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  1. Benjamin Grimm
    No apologies necessary. You gave us all a heads up so we knew! And remember, there's still this. https://leaptoad.com/mets/
  2. Benjamin Grimm
    I'm sorry. I've had to apologize to several people who have contacted me. I'm hoping that the site will once again be as comprehensive as it had been. I really didn't know that the new guys would gut it like that. I did tell them that they could do whatever they wanted with the site, so I have no grounds for complaint.
  3. Benjamin Grimm
    If you want to roll the dice on this, I'm all for it. After all, the worst thing that could happen is this.
  4. Benjamin Grimm
    It's always been The Crane Pool Forum. It's just bounced from host to host from time to time over the years. I don't remember what domain it resided at before December 2018. I first encountered the forum in 2002 when it was on ezBoard.
  5. Benjamin Grimm
    Put me down for Tauchman. He's so much in the dark that I'm not sure of his first name. Mike, maybe?
  6. Benjamin Grimm
    We had everyone recreate their accounts when the site moved to ultimatemets.com in December 2018. Any email addresses from earlier than that are no longer available.
  7. Benjamin Grimm
    The old threads, going back to 2005, have been purged from the database tables. They only exist as HTML files. I have access to them, as well as to the custom table that indexes the HTML files. I think we can probably continue to host them here on cranepoolcompanion.com. If we were to move to your site, would threads survive forever? Will posts from 2026 still be online in 2036?
  8. Benjamin Grimm
    There are thousands of archived threads, but they're all saved as individual HTML pages. They're not in the phpBB database format.
  9. Benjamin Grimm
    So... Who are they?
  10. Benjamin Grimm
    I think it's someone who knows where the crunch berries are.
  11. Benjamin Grimm
    https://sny.tv/articles/mets-steve-cohen-no-nonsense-approach-2026-season
  12. Benjamin Grimm
    I have to wonder... was it his wife's sister or his brother's wife? It's hard to say which would be worse.
  13. Benjamin Grimm
    Does it come with the rulers?
  14. Benjamin Grimm
    Maybe they'll dust off Donald Fehr, similar to how the Mets took Frank Cashen out of mothballs for a little while in 1999.
  15. Benjamin Grimm
    I have no memory of him at all. Sixteen games with the Mets in 2025, between May and August.
  16. Benjamin Grimm
    A 35 year old outfielder. 190 big league games in right field.
  17. Benjamin Grimm
    How about Sandy Alomar Jr.? Doc Medich?
  18. Benjamin Grimm
    On the "front end", I think the biggest one is Amos Otis. I remember thinking that if the Mets were to win another World Series, they might have to do it with Marty Barrett as manager, to keep the pattern going. Should I let David Stearns know?
  19. Benjamin Grimm
    I used to know all that stuff too, when I was 13 and reading The Sporting News every week. Now I know very few of the opposing players, and when the Mets move from one series to the next I pretty much forget the players from the previous series.
  20. Benjamin Grimm
    I think it would be a nice way to honor Lindor (or some other future Met) but it really is a lot like a FIFA Peace Prize when you think about it. And if the policy is "no captains" then nobody can feel disrespected for not being named captain.
  21. Benjamin Grimm
    Larry Bowa.
  22. Benjamin Grimm
    Lindor has often been a slow starter anyway, so if he starts slowly this year it will be hard to pin it definitively on the surgery.
  23. Benjamin Grimm
    Who is the Closer? I'll go with the easy answer and say Williams. If he doesn't get it done, I'm not sure where they'll turn. Who is the Odd Man out of the Rotation? I think, if all six are healthy, they'll go with a six-man rotation at least through April. After that, things will sort themselves out, as they inevitably do. Does Benge make the roster? No. Not yet, anyway. Who is in Right Field? I'm thinking Baty if he demonstrates during spring training that he can handle the position, otherwise Taylor. Who Bats Leadoff While Lindor Is Away? I hope this is a moot question, but I'll go with Semien or Robert, depending on who has the better spring.
  24. Benjamin Grimm
    I agree. The outfield is questionable. It could turn out to be pretty good, if Robert rebounds and Baty or Benge settles into right field. But it's also possible that neither of those things happen, and the outfield will provide two weak lineup spots.
  25. Benjamin Grimm
    I would guess that Benge will be held back, at least for a while, unless he really tears it up this spring. I don't expect that Stearns will be as generous as Brodie was (with Alonso) in skipping the chance to delay Benge's free agency.
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