Fred Wilpon, the owner of the New York Mets went on a tirade with a reporter and threw some of his teams better players under the bus. The funny thing is that most Mets fans will agree with his assessment of his team and the players in question.
I been knew David Wright wasn’t THE dude. I been knew Jose Reyes wasn’t THE kid. I been knew that Carlos Beltran wasn’t THE man. What I didn’t know was that the Mets were so deep in their pockets to Bernie Madoff that his ponzi scheme collapse would cripple this team worse than if Isiah Thomas had been the general manager.
The Mets took $5.9million due to Bobby Bonilla in 1999 and stretched it into 25 annual $1million payments. WTF?!? Oh I get it. The interest and returns on that $5.5 was going to pay for the Bonilla annuity payment. Bernie Madoff literally made the fux off. Wilpon has taken an emergency loan from MLB to cover some of his operating costs but the clock is ticking on his line of credit.
Looks like the Mets will be under new off field management before the season ends.
