Big News! (update: Mets Minority Stake For Sale)

[metsmarathon]

MFS62 wrote: Just curious. With Ed Kranepool's name being mentioned in stories about potential new ownership offers, has the CPF been experiencing an increase in hits to the site? Any way to check that out? Later

googling kranepool, our beloved forum shows up on page 4.

binging kranepool, an archive of our beloved forum shows up no sooner than page 22.

member sites show up sooner, but if we're seeing an increase in traffic, it's taking the scenic route, and possibly getting lost along the way.

but we're happy to have ya! welcome abordick!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

"You're My Favorite Waste of Time" seems more apropos.

[Frayed Knot]

"An investor group led by Martin Luther King III and including Ed Kranepool, Charles Dolan, Mark Cuban, Peter Kalikow and others are making an offer, as early as tomorrow, to purchase 100% of the Mets and SNY TV. "

OK, it's tomorrow.
I guess this announcement is staying rather low key.

[ashie62]

Edgy DC wrote: No, I think that possibility has been implied here, although not necessarily endorsed.

It has Ashies endorsement lol. Katz as bagman and buffer.

[ashie62]

Ashie62 wrote: Edgy DC wrote: No, I think that possibility has been implied here, although not necessarily endorsed. It has Ashies endorsement lol. Katz as bagman and buffer.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704364004576132201926195130.html

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I hear he shot a man in Reno, just to say he shot a man in Reno.

[metirish]

Mario Cuomo will mediate between Picard and Wilpon/ possy.

I guess George Mitchell is busy.

[Benjamin Grimm]

New York Times wrote: (Donald) Trump said Tuesday that Fred Wilpon, the Mets� principal owner, had called him to arrange a face-to-face meeting to discuss whether he is interested in buying at least a part of the club. The meeting has not yet been held, said Trump, who made it clear that he would be interested only in buying a majority stake in the team.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/sports/baseball/16wilpon.html

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

F Donald Trump. That is all.

[Willets Point]

He'll have to give up ownership when he runs for President.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm not inclined to believe much of what Donald Trump says. The Wilpons called him? I'm... dubious.

[G-Fafif]

How are the Generals doing these days?

[Valadius]

Whatever happened to the "answer me bitch" guy's flight of fancy?

[Benjamin Grimm]

It's hard to believe that anyone looking for a silent partner would reach out to Donald Trump.

[metirish]

Please no , not him of all the wankers being mentioned. Celebrity Apprentice from Citi Field , starring former Mets......Strawberry has done it before........not sire if Trump has that kind of money anyway.....he'll say he will but that's another story.

[Frayed Knot]

G-Fafif wrote: How are the Generals doing these days?

One of the '30 in 30' films that ESPN has been running over the past year or so dealt with the quick rise and fall of the USFL.
Virtually everyone interviewed blamed Trump for fucking it up. Not just the NJ Generals but the entire league.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Sounds like the kinda guy we're looking for!

Me, I'm still hoping for Robert Abplanalp.

[seawolf17]

Honestly, I think Trump would be a hoot.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I prefer my ham in Cuban form.

[Edgy MD]

Sheesh, I'd sooner have a Seinfeld group.

I'd sooner a Newman group.

[Willets Point]

seawolf17 wrote: Honestly, I think Trump would be a hoot.

Entertaining, yes, but I'd prefer my entertainment on the field in the form of a competitive baseball team rather than comedy in the owner's office.

[ashie62]

You want silent? How about Citigroup?

[Edgy MD]

In a prison interview with The New York Times, Bernie Madoff cleared the Wilpons, even as he suggested several banks must of had an idea what he was up to.

[metirish]

Edgy DC wrote: In a prison interview with The New York Times, Bernie Madoff cleared the Wilpons, even as he suggested several banks must of had an idea what he was up to.

and if you can't trust and believe Bernie then you can you trust?

[Edgy MD]

I don't think it really matters. A prison witness is an asset even if his character is not. Sometimes a biased witness is better to have, because you don't have to worry about his character and can instead measure his credibility purely against his interests. (Which is why Congressmembers shoudn't have been so abusive toward Brian MacNamee and dismissive of his testimony.)

[metirish]

True and the article says Madoff has been helping Picard.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

There's a fair bit of doublespeak in that article.

[Gwreck]

I realize the tangential nature of this, but how about that conflict of interest in the very reporting of the story?

I realize they disclose it (12 paragraphs in) but you've got the reporter conducting this interview for her book, coming out this spring (publicizing it by the very presence of the disclosure), which is coming out on Times Books (an imprint of the paper).

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Which explains why it is so irrelevant to Wilpon's lawsuit.

[Edgy MD]

I think it's useful information.

Heck, the Times has been running stories spoon-fed them by Picard the last few weeks.