Mets’ Ownership Is Its Own Worst Enemy

Well, it just gets better and better for the Wilpons, doesn’t it? For an organization that tries its darnedest to put out nothing but positive PR, it sure has a funny way of achieving the exact opposite. The tighter the choke hold on the Mets’ message, the more mangled it becomes. Even what would be considered “good” news from and for Fred, Jeffy and Uncle Saul appears suspect. There were a couple of announcements last week, regarding the sale of shares of the club that have been met with suspicion, considering the purchasers of the shares include exactly one party who is not already intimately involved with the Sterling/Mets/Wilpon family. Never mind the fact that it was first announced that they would have ten shares sold by the end of January, then when that didn’t happen, that they would have five shares sold by the end of February. To me, this sounds exactly like the “updates” about any player on the DL: the infamous “day-to-day,” which would somehow turn into an at-least...