Originally Posted By: Steezo
I generally don't bet on baseball because I don't want to jinx my team. I'm still convinced my secretly Dad bet on the Mets/Yankees Series in 2000 and that's why the Mets lost. But I do bet every year with a friend of mine about the Mets regular season. Usually it's the number of wins in the current season, but this year it was whether they would make the playoffs. I finally won the bet for a change and my friend owes me a steak dinner, although he's trying to say we later changed that to a round of drinks and a table dance at the Bush Co. I don't remember changing the bet, but I'll probably go along with it.

Like or dislike the Wilpons, they got majorly screwed over by Bernie Madoff. I think they lost half a $billion. The (fake) returns on their investments were the reason they structured player contracts the way they did. It made sense to invest the money with Madoff and get 10-15% returns on it and then pay the payer deferred payments later.


They got screwed over by their own egos, thinking they were the smartest people around, investing everything they could with the smartest investor around, and not doing their due diligence.

Real estate bubble bursting hurt em badly also. Both happened as they were sinking money into the new stadium.

Anyway, that pitching staff looks unstoppable. Will only get better next year when Wheeler comes back from Tommy John in June.


Edited by Jerkules (10/22/15 10:43 AM)
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