Who says bad
things don’t happen to the right people?
Just look at the Mets and Knicks.
The Mets have
been controlled by the Wilpon family since 2002. The Wilpons are like the Ricketts, which is
to say the less you know about them the better.
With family patriarch Joe Ricketts, it’s about hate and bigotry, with
Fred Wilpon, it’s questionable finances.
Think Bernie Madoff.
Wilpon’s
connection with Madoff has cost him a bundle, to the point the family has
decided to cede control of the team to Steven Cohen, who’s made his money the
old-fashioned way, by skirting the law and staying out of jail. For all those Mets fans out there who think
of NYC as a cut above the rest of the country, what a bitter pill their team’s
ownership must be to swallow.
But, hey, it
could be worse, or is, for all those Mets fans who also root for the Knicks. That woe-begotten NBA franchise is off to a
4-18 start, bad enough to get coach David Fizdale fired. But owner James Dolan gets to keep his plaything. From best I can tell, Dolan has run the
Knicks for 19-plus years and hasn’t seen the playoffs—or an-above .500 record—since
the spring of 2013. About the only thing
Dolan is really good at is filling Madison Square Garden with his
ex-coaches. He’s at thirteen and
counting.
How sad for the
city that all but invented basketball, to say nothing of baseball. I guess what goes around comes around.
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