January 2011
For Mets Owners, a Costly Precursor - NYTimes.com →
nymetsfans:
For the owners of the Mets, their involvement with Bernard L. Madoff’s giant investment fraud has been embarrassing and costly. They are being sued for hundreds of millions of dollars, and have been accused of having been, at minimum, willfully ignorant of what Madoff was up to.
But for the owners, Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz, it is not the first time they have had their names and...
Martin Luther King III hopes to buy the Mets -... →
nymetsfans:
Martin Luther King III has a dream: To buy the Mets.
The son of the late civil-rights leader is uniting with some heavy hitters, including Mets legend Ed Kranepool; entrepreneur Donn Clendenon Jr., son of the 1969 Mets World Series MVP; TV executive Larry Meli; and a number of unnamed deep-pocketed investors, The Post has learned.
“It’s fitting with the legacy of Jackie...
“Trustee Irving Picard, in court papers, said that Mets LP had two accounts with...”
– Daniel Massey
New York Mets are exploring selling off 25% of... →
Matthew Cerrone is posting updates from the Mets conference call.
“As Sterling Equities announced in December, we are engaged in discussions to...”
– Official New York Mets statement
LEARN TO INTERNET, JEFF PEARLMAN
jukeboxgraduate:
Apparently, Jeff Pearlman’s feelings were hurt by comments left on his blog that were — OH MY GOODNESS - insulting. He is also, apparently, the only person on the internet who clicks on random links (or as Leo put it, the only person left on the internet since 2005 to be successfully goatse’d.) Instead of doing what most normal folks who interact online do, which is delete...
The New York Mets and Their Intellectual Elite
oldtimefamilybaseball:
Following the signing of Chris Young, Adam Rubin had this to say:
“The 6-foot-10 Young played basketball and baseball at Princeton. Capuano was Phi Beta Kappa at Duke. Dickey was an English major at the University of Tennessee and is extremely well-read. Left-handed reliever Taylor Tankersley is also known as an intellectual, and his father is a nuclear physicist.”
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“I only watch a good product. If they are winning, I will watch, and if not, I...”
– Ed Kranepool on the Metropolitans. (via Hardball Talk)
If there is one man who doesn’t have to apologize for his fandom, it’s the man who played for more than enough bad Mets teams to last an entire lifetime. The average record of those atrocious 1962-1968 Mets? 57-105. Yeesh.
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