Wilpons Selling Part of Mets

http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/wilpons-selling-part-of-mets-1.2644376

 

Which part?

 

The part they can use to make up for the money they lost with Bernie Madoff. Seriously.

 

Of course, the reason they are "willing to sell a share" of the team is to pay off the Madoff victms who are suing Sterling Equities et al for a share of the Wilpons' PROFIT from the Madoff scheme.

 

People seem to forget the Wilpons made some money from Bernie. Are they liable for more than the profit, though?

 

Francesca's being innundated with calls about this, of course. . . it's occasionally interesting listening, but frequently painful. Mike's out of his
depth, here (as most sports jocks would be), but he's trying to make the best of it.

 

My bad. That makes the situation even worse.

 

What's the attraction of being a minority owner in a Wilpon-run operation, even (as has been pointed out) if by doing so, you might be able to negotiate "right of first refusal" in case the Wilpons ever decided to/needed to sell the whole show?

 

It's an investment and it's a bragging item.

 

You get to get pushed around by the President of the Lucky Sperm Club, Lil' Jeffy Wilpon?

I openly root for these despicable people to fail. This is step one in a process that will eventually yield a result so satisfying, I will need to smoke a fucking cigarette.

 

Isn't that how they got the franchise from Doubleday?

But, I agree. Wouldn't want to throw in with them. And, I saw someplace else that they're not including the stadium or their share in SNY in any deal.

 

SNY is an epic money machine.