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The Fred Wilpon Article in the New Yorker

Holy crap! Go read this now!!!!

(Reyes) “He thinks he’s going to get Carl Crawford money….He’s had everything wrong with him, He won’t get it.”

(Wright) “A really good kid. A very good player. Not a superstar.”

 

If you want to come away feeling good about Fred, Saul Katz or Jeff Wilpon go read something else. I don’t feel like I like them more than I did when I got up this morning after reading it (a “big set of balls” and some model jets don’t warm me up to you) and I will leave it at that.

The article opens up with Fred handing the plans to Ebbetts Field to the architects. Before we’re done Jose Reyes finds out he’s not getting Carl Crawford money, David Wright is no superstar, Carlos Beltran is 65% of what he one was, and Ike Davis is a good hitter on a “shitty team.”

All that is probably true, but that’s Steinbrenner at his best. This sort of article will fuel the Mets chaos and Fred should know better.

Today is an off day which means bored reporters. The Mets better get their spin control machine warmed up and working better than usual.

At least we get this from Fred, “all the Dodger stuff – that was an error in judgment on my part.”

UPDATE:  Cerrone has some insights from the author

UPDATE:  The Ebbetts quote which will get undershadowed by the players stuff

I said to them, ‘Let me tell you how this is going to work,’ ” Wilpon told me recently. “ ‘The front of the building is going to look like Ebbets Field. And it’s going to have a rotunda—just like at Ebbets.’ And then I said, ‘Guess what. Here are the plans for Ebbets Field.’ And I handed them over.

14 Replies to “The Fred Wilpon Article in the New Yorker”

  2. Awful just awful. We’re cursed and Wilpon is the witch that cursed us. Shitty team? SHITTY OWNER!!

  3. Like him or hate him, he speaks the truth. Can anyone really deny any of Fred’s comments (about the Mets)? I hope he doesn’t apologize. I hope he comes out and defies people to contradict him. Whomever is at fault the Mets stink; Jose Reyes has been hurt; David Wright is good, not great; Ike Davis can hit and, well, we are snake-bit (baby).

    Tell me that’s wrong…

    1. The issue is that you and I can say it without having to convince other teams our players are good or convince new players that this is an organization that will back them.

      1. Be that as it may, even rich baseball team owners are human and have human feelings and frustrations. If Fred is really as big a baseball/Mets fan as the author purports him to be then here are his feelings brutally and honestly.

    2. He may speak the truth but he forgot the main truth, it’s all on him. He’s not inspiring his team to play any better either (which they have been).

      1. How can you say it’s “all on him”. You put no blame whatsoever on the players, coaches, manager, GM, etc.

        Really? All on the owner?

        1. It’s the owner’s responsibility to put the best front office possible into place, which will then put the best team on the field.

          I think it’s fair to say that Wilpon has not done a great job of that recently.

  4. This is what happens when you have a lot of money and need ‘toys’…the mets were a toy for them .. they didn’t really need it to make money they wanted it for status..and of course the fans suffer for it. doubleday would have been the better owner. shea would have been renovated..and the team would have been a contender..

  5. I happen to think his quotes are right on the money and accurate!

    So when was that “Keep Jose Reyes Night”?

  6. The only positive, and this is down the road, that could come out of this is if the team somehow garners some motivation from this and goes on a sick run to prove him wrong. A lot of people take negatives and use them and turn them into positives. You see it every so often.

    1. What? Major League style?

      I don’t think the Mets are going to want to see Freddie get undressed piece by piece.

  7. did anyone *cheer* all those years ago when the wilpon’s finally wrested control from nelson?

    (raises hand)

    yeah…who woulda thunk it all these years later we would have wished doubleday owned the team

    now that THE donald has shelved his presidential aspirations, and since he is “self-proclaimed” to be “doing very well…very well” … maybe he can make the wimpons an offer they can’t refuse

    1. Donald Chump? No thanks. The last thing the Mets need is that pompous, self-aggrandizing fool.

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