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Is an ownership crisis brewing?

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Posted 08 February 2010 - 07:55 PM

See link to piece from Mike Silva's blog (which in turn cites some interesting (and potentially troubling) analyses by Murray Chass and Joel Sherman.

http://nybaseballdigest.com/?p=20924
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Posted 08 February 2010 - 08:02 PM

View PostNigel'sStillConfused, on 08 February 2010 - 07:55 PM, said:

See link to piece from Mike Silva's blog (which in turn cites some interesting (and potentially troubling) analyses by Murray Chass and Joel Sherman.

http://nybaseballdigest.com/?p=20924


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Doesn’t Mets ownership watch NBC’s The Office? Can’t they see the problems “co-management” creates in the Dunder Mifflin hierarchy? Maybe Michael Scott and Jim Halpert are next on the Mets GM short list. They amazing part of all this is the Mets are guilty of simple management sins. This type of structure doesn’t work for a fictional paper company in Scranton, much less a big league ballclub.


Really? It's a freakin television show.....

Anyway, I better get hopping on making me a billionaire. The Wilpons' selling might be sooner than later....
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Posted 08 February 2010 - 08:31 PM

i respect and like Mike...he's a good friend..but i think this article may be a little premature. Possible? Sure. Plausible? Entirely. Present? Nowhere near enough evidence...

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Posted 08 February 2010 - 09:15 PM

Like I have said many times this off season, no matter what the Mets organization does someone in the 'media' will call them out. All we have heard about is the 100's of millions the Mets lost with Bernie despite the FO saying the Mets did not lose anything near that and may have actually made money. MLB looked at their books and came to same conclusion. Now the Wilpons are being called out that they were really in cahoots with Bernie? If they were, they should be punished, but I have never read anywhere that they were even being investigated from a legal standpoint. You know why Fred still holds a fondness for the Brooklyn Dodgers? Just take a look at the fans of each.
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Posted 08 February 2010 - 11:27 PM

View Postgak29, on 08 February 2010 - 08:02 PM, said:

Really? It's a freakin television show.....

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I had the same reaction when I was reading this entry. Maybe Silva was being ironic here, but it doesn't read like it -- it reads like he was using a fictional business as the actual evidence for his management critique of the Mets. Unfortunately, Mike's blog has a lot of these lapses -- he'll seem to be discussing a point that might be interesting, and then he'll lapse into unsupported cliches, random non sequiturs and irrelevant provocations. The guy really needs a ruthless editor if he's going to be taken seriously in the long run.
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Posted 09 February 2010 - 12:25 AM

Incompetent management, incompetent criticism...where does it all end?
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Posted 09 February 2010 - 01:47 AM

View PostZachTavlin, on 09 February 2010 - 12:25 AM, said:

Incompetent management, incompetent criticism...where does it all end?


When you run out of words that can come after incompetent.
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Posted 09 February 2010 - 02:24 AM

I think the article has some merit, but it's over-dramatized. The Wilpons won't implode the team, and they're not going to sell, either.

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Posted 10 February 2010 - 09:14 AM

Ummm we already have an ownership crisis, its called THE WILPONS ARE OUR OWNERS!
The wait is over!!!


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View Postgak29, on Jun 19 2008, 07:56 PM, said:

I still have no idea what's going on....
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Posted 10 February 2010 - 09:24 PM

View Postgoldglv17, on 10 February 2010 - 06:14 AM, said:

Ummm we already have an ownership crisis, its called THE WILPONS ARE OUR OWNERS!


which if that is our crisis, i will gladly take it over at least 20 of the other options out there, if not more...


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Posted 10 February 2010 - 09:36 PM

View PostHoovbacca, on 10 February 2010 - 09:24 PM, said:

which if that is our crisis, i will gladly take it over at least 20 of the other options out there, if not more...


jb


That's true. Think about it...

"OMG! GAK is the owner?!?!?! WTF!!! It hurts my brain!!! Make the pain go away!!!"
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