Spring training is in full swing, and so is the accompanying media blitz. Spring training offers unparalleled access to the players', coaches' and even team owners' views on the beginning of the season, and already the Mets cunning owner Fred Wilpon has come up with this gem. (Emphasis added, full story at The Bergen Record.)
"When [Sandy] came in [he said], ‘I want to do some things; I want to have some flexibility and I want to have flexibility in the four or five areas you can have flexibility in.’ And that’s what he’s doing. I don’t remember a time where we’ve turned down [our baseball department] when a general manager and the manager and the people wanted certain people. Look at our history. We had a lot of payroll for a period of time. Some of it wasn’t well invested.”
Hah.
Ha ha ha ha. Hah.
So we have a supposed real estate mogul who is currently caught up in the legal trappings of the biggest Ponzi scheme in history talking about making wise investments in a baseball team. That is too rich.
I'm actually glad Sandy Alderson appears to be behind the decision to cut payroll. It's a lot like one of those reality shows where Gordon Ramsay shows up to a failing resturant, swears a bunch, throws out a ton of things, and then starts over with his own menu. I hope that's what's going on here, because so far all the Wilpons have done to distinguish themselves is hand out some confusing t-shirts and admit that they make bad investments. Clowns.
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