Comments on: An in-depth profile of Fred Wilpon, with bonus Reyes, Beltran and Wright-ripping

By: macjacmccoy

macjacmccoy — Tue, 24 May 2011 18:36:29 +0000

I agree with everything Wilpon said in those qoutes. Reyes is delusional. Beltran is over rated and over payed. Wright is not a superstar. The Mets are a Shi++y team. He’s speaking the truth, baby.

By: genericcommenter

genericcommenter — Mon, 23 May 2011 23:45:32 +0000

He’s wrong that Reyes isn’t worth Crawford money?

By: gogigantos

gogigantos — Mon, 23 May 2011 19:52:59 +0000

the only thing I’ve ever been happy about my relationship with Mr Bud is not having ever bought a car from him.

By: churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged

churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:33:22 +0000

yeah i missed the sarcasm, we need a font for that or something =\

By: purnellmeagrejr

purnellmeagrejr — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:50:55 +0000

He’s a worse owner than Beltran/Wright/Reyes are players.

By: APBA Guy

APBA Guy — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:50:35 +0000

Talk about a surplus of bad owners, McCourt and the Wilpons in one corner, Angelos, Wolffe/Fisher et al in another, this too is part of Air Bud’s legacy.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:45:00 +0000

Coda: I checked the New York Pestilence's web site just now. They're reporting that Wilpon described the team as "crummy," not "shitty," but insisted on placing their deliberate misquote in quotation marks, making their obfuscatory prudishness even more egregious. Damn. If you can't count on the Pestilence to be forthrightly slimeful, who can you count on?

By: uuddlrlrbastart

uuddlrlrbastart — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:38:50 +0000

I would like to believe that comments like that about his best players would result in such a backlash from the fans, such extreme bad press, that Wilpon would be all but forced to sell the team. Unfortunately, knowing the mainstream Mets fanbase as I do, I think most are going to nod their heads along with everything he says.

By: mcchef

mcchef — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:27:17 +0000

It could have been worse….. I mean the guy could have bashed Beltran, Reyes and Wright, while nominating Francisco Rodriguez for a Humanitarian of the Year Award!!

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:13:31 +0000

I used to say that to the girls I dated in high school.

By: Chris Fiorentino

Chris Fiorentino — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:11:32 +0000

This article, to me, shows why the Mutts have become what they are. When you have the owner of the team whining that “Reyes wants Crawford money…he won’t get it” and he calls his superstar 3rd baseman, “Not a superstar”, how does that attitude not trickle down from the top?

I mean…I read those quotes and thought “What an asshole this guy is” Weird that Craig would actually take this “Wilpon seems like a very nice and thoughtful man who truly loves baseball” from the article when I couldn’t get past the other fluffy stuff about him. A baseball team should be a team…I understand that everybody doesn’t have to like each other or hang out with each other. But if it comes down to defending each other, it should be like a family, from the ownership to the freaking bat boy. And for Wilpon to say this is both irresponsible and being a dick. Not to mention he is flat-out wrong, at least about David Wright.

(damn, did I just defend David Wright?)

By: Craig Calcaterra

Craig Calcaterra — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:06:11 +0000

I don’t traffic it profanity to an excessive degree because I don’t use it in my personal speech to an excessive degree, but given that this is a direct and newsworthy quote from a baseball owner, it’s clearly warranted. To censor that here would be to change the story, and no amount of prudishness should obfuscate the facts.

By: skane2005

skane2005 — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:02:37 +0000

I didn’t know NBC was allowed to include profanity like that in their articles now.

By: kopy

kopy — Mon, 23 May 2011 14:27:18 +0000

That’s where they play, but really I just meant that any chances the Mets had of signing these guys, notably Reyes, just went down the toilet.

By: hnirobert3

hnirobert3 — Mon, 23 May 2011 14:14:29 +0000

Flushing, NY?

By: Jonny 5

Jonny 5 — Mon, 23 May 2011 13:47:19 +0000

I guess you all missed the sarcasm, but I’ll bite anyway.

Well it all depends on if you actually have the money to pay him or not on the timing of it all. They probably had much more to use back when they made that deal actually.

Kopy, the Wilpons did invest the money, and they lost it. The theory you suggest is what they banked on, and it obviously back fired. It’s funny when people think as such, Investments= profits. Not always the case, sometimes investments= financial ruin as well, so there’s that.

By: kopy

kopy — Mon, 23 May 2011 13:27:30 +0000

The Bonilla contract actually just about evens out. If the Mets took the money they owed him initially and invested it, the return they would receive would be enough to take out the $1 million-plus they are paying him each year and give it to him, and they wouldn’t run out of money in the fund until just amount the time he’s paid off.

By: kopy

kopy — Mon, 23 May 2011 13:23:18 +0000

That flushing sound you hear is the Mets’ chances of retaining their best players.

No pun intended on the word flushing.

By: sdelmonte

sdelmonte — Mon, 23 May 2011 13:20:48 +0000

It does not sit well with me for the owner of a team to publicly bash any of his players. Even if he might be right (though I think is totally wrong about Beltran and Reyes and unfair to Wright). It surely doesn’t seem like much of a motivational tool.

And wouldn’t such statements undermine trade value?

By: churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged

churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged — Mon, 23 May 2011 13:18:29 +0000

While I can’t remember the exact specifics of the contract, paying someone $30M in one year is a worse investment than paying someone $1M for 30 years starting 10 years from now. With the present value of money, inflation and interest the deal isn’t necessarily as bad as everyone makes it out to be.

By: Jonny 5

Jonny 5 — Mon, 23 May 2011 13:05:41 +0000

And let’s not forget money being forked out to Bobby Bonilla, that guy hasn’t produced in years……….