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Found October 22, 2009 on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus...:
PLAYERS: Mo Vaughn,  Carlos Beltran
TEAMS: Boston Red Sox,  New York Mets

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Wait, let me get this straight ... the Mets made money off the Madoff scandal?And still never signed an extra bat???I mean, there was extra money? I don't buy it. If there was extra money, then why did I get an e-mail from the Mets offering a chance to win Dunkin' Donuts coffee for a year ... an e-mail which had absolutely no connection to the Mets whatsoever. Nice. If I wanted offers from Dunkin' Donuts, don't you think I would have subscribed to the Dunkin Donuts' e-mail list???You can tell me that it wasn't just the Mets that did this. I got the same e-mail from the Cubs ... yeah, the team that filed for bankruptcy!So all that money sat there doing nothing but collecting interest? F***ing Wilpons. Give it to someone who can actually use $47.8 million.Like Steve Phillips! Hey, that should cover alimony for a couple of months.I think I've blown a funny fuse on this. I feel like I'm Cartman in the episode of South Park where he had Kenny take the scho...
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