Monday, January 9, 2012

Reactions to the NY Magazine Piece.

Today NY Magazine ran a piece in its workplace confidential section written by "A Met", you can read the article here. A lot will be made of who wrote this article, personally it sounds like a low level employee and not a player or executive, the analysis is pretty pedestrian and does not seem indicative of someone familiar with the running of the team or the corporate culture.

Frankly my bigger issue is with the truth of the piece. I think it is way off base. A lot of people are blaming the Madoff scandal for the current state of the team, which I disagree with. The Mets are in the position they are in now because of the way Omar Minaya ran the team and the teams consistently poor play. The Mets are in financial straits because of long bloated contracts given to K-Rod, Beltran, Reyes, Wright, Johan and Ollie Perez. It's also in bad shape because the team has suffered multiple losing seasons and failed to make the playoffs in several years when it should have. No one coming to see the team is just as big a burden as the Madoff issue.My point is this: if the Madoff scandal had never happened, we would probably been in the same position we are. On field success would have been no better, our payroll would not much be higher and we still would not have offered Reyes the ridiculous contract he got from Miami. The Madoff scandal will be the ultimate undoing of the Wilpons, but the undoing of the Mets lies solely with Omar and the Mets themselves.

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