Dear Mr. Einhorn,
I’m writing you to ask you to stop letting the Yankees steal your valuable assets.
You are clearly a smart man. For the most part a self-made man (I read your parents lent you $900,000 which isn’t nothing but isn’t George Steinbrenner money).
Did you invest in the Mets to let Hal Steinbrenner make money off your brand?
I know you rich guys have egos. Hal Steinbrenner. Hal. The owner’s son. You know the type.
Hal Steinbrenner and Yankees hero Darryl Strawberry.
This weekend Hal will have Old Timers’ Day. Another Yankees hero Dwight Gooden will be there. Not to mention Yankee heroes Lee Mazzili and David Cone.
Hal will get a good crowd, maybe even sell out the place. Yankee legend Gooden and Yankee legend Strawberry will get a nice ovation from the crowd.
Why have your (potential) co-owners allowed this?
Part of your investment is the brand. The brand you bought into is laughingstocks and injuries…but you’re smart. You bought low.
It’s time to change things. Get a return on your investment. Increase the value of the brand.
It’s 6 or 7 times as expensive to acquire a new customer than to keep an existing one, right? The Dodgers fan didn’t understand that and he let his brand get watered down. Idiots like me had to bitch for a year to get someone to hang a photo of a Met at Citi Field.
So you bought low.
There’s a lot of fat guys in their late 30’s and early 40’s with disposable income and an affinity to your brand. They are raising the customers of the 2030’s. Think long term.
I have an offer for you.
Me, you, a coffee shop. No blog. No photos. Off the record. I never mention it.
Two Mets fans talking about the Mets and sharing some ideas. You can take them or you can leave them.
I don’t want anything. I don’t want a job. I don’t want tickets. I don’t want to be your friend. I don’t want to blog about the discussion.
Most of all I don’t want to read phrases like Yankee Legend Darryl Strawberry ever again.
Increase the value of your investment. You know where to find me.
I don’t think that we should really expect much help from Mr. Einhorn until he actually owns a share of the Mets. Even then, it will likely be in his best interest to let the Mets flounder for a few years to increase his chances of obtaining a majority stake in the team.
Actually, it says “New York Baseball Legend.” Even the Yankees know not to cross that line. Good point, though.
This outragous. Yankees always ruin everything.
Very sellfish of them
Sigh. As already mentioned, it says “New York baseball legend”.
Old Timers Day is nothing more than the Yankees self aggrandizing as they always do. The Yankees don’t have the market cornered on retired ball players, yet they are the only team to do such a silly event. Do you think Cubs, Cardinals, or Red Sox fans complain about not having an Old Timers Day despite all the great players they’ve had on their teams?
We’ve seen plenty of the “big” names in the Mets history over the last few years. Seaver and the other ’69 guys,all the ’86 guys (not to mention Keith, Ron, & Bobby O on our TV’s every day), Piazza and the other 99/00/beyond guys have either had ceremonies honoring them plus they show up for various other fan & charitable events. Who needs to see them sadly trying to play a game they used to be good at when they were young?
Also, you really think Mazzilli is a Yankees “hero”? Really? Like many of the Yankees Old Timer Day attendees, he was barely a Yankee. Old Timers Day is a joke when you start trotting out the likes of this year’s first time attendee Brian Boehringer.
I don’t need to see an old-timers day game. I’ve watched the tv coverage of the Yankees one before, and it’s just depressing.
Chief, maybe if we told Fred that we could celebrate “Dodger Legend” Darryl Strawberry we would have a shot at an Old timers day…just think, we could also say he should retire Dodger legend Mike Piazza’s number. Just thinking out loud, like you….
Great post…the Wilpons have just about ruined the Mets for me. Thanks guys. It is embarrassing to be a Met fan and if I were a 7 year old today, I would absolutely be a Yankee fan. What a shame. But I have hope that these guys are so bad, they will lose their team soon. Then maybe things will gradually revert back to respecatbility and tradition.
My son is 7 and I hate to say I’ve brainwashed him to love the Mets, but I have. All but one other kid in his class is a Yankees fan. And that other kid who is a Mets fan gets Mets books on his birthday from me and the extra Mets lunch box they gave out on a rainy Lunch Box Night (who has Lunch Box Night that starts at 8 p.m.?) And for the son of the owner to question anything real ballplayers would do in terms of hitting people with balls thrown at 90 mph? They should hit him…with lunchboxes.