I saw that. I won't be surprised if Selig does nothing, but owners are NOT ALLOWED TO TALK ABOUT THEIR PLAYERS LIKE THAT. Not the insults, I mean putting a dollar figure on them. I'm pretty sure an owner can't say in public what their players are/are not worth. Imagine if the Yankees had said before he hit free agency "yea Jeter thinks he's getting paid but we're going no higher than 3 years for 54 mill." Pretty sure that's tampering or something.
Plus, assuming the Mets wanna trade them for as much as possible WHY ARE YOU RIPPING BELTRAN AND REYES?! I say the Wilpons should be forced to hand over control like LA. I didn't use to think so, but clearly this guy's crazy....
-Natron
It also pretty much seals the deal that those guys will not be back with the club so any hope Mets fans had of rebuilding with them should be gone. I wouldn't be surprised if this outburst further declines attendance and ticket sales.
-Ronjaya
It might very well reflect in ticket sales. I'd come to terms with the reality of not keeping either for a while now, but as the article says, you can't publicly show that as the owner.
-Natron
I would say this is right up there with Steinbrenner's worst rants, and might even top them. I can't recall him ever questioning what would amount to his core three like that. Or at least core two in Reyes and Wright. It would be like Steinbrenner ripping Jeter and Rivera.
-Ronjaya
It would be like Steinbrenner ripping Jeter two years ago on the edge of free agency. He did shady stuff but rarely if ever did he say something that would have been bad business. Not exactly comparable, but the closest I could think in Yankee world was when Cashman recently said the Mets abused Feliciano. Comparable in that it made him look dumb, but not comparable cuz he's not the owner and he wasn't talking about franchise players. So, in short, the Yankees have only committed a degree of the crime Wilpon made in this interview.
-Natron
Yeah Cashman has definitely said some stupid things lately. He didn't handle the Rivera or Jeter free agency very well in my opinion, the Feliciano thing was not smart and even the Posada thing was too public. It's almost like now that Steinbrenner is gone, Cashman feels empowered, like a spoiled kid. Still though, he has enough sense not to outright bash the players like Wilpon did, that really shocked me to read.
Steinbrenner did call Irabu a fat toad, but that was hardly one of his stars and it was more funny than anything else.
-Ronjaya
That Fat Toad comment was the bomb diggity when he said it. In the meantime, here's the article from The New Yorker:-Natron
It also pretty much seals the deal that those guys will not be back with the club so any hope Mets fans had of rebuilding with them should be gone. I wouldn't be surprised if this outburst further declines attendance and ticket sales.
-Ronjaya
It might very well reflect in ticket sales. I'd come to terms with the reality of not keeping either for a while now, but as the article says, you can't publicly show that as the owner.
-Natron
I would say this is right up there with Steinbrenner's worst rants, and might even top them. I can't recall him ever questioning what would amount to his core three like that. Or at least core two in Reyes and Wright. It would be like Steinbrenner ripping Jeter and Rivera.
-Ronjaya
It would be like Steinbrenner ripping Jeter two years ago on the edge of free agency. He did shady stuff but rarely if ever did he say something that would have been bad business. Not exactly comparable, but the closest I could think in Yankee world was when Cashman recently said the Mets abused Feliciano. Comparable in that it made him look dumb, but not comparable cuz he's not the owner and he wasn't talking about franchise players. So, in short, the Yankees have only committed a degree of the crime Wilpon made in this interview.
-Natron
Yeah Cashman has definitely said some stupid things lately. He didn't handle the Rivera or Jeter free agency very well in my opinion, the Feliciano thing was not smart and even the Posada thing was too public. It's almost like now that Steinbrenner is gone, Cashman feels empowered, like a spoiled kid. Still though, he has enough sense not to outright bash the players like Wilpon did, that really shocked me to read.
-Ronjaya
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/30/110530fa_fact_toobin?currentPage=all
By the way, how was Wilpon tampering? They're his players under contract. With whom did he tamper?
-StanO
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Unbelievable! It turns out that Beltran produced almost exactly what his contract was worth: http://espn.go.com/blog/statsinfo/post/_/id/20185/wilpon-got-what-he-paid-for-in-beltran
-StanO (5/24/11)
