When you accept the post of Steve Cohen’s personal shopper the week before Black Friday, you can expect to work the holiday weekend. Billy Eppler didn’t let the specter of ”unprofessional” agents sliding down the chimney deter him from his appointed cart-filling rounds. Somewhere between five and midnight on Friday evening, news oozed that the […]
 
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We have it from a reliable source that Steve Cohen was not happy yesterday morning. He had never seen such unprofessional behavior exhibited by a player’s agent. He guessed words and promises didn’t matter. That was yesterday, Wednesday. Today is a new day, not only Thursday, but Thanksgiving Day. I hope Steve Cohen is happy this […] It took Lily Tomlin’s character Debbie Fiderer two tries to win the favor of President Bartlet when she interviewed for the executive secretary position on The West Wing, though there was a good excuse for missing on the first try (“I was high”) and, honestly, Fiderer wasn’t really about winning anybody’s favor. “All right,” Martin Sheen […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Billy Eppler, General Manager, Sandy Alderson, Steve Cohen, The West Wing, Zoom On November 8, the Monday before last, Edgardo Alfonzo turned 48. On November 16, this past Tuesday, Dwight Gooden turned 57. On November 17, today, Tom Seaver would have turned 77. Being a diehard fan means knowing when your favorite players — Tom, Doc and Fonzie are my Top Three — began to live. Being […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Arnold Hano, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Fandom, Gil Hodges, Nassau County, New York Giants, November, Polo Grounds, Queens Baseball Convention, Ron Hunt, Shannon Forde, Steve Somers, Tom Seaver's Birthday, WFAN, Willie Mays It’s not a trade in the sense that the Mets and Angels got together and exchanged personnel that they had any contractual right to exchange. Billy Eppler hasn’t worked for the Angels for a while. Noah Syndergaard entered free agency. That the former Angels GM is reportedly heading east to take the same job with […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 World Series, 2022 Mets, Arrivals, Billy Eppler, Departures, General Manager, Noah Syndergaard It’s changed venues, it’s changed counties, it’s changed months — and it’s withstood the onslaught of both COVID and the Mets’ own first stab at a fanfest — yet it appears you can count on the Queens Baseball Convention to be the same kind of great Mets time it’s been since it was inaugurated many […] The alliteration was irresistible, but Pedro Feliciano wasn’t so much perpetual, per the clever nickname tagged on him by the SNY booth, as he was constant. Granted, the two words work in adjacent cubicles at Roget’s, but perpetual implies something that goes on forever. Constant — in noun form — is something that is always […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Moment of Silence, Pedro Feliciano Newly nominated as the Democratic candidate for president in 1972, George McGovern suddenly needed a running mate. He didn’t clinch his berth in the November finals until his party’s July convention, so a nicety such as pursuing a vice president weren’t a priority well in advance the way it is today when primaries take care […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | George McGovern, POBO, Rejections, Rick Perlstein, Sargent Shriver, Thomas Eagleton, Zack Scott As September morphed into October in 2000, I had a revelation that I’ve revisited annually. We Mets fans were very high on the Mets as the playoffs approached. I heard over and over again from my fellow Metsopotamians that this would be our year. I may have said it out loud myself, though I cautioned […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Mets, 2021 Postseason, Art Shamsky, Braves, Lenny Dykstra, Not Quitting, The Shawshank Redemption, Travis d'Arnaud, World Series But — I said to myself — I want to get in. This is a World Series opener. I’d never seen one. There is nothing in baseball equal to it… Maybe you’ve heard the old saying, “If you keep letting the Braves make the playoffs, sooner or later a pennant […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Postseason, Arnold Hano, Astros, Braves, Brian Snitker, Dusty Baker, Eddie Rosario, Moment of Silence, World Series |
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