Blue Jays Owner Ted Rogers died
Canadian billionaire media mogul Ted Rogers died yesterday. He was one of Canada’s richest men, and founder of Rogers Communications Inc. He bought the Toronto Blue Jays in 2000, and opened up the purse strings.
However, the Jays didn’t win anything in the AL East. He admittedly didn’t know the details and technical aspects of running a baseball club and relied heavily on his baseball braintrust.
10% of the front-office staff not involved in baseball operations has been laid off so far.
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Which hat will David Cone wear to the Hall of Fame?
Royals
Mets
Blue Jays
Yankees
Red Sox
Yanks…the rings
If it was Game 7 and I had my choice of every Met (as a Met) all time, Coney would get the ball. When he was on, which was often, he was the best. All due respect to Tom Terrific, Dr. K and Koosman, but Coney was tougher.
David Cone was the best money pitcher of his era. As a Met, after 1988, he was the ace, not Doc. As a Yankee, he was the guy they wanted on the mound when it counted, not Clemens. And for 12 seasons, he was as good as anyone in whatever league he was in at the time.
I’m glad the sportswriters liked him, because it will enhance his chances to make the Hall Of Fame.
But where was he for the Shea Stadium closing ceremonies?
u guys would rather talk about david cone than ted rogers?
David Cone was the BEST. Who cares about some old rich bastard from Canada?
I want Coney to wear the Yankees hat of coarse! Does “perfect game”
ring a bell? Hello!
But to be fair, Coney was great as a met!! So those two are my only choices for him!!! I want to see him nominated for the hall of fame because i do not want to argue with
statistics, he just “belongs” there!
who cares about some old bastard from canada was so funny! It hit
my funny bone when i read it..
God bless everyone who had a positive reaction about Coney!!
Favorite Coney moment:
Last game, 1991 season. Amidst rape allegations allegations, and the threat of police arresting him at any moment, he strikes out 19 Phillies at Veterans Stadium.
BOW DOWN TO CONE
David Cone was simply one of the best pitchers of his day. I’ve been a Met fan all my life and when he was traded back in 1992 it ruined my year, and when he returned in 2003 to retire where he belongs I could not have been happier.
He was such a great pitcher. And the Mets unloaded him because he had a personality. They swept out every player from the 80’s, wanted to erase the wild guys.
Cone was just one of the last to go.
And they traded him for Jeff freakin Kent, who proceeded to whine his way out of New York, for Carlos Baerga! Trades from hell!
Coney was a great competitor, great drive.
What I remember best about him are not the accusations sexual stuff(the accuser was a woman of questionable virtue), but how he maintained composure and won important games.
I was glad when he came to the Yankees, and happier that they re-signed him. Steinbrenner definitely got his money’s worth out of Coney. The perfect game, sadly, was really the end. It was like he was a different pitcher after that…every once of his energy went into that perfect game.
I agree, GOD BLESS DAVID CONE. PUT HIM IN THE HALL OF FAME IN JANUARY
Like most of the mid-to-late-80’s Mets, the man was no choirboy. But he was colorful, competitive, articulate, and a winner. He made the Mets exciting to watch at time when they were collapsing as an organization. When they traded him to Canada, it truly was, as Cone himself put it at the time, the end of an era. One of my all-time favorite Mets
Great pitcher and what a mistake to trade him. I remeber him striking out 19 in the last game of the season in 1991. The last out was a ground ball to fag boy Kevin Elster and I was hoping would do the right thing and throw the ball away to allow Cone the chance to to break the record.
is he even in the mets hall of fame ? did they even retire his number?
The Mets suck. They refusre to retire numbers or make inductions for Cone and others from that era.