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  1. Benjamin Grimm
    Okay then, how about Larry Berra instead of Larry Bowa?
  2. Benjamin Grimm
    Larry Bowa?
  3. Benjamin Grimm
    I think the forum would perform better either with a different hosting company (it's currently on BlueHost, which hasn't impressed me at all) or if it was split away from the UMDB. I think the combined bot traffic of the two entities may be what's causing the issues we've been seeing. Anyone who owns a domain and a hosting account that supports PHP should (as I understand it) be able to host the forum at no additional charge, as the UMDB has been doing.
  4. Benjamin Grimm
    Yes, please go ahead and do that. Thank you! As for the forum, if you want to start hosting it again i will, of course, help with the cutover and can continue providing the occasional technical support.
  5. Benjamin Grimm
    This may very well turn out to be nothing, but I want to be transparent and not surprise anybody. I've started looking into whether it would be possible to sell the UMDB to an interested buyer. My interest in maintaining the site is waning and I'd rather hand it off to someone else than simply shut it down. The estimated valuations that I'm seeing are nice, but nothing that makes me thing "ca-ching!" I don't know if a buyer would scrap the content and keep the domain name. Or scrap the domain name and keep the content. Or keep both. Or scrap both! (I guess that last option would be pointless.) Is there anyone here who wants to take it on? (I doubt it; there are very few people here.) Or that knows somebody? Would this forum survive? If there's a buyer who doesn't want the forum, does anyone here want to take on ownership of it? I only have questions, but not answers. It's possible that things will continue as they have for another year or more. But maybe not. I hope nobody is too upset about this, but nothing lasts forever.
  6. Benjamin Grimm
    I'd be happy to see him return, but he is also very tradeable so I wouldn't be surprised if he was moved.
  7. Benjamin Grimm
    If they want to honor a representative from that era, the Joe Torre years, John Stearns would be my choice. I wonder if he would have been the guy if he wasn't dead at the present time. Being dead shouldn't be a disqualification. I'm looking at you, Rube Walker.
  8. Benjamin Grimm
    I agree with Beltran and Bobby. Not so sure about Maz.
  9. Benjamin Grimm
    MLB certainly plays a part in promoting gambling, from the advertising they accept to the discussion of betting odds during game broadcasts and pre-game shows. They're embracing it, rather than distancing themselves, so they're a least partially to blame.
  10. Benjamin Grimm
    Trump will probably buy it with taxpayer dollars.
  11. Benjamin Grimm
    I'd be more likely to be okay with the deal if it was Sproat OR Tong, but not both. We've seen how precious starting pitching depth can be.
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  13. Benjamin Grimm
    Of course, this is more of a suggestion than a "prediction", but what do we think of this deal? I think it's too much to give up without a negotiating window.
  14. Benjamin Grimm
    Yup!
  15. Benjamin Grimm
    I've somehow gotten the impression that Snitker would be the number 2 and Albert would be the number 1. But I'm not sure of that.
  16. Benjamin Grimm
    I don't think so either. As we know, all it takes is one dumb owner, but sometimes there isn't that dumb owner. I think that the reasons that make the Mets hesitate would also apply to the other teams as well.
  17. Benjamin Grimm
    Yeah, I was hoping he'd stay. I suppose he still might.
  18. Benjamin Grimm
    That one's easy. Ed Norton! What's the Tom Seaver of apples?
  19. Benjamin Grimm
    Or we can spin this off into a thread called "Who is the Dracula of..."
  20. Benjamin Grimm
    My first thought was The Towering Inferno, but I think it really has to be The Poseidon Adventure. The Tom Seaver of the Seattle Pilots?
  21. Benjamin Grimm
    And who knows, maybe one of those 2015 players will go into the Hall of Fame as a manager. (Would that count?)
  22. Benjamin Grimm
    He had been the 10th oldest living Met. Now, Tim Harkness moves into the Top Ten, Amado Samuel into the Top Twenty, and debuting in the Top Forty this week is none other than Cleon Jones.
  23. Benjamin Grimm
    Games mentioned above but not yet represented by newspaper covers:
  24. Benjamin Grimm
    Best Mets game of the 21st Century? Maybe! That's an interesting question. A strict definition of when the century began would rule out two great games from the 2000 NLDS against the Giants: The Benny Agbayani homer and the game that ended with John Franco striking out Barry Bonds. The only real competition, therefore, would be two games from 2024: And of course... Honorable mention to: And there's also this: Any other suggestions?
  25. Benjamin Grimm
    I do too. Everyone else sees the same things we see.
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