>My mistake, I said it was 1999 and you (correctly) identified January 2001.

Picky, picky. :-)

>In the interests of context, it is worth pushing the left button a few times
>from your message, to get the full context.

Indeed. I have no problem with that. In the interest of adding to context, while I had primary responsibility for choosing the MVPs that year, I was not able to do everything I wanted to, and was a bit defensive about the results. You were hammering on a sore spot.