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  1. Benjamin Grimm
    Maybe. But every vibe I'm getting (not that I have an infallible vibe meter) says that the Mets have little to no interest in bringing Pagan back next year.
  2. Benjamin Grimm
    G-Fafif wrote: The article mentions concerns by the Phillies about chemistry. If that's real, then eph them. They're as dumb as Gary Matthews and Shane Victorino if they don't glean the joy from Jose. But eph them, mostly. If they're saying they're concerned about chemistry, I suspect that they're really concerned about money and don't want to broadcast that too much. I don't know how many more times they can go to the well, especially since they may be paying Ryan Howard $25 million to sit out much of 2012.
  3. Benjamin Grimm
    I can guarantee the number of suitors for Jose Reyes will be somewhere between zero and 18. I'm guessing three or four teams will be seriously involved. If health concerns hold them back from going over five years and going over $20 million per, then the Mets have a shot. But if there's a team willing to go all Crawford on him, then he's gone. I'll be sorry if he goes, but having survived the loss of Seaver and Strawberry and others, I know I'll be able to move on.
  4. Benjamin Grimm
    It may be true. And I think that article would be different if Jose had played 156 games in 2011 instead of 126. Those two DL stints just have to be worrisome. I'd be very surprised if they didn't end up costing Jose millions of dollars.
  5. Benjamin Grimm
    Hmmm... maybe the Mets can bring in a veteran retread to compete for the job in the spring with Nieuwenhuis. If Nieuwenhuis wins the job, the vet stays as a reserve outfielder. And if not, Nieuwenhuis goes back to Buffalo. I can see "Nieuwenhuis" being the trickiest Schaefer name since Mientkiewicz.
  6. Benjamin Grimm
    So who's the closest-to-ready center fielder in the system? I don't get the sense that there's anyone who will be ready to step in for Angel Pagan as early as next April, so they'll probably need to bring in a guy for at least one year. But I wonder if it's possible that the Mets might have a homey starting in center field in 2013.
  7. Benjamin Grimm
    Last time we tried that, we all read the same book (Frank Thomas' Kiss it Good-bye) and nobody had anything to say about it! http://archives.cranepoolforum.net/index.php?ThisForumID=21&ThisMonth=2006-1 http://archives.cranepoolforum.net/index.php?ThisForumID=21&ThisMonth=2006-2
  8. Benjamin Grimm
    But three lefts do make a right.
  9. Benjamin Grimm
    Bizarre, ain't it? I thought I had left this thing in better condition than that! I'll have to take a fresh look. Last time I tried it, answering the Mr. Wright question correctly got you registered, but unable to post. Now, well, it's simply a way to make you feel good about your ability to answer a basic question. Not that that's without value, but it falls quite a bit short of the mark. Sheesh.
  10. Benjamin Grimm
    To be fair, we've made it very difficult for them to follow up. And solving that is still on our to-do list!
  11. Benjamin Grimm
    I agree. Long overdue.
  12. Benjamin Grimm
    You were invited because of your little robot friend.
  13. Benjamin Grimm
    No, that was someone else.
  14. Benjamin Grimm
    There are numerous similarities. You're not the only one who has made that mistake.
  15. Benjamin Grimm
    Question for those of you who've joined in the last few years: How'd you find us?
  16. Benjamin Grimm
    It's worse than you think! You actually listed eleven pretty shitty years endured. I can't be convinced, however, that 2006 was a bad year. Bad ending, yes, but not a bad year.
  17. Benjamin Grimm
    The rail seems to be set back a bit behind the orange line. I think an outfielder will be able to steal a homer, but he might bump his glove on the railing. I take it, though, that you're talking about the super-dramatic catch where the outfielder hoists himself onto the fence and then reaches deep into home run territory to make the catch. It does look like the railing would prevent that.
  18. Benjamin Grimm
    If there's anything that bugs me, it's that I let myself have the impression that 2011 would be the one "punt" year and that the Mets would be ready to go to town in 2012. I don't know if that was my own faulty assumption, or if I got that impression from the Mets. I think it's the latter, but like I said, I'm not certain.
  19. Benjamin Grimm
    Here you can really see the difference between hitting above that red Modell's sign and clearing the top of the new fence.
  20. Benjamin Grimm
    I don't think they're going to "give up completely." I think they'll make the team as good as they can, within their current constraints, and hope that they catch some breaks, and if the team is competitive going into the summer, they'll buy up. Do I think their best team will be good enough? No, I think it's unlikely. But I wouldn't call it "giving up completely."
  21. Benjamin Grimm
    Ashie62 wrote: OF is still Bay Pagan Duda INF Wright Tejada Turner Davi c Thole Thats a punt folks. Really? The Mets have finished their offseason moves? Already?
  22. Benjamin Grimm
    Wait... is he saying that Cloris Leachman is not a player?
  23. Benjamin Grimm
    My 10-year-old daughter tells me that the tallest man in the world is a Mets fan, and he lives in Poland. I don't know if this is true, but I'm sharing it here anyway.
  24. Benjamin Grimm
    The part that John Mitchell didn't say: "I wish I had that ring so I could sell it on eBay and pay a few bills."
  25. Benjamin Grimm
    I think five years, $90 million is the high end of the reasonable zone. And I also think it's reasonable for the Mets to not go above that until they find that they have to.
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