Benjamin Grimm

I'd be more comfortable if it was one of those deals with a contract negotiation window, but those don't happen very often.

Would anyone care to break this tie between YOU BE THE JUDGE and COOKIE MONSTERS?

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Stories about which teams have the best shot at Ohtani have been all over the map, literally. Just in the last couple of days, I've read that he's only interested in the West Coast, and also that now that he's been in the United States for a while, he'd be okay with going to an East Coast team. (This last was from a report out of Boston.) I've read that because he's sure to stay out West, that the Mets have turned their attention instead to Yamamoto. (Regardless of what happens with Ohtani, the Mets should be interested in Yamamoto. There shouldn't be an "instead" involved, but that may be better discussed in a different thread.)

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What, you got something against the Pop-O-Matic games?

Stearns said something about how they thought it might just be soreness from the season that might heal on its own, but they saw that it wasn't improving so they opted for the surgery.

If it was up to me, I would include a baseball field with the diamond aligned with where the old Shea Stadium diamond was.

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According to that timeframe, he'll be able to return by May or June. Not ideal, but it could have been a lot worse.

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If they're replacing the parking lot with a multi-story parking garage it will be a nightmare. I parked in the garage at Yankee Stadium II on the day in 1985 when Tom Seaver won his 300th game. It took me forever to get out of there.

I'm not surprised. I read something recently that the distinction between POBO and GM is just a result of "position inflation". The POBO does what a GM used to do, and a GM does what an Assistant GM used to do. It's like when Mary Richards was promoted from Associate Producer at WJM to Producer. Meanwhile, Lou Grant was promoted to Executive Producer. And neither of their job functions changed. So as far as I'm concerned, no GM is no biggie.

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Actually, it's this guy: https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=mendoz001carhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=mendoz001car