IT’S STILL HIS TEAM

Fred Wilpon

Mr. Fred Wilpon feels that he does not need to sell the New York Mets, just parts of it to cover the mistakes he’s made.

Some mistakes if they are minor you can forget. You can forgive also. You can forgive letting Jose Reyes get away, because the money people are going to pay him is not justified by any means. He has been a great player when healthy, but that is the caveat.

How on earth, this earth, this God made earth; can you justify having to face a lawsuit brought on by your decision Mr. Wilpon? How do we forgive you for the $386 Million lawsuit? How do we say, “It’s OK Mr. Wilpon, that $70 million you lost last year can happen to anybody”?

He asked: “How can anybody deny it’s been a challenging time?” No one is denying it Mr. Wilpon, which is why you should sell it.

Madoff

Some people see this crisis as he does: “Financial problems, plaguing the franchise”

I see it as incompetent ownership plaguing the franchise. Let’s see, how many World Series have the Mets won under his ownership? How many have they been in since he took over? OK, how many playoffs have they been in? Compare that to the New York Yankees, or the Philadelphia Phillies, or the Atlanta Braves.

This is New York Mr. Wilpon: you know how it works. You have two sources of income, fan attendance and TV revenues. One adversely affects the other. If the fans stop coming to CitiField, you lose money, AND no one will watch an inferior product on the old TV!

The sad thing about your ownership is that you are working hard to exist, not building the best team on the field of play! One of the most exciting times of the year is after the World Series and prior to spring training; when teams vie for talent, look to get free agents on board, and fans dream about how wonderful the season will be. What have you done for the fans this year? You lost a key player, you added nothing of real value, and you saddled baseball with mediocrity to failure in a big marketplace called New York.

If you look across the river, there is a real baseball team being managed by real baseball people, who understand the need to be competitive, not lost in financial woes. The Yankees go to the playoffs, they may not win them all, but they are there every year, year in and year out, unlike the Mets.

Citifield

Another reason you should sell is that you invested all this money into a new ballpark, and don’t have the pulse of the fan base. The ballpark is too big, too expensive for the ordinary fan to support your team, and you sir, have no idea what they wanted to begin with.

Ebbets Field

Your ballpark is all wrong for baseball and for free agents to want to play in it everyday. Why? Because it is too cavernous, the dimensions are way too deep! You should know better, being an old Brooklyn Dodger fan, the cozy confines of Ebbets Field is what brings back fond memories of the old days. You supposedly modeled your new ballpark after Ebbets Field, but a façade is not the way, feel is. What made Camden Yards so great is it is more like Ebbets Field than Citifield is.

Please Mr.Wilpon, sell the team, you mean well, but you will be better as a fan than an owner.

That’ all I wrote, folks!