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How close is this to being a series? Visiting that link, it looks like there's a screenplay, but no production deal. If so, that's a very significant next step that needs to be taken.

Well, Alonso is likely to opt out after 2025, so if Clifford is the heir apparent, but not ready for 2026, they'll need someone to fill in for a year.

Lefty Specialist wrote: Beltran had a bad first year for the Mets. Lindor had a bad first year. (Bad for them, anyway) After that they were back to being themselves. Soto seems to be going through the same thing. Said this very thing to someone over the weekend. First year, big contract, big city. It happens. I thought of Lindor and Beltran too. But I also thought of George Foster. And Jason Bay.

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It would also be about the circumstances. If the Mets made a strong bid to keep Alonso, as the Yankees did for Soto, and he rejected it to become a Yankee, yeah, I think he'd be booed. If he rejected it to become a Mariner, then still boos, but probably less. But he didn't even get a big offer from the Mets, so who could have reasonably been angry with him if he had accepted one from another team, whatever team it might have been? The Mets let deGrom go. He had a high asking price and a high injury risk. Few people would fault him for taking that deal with Texas, so I wouldn't see any reason to boo him. Darryl Strawberry clearly wanted out. (He's since publicly regretted that stance.) I could see an argument for booing him, but I don't remember what his reception was, and I was at Shea that weekend in 1991.

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Well, such a process could be introduced, if needed. I don't pay attention to such things, but my assumption is that OJ Simpson is still in the Football Hall of Fame. Was there any consideration of removing him?

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I doubt that many people choose to act (or not act) based on their chances for posthumous election to Cooperstown.

And Benny Kauff was an outfielder with the New York Giants. This is from his Wikipedia article: In December of that year (1919), however, Kauff and his brother were implicated in a car theft. According to the criminal complaint, Kauff and two of his employees, James Shields and James Whalen, sold a car to Ignatz Engel after stealing it and giving it a new paint job. Kauff adamantly denied the charges, claiming he did not know the car was stolen. He claimed that Shields and Whalen had given him what turned out to be a false bill of sale, thus leading him to believe the car had been acquired legally. After only 55 games in 1920, the Giants traded him to Toronto of the International League. Kauff was slated to return to the Giants in 1921, but Baseball Commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis suspended Kauff until his auto theft case was resolved. The case finally went to trial on May 10, 1921. Kauff argued that he had not only been deceived by his employees, but also presented evidence that showed he had been eating dinner with his wife at the time the car was stolen. The jury acquitted Kauff on May 13 after deliberating for less than an hour. Nonetheless, Landis refused to reinstate him. In a letter to Kauff, Landis said that even though he was acquitted, the trial revealed serious questions about his character and reputation that would raise questions about baseball's integrity if he were ever allowed to play again. He also told baseball writer Fred Lieb that he personally believed Kauff was guilty, and claimed his acquittal "smelled to high heaven" and was "one of the worst miscarriages of justice that ever came under my observation." According to Kauff's attorney, Emil Fuchs (who would go on to own the Boston Braves), another factor in Landis' refusal to reinstate Kauff was that Kauff tried to compensate Engel for the purchase price of the car after finding out it was stolen—something which Kauff had done on Fuchs' advice.. Kauff appealed his banishment in court on the basis of his acquittal, but to no avail.. On January 17, 1922, he lost his appeal to a higher court.. In his ruling, Justice E. G. Whitaker of the New York State Supreme Court did agree that "an apparent injustice has been done the plaintiff [Kauff]," because "at his time there is no contract between him and the defendant.. Even though banned from playing, he served as a baseball scout for 22 years before becoming a clothing salesman for John R. Lyman Co.. He died on November 17, 1961, in Columbus, Ohio.

Okay, I looked it up. Cox, whose first name was actually William and not Williams, was banned in 1943 for betting on Phillies games. He died in 1989.

=MFS62 post_id=192553 time=1747168662 user_id=60] Who gets the next set of pardons? The steroid guys?

Might as well put the January 6 insurrections in the Hall of Fame too. At least, as they eventually die off. Several others will also have their status changed by the ruling, including all members of the 1919 Chicago Black Sox, former Philadelphia Phillies president Williams D. Cox and former New York Giants outfielder Benny Kauff. I'm not familiar with Cox or Kauff. I was thinking that maybe Cox was banned for having a plural first name, but that didn't stop Rogers Hornsby.

May is Jerry and Trevor.

If I had a thousand years, I never would have thought of Keith.

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Kranick is at Clover Park.

It seems that if the White Sox are trying to dump the contract of a declining player, it shouldn't take a top prospect to get him.

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