Is this the face of the man who will make the Yankees great again?

 By HoraceClarke66

Well, we can dream, can't we?  That all the ill-gotten loot this Wall Street rapscallion has

made over the years will be pumped into his late-life dream project, your New York Mets.

Thereby forcing Hal and Family into meeting the challenge, lest the Yankees be 

overshadowed and profits drop so low so as to threaten the wealth of every Steinbrenner

in the 25th millennium...

Some of us had similar hopes for this couple a crazy kids when they first pried the Flushing 

Folderols from the dead hands of Joan Payson:

Little did we know that Nelson Doubleday was only about as interested in baseball as his

illustrious ancestor, or that Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz were just another pair of Long Island

real estate grifters, off to wreck the world.  

If any remaining proof of that was still needed, it was provided in today's Times, which noted 

that Wilpon was still claiming he had lost a fortune to Bernie Madoff and that the Mets were 

losing millions over the last few years.  

Neither of those claims are true.  Wilpon and Katz leveraged Bernie's pyramid scheme to

take over the Mets and build fortunes for themselves, and it is mathematically impossible

to lose money in baseball today.

But I digress.

For those of us who dreamed that Mad George would finally be forced to get a grip, and hire

and keep real baseball men to run his team, now that the Mets finally offered some serious 

competition...well it didn't quite work out that way.  What looked like a Mets dynasty for the 

ages dropped behind a distance outfield fence along with Mike Scioscia's 1988 home run in the

playoffs off Doc Gooden.

When Jeff "Fredo" Wilpon, the Jimmy Dolan of baseball, was then placed in charge of, well, 

anything, it was the last straw.  And now, after winning all of one (1) World Series ring over the course 

of thirty years, the Wilpon family is bowing out, having failed to force George and ilk to up their

game by one iota.

Oh, well.  Maybe Cohen will fare better, and force the Yanks to really compete.  You never can

tell, as Andy Williams once lip-synced for Lauren Bacall.  But somehow, I doubt if it will 

work out.  These are, after all, the Mets.