Edgy MD

Well, I don't think they'd be overextending themselves, depending on how responsible they are with money. How much real capital do you think Fred and Saul and Jeff put up? Probably less than what would be Seinfeld's share alone. Do I think they'd put competent management in place? I have no idea. And obviously, something like this is unlikely to happen anytime soon except in Funland. I do know that I'm not optimistic about Mr. Cohen being an answer to my fondest hopes.

I banged in 2018. I banged a lot.

=nymr83 post_id=31549 time=1581475584 user_id=54] Seinfeld should be able to do this himself with financing and some silent partners, right?

It's the American way. Successful companies grow. Failing companies diminish. Propping up failing companies because they are part of some special club should be an unhappy thing.

I still think the best thing would be to somehow stop teams from tanking. I know how to do it!

This also elevates Jacob deGrom, I believe, to longest-tenured New York Met.

Ed Kranepool isn't as cute as Gabby Douglas but he's still worth a cool $14,000,000.

I guess. Especially if they actually would be seriously interested. I originally started out just trying to build a coalition of the funny. I realize entertainers can be reprehensible, and some of these likely are, but I'd really like to stay away from hedge fund managers if I can help it.

I didn't know that Colbert was in the fold. He would come with another $60,000,000 in capital. I'm pretty sure that Noah had to submit in order to get his job. He may be a Met fan under duress.

I'd like to choose Rob Manfred as my opponent.

Spotting a three billion asking price in the other thread, I tried to assemble a consortium of Mets-loving funny folks to pull the switch on a purchase. I figured if I got three billion in net worth (and why shouldn't I trust the internet for providing accurate figures on net worth?), they could all put up half, and finance the rest. That's certainly more than the Wilpon/Katzes ever did. That said, I had to branch out beyond funny folks into not-so-funny folks into kinda-douchey folks. Nicki Minaj is annoying, and I can't think of anybody who likes Ed Sheeran but the guy is loaded. Bill Maher is a tool but he's already in the fold. I don't know who Dylan O'Brien is, but he strikes me as somebody who, if he was in the room, I wouldn't be able to enjoy a game. But I don't know, so I gave him the benefit of the doubt. I drew the line at Governor Chris Christie because he's Governor Chris Christie. Also worth keeping in mind: the price tag is somewhat (a small somewhat) lower because of Maher's shares already being purchased. Sweet! Big ShotReported Net Worth Jerry Seinfeld $950,000,000 Adam Sandler $450,000,000 Matthew Broderick $170,000,000 Ed Sheeran $160,000,000 Ray Romano $130,000,000 Chris Rock $100,000,000 Bill Maher $100,000,000 Jon Stewart $80,000,000 Kevin James $80,000,000 Hank Azaria $80,000,000 Nicki Minaj $80,000,000 Mark Anthony $80,000,000 Tim Robbins $60,000,000 George Thorogood $60,000,000 Edie Falco $50,000,000 Glenn Close $50,000,000 Sigourney Weaver $50,000,000 Jimmy Kimmel $45,000,000 Hillary Swank $40,000,000 Viggo Mortensen $30,000,000 Trevor Noah $30,000,000 Clare Danes $30,000,000 Marisa Tomei $20,000,000 Sebastian Maniscalco $16,000,000 Amy Schumer $16,000,000 Kristin Chenoweth $16,000,000 Julia Stiles $12,000,000 John Oliver $10,000,000 Dylan O'Brien $7,000,000 Gabby Douglas $4,000,000 Richard Kind $3,500,000 Jim Breuer $3,000,000 Total$3,012,500,000

MetsRosterCentral speculates that no two-time Met has ever created a hardier career sandwich out of thinner bread — achieving a greater difference between the total productivity of his two tenures subtracted from the total productivity in between.

Joins Jon Adkins, Jack Egbert, Kenny Greer, Manny Hernandez, and non-pitchers Desi Relaford and Rob Johnson as Mets who took the hill and got out of town without allowing a baserunner.

Other Mets centerfielders during Lagares' rookie season: Kirk Nieuwenhuis: 25 g Rick Ankiel: 17 g Matt den Dekker: 16 g Collin Cowgill: 17 g Jordany Valdespin: 16 g Eric Young, Jr.: 8 g Marlon Byrd: 2 g

My favorite part of The Boys of Summer was when he visited with Duke Snider and wife out in California. They went out to a dinner club where Eartha Kitt's act was as much burlesque as cabaret. At the end of the show, Mrs. Snider — a devout Methodist, who didn't think her good fortune should be squandered on such vulgarities — turned to the other two and said, "Not the sort of show one recommends to one's friends." Kahn, still a Brooklyn boy at heart, shrugged and responded, "Depends on who one's friends are."

Strange that Paneeque and Tehottie both got signed to minor league deals by the same organization on the same day.

Can't think of anything douchey he ever did, given plenty of time. Seemingly invented a new way of making outs, and Keith Hernandez may be the only other Met I can write that about.

I haven't followed this closely, but if this transfer was supposed to be taking place in stages over time, am I correct in assuming that Cohen was intending to finance the team rather than paying out of pocket?

There is no added drama, generally, but rather drama robbed from the regular season.

USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2020/02/10/mlb-2020-former-gm-ed-lynch-decries-analytics-baseball/4712923002/interviews Ed Lynch, who's not happy about baseball's reliance on analytics. You read it and ... he's right in some places, but where he's wrong, he's pretty damn wrong. “The game now is getting so heavily loaded with research and development. You got to remember you have to have boots on the ground, and I think maybe they overlook that. When you're dealing with human beings man, you can't go 100% science. You can't. They're human beings. They're unpredictable. You can't extrapolate their behavior and turn it into numbers. You just can't do it. “Numbers don't measure what's in a guy's soul.'' USA Today's editors, meanwhile, commit enough errors to embarrass Frank Taveras.

Future Mets fans will spot his name at the UMDB, think of Don Rose and Greg Harts, and think he played fifty years earlier than he did.

I'm more interested in the next two installments in the trilogy: Smoker and Midnight Toker.

I quit half-way through. Lots of potential. Perfectly good performers. But it's like the screenwriters didn't even show up.

A classic underdogs-vs.-snobs plot (The Bad News Bears meets Moonrise Kingdom with some The Greatest Christmas Pageant Ever and Little Miss Sunshine thrown in) unfolds as a group of near-feral southern Georgia kids in 1977 put together a girl scout troop (called "Birdie Scouts" to please the lawyers) to snag the big prize from the high-falutin' kids who wear shoes and stuff. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/IGkAAOSwVYNeGmLE/s-l640.jpg>

Was there ever an official version of the Mets logo with the High Line replacing the bridge, or is that just something Zvon made? Because the great resource that is Cot's now part of the Baseball Prossectus family, https://legacy.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/seems to think it's the definitive one. Also, the site reports that the Mets bought their way out of $3 million worth of obligations to Carlos Beltrán with a $200,000 donation to his charity, which seems like a pretty pretty sweet back door. https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/screen-shot-2020-02-08-at-6.29.59-pm.png>