Author: Media Goon @mediagoon

This was on the NYTIMES.COM website today.

I am sure Shannon will comment on this stuff but I just want to get it out there for now.

Maybe the best suggestion for keeping the Mets solvent and relevant came from my friend and colleague Stan Isaacs, the longtime Newsday columnist, still thinking impishly in retirement. Isaacs has suggested the Mets open stock to the public, creating an I.P.O. of the heart.

Are there enough Mets fans who would want to lay out more money so they could own a small percentage of the team?

Now this one falls in line with a question posed on Twitter the other day. He wanted to know when the hatred for the Wilpons started. I said  that I thought it was when Citi Field opened and there was more Dodgers memorabilia then Mets stuff in the stadium.

Isaacs also suggests that the Mets have leaned too far to honor the Brooklyn Dodgers, the team of Wilpon’s childhood, and that one way to remove a cloud of gloom over Queens is to honor the old New York Giants, the team of Isaacs’s childhood.

Definitely an interesting read. You can read the whole post here.

From the LAtimes.com

Greg Goossen, a former six-figure bonus baby of the Dodgers who played for Casey Stengel and the New York Mets, dabbled as a boxing trainer with his brother and was a stand-in for actor Gene Hackman in more than a dozen films, was found dead Saturday at his home in Sherman Oaks. He was 65.

Goossen was scheduled to be inducted into the Notre Dame High School Hall of Fame on Saturday night. When he did not arrive for a photo session, a family member went to his nearby home and found him. A cause of death has yet to be determined.

Born on Dec. 14, 1945, in Los Angeles, Goossen was the fourth member of a family of eight brothers and two sisters. He was a standout football and basketball player at Notre Dame, where he graduated in 1964. He was a catcher in baseball, and the Dodgers drafted him and signed him for a six-figure bonus.

The Mets picked him up the following year on a waiver from the Dodgers. Stengel, the legendary manager of the Mets, said, “This is Greg Goossen. He’s 19 years old, and in 10 years he’s got a chance to be 29.”

He played for the Mets, Seattle Pilots, Milwaukee Brewers and Washington Senators before his baseball career ended in 1970.

You can read more here.

From Cnn.com

Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers Hall of Fame center fielder Donald “Duke” Snider died Sunday at a convalescent hospital in Escondido, California. He was 84, according to team officials.

Snider’s career with the Dodgers spanned 16 seasons and included a half-dozen World Series appearances. Among them was the 1955 series, which the Brooklyn Dodgers won, as well as the 1959 series title, which Snider’s team captured after moving to California.

You can read more here.