No my friends the safest path to the aggressive style of ownership we all crave is the gradual minority to majority eventual ownership progression which would not create an oportunity for our rivals to impact our future. Just as Fred began with a mere 1% in 1980, took advantage of Doubleday legal entanglements to reach equality @ 50% in ’86 so too must we hope that this “foot in the door oportunity” expands to a sqeezing out of Sterling interests while our competitors must sit idly by watching our muscles growing to flex proportions making the NL side of town as attractive as the AL side to available top level talent.
If our luck is good perhaps Bernie Madoff may trade in his NYM goat horns for Laurels just shy of “name on the wall”/NYM HOF enshrinement.(lol)

As an homage to the opining from ReyesAdvocate above, just consider that Mark Cuban’s well financed attempts at securing an MLB ownership position were scuttled “in Committee” on both the Chicago Cubs & Texas Rangers ownership transfers. despite entering the Committee hearing as part of the favorite conglomerate being considered, both times the Cuban favorite status was “upset” by the second runner.Ricketts’ family Group & Nolan Ryan Group! Buying 20-25% is an investor change to MLB not a control change requiring Committee convention. Securing a “right to first refusal on future shares is a no-brainer contingency once used to his advantage by Fred.

This is what New York Baseball needs.
I’m wishing the Wilpon’s luck…..but they are just too tight-assed to even say they are Yankee haters.

We need people who love the Mets and the Mets history…take away a decade (the late 70′s) or 2…(the 90′s).

Besides, he’s still under SEC investigation. The Country Club has a built in excuse to exclude him.

If, the money withdrawn went to predetermined specific purposes such as withdrafro player deferred salary escrow withdrawals being applied directly towards the final dispersements with interest to Bonilla,Glavine,Franco or withdrawals of construction accounts for Citi purposes, it’s hard to conceive that without direct proof of complicity, there’s any mewrit whatsoever other than the suit being a molification for the hue & cries of those that truly bathed in Maidoff losses(blood)
However, if like all of the victims, the Wilpons invested in whatr they believed was a fortunate magic advantage due privlidged few and only due to fortunate timing/circumstance approached their account manager for withdrawals from their multipurpose investments(FAILURE OF MAIDOFF TO DO SO WOULD HAVE EXPOSED HIM PREMATURELY & DEFINITLY).
Early accounts I remember reading intimated it was Jeff who spurred his father into attending one of Berni’s Sales pitches.
During the 60 minute interview shortly after Maidoff’s exposure & Picard’s placement, Picard indicated his intent to clawback illgotten gains from “those who should certainly have known better” ie Hedge funds managers, & other financial market socalled professionals. On the surface it does not appewar that Sterling’s partners possess that level of market expertise despite both Sal & his eldest son’s CPA designations only qwualify them to “count” acuurately(lol) & certanly not at a market expertise analist lervel.
Iguess, like so mny other things specualtion id futile & swings a wide arc that we’ll have to await a decision to truly decipher.
It is certauinly much more in Wilpon manner to be planning for a worst case scenerio.

I almost said MLB wouldn’t let a liquor maker near the team. Then, I remembered Gussie Busch. Unless MLB has always bought into the line about beer being a soft drink.