JML Hot Stove League update
Putting aside the Braun boondoggle, which won’t be sorted out any earlier than mid-January, according to reports, let’s look at some other baseball news, shall we? Howard “Baseball Talmud” Megdal opines on the latest Mets financial woes. It’s kind of sad when you need a business degree to keep up with your team (Dodgers defenders, [...]
It’s not supposed to be like this
It shouldn’t be like this: The cloud that hangs over the Mets’ spring training
Let’s go Mets. But first, a nosh.
Kudos for sporting your team’s colors when they’re on the outs. From NJ Jewish News, March 3: As if the New York Mets don’t have enough problems, they now have to deal with this: A federal judge will decide whether a vendor can sell kosher food during Mets games on the Jewish Sabbath. Englewood-based Kosher [...]
Re: The Mets — it could worse
Breaking News: Gaddafi buys the Mets!
Mad at Madoff? Don’t take it out on your players!
Wilpon snaps at investment query.
Rain, rain, go away: Wilpon and Madoff
The continuing reach of Bernie Madoff
And this to the Mets’ woes
First the news the Citigroup was trying to back out of their $200 million agreement for naming rights to the new Mets stadium (which Citigroup subsequently said was not true), now the revelation that memebrs of the Mets “family” were duped by Bernard Madoff. According to Comcast.net Finance, The customers include prominent people and institutions [...]
“Get me Don Draper on the phone!”
A story in today’s New York Times reveals the uniform patches that the Mets and Yankees will wear for the inaugural season at their new stadiums. Regardless of your feelings about the teams themselves, the Yankees patch is quite classy, a mix of old and new as one would expect from an organization that prides [...]
The reach of Bernie Madoff
By now the Jewish community has learned of the shanda that is Bernie Madoff (as in “made off with your dough”). Media both Jewish and ecumenical have opined on the possible impact his schemes might mean in feeding the stereotype of the greedy, money-loving Jew. Madoff stands accused of ripping off individuals and, of particular [...]


