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  1. Benjamin Grimm
    John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: My answer is spring training, at least while I'm up here and not down there. It doesn't count, goes on forever, and it's March. Yeah. I'm not among the group that gets excited about pitchers and catchers. Big deal. It's still cold up here, and they're only playing basketball and hockey. Opening Day is where it's at.
  2. Benjamin Grimm
    January. It's easy enough to get through October, November, and December, but once we get into January I start to smell the new season and the anticipation starts to build. That's especially so in a year that the Mets have made some exciting off-season moves. This year, not so much.
  3. Benjamin Grimm
    Please share a photo!
  4. Benjamin Grimm
    You know, when I first saw David Wright a few years ago, I said to myself, this guy could be the next Harlond Clift.
  5. Benjamin Grimm
    Gosh, he's still just a kid.
  6. Benjamin Grimm
    That's because time goes faster when you're older.
  7. Benjamin Grimm
    Gooden was around about as long as Koosman was.
  8. Benjamin Grimm
    ="Frayed Knot"]Meanwhile the Phils are saying they're out of the Kyle Lohse race on account of their refusal to go for more than 3 years. I'd like to think that Omar won't go for more than 3 either. Who else is in the "race?" The last thing I heard was Mets and Phillies. If the Phillies are dropping out, does that mean it's just the Mets? Or is there someone else that may end up getting Lohse. (I'm not sure which way I'm rooting here. They could use another arm, and I'd rather see them get it through a signing than by trading prospects, but I'm among those who aren't thrilled about a lengthy commitment to Lohse.)
  9. Benjamin Grimm
    I'll say Glavine and Koosman.
  10. Benjamin Grimm
    I wondered about Kris Benson myself. I haven't heard anything about the Mets being one of the dozen or so teams considering him. I suspect that the Wilpons may have a strong Anna aversion.
  11. Benjamin Grimm
    Roger Clemens wrote: "I am disappointed that my 25 years in public life have apparently not earned me the benefit of the doubt" In other words, you should trust him because he's a celebrity. Hard to argue with that kind of logic.
  12. Benjamin Grimm
    Seems like a wise move.
  13. Benjamin Grimm
    Well, in a perfect world...
  14. Benjamin Grimm
    Yet you looked the other way. You can't escape your portion of the blame.
  15. Benjamin Grimm
    I had a steroid injection in my right ear, on two occasions, in 1998. It was to reduce some scar tissue, but now I have bionic hearing. My shame knows no bounds. I was so relieved not to have been mentioned in the Mitchell Report.
  16. Benjamin Grimm
    Fifty years from now I'll be 94 years old. I'm not sure that I want to stick around that long.
  17. Benjamin Grimm
    I fear that they'll replace black with the new hot color du jour. In 2009 we may see the Mets in brick red and sandstone.
  18. Benjamin Grimm
    I'm afraid it was one of the old admins who did the split. Back to black: both of my kids have black Mets t-shirts. I have to admit that t-shirts look better in black than they do with white and pinstripes. Jerseys worn on the field in a regulation game are an entirely different story.
  19. Benjamin Grimm
    John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: The Mets however have hinted there will be a change in the uni for the 2009 season, so there prolly will be something floating around out there this summer. Should we treat this news with anticipation or dread?
  20. Benjamin Grimm
    You don't like accents? You sound like Paul Lo Duca. I don't think there's a way to eliminate black uniforms and caps. Alternate choices mean more merchandise sales. I think a more realistic goal would be to get them to seriously reduce the in-game usage of the black. If the black jersey is still used in games, even as little as once a week, then they can still sell them as "authentic" in the gift shops. But we won't have to see them as often. My proposal: Black jerseys and all black caps on Sunday night games and weekday day games. All white jerseys and blue/black caps on Saturday home games. For all other games, grey jerseys and blue caps on the road, pinstripes and blue caps at home. There! Problem solved!
  21. Benjamin Grimm
    I wouldn't be opposed to shrinkage. I wasn't thrilled to see Gary Carter's name as the first proposed evictee, but, whatever. He listed a lot of old-timers who, he feels, got in as a result of cronyism. (There probably are more than a few Harriet Miers in the Hall.) Other recent players, though, in addition to Carter, are Don Sutton and Gaylord Perry. Less is more. If Gary Carter has to be sacrificed as part of a purge, then so be it. Of course, this will never happen. A better possibility would be for some competing organization to create a Baseball Hall of Exclusivity. It would take many years for it to gain the prestige of the place in Cooperstown, if it ever did, but I'd like to see someone try it.
  22. Benjamin Grimm
    I think we're seeing how thorough Mitchell's investigation was. If he found out that a player had used steroids twice, it was the only two times that he had done so. If he finds out that a player had used steroids once, that was, in fact, the one lone occurrence. Amazing!
  23. Benjamin Grimm
    seawolf17 wrote: ]remember, in a perfect world, we'd all be Yankees. I just threw up a little bit in my mouth. We very nearly had another Oprah Winfrey moment there. I was just about to post something uncannily similar but I saw the above post in the nick of time.
  24. Benjamin Grimm
    Mets press release wrote: The New York Mets today announced a change to their 2008 regular season schedule. The Mets will now play a three-game series against the Nationals at Shea April 15-17, each starting at 7:10 p.m. New York will travel to Washington for a two-game series, April 23-24. In addition, September 11 is now an off-day.
  25. Benjamin Grimm
    Bob Apodaca's been stealing the thunder of the steroid boys like Hundley and Dykstra. Why? A link from Opie and Anthony's home page.
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