I found a website at metsefugees dot com. Briefly looking, there's no phpBB forum there and the site hasn't been updated since 2007. So yeah, SJR, I can see the similarities...
We need a new platform. phpBB sucks. Maybe. I just found something interesting. Very, very interesting. I went to The Sons of Sam Horn Forum and it checked to see if I was human. It took a half minute and I checked my pulse while waiting (88) and I am indeed still a human and it let me in. The next person who runs the CPF should find out how they do that.
I ran it up the flagpole with the other Board members, there's only four of us lol (one vacancy) and everyone approves. I'll FWD the email I sent to them. It will come from a different address than you have for me so if you don't see it check your spam or junk.
This should really be moved to a publicly readable section of forum. I 'ran' this joint for a long time and people need to know and remember that Ben G also pulled our asses out of the fire many many times and then took it under his umbrella when I gave up. He is our rock star. It's funny how he found us, but that's for another thread sometime. I'm on the Board of Directors for the SABR Casey Stengel NYC Chapter. I can email almost 700 NY baseball people to see if anyone is interested in taking over the UMDB. There are a lot of new young people. I can solicit a take over. If that sounds good Ben lmk. https://sabrnyc.org/
$80 million guaranteed for Diaz over four years seems rather nutty to me. $40 million over two years laden with incentives and whatnot and some kind of options for maybe the third. I doubt any team is going to do $80 for four and if they do... Hasta la vista, baby!
I took 4 too. 5 would require a championship for me. Not that the June swoon and the dismal end of the season had a grass- hoppers tallywacker to do with Uncle Steve.
Interesting, I thought she had long passed away. RIP. I always thought her name sounded like something you'd order at a snooty expensive French restaurant.