New York's State of Mind

I consider myself a pretty diehard New York Mets baseball fan. It's in my blood, after all.

My mother was a screaming fan during Game 6 of the 1986 World Series when the ball went through Bill Buckner's legs. My father was covering the game for the Associated Press at the time.

My brother almost got killed walking out of Dodger Stadium with my mother after Game 3 of the 2006 first round series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Mets completed the sweep of L.A. that night. Well, I don't think his life was actually endangered, but they were still verbally accosted by drunk Dodger fans. And we all know what can happen if you pick a fight with drunk Dodger fans...

Needless to say, the current state of the Mets has become one of the saddest stories in baseball to me.

Even Family Guy is taking shots at the Mets.

With all the controversy surrounding Mets owner, Fred Wilpon, and Bernie Madoff's ponzi scheme, it's hard to see any light at the end of the tunnel. Madoff's ponzi scheme is widely consider the largest investor fraud of all-time with $65 billion collected from the scheme. Madoff pled guilty to 11 federal felonies in March of 2009. His realease date is sometime around 2159.

Thank God the Dodgers keep taking some of the watchdog role of the media away from the Mets.

My concern though; what is Wilpon doing to help?

A couple months ago, Wilpon released a feature article in Sports Illustrated and another story in The New Yorker. Both articles were most likely a publicity stunt so that Wilpon could publicly explain himself for the catastrophe of prior events.

I find it hard to believe that someone who says, "I don’t know s*** from shinola. I never bought a stock in my life. That’s not what we’re good at." finds it completely fine to suggest to no less than 483 people to invest in Madoff's fund. It's not like accidentally recommending a bad movie. The risks are more serious than falling asleep out of boredom.

The New Yorker article was even more mind-boggling. I can understand what he was trying to do in Sports Illustrated, but his quotes in The New Yorker sounded like a petulant child who was bullied. And his bullies were Carlos Beltrán, David Wright and José Reyes. Let me sift through the 12 page article for you and pull of the juicy details.

On Beltrán: “He’s sixty-five to seventy per cent of what he was.”

On Wright: “A really good kid. A very good player. Not a superstar.”

On Reyes: “He thinks he’s going to get Carl Crawford money. He’s had everything wrong with him. He won’t get it.”

Then he proceeds to call the Mets a "sh****" and "lousy" franchise further down the article. Way to be optimistic Fred. Not sure what he was trying to accomplish with all that, but Reyes must have heard him.

Reyes is currently leading all National League batters with a cool .346 average. He is only second in baseball behind Adrian Gonzalez, who is batting .347. Reyes leads MLB with 11 triples, is third in steals with 22 and has an on base percentage of .389. Those are pretty gaudy numbers. I'm sure someone out their will pay him Carl Crawford money. Maybe even Wilpon, by the end of the season.

Tune-in later as I will probably be complaining more about the Mets throughout the season.