Saturday, August 29, 2009

The Wilpons: The enemy you know, better than the unknown

A lot of people in the Global Facebook Group (including myself) have been clammering for the Wilpons to sell the team for years. And those people may soon get their wish. According to a person who works for Fox Business (not the most reliable source), the Wilpons may be forced to sell the team as early as next year due to the money lost in the Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme.


Now if indeed that happens there will be people jumping up and down for days to come. While listening to WFAN on my way home from an appointment, I heard Evan Roberts bring up an excellent point. We don't know what the new ownership will be like. They might treat the team as if it is strictly a business operation and forget that there is a product on the field as well. If this is true, the person I would want to run the team would be Mark Cuban, because he does know how to successfully operate a sports franchise on both ends.

We can all speculate if this is true but we all must be careful what we wish for because it might just come true, but not in the way people may have hoped. For all we know they may want to cut payroll, thus getting rid of big payroll people such as Beltran Ollie, Santana, and K-Rod. Possibly even Wright, and Reyes.

People do forget that when the Wilpons first bought the team that it wasn't just them. There was another owner, Nelson Doubleday who also bought controlling interest in 1980. The two of them owned it together up until 2002 when Doubleday was bought out. So this team has won a championship under their ownership.

If indeed this happens fans certainly won't be happy. It might even make the Wilpons look like the Steinbrenners. So all I ask is that if there is a new ownership do some reasearch before hand.

Posted by metfan722 at 4:04 PM  

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