Rumors and stuff…
The Jays are still interested in Peeeete as they are apparently not yet out of cash after signing Santander.. Which makes sense, since it's not as if they use
real money up there; it's easy to be generous with the cheap stuff.
Quote:
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"Yeah, you were a big man up there in Montreal, throwing around those 55¢ dollars…but get you back home and it's like your pockets are sewed shut!" —Steve Stone to Wayne Larrivee, WGN, sometime between May 10-12, 1996
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(The Cubs had dropped 3 straight up north before visiting Big Shea, where the Mets took the first two, before Jim Bullinger shut them out on Sunday. I was in Los Angeles, and so had to depend on WGN in those pre-Extra Innings days.)
Mike Lupica (still working at age 72, somewhat to my surprise)
laments that Peeete might not return.
Frankie Sweet Money went to Paris for Fashion Week.
We have video. Okay, then.
The Asstros have sold the naming rights for the former Minute Maid Park to Daikin, the Japanese air-conditioning giant, so it is now Daikin Park. The Mets open their season there, barely two months from now. (March 27). At today's Amazin' Day fan event at Citi Field,
Brandon Nimmo says he'll be ready to go…unless he isn't, as he's still recovering from plantar fasciatis. Yoicks
Both Vientos and Baty say it's
"really fun" to be learning how to play 1B. You know…just in case.
