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Darryl Strawberry — Ex-Wife Loses $800,000 Dogfight Over Darryl’s Mets Money | TMZ.com
Not quite Bonilla money.
According to court docs, Darryl has an arrangement with the Mets, in which the ball club pays him $8,891 a month as delayed compensation for his time with the team.
via Darryl Strawberry — Ex-Wife Loses $800,000 Dogfight Over Darryl’s Mets Money | TMZ.com.
Who Let Bobby Bonilla Return to the Mets in 1998? – Amazin Avenue
Today’s must read.
In responding to a question about the role of Phillips in Bonillas homecoming from Real Dirty Mets blogger Ed Marcus, Duquette — also known as Phillipss director of player personnel back in 1998 — set the record straight on the actual shot caller that brought Bonilla back for a second tour in Flushing:
via Who Let Bobby Bonilla Return to the Mets in 1998? – Amazin Avenue.
Dick Young Mails It In
More from the archives
This is from the Daily News of Friday, July 16, 1965. It was pretty obvious that Young never liked the Mets and wow does it come across in his one-paragraph game story. (Click on it, twice for even bigger.)
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Shannon: I love Dan’s archives. Great stuff. It’s too bad Dick Young isn’t here to help the new guys run David Wright out of town.
Citi Field fence update
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