I liked this article in Forbes that recaps the Mets’ finances, the Jackie Robinson stuff and gives us a new stat to throw around which is the Mets played to 75% capacity as opposed to the previous 93% Dave from Flushing would mention.
They also randomly mentioned the idea of a Seaver Ownership. Bad idea after the first three days. We’d just wind up hating Seaver the way we turned on Buddy. Unless Tom rolls into town the way Nolan Ryan did in Texas, forget it.
A good read if you have time although not much new other than what I told you.
Great article..we saw this coming a long long time ago so no big surprise. it appears citifield has put wilpon in a major hole. almost a billion dollars of restructered dept. maybe if he would have invested money into shea the last 15 years with updates and renovations he would not be in this mess.
I think, though, that building Citi allowed the Mets to avoid some of the luxury tax (much like their Bronx brethern)in MLB. I’m sure there are state & local tax breaks involved as well. Also, let’s face it, Shea was not Wrigley Field or Fenway Park and it needed to be replaced. And this time NYC wasn’t going to foot the bill like they did for Shea.