It then presents them with another two MPs, and over time, a scoreboard has built up showing which MPs have been voted for the most.
When the Mets moved in, a smaller Rheingold sign with a scoreboard above it took over the spot.
It was a majestic blast — 434 feet off a pitch from Cincinnati Reds starter Mat Latos that sailed over an auxiliary scoreboard and gave the Giants a commanding 6-0 lead in the fifth, and deciding, game of their division series with the Reds.
When it was over, and the scoreboard read Giants 21, Patriots 17 while confetti poured down in multicolored streams, Eli Manning ran out and grabbed defensive end Justin Tuck by the arm.
Birmingham's Varun Chopra: "We had a chat about not paying any attention to Nottinghamshire, then the score was announced every five overs on the scoreboard, so that proved somewhat difficult, but luckily we heard what we wanted to hear.
Over to the scoreboard, a quaint and hand-operated job from days of yore.
Penny, a.152 career hitter, pulled a 2-0 pitch over the scoreboard in the fourth for a solo homer estimated at 375 feet.
The one blemish on Pettitte's day was the mammoth homer he allowed Jim Thome, who went the opposite way in lifting a fastball over the scoreboard in left-center.
Some scoreboards were knocked over and a merchandise tent on a hill was knocked down, leaving clothing scattered on the ground.
2.01pm GMT 8th over: West Indies 30-2 (Edwards 9) An over of constant scoreboard-over-ticking, with a run scored off balls one, three, four and five and a pair from ball two, before Powell goes off the last to kind of ruin the developing sense of momentum.
