Cohen buying the Mets (Post # 134, Team to be put up for auction)

[Claymation]

When did forum become a Knicks and Rangers forum?

[metswon69]

When did forum become a Knicks and Rangers forum?

When James Dolan's name became associated with the Mets.

[Harleydude666]

Dolan has left our beloved Rangers alone by default. He’s admitted in the past he’s had zero interest in Hockey. He threw a lot of money at Sather to commandeer that ship. We were lucky Sather has found Groton. If Dolan buys the Mets we may as well move on to another team or just quit loving baseball because he will be involved and it will be worse than the Wilpons

[JoeGamer81]

It's like slamming your head against a wall with this guy. The Rangers now magically had a great team around Lundqvist the whole time. Right. Okay. Jagr wasn't a fossil when he was in NY. Okay. Right. Let's all pretend this is true for MW's sake.

Glen Sather was the GM because Dolan liked him. The team had one great year, but otherwise were never exceptionally, and every year they got as far as Lindqvist carried them. This isn't controversial. Ooh, they made the playoffs a lot, great. They also never won the Cup, and NOBODY thinks they underachieved. Interesting. A competent GM would have put a whole team together. A good owner would have found that GM when the other one couldn't do the job.

But hey, meaningful games in May, right?

[metswon69]

It's like slamming your head against a wall with this guy. The Rangers now magically had a great team around Lundqvist the whole time. Right. Okay. Jagr wasn't a fossil when he was in NY. Okay. Right. Let's all pretend this is true for MW's sake.

Glen Sather was the GM because Dolan liked him. The team had one great year, but otherwise were never exceptionally, and every year they got as far as Lindqvist carried them. This isn't controversial. Ooh, they made the playoffs a lot, great. They also never won the Cup, and NOBODY thinks they underachieved. Interesting. A competent GM would have put a whole team together. A good owner would have found that GM when the other one couldn't do the job.

But hey, meaningful games in May, right?

Strawmanning from you as usual. I never said the Rangers always had a great team around Henrik but this garbage that he was the only reason they were good is ridiculous.

Yeah really old Jagr was when he came. All of 31. Real fossil

You want to live in a world where the team makes the playoffs 11 out of 12 years in a capped league is incompetence then you're stunningly lost. Considering the Mets have made the playoffs in consecutive years only twice in their history, I'd take that all day long.

Hockey is not your sport btw. I would say stick to baseball but you are also the guy who says the Mets would be lucky to win 70 games in the AL so maybe not.

[Claymation]

When James Dolan's name became associated with the Mets.

And what does the Knicks and the Rangers have to do with the Mets?

[Claymation]

Jagr is not pertinent to the sale of the Mets.

[JoeGamer81]

Strawmanning from you as usual. I never said the Rangers always had a great team around Henrik but this garbage that he was the only reason they were good is ridiculous.

Yeah really old Jagr was when he came. All of 31. Real fossil

You want to live in a world where the team makes the playoffs 11 out of 12 years in a capped league is incompetence then you're stunningly lost. Considering the Mets have made the playoffs in consecutive years only twice in their history, I'd take that all day long.

Hockey is not your sport btw. I would say stick to baseball but you are also the guy who says the Mets would be lucky to win 70 games in the AL so maybe not.

Those Rangers teams vastly overachieved thanks to Henrik. There would be conference finals or Stanley Cup finals without him; the teams simply were not good enough otherwise to warrant such success. Teams with generational talent tend to win Cups; Ovi was an outlier considering how great he is, and even he finally got one. That the Rangers haven't with Hank means they failed to put the pieces around him to win the damn thing. That's a failure, not a success.

I know you wish you could win an argument against me, but you constantly choose the losing side. "James Dolan would be better than the Wilpons" is about as asinine a position as you've chosen yet, so enjoy the Chris Davis-esque streak you're on.

[fanofclendennon]

Jagr is not pertinent to the sale of the Mets.

Other than perhaps when the team is sold, many of us will celebrate with a shot or two of Jager or some other similarly delightful type of cheer. But to your point, the spellings are different.

Come on guys, time to move on.

[metswon69]

Those Rangers teams vastly overachieved thanks to Henrik. There would be conference finals or Stanley Cup finals without him; the teams simply were not good enough otherwise to warrant such success. Teams with generational talent tend to win Cups; Ovi was an outlier considering how great he is, and even he finally got one. That the Rangers haven't with Hank means they failed to put the pieces around him to win the damn thing. That's a failure, not a success.

I know you wish you could win an argument against me, but you constantly choose the losing side. "James Dolan would be better than the Wilpons" is about as asinine a position as you've chosen yet, so enjoy the Chris Davis-esque streak you're on.

He didn't carry them as much as you believe he did. I love Lundqvist and he's great but he's also a product of a system where he didn't face the amount of quality scoring chances and shots other goalies did. That's the reason he only won one Vezina trophy despite being the "best goalie in the league for a decade" (he wasn't). Keep echoing the failure stuff like you know hockey. Its adorable.

Like your stances on the Mets winning 70 games in the AL, the Mets not signing Betances, much of this stuff is laughable. Dolan would be a better owner if he's just signing the checks. He has money unlike Jeff and Fred Wilpon.

[metswon69]

And what does the Knicks and the Rangers have to do with the Mets?

Just talking about how successful (or in the case of the Knicks unsuccessful) the franchises he has run have been. That will matter if he buys the Mets. Sounds like he doesnt want them as much as he wants SNY so it's probably irrelevant.

[eeek78]

Jagr is not pertinent to the sale of the Mets.

Yes he is.

Jaromir Jagr played for the Rangers who are owned by James Dolan who also own the Knicks where Stephon Marbury played who played with the Nets with Gheorghe Muresan who was in Adventures of Serial Buddies with Henry Winkler who was in Night Shift with Clint Howard who was in Frost/Nixon with Kevin Bacon.

Totally relevant.

[Claymation]

Other than perhaps when the team is sold, many of us will celebrate with a shot or two of Jager or some other similarly delightful type of cheer. But to your point, the spellings are different.

Come on guys, time to move on.

Well played sir..well played

[GottaBelieve]

Not a Rangers forum. Thanks.

[Daaaarryyl]

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