Benjamin Grimm

I don't know enough about Mark Cuban to have an opinion regarding him, but I wouldn't be surprised if his name came up, at least from the fan base. What do we think? Is it likely? Is it desirable?

I'm wondering that too. Maybe the fact that the Cohen deal fell apart made them realize that they needed to cede control, but that realization could have simply allowed them to reopen the Cohen deal. So there must be more to it.

I've listened to one and a half podcasts

So like the big-league club, Syracuse has had a phantom manager this offseason.

"However, the family still intends to sell the team." There's the good news. Time for them to shit or get off the pot, whichever of those two actions represents selling the team.

I bet that was Nils' idea.

Maybe Jeff should bring a food-taster to the next family gathering.

I wish I had an extra $5 billion or so lying around in my kitchen junk drawer. I'd offer it all to the Wilpons with the requirement that they disappear immediately. They can have one day a year where they can show off for Sandy Koufax by posing for photos with the players in Port St. Lucie, but that's IT!

Nils is working at IKEA in the stockroom.

=41Forever post_id=31163 time=1580995956 user_id=69] I'm going to assume that nothing we see in the lobby is there randomly.

Is it any stranger than our HQ lobby in Stockholm?

Can we get a list of which levels of the field office are strange and which ones aren't?

Yeah, I think he's from the state of Washington.

The Mets don't even have to have a better regular season than the Dodgers. They just need to get past them in the playoffs, assuming they get the opportunity to face them.

Suddenly, I'm having flashbacks to Robert Abplanalp.

Well, if it is in fact dead, I wouldn't be surprised if it was over the notion that the Wilpons would retain control for another five years.

Yeah, there does seem to be something going on there.

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There is Joy in Melville today as Newsday has, for the first time, provided the winning cover in the Tabloid Cover Derby! This ends the four-year stranglehold that the Daily News has had on the title since this competition started in 2015. Newsday, with 93 covers this year, had the fewest entries of our three publications. (The Daily News had 114 and the New York Post had 111.) STREAKERS! features Michael Conforto, who also appeared on last year's winner, MIDNIGHT BADNESS. The two consecutive winning covers for Conforto matches a feat previously accomplished by Yoenis Cespedes in 2015 and 2016. 2019 CHAMPION COVER STREAKERS! Newsday, August 10, 2019 http://leaptoad.com/mets/covers/images/2019/streakers.png> While last year's winner, MIDNIGHT BADNESS, enjoyed a flight on a private jet to Stockholm, budget cuts this year in the Travel Department required STREAKERS! to fly economy class on a commercial flight. Upon landing at Stockholm Arlanda International Airport, our winning cover was escorted by the Swedish Royal Guard to Slottsbacken, the street in front of the Royal Palace, where this year's ceremony was held. http://leaptoad.com/mets/covers/images/2019/economy_seat.jpg> http://leaptoad.com/mets/covers/images/2019/royal_guard.jpg> The festivities featured Mets legend and broadcaster Keith Hernandez, youthful climate activist Greta Thunberg, Sweden's Princess Madeleine (holding an unidentified baby), CPF receptionist and reality-show star Maja, respelendant in a green dress, and the ghost of Swedish film star Anita Ekberg. Also on hand was a polar bear, because Nils, in the promotions department, was certain that the winning cover would feature Mets rookie sensation Pete Alonso. The expenses incurred in capturing and taming a live polar bear are a large part of the reason for the reduction in the travel budget. http://leaptoad.com/mets/covers/images/2019/ceremony2019.jpg> After the ceremony, Maja switched to her business outfit to attend the installation of the winning cover in the lobby of the Kran Pool Forum Internationella Huvudkontoret, the CPF's International Headquarters. Joining Maja behind the desk is her Aunt Gunilla, who has been hanging around the office a lot lately. Also, enjoying her time in the office chair is Ulrika, this year's Intern of the Year. http://leaptoad.com/mets/covers/images/2019/lobby2019.jpg> The winning cover is once again available as a shower curtain! You can get a STREAKERS! shower curtain of your own at the CPF Gift Shop. Show your membership card for a 15 per cent discount! http://leaptoad.com/mets/covers/images/2019/shower_curtain_streakers.jpg> Last year's winner, MIDNIGHT BADNESS, has joined its predecessors on display at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, where the four covers are protected around the clock by an armed member of the Swedish Royal Guard. http://leaptoad.com/mets/covers/images/2019/ArtMuseum2019.jpg> For appearing on the winning cover, Mets outfielder Michael Conforto will receive a gigantic box of Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco Treat. To honor his second-place finish, Mets second baseman Robinson Cano will receive a copy of the Tabloid Cover Derby Home Game, available for sale wherever deeply unpopular toys and games are sold. http://leaptoad.com/mets/covers/images/gigantic_rice.png> http://leaptoad.com/mets/covers/home_version.png> Thank you to everyone who participated in this year's Tabloid Cover Derby! 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Vic Sage wrote: MCU ranked best to worst: AVENGERS IV: End Game BLACK PANTHER IRON MAN GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY THOR 3: Ragnorak marvel's AVENGERS CAPTAIN AMERICA III: Civil War CAPTAIN AMERICA II: Winter Soldier AVENGERS III: Infinity War SPIDER-MAN: Far From Home SPIDER-MAN: Homecoming DR. STRANGE CAPTAIN AMERICA I: first Avenger GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 ANT-MAN & WASP AVENGERS II: Age of Ultron ANT-MAN CAPTAIN MARVEL IRON MAN 3 THOR IRON MAN 2 INCREDIBLE HULK, the (08) THOR 2: Dark World I'm not sure if I remember the details of enough of these movies to try a ranking of my own, but if I did, Captain America First Avenger would be higher on the list, and Iron Man 3 would probably be at the very bottom. I definitely agree with the low placement of Captain Marvel and Dark World. And I also would have the first Iron Man movie high up there, as you did.

I think Namor was independently stating his opinion, not commenting on yours.

=Centerfield post_id=30874 time=1580491144 user_id=65] And now tied again.

Because I didn't know that not everyone could see that column. Anyway, there seem to be about 40 or more registered users who visit on at least a semi-regular basis.

Look at the "Last Active" column.

It looks like there are about 40 people who have logged in in the last week or so, and about 30 in the last two days: http://thecranepool.net/phpBB32/memberlist.php?sk=l&sd=dhttp://thecranepool.net/phpBB32/memberlist.php?sk=l&sd=d