray that it is Billy Ripken
From: jplee@nike.calpoly.edu (Jason Lee)
	Rick Huisman of the San Francisco Giants
From: Warren Usui <aardvark@devnet.la.locus.com>
	Okay.  How about Mark Eichorn of the Angels (nobody's guessed him yet).
From: C Robert Claydon <cclaydon@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
	My guess is Derek Bell
From: Kurt "Some Guy" Bose <kbos@carina.unm.edu>
	According to the "experts":
	     USA Today Baseball Weekly: Hensley Meulens (I think...)
	     Baseball America: Mike Stanton
	     Compuserve: Monty Farriss (Fariss???)
From: "mrkohler.US1" <mrkohler@us.oracle.com> (Marty _?_)
	My guess is Brian Hunter of the Braves.
From: cs3ea3ai@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Cheers)
	Danny Tartabull
From: "Jim Schweinberg" <JJS8@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
	If Marlins pick 1st, Tim Wallach. If Rockies pick 1st, Brian Hunter
From: A Glutton For Punishment <mgrage@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> Matthew Grage
	Jack Morris will be selected first.
From: David Marc Nieporent <niepornt@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
	Eddie Murray. But if there's a god, it will be Billy Ripken.
From: erica@amc.com (Eric Arendts)
	My choice: Pitcher Dave Nied from the Atlanta.
From: Duane Flier <wknight@camelot.bradley.edu>
	Dave Nied (if Fl picks first); Kevin Reimer (if Colo. goes first)
From: lyle@ecn.purdue.edu (Lyle Youngblood)
	My guess is probably Danny Tartabull, whichever team picks first.
From: ep502dn@pts4.pts.mot.com (DAVE NAEHRING X2795 P7630)
	My guess is Tim Raines.
	I guessed Tim Raines before I found out he was protected.
	I'd like to switch to Ivan Calderon
From: gary@iphase.com (Gary Kidwell)
	My guess for first pick:	Kevin Reimer
From: "Darryl Gamble" <darryl@cs.yorku.ca>
	My entry is: Dave Silvestri, New York Yankees.
From: genetic+@pitt.edu (David Tate)
	Don Slaught. If the Pirates don't protect him, *I'd* take him first.
From: myles@leland.stanford.edu (Myles Sussman)
	I'd pick David Nied of the Braves first.
From: Robert Lamoureux <rl24@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu>
	My own guess is (former) Red Sox catcher Eric Wedge.
From: eskimo.celestial.com!crichar@gatech.uucp (Craig Richardson)
	I nominate Jeff Blauser.
From: s_bean@oz.plymouth.edu (Shaun P. Bean)
	Pete Smith
From: sfh@po.CWRU.Edu (Steven F. Hubbard)
	I think Pete Smith will go first.
From: Adam Levin <ST902415@PIP.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU>
	FED guess: Mike Greenwell
From: "Thomas Hyer" <ior%slacvm.bitnet@utcs.utoronto.ca>
	I vote for Ruben Sierra.
From: Glenn Ellingson <gellings@us.oracle.com>
	can I register a vote for Jody Reed as a likely high pick?
From: roper@chinet.chi.il.us (Bill Roper)
	Shawon Dunston, Chicago Cubs. (Pete Smith of the Braves is tempting)
From: Paul R Krueger <paul@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
	Danny Tartabull
From: Russell Peltz <peltz-russell@CS.YALE.EDU>
	Put me down for Kent Mercker...
From: pelham@suffolk.dab.ge.com
	Danny Tartabull
From: jwilson@ncratl.atlantaga.NCR.COM
	Kent Mercker.
From: summers@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (erick m. summers)
	I would have to go with the Hawk, Andre Dawson.
From: scott@asd.com (Scott Barman)
	Eddie Murry, Mets
From: <JAW141@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> (_?_ _?_)
	I believe D.Neid from Atlanta will be the first player taken overall.
From: alird@trex.oscs.montana.edu
	If Marlins pick 1st, Jonathan Hurst;if Rockies, Hensley Meulans. 
From: keith gerofsky c/o jpalmer@uwo.ca
	Marke Lemke
From: snichols@mv.us.adobe.com (Sherri Nichols)
	Put me down for Matt Stairs, of Montreal.
From: spira@panix.com (Greg "Sarcasm Is A Way Of Life" Spira)
	My guess: David Nied 
From: gharris@ccscola.columbiasc.NCR.COM (George Harris)
	Pete Smith Atlanta
From: grabiner@math.harvard.edu (David Grabiner)
	One more vote for Tartabull.
From: David Shapiro <shapiro-david@YALE.EDU>
	My best guess is Pete Smith, followed by Hensley Meulens.
From: V_SIEDE@pavo.concordia.ca (Bill Kaldis)
	My guess - David Nied,  Atlanta Braves
From: buzzb@wv.MENTORG.COM (Buzz Brehm)
	Nigel Wilson, Toronto
From: "T.   COSTANZO" <35002_2765@uwovax.uwo.ca> (Paul Badertscher)
	Put me down for Andre Dawson, to the Marlins.
	As a Cub fan it's sad to think, but it makes perfect
	sense from a Florida perspective...(from Dawson's
	perspective too!)
From: jtg@ho1focus.att.com (Joel T Glomski)
	First pick: Shawon Dunston
From: Gordon Niguma <niguma@ug.cs.dal.ca>
	My pick for the 1st player taken in the expansion draft is DAVID NIED


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