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.