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=metsmarathon post_id=29499 time=1578591548 user_id=83] =kcmets post_id=29487 time=1578583050 user_id=53] Sure, now they come up with this stuff and not in 1997-1999.
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=seawolf17 post_id=29461 time=1578515238 user_id=91] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=29457 time=1578514347 user_id=68] Larry Walker away from Coors Field LIFETIME ... .282/.372/.500 Jim Edmonds LIFETIME .284/.376/.527 Moises Alou LIFETIME .303/.369/.516 Rusty Staub LIFETIME ... .279/.362/.431 Joe Torre LIFETIME ... .297/.365/.452 Frank Howard LIFETIME ... .273/.352/.499 John Olerud LIFETIME ... .296/.398/.465 Keith Hernandez LIFETIME ... .296/.384/.436
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welcome to the hall Curt Schilling Roger Clemens Barry Bonds Larry Walker Sammy Sosa Omar Vizquel Scott Rolen better luck next year Derek Jeter (new) - the defense is so bad i just want him to wait a year so yankee fans can suffer. Jason Giambi (new) - i'm not ready to say "no" Bobby Abreu (new) - just a "compiler?" Jeff Kent Todd Helton Gary Sheffield Andruw Jones Manny Ramirez Billy Wagner get off the ballot! everyone else Andy Pettite - the only returning candidate that i'm ready to give an immediate big fat "no" to.
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=kcmets post_id=29402 time=1578430101 user_id=53] Wonder how much each team gets in swoosh revenue. If it's a decent chunk of change, will it go towards a quality middle reliever or a principal pay down on an office building in midtown?
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just look at European soccer jerseys. the sponsor IS the jersey and maybe if you are lucky there is a team patch.
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Has it come out why the Fonz was let go after winning a championship? this is scandalous!
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Blank check isn't needed. The difference between caring about making 50 mil and be happy breaking even is Mike Trout on your roster. I want the Mets owned by someone who doesnt need the money. Post-Madoff Wilpons arent that owner.
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=Ceetar post_id=29198 time=1578063114 user_id=102] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=29176 time=1578019303 user_id=68] Sure it can. It's baseball. So maybe the Mets were valued on how much money they'd generate when run properly. Also, there's only 30 teams and a team is up for sale once every coupl'a years. So maybe a buyer like Cohen will pay a premium just to get to own the team. This is a once in a lifetime chance to own the Mets. If Cohen's worth what's being reported, he can afford to lose $50M on the Mets every year for the rest of his life if he lives to be a thousand years old. $50M to Cohen is like dinner for four at a nice restaurant for any regular person. Even less, because when you have more than $10 billion, you have money you don't really need. You can't analyze these transactions through the eyes of a regular person. Or even a regular rich person. These are masters of the universe.
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Frayed Knot wrote: Also, it is now being reported that the Mets have lost more than $100M dollars over the last two seasons. It's statements like these which keep me from buying the ones we hear/read often about how every team Makes hundreds of millions per year every year. Every baseball team makes tons of money each year. The owners may not, if they've saddled the team with debt that is either unrelated, or used in connection with the purchase of the team, but the business of baseball itself is hugely profitable. And even if those owners run in the red for a bunch of years, the asset increases in value so those "losses" are offset. yeah, the owners are going to play a lot of games with their books. at the end of the day the sale price of MLB teams over time should be the only proof you need that things are just swell for the owners.
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Lefty Specialist wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I wonder if Bradley Wilpon is feeling he's being screwed out of his chance at the family business or he's seeing it as a dodged bullet, and he'd rather get a share in the huge pile of Cohen money to play with. I'm thinking it's the latter. Wilpons will still be minority owners after Cohen takes over, so he can still be a jock-sniffer if he wants. And he gets to be fabulously rich without working for it. Yeah, "minority owner" generally means you get to have all the fun - except playing GM. Hopefully Cohen will want to fire the player agent at the helm, hire a smart baseball guy, write him a blank check with a mandate to win or else, and then stay out of the way.
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What is your obsession with Plawecki's sex toys?
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Mike Piazza? He was signed 20 years ago before anyone had ever heard of Bernie Madoff. How is he at all an argument for what the Mets do right or wrong now? Someone keeps spamming certain 'so and so in 30 years' stats and things like that. I don't really read them, so I couldn't tell you exactly. Anyway, Lowrie was a good signing. Porcello is fine. This isn't a LOLMets move no matter what lies you want to contort your narrative in. I would've loved Strasburg, or Ryu. I don't think Cole is the guy you sign for that long, I don't really trust his Astro numbers. I would've extended or signed Wheeler. But hell, the Mets rotation is pretty damn good. I certainly don't cite shit almost as old as I am to make arguments about how the Mets are currently run. I don't need to defend anyone else. Lowrie was fine and so was Porcello when looking at those moves in a vacuum. When looking at them in the CONTEXT of them being the offseason's "big signings" by a team that should be able to operate with a top 5 payroll, the moves are subpar.
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Mike Piazza? He was signed 20 years ago before anyone had ever heard of Bernie Madoff. How is he at all an argument for what the Mets do right or wrong now?
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Was he not being obviously facetious?
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Edgy MD wrote: Of course if the Mets wanted to be a REAL big market team they'd sign Cole. Then they'd go sign a guy like Wacha or Porcello for depth anyway, because they are good depth signings, just not a good "Plan A" I get bored quickly talking about markets, but I like talking about logic. And logic makes it difficult to argue that "if the Mets wanted to be a REAL big market team they'd sign Cole." No matter how much they wanted to sign Gerritt Cole, there are still a half dozen or more major market teams and only one of him. Each of those teams would have a point at which they'd pull out and realize their money was better invested elsewhere. And one would not. Ok, I don't literally mean it has to be Cole there. It could be Cole, or Strasburg, or Rendon, or the big free agents they didn't sign last year. the point is htat a big market team with the revenue sources of the New York market should be signing guys like Wacha as backups not as their top signing in free agency.
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better than a broken record That's what you are. I'm waiting for your post where Porcello's gonna win 25 games and if it's the Mets, it has to be good. It's the Mets who are the broken record. It's what they do. Every season. Pick up defects like Wacha and Porcello when Cole, Strasburg and Wheeler were available, then count on people like you to cover for them with contorted analysis. There's a reason why they have two first place finishes in 31 seasons. That's no accident or bad luck. And if it seems like I'm talking about it again, that's only because the owners just did it again. Of course if the Mets wanted to be a REAL big market team they'd sign Cole. Then they'd go sign a guy like Wacha or Porcello for depth anyway, because they are good depth signings, just not a good "Plan A"
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Both made last outs of the season But Piazza hit the ball hard, and for just a moment you all thought he'd sent us to extra innings when Beltran struck out it was just that you froze, like he froze, and you couldnt believe it was over because he didnt even swing
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=batmagadanleadoff post_id=28197 time=1576103650 user_id=68] Wacha's slowball is his fastball. Also, the incentive clause is that the Mets'll pay Wacha whatever Gerrit Cole's making if Wacha fans 600 batters in 2020. Plus, the Mets were all set to sign Cole until Sandy Alderson put a gun to Fred's head and threatened to pull the trigger unless the Mets instead signed Wacha. It's Michael Cuddyer all over again. To tell you the truth, the only Mets news I'm looking for these days is stuff about Steve Cohen. And more anecdotes about how much Katz's kids think Jeff Wilpon is a dick. Because that Kaz Matsui story can't possibly be the only one.
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It's been scientifically proven* that CitiField in April is at least 25% colder than anywhere in the city of New York at the same moment. This post is months old but just cracked me up.
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Class of 2020 Hall of Fame ballot. It's gonna be a long couple months
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Sammy Sosa (not a drop of evidence) He did get caught cheating, but it was calked bat I believe. -
Class of 2020 Hall of Fame ballot. It's gonna be a long couple months
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=G-Fafif post_id=26749 time=1574105257 user_id=55] #RE2PECT to whoever doesn't make it unanimous. -
the Nationals left those Mariners as the lone franchise never to even reach a World Series it seems amazing that they never got there, they had one of the most star-studded teams I can remember with Ken Griffey jr, Alex Rodriguez, Edgar Martinez, & Randy Johnson
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none of these excite me but i'll take Beltran just for being Beltran.
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if they dont like the rules they should start their own site. I see this as KARMA for 99% of their Mets content being so negative!
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Double Switch wrote: Glad not to have to endure an MFY-Nats WS. Because I would not have. I mean, we swallowed '09, and MFYs-GDPhils was much more straining on the constitution. But I'm still GDglad we didn't have ta. 1996 is still the World Series i hate most
