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I don't think my memory is good or bad, just a memory.
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https://twitter.com/Springer66/status/1149804167717904392https://twitter.com/Springer66/status/1149804167717904392
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When the Mets identified 3 candidates to be the GM but hadn't yet chosen one (allegedly), Brodie offered bizarre written statement that was a cross between a business press release, and a linked in bio, first reviewed by the compliance and legal departments. Bob Melvin and Chaim Bloom hardly had anything to say, if I recall.
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The Friday Afternoon Massacre (I'm calling it)
Johnny Lunchbucket replied to Fman99's topic in New York Mets Talk
You know what would be really aggressive? If Cohen also fired David Wright. -
The Friday Afternoon Massacre (I'm calling it)
Johnny Lunchbucket replied to Fman99's topic in New York Mets Talk
Look at the Heck Yeah thread for a start -
The Friday Afternoon Massacre (I'm calling it)
Johnny Lunchbucket replied to Fman99's topic in New York Mets Talk
Gracious statement from Bro recognizing Fred for being a nice guy who treated employees like family (I believe this, it's just that he's incompetent), and Jeff for his energy and Citifield, a perfectly okay park nobody really loves and Cohen for being "aggressive." hmm https://twitter.com/TimBritton/status/1324825175750250496https://twitter.com/TimBritton/status/1324825175750250496 -
The Friday Afternoon Massacre (I'm calling it)
Johnny Lunchbucket replied to Fman99's topic in New York Mets Talk
Omar's failed twice, and Brodie (a clever and overconfident Jeff guy) had 2 seasons with a good core but underperformed, let a good free agent go, made an all-time terrible trade, and screwed up his only shot at naming a manager. Neither I don't believe could be called geniuses and I'd be shocked if either got a job running a baseball team ever again. I don't doubt Omar meant well but he was part of Sandy's assassination at the start. -
Yeah, though the Post is based on vague industry speculation. I suppose having an agent on board wouldn;t be the worst thing and maybe that's Brodie's argument. I'm sure he could also go back to being an agent and wouldn't necessarily have earned another GM-ing job based on his track record with the Mets: Make a signature shitty trade, disappoint with a good collection of talent 2 years straight, fuck up a managerial decision, etc.
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Newsy item in the Post speculating about what'll happen on Monday when the deal is expected to close. Sandy is expected to be the COO -- LOL, Jeff's role -- and possibly appoint a baseball operations chief and a GM. --Brodie not likely to get either of these roles --Sandy essentially making the baseball decisions already (Mallex, Frazier etc etc) --Considerations for new appointees include JP Ricciardi, who we know from his previous stint. He was the more "old-school" of the eggheads appointed last time and evidently a big whisperer to the Beat Guys. I am almost certain he's the "one Met insider" who trashed the Wilpons for the stealth Omar coup. --Other name (I didn't know) Bobby Heck, who is currently with the Rays and formerly with the Astros and would have been Cohen's recommendation to the ownership group when Jeff got all Brodie on us. --Aldo, still with the org apparently but whose name hasn't appeared in anything I've read for years now, John Ricco
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Chad ochoseis wrote: =smg58 post_id=49927 time=1604586676 user_id=62] he could be Billy Hamilton minus the big bat. Coffee. All over the keyboard.
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Actually the guy I was thinking of Bob Myrick
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That musta been Bernard. Baldwin was from Fresno, like Seaver, but threw sidearm.
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I conflate him with a bunch of 70s Mets relievers. Did he run a lumberyard in the South? I remember talking about this once
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So David Wright mentioned this was coming in his book but I musta missed this, last month:
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2 very good headlines in this bunch, and a few bad swings and misses. I feel like maybe the headline and design guys and their wives were on a 2 week ski trip in Vermont and the interns took over. Some juicy tabloid fodder but the pages aren't living up to it
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I went and found this game. It was the Pirates home opener of 83, so not immediately before the Wynne trade. Keith's collision with Tony Pena made all the papers, and he had a mouthful to say after the game including chatting up his own glovework. hard to believe the Cardinals would trade him for Neil Allen in just 8 weeks. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PIT/PIT198304120.shtmlhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PIT/PIT198304120.shtml http://www.beta.mbtn.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Keith2-Newspapers-com.png> http://www.beta.mbtn.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Kieth1-1.png> Being in Pittsburgh in 83, he was probably all coked up.
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Big playa in the Madoff scandal. According to one of the complaints anyway, Saul vetted potential investors before they ever got to Bernie.
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The Sluggers' Wives: Wifey Watch in 2020
Johnny Lunchbucket replied to Edgy MD's topic in New York Mets Talk
Good wifey watching, Rogers -
Amazinly, it was only days after that Hernandez play that the Pirates traded with the Mets for AAA outfielder Marvel Wynne and made Wynne their regular CFer right away
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I have no idea what I'm trying to say in the above quote. Phones suck
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I didn't really pick up on subtleties like that when I was a kid. I know Max's arm wasn't exactly subtle, but if the announcers weren't telling that I might not have noticed I feel like my aesthetic sense as a fan is only coming out in these last 10 years. To an extent, watching how guys do what they do replaced whatever died in me when they destroyed Shea
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For some reason I can't find the IGT but here are Thoughts on the Game http://archives.thecranepool.net/13800/f1_t13838.shtmlhttp://archives.thecranepool.net/13800/f1_t13838.shtml
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You win. Double in his first met AB driving in winning run in 8th inning 6-run rally in a game that ended on an Ike Davis dive into the dugout. When they showed him in the dugout waiting to get his first Met AB I assumed he was a guy who never even appeared for them. I had almost no memory. "The Animal" Twas tonight's "Met Classick"
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See1st post
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I can upload to my website I guess
