The Mets may need to raise some money due to a lawsuit that arose from the Madoff scandal. After reading the story, I really want Emma Span to own the team.
Actually, I’ve had a longstanding fantasy about what I would do if I owned a baseball team. Note that even if I were to win the lottery, I STILL wouldn’t be able to afford to do that, but we’re just daydreaming here. I’d move a team to Brooklyn, where the Nets’ new eyesore of a Stadium is going (as long as we’re fantasizing), and keep ticket prices low, and have weird funny Bill Veeck-like promotions and giveaways, and sell lots of women’s team gear that wasn’t pink or sparkly, and hire as many knuckleballers and players with amusing names as possible, and…
Of course, she would trade for Denard Span. 🙂
I don’t believe the Wilpons lost that much money in the Madoff Ponzi scheme. They were early investors, and in a Ponzi scheme, the early investors do okay. I believe the late investors are suing the early investors for their money back, since it was that late investment money that was funneled to people like the Wilpons.
Bingo–the Mets didn’t lose money, they made it, which presents a different yet equally troublesome problem. They will have to give back a sizeable chunk as a result, so the Wilpon’s will definitely need some extra cash.
Sadly, this won’t wrest control from the family, but a fan can dream. That being said, if the team does have to spend less there isn’t another group of guys outside of Oakland and Tampa that I’d rather have working with less money than Alderson, et al.