Wilpon Talks Crap About Mets Stars

[EmpireWF]

Before I continue, it's obvious that everything Fred Wilpon said about specific players....was no doubt true. Close to 100% accurate. He spoke honestly and mostly as a fan in his review which is refreshing in some way. No spin.

http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/news/story?id=6577486

Shortstop Jose Reyes will not be getting a super-huge contract from the Mets. "He thinks he's going to get Carl Crawford money," Wilpon says, referring to Crawford's seven-year, $142 million contract with the Boston Red Sox. "He's had everything wrong with him. He won't get it."

On right fielder Carlos Beltran, Wilpon mentions Beltran's huge postseason with the Houston Astros in 2004 and says, referring to himself: "We had some schmuck in New York who paid him based on that one series. He's 65 to 70 percent of what he was."

About David Wright, Wilpon said: "Really good kid. A very good player. Not a superstar."

On whether the franchise might be snakebit, Wilpon makes another pointed Beltran reference. Author Jeffrey Toobin writes: "At one point, I mentioned to Wilpon the theory that the Mets might be cursed. He gave a sort of half laugh, and said, 'You mean' -- and then pantomimed a checked swing of the bat. Any Mets fan (I am one) would understand the reference. The Mets took the 2006 National League Championship Series to a seventh game against the Cardinals."

In the game Wilpon refers to, Beltran took a called third strike from Adam Wainwright to end it.

Wilpon apparently does like first baseman Ike Davis.

"Good hitter," Wilpon says of Davis. "S----- team. Good hitter. ... We're snakebitten, baby."

The problem I have is...WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?! Why are you going to talk shit about players Sandy Alderson will no doubt seek to trade next month? Why make his job that much more difficult?

He says Jose Reyes won't get Crawford money from him. He says he won't get Crawford money from anyone because he's wasn't healthy in 2009 and 2010.

The fuck?! Not only is Alderson going to have a difficult time trading a guy who is dead set on reaching free agency in the fall, but now he has to try doing so with an owner who said the player isn't worth a big deal because he wasn't healthy and played like shit for two years. How is Alderson suppose to get anything worth a damn when the fucking owner talks like that in public? (No doubt we all know it, but why say it in public?)

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Carlos Beltran.

lol...call yourself a shmuck Wilpon for signing the guy, but why say he's 65-70% of what he was. He will be dealt in July. He's had actually an outstanding season compared to expectations in the spring. Now Alderson will have to try and deal him with the caveat that hey, "my boss says Beltran is just over half the player he was, you wanna deal a prospect for him?"

:facepalm:

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David Wright.

It sucks to hear it from the owner, but I think every Met fan will readily admit the same thing. He is not a superstar (in the sense that Pujols, A-Rod, Halladay, Howard, Fielder, Adrian Gonzalez, Posey, etc. are). He just isn't. He's a great player, but he's no superstar. :shot:

The fuck does an owner have to gain by saying that shit in public? That must give David Wright a butt load of confidence, no?

Wright replied to ESPN.com when asked about the comments:

Fred is a good man and is obviously going through some difficult times. There is nothing more productive that I can say at this time.

What he meant to say was...."Fred has been a good man to me and he's obviously experiencing hard times. I don't understand why he will go behind my back, to the press and talk shit about me like that. Maybe next time, when he sees me, he'll enlighten me some more as to how he feels about me."

Not only does it leave a bad taste in Wright's mouth no doubt, but YET AGAIN, he fucks with his public perception in terms of value when it comes to trades in the future. Well, the only MLB owner he's ever played for (the franchise that drafted him) thinks he's a very good player, but no superstar....and said so publicly.

Plus, I don't see Wright as a guy who holds grudges (he srsly comes off like one of the nicest, genuine people in the sport)...but if he should reach free-agency as a Met, I'm sure this incident won't be forgotten.


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As for his comment about the Mets being a shitty team.

The jokes on you Fred Wilpon because your dumbass has spent hundreds of millions of dollars for several years BUILDING THIS SHITTY TEAM.

Perhaps they can use that description in the push to sell tickets.

I won't even get into the fact that he lost hundreds of millions probably to Madoff (or the accusations of criminal shit).

The Mets released a statement in response to the New Yorker interview (apparently, the Mets portion was a small segment of it):

We are handling the matter internally.

Ie. the PR reps (Jay Horwitz) are raking his ass over the coals.

Everything he said is pretty much true (although I think Reyes could get Crawford money), but why saw it publicly as the owner? It doesn't make you come off better to pissed off fans, it just makes you seem like you don't give a shit anymore.

/rant

 

[Goober]

So, Yuni B and B- level pitching prospect for Reyes? :smug:

I wish the Brewers had what it takes/could afford to trade for Reyes. But they really don't. But I can dream about that lineup

Jose Reyes
Rickie Weeks
Ryan Braun
Prince Fielder
Casey McGehee
Corey Hart
Johnny Lucroy
Pitcher
Carlos Gomez.
:bow:

 

[ThomasTomasz]

More honesty......team could lose $70 million this season, and a story will be published in Sports Illustrated soon about him.

NEW YORK (AP) - Mets owner Fred Wilpon says his team is “bleeding cash” and could lose up to $70 million this year.

Wilpon tells Sports Illustrated in its current issue that he’s made a lot of poor judgments. He says trusting Bernard Madoff was his biggest regret.

The Mets were caught up in Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. Wilpon tells SI that the Mets “became in jeopardy” after a court-appointed trustee wanted the team’s owners to repay $1 billion to Madoff’s victims.

Wilpon also says there could be an agreement within three weeks to sell a minority share of the team.

Earlier this week, Wilpon took some pointed shots at Mets stars Jose Reyes(notes), Carlos Beltran(notes) and David Wright(notes) in a magazine story in The New Yorker.