They spent when the GM said spend, They cut when the GM said CUT!
They drafted when the GM said draft, they Traded when the GM said Trade!

A BAD owner would be all in thier face like Daniel Snyder and Al Davis used to be with their teams!
And in rare occassions a overbearing owner can be a good thing, see George Steinbrenner!

The Wilpons aren’t the worst ownership, Maybe they are a bit too trusting in thier hired SKILL SETS!
It’s not like the guy from LA who basically raided the team finances for his own personal benefit!

I just think too many people blame the Wilpons because they got what they wanted and had everyone else fired and now they want to fire the guy who got rid of them because they ran out of ideas for whose head to take off!

Some people hatred of the Wilpons blind them to the truth!

Think of what this offseason and last season might have been like if Picard hadn’t forced the Mets to put 400 Mil into a holding pattern to deal with this frivilous lawsuit!

Reyes might still be here, Cliff Lee might have been a Met, We might have had a shot at the playoffs last year and we might have been active in IMPROVING players not downgrading in the name of saving money!

Picard is no friend to Met fans!

They will take the money they keep and run, call it a day, no need for more press regarding madoff if I’m them!

They are hated enough already why push it?

The Judge would rather just let them try the case and be done with it!

I have said from day one this case is weak, it’s hard enough to prove someone was in on it let alone that they kind of knew but didn’t get out of the fund. I mean that could apply to everyone IN that fund including the victims Picard is supposedly representing!

If the Wilpons should have known then the Victims should have too!

In the end I predict the Wilpons will pay that 86 Mil they supposedly got in profit and thats about it!

When you add lawyer fees to that they might lose a little over 100 Mil in total over this!

Not that it will help us in the least. Until the team makes a profit based on attendance we are stuck playing small market baseball cause thats the mentality of our FO!

Any GM confident in his selection could find a way to cut a league minimum player to find the money and pay the pick the bonus. The problem was they did not have the faith in thier picks to warrant such a large payday! And that says more about the GM than the Wilpons or the player in question!

I know it is fashiopnable to blame the Wilpons for everything (I mean after all Sandy can do no wrong right?)

But the truth of the matter is while they may be in trouble and do not have the money to subsidize the Met Budget it is hardly thier fault that attendance went down because players got hurt and it cost them the ability to continue building a team that can compete!

So many here are willing to fix the blame but few if any are prepared to fix the PROBLEM!

The problem is we do not go to see them play! For whatever reason!
I hate the Wilpons I will boycott!
I hate the stadium it’s Dodgertown!
WALLS! (which will no longer be a valid excuse!)
I hate Sandy so I will refuse to go!
They Suck no point!
Reyes is gone!

Whatever!
If you really want to cast blame on the cause of the financial issues then get yourself a mirror, stand in front and RAIL RAIL RAIL at the perpetrator!!!!

Unless of course you have season tickets in which case your not the problem and have every right to bitch about what is going on and who you want!
You at least PAID for the priviledge to bitch all you want!

I’m sure I will ruffle some feathers saying that but I stopped caring about ruffled feathers the second Sandy had a good day a few weeks back!

It appears the Mets had invested a lot of money on their minor league system in terms of scouting, training facilities and player development so them to then do a complete turn around and spend so little on signing bonuses just doesn’t seem to fit into this pattern.

Perhaps the reason so little was spent in signing bonuses is because the amateur draft is a selection process so teams cannot just go out and sign whoever they want and monopolize the young talent like the Yankee organization did in the thirties through the early sixties. It is no guarantee that those selected automatically become the property of the team that selected them or are even interesting in becoming major league ballplayers. They might want to continue their education, pursue a career in a different sport or simply don’t want to play for the organization of which they had no say in the matter. They also have the option of waiting for the following year’s draft. This happens quite often.

So (again, this is only a hunch) looking at how much one spends on signing bonuses might be quite misleading – just like the higher OBP when it comes to sluggers like Puljos and Fielder means less productive opportunities to beat the opposing team, so can less spending mean many selections decided to pass up the offers.

Lots of us here with the first name Joe and the last name starting with the initial “D” – we should start forming our own little club. LOL

With that said I would still love for Mark Cuban to own the Mets.

Does anybody know if this filing to dismiss the case is a routine step taken by lawyers and should not be seen as anything going beyond than that?

Maybe use some of it to get a decent RF or CF.