Joe McDonald

Fred Wilpon is the worst owner in baseball

Mets Suffer Under Wilpon « SportsMoney - Forbes.com

TheeSublimeOne

Nice. I don't think anyone here can argue that. What a joke this franchise has become.

Green Must Go

highest salary in NL + 70 wins = worst owner

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Wilpon is like the Pharoah in the book of Exodus. And God keeps sending plagues upon the Mets fans. This year is either frogs or locusts.

RkFast

The fact they wont go into a full rebuilding mode is about 100th on the list of things that makes the Wilpons a poor ownership group.

Yankee envy is about 1,000th on the list.

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86mets

And in other news...sun rises in East and sets in West..but no worries...everything is just fine with this franchise..bet your "bottom dollar" there will be sun....

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MetfanBren

I'm not worried, getting the 2020 All Star Game will make it all worthwhile!

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Mr. Met

We all know the Wilpons are amongst the worst, if not the worst owners in baseball. That's nothing new.

Thw writer says the Wilpons are obsessed with the Yankees ? Um, No. Their obsession is the Brooklyn Dodgers, a team that's dead to New York.... and the Mets are doing a great job of replicating that. If the Wilpons were obsessed with the Yankees, they would learn how to build a team that knows how to win games. That's not us.

Unless the Wilpons somehow turn a 180, overhaul this organization, and bring in smart management..... this franchise (at most) will continue to spin their wheels for a long time to come.

No.1

And boom goes the credibility. Especially, if you read the article.

Sports Doctor

The Wilpons must be obsessed with the Yanks of the mid 80's

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Bay Ridge Dave

The Mets are starting to feel like the Brooklyn Dodgers... except THEY were lovable losers, and had personalities fans could like.

This team, aside from a couple of guys, is a dead fish.

METSSC

2nd most leveraged team in the majors?

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Seaver41

Okay, which one of you guys works for Forbes?

Bay Ridge Dave

The Mets are reminding me of the Brooklyn Dodgers every single day...

Brooklyn Dodgers had that "oh shucks, we lost, it's ok the Yankees ass raped us again, we get 'em next year" shtick that their fans brought into hook, line and sinker... Every year, having to buy into the idea "hoping", "believing", "If", "maybe"....

I think many Mets fans (ones that I know), are tired of being asked to drink the "believing" kool-aid. I want to see things DONE.

As my Yankees fan friend likes to remind me, "While you Mets fans continue to believe, we Yankees fans... we already KNOW" -- and he's right.

Seaver41

About that "the fans bought it" line: I'll tell you what. If the Mets can have the kind of in-season success that the Dodgers had when they were losing the World Series to a Yankees dynasty, I'll be a much happier fan than I am now.

Also, players from that era had a MUCH different relationship with the fans than players today. It must have been alot easier to root for them, even if they were losing to the Yankees an awful lot. In comparison, know any Mets that actually live in a middle class neighborhood in Queens?

But about the Mets, you're spot-on. I'm tired of having to hear how many improvements the team is going to make only to see essentially the same stuff dredged out onto the field for the past three (going on four) years. It isn't like things are looking up, either. And that's the thing that gets me the most frustrated.

Somebody say something encouraging.

The Real Al Roker

This team is NOTHING life the Brooklyn Dodgers Fred Wilpon grew up watching. If anything the 99-2000 team was like the Brooklyn Dodgers. We couldn't beat the Braves and they couldn't beat the Yanks. But the Mets and Dodgers were still excellent teams. And if it wasn't for the Yanks, the Dodgers would of possibly been a dynasty. And Dodgers fans were hardly "oh shucks we'll get them next season" They were like we were in 99-2000 with Braves "wtf do we gotta do to beat these guys". From 1939 to their last season in Brooklyn the Dodgers had one season under .500, 7 pennants, and a World Series crown. We would kill for that type of success.

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