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Random Thursday evening thoughts on the Wilpons, Ryota Igarashi and others…
Photo credit: Laura Padgett Over the past two days, Wilpon & son have made their appearances in Port St. Lucie. They held court with the media, so we got to hear Fred & Jeff‘s thoughts on the...
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Link: Meet the man who will own the Mets for the rest of your life
For a while now, there’s been a movement among a certain group of Mets fans to stay away from the team as long as the Wilpon family owns it. Some of my friends feel that way, and I certainly understand...
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Happy Festivus… now for the Airing of Grievances
A Festivus pole (Photo credit: Matthew Keefe) Happy Festivus (a mostly made-up holiday popularized by Seinfeld.) One of the “traditions” of Festivus is the Airing of Grievances. As Frank Costanza...
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Odds & Ends: T-shirts & Wilpons
I was going to write about Fred Wilpon‘s statements to the media or comment on Jeff Wilpon‘s t-shirts. Then I saw this, and changed my mind: https://twitter.com/#!/JedSmed/status/174275438531710976...
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Reason #31 why I’m falling out of love with the New York Mets
Sandy Alderson and Johan Santana apparently didn’t give David Lennon of Newsday enough material to work with this weekend. Mike Piazza’s 2005 Donruss Diamond King baseball card from my collection...
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Looking ahead to next year, even though it might not be a pretty sight
This could be a familiar sight in 2014 again: Ike Davis flailing away. (Photo credit: Paul Hadsall) The 2013 Major League Baseball season is finally over, and the Boston Red Sox have won their third...
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Tone deaf Jeff strikes again
Leave it to Jeff Wilpon to mess up an announcement of “Free-Shirt Fridays.” At lunchtime, the Mets chief operating officer spoke to reporters covering baseball’s general managers meetings this week....
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Thoughts on today’s Winter Meetings developments
Curtis Granderson signed 2008 Allen & Ginter baseball card from my collection The Mets officially introduced Curtis Granderson to the media today, and the new Mets’ cleanup hitter did his best to...
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An ugly situation in Queens
I’d rather be talking about the remaining pennant races, making playoff predictions or showing off some cool baseball cards. I’d probably even have more fun trying to guess Sandy Alderson‘s plans for...
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Are the Mets making the right call to pass on Maddon?
Joe Maddon (Photo credit: Keith Allison) Joe Maddon surprised a lot of people yesterday by exercising his option to get out of the last year of his contract to manage the Tampa Bay Rays. By doing so,...
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