Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

I spent the day outside enjoying a beautiful day rather than bogging down in this but here ya go…

and Fred’s words via MetsBlog:

 

“I am very pleased for ourselves and our families to get the litigation behind us. I want to thank everybody, because this really was a team effort. Our partners were fantastic— our families were behind us and our friends. Mario Cuomo did a great job—he never gave up. As we’ve said from the very beginning when this lawsuit started, we are not willfully blind, we never were, we acted in good faith, and we’re very pleased that this settlement bears that out. That’s very important to us. Now I guess I can smile—maybe I can take a day off, but I can’t wait to get back to our businesses which I love. The first order of business and the first priority will be getting down to Florida tomorrow, getting to the spring training camp, and trying to bring the New York Mets back to the prominence that our fans deserve and the City of New York deserves.”

Here’s the obligatory post.  As with such news, other sites will do this sort of reporting better than I will, so go read those and then come back and we can talk about what it all means.

The Mets owners have reached a $162 million settlement with the trustee for victims of corrupt financier Bernard Madoff.

The Mets will not pay anything for three years.

via Mets Owners Reach $162M Settlement With Trustee for Madoff Victims | NBC New York.

Via the ‘ropolitans tumblr

Here’s the must read of the day from Rational Mets Musings, a blog I was unfamiliar with. Blue cap tip to Mets Blog for pointing this one out, and green cap tip to Rational.

I don’t think anyone is expecting the 2012 Mets to win the World Series, or make the Playoffs. They’re being covered, though, as if they’ve been a perennial hundred loss team. As if they have a barren farm system, a terrible Manager, an inept General Manager, and zero talent on the Major League roster.

I mentioned on twitter (@metspolice) that I find that I don’t trust the reports coming from mainstream media when it comes to the Mets. Everything was covered in such venom all winter that I’d rather get my info from an actual Mets fan with eyeballs and an iPhone.