Felipe, Jesus, Mateo, Moises, they are like the Neville Brothers of cool music. Can't wait for Moises Jr or Jesus the third!

As a 41-year-old in 2008, he hit .347 in 15 games; the year before, he slashed .341/.392/.524 in 87 games.

Extrapolate those seasons out to 162 games, and he would have averaged .342/.391/.507 with 21 home runs and 93 RBI ... in his 40s.

But that's the problem with Alou. He rarely got near 162 games in a season. He rarely neared 150 or 140. He spent 17 years in the big leagues and averaged just 114 games in the seasons he actually played -- and he missed two due to injury. So though he slashed .303/.369/.516 overall, his counting stats just weren't there to build a Hall of Fame case, because he didn't play enough.

Alou was one of the very few stars who ended his career with New York to perform spectacularly. He didn't play much with them, but he was awesome when he did. In the end, he might not have done enough to be a Hall of Famer, but he definitely played like one during his brief stay in the Big Apple.

I was going through Alou's game logs recently and noticed he had a 24-game hit streak with the Mets in 2007. I had forgotten about that. In that span, he hit .423 with 41 hits. Equally amazing is that the then-40-year-old began April of that year with a .397 average through his first 73 ABs.

The guy was awesome with the Mets.

I found in his bio information that Moises was born on the same day that Tony Cloninger became the first and only pitcher to hit two grand slams in one game. His father, Felipe, played in this game and was removed in the fourth inning (right after Cloninger's second slam.) Perhaps he needed to get a flight from San Francisco to Atlanta to see his newborn son.

Now here's the thing: just now, I checked his 2007 game logs and my memory of the timing of his injury is way off. He missed all of June '07, so now I remember him as a mid-season pickup since I would not have kept him on my roster while he was hurt. You guys are right; he played consistently throughout the whole sad collapse, ending the season with a .341 batting average.

All these years I thought he'd been hurt before the collapse, until now. When he actually did have his career ending injury in 2008, he only played during the month of May, so it's doubtful he was even on my team that year. By the way, my team won the championship in '08, without Moises' help.

So now, I have no idea why I "missed" Moises Alou at the end of the '07 season all these years. I have a way of erasing bad memories. Combine the Mets' collapse with losing the fantasy baseball championship means that I equate the end of the '07 baseball season to something akin to blacking out and waking up in a dark alley behind the bar in a puddle of vomit.