Benjamin Grimm

The Post reports that the sale is expected to close on Monday.

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In my mind, he will forever be linked with Dwight Bernard. (I'm not even sure if they were ever teammates.) https://www.tcdb.com/Images/Cards/Baseball/79/79-587Fr.jpg>

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I suppose if you're going to give your son a third-baseman's name, "Brooks" is better than "Pie". But a better name would have been "Hubie Brooks David Wright".

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We can't assume that Noah will be healthy. He may not be available until late in 2021 if at all. If they have deGrom, Peterson, and Stroman, that's not quite enough. I'm not sure about Lugo, and pretty sure about Matz! I'd like them to bring in another starter, and I think they'll do so by trading Rosario and/or Nimmo.

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Who's the sixth?

If I owned the Mets and had billions of dollars, I'd build them a new stadium. I'd put it on the shore of the East River somewhere around Long Island City. And I'd call it Kiner-Murphy Stadium.

Torre had already been managing the Mets for two and a half years at the time of that quote.

Despite what we've said in this thread, it certainly is playing out as if Brodie is doomed. We can expect to find out for sure in less than two weeks.

I'm still wondering about that! Could it have been a misunderstanding? That the Wilpons thought that was part of the deal but Cohen never agreed to it?

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I have it on good authority that the reason deBlasio didn't block the deal is because Manfred said to him, "If you fuck this up, we'll just put the Mets in New Jersey. How would you like to have that as part of your legacy?"

I don't think we like Cohen. We just like his money.

I think the Typewriter Company should do a set of cards based on champagne for this.

Wow, the Legacy Forum looks to be decaying away. One of these days I'll have to archive them and close down the Legacy. We have the Jeff Wilpon in History photos in an album on the Facebook page, don't we? (And without those PhotoBucket watermarks. PhotoBucket sucks.)

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I think the "new look" is Frank Cashen's traditional tie. Anyway... Fred who?

Bill deBlasio wrote: The New York City Law Department has completed its legal review of the proposed sale of the Mets. New York City has no objections and the Mets can now proceed with the transaction. #LGM

=kcmets post_id=49345 time=1604081416 user_id=53] I took Mutts and Joy, the rest are kinda meh...

Remember, these covers are almost a year old. The five-year thing was the deal back then. (Or so it was rumored, anyway.) That's not the case this time around.

I've found that if you comment as you vote, the votes don't count. You need to post your votes, then come back and add whatever comments you may have. That may be what happened here.