Comments on: 2012 Baseball Predictions: Fred Wilpon Is Next Frank McCourt

By: METS62FAN

METS62FAN — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:41:24 +0000

FOR ALL WHO MAY BEW INTERESTED, THE FOLLOWING IS A COPY OF A NOTE I SENT TO MY KIDS(AGES 43,20) & A COUPLE OF PERSONAL FRIENDS & FAMILY FANS…
NYM HIERARCHY OF SALARY 2012:

SANTANA 24.0M
BAY 16.0M
WRIGHT 15.0M
FRANCISCO 6.0M
PELFREY TBD ARBI HEARING OFF OF 3.9M
DICKEY 4.25M
RAUSCH 3.5M
TORRES TBD ARBI HEARING OFF OF 2.2M
RAMIREZ TBD ARBI HEARING OFF OF 1.65M
CARRASCO 1.2M
BYRDAK 1.0M
EVERYONE ELSE(13 PLAYERS) IS @ OR BELOW THE 480,000 MLB MINIMUM SET IN THE LATEST CBA

13 X 480,000 MINIMUM WAGE = $6,240,000

THAT TOTALS 77,190,000 TO LIKELY MARK THE LOWEST PAYROLL OF ANY FRANCHISE LOCATED IN A MAJOR MLB MARKET, LET ALONE THE LARGEST ONE. DECRYING THE FALSE ESTIMATIONS OF BETWEEN 100-110M BY SANDY ALDERSON WHENEVER HE STATES HIS ESTIMATED BUDGET FOR ’12

MLB HAS NOT SEEN THIS FLAGRANT A PAYROLL DOWNSIZING ATTEMPT SINCE CHARLIE FINLEY OWNED THE ATHLETICS. (NOTE THE 142,797,166 COTS ESTIMATION OF 2011′s PAYROLL THAT’S MORE THAN A 46% PAYROLL DECREASE

OBVIOUSLY BOWIE KUHN & BUD SELG HAVE QUITE DIFFERING INTERPRETATIONS OF THE “BEST INTEREST OF BASEBALL” CLAUSE.

By: Metfan Lou

Metfan Lou — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:42:23 +0000

Now I know why I don’t subscribe to this rag.

By: any

any — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:20:35 +0000

Hard to say the wilpons “own” much of anything (SNY), given how much they borrowed on them. Kind of like all those people that “own” a house in Vegas, where it is worth 150K and they have a 250K mortgage n it!

and to be fair, the Mets did pay a huge amount on Citifiled, more than most teams (including the yankees) do. And even the money that the government put up was largely bonds or guarantees that the Mets have to pay off (hence all those huge balloon payments coming do), and a bunch of that money went into infrastructure.

If the tax payers really paid for the palace, the team would not be so far in the debt hole.

From ballparks.com:

Cost: $600 million ($444.4 million for the stadium, and the remainder for infrastructure)
Public financing: $89.7 million in capital funds from the city and $74.7 million in rent credits from the state
Private financing: Approximatley $440 million from the team, although the Mets have said they expect to spend close to $550 million

By: TJ

TJ — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:37:05 +0000

The sooner Daddy Wilpon, junior and their other co-hort katz are gone the better…. Because in my opinon only then will this team have any hope of getting better.

By: jessep

jessep — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:10:49 +0000

“10. The Reds will win the World Series.”

I would gladly take a bet against that.

By: ghost of omar

ghost of omar — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:08:58 +0000

Excellent point Steve S.

By: Anthony Marte

Anthony Marte — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:35:07 +0000

David Price is NOT Clayton Kershaw. And BJ Upton doesn’t have Kemp’s power nor does he have his ability to get on base and his OPS doesn’t match up because of it. He’s a good player but I don’t think he’ll be contending for an MVP anytime soon. Sure he has two 20/20 seasons, but his first one was in 2007. Matt Kemp has three straight.

By: Steve S.

Steve S. — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:15:27 +0000

“Fred Wilpon is, unfortunately, the next Frank McCourt.” Not “unfortunately.”