Yankees ghosts of players past haunt Mets owner Fred Wilpon

If This Trend Continues, I Do Not See A Title in the Mets Future

“H: I understand that every team has to be run in its own way, but the Yankees have won seven championships since 1977 using this exact model. We now have money under the penalty threshold, one of the best farm systems in baseball, and have just added the NL MVP to a team that fell one game short of the World Series.

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I don’t know; I just feel that it might, you know, be sustainable.

S: Ah, but Fred has that great pitching, which was healthy and promising two years ago. And he has that Cespedes fellow, when he deigns to play, and in what position he chooses. So, there’s that.

H: Alright. If I swear never to take on Giancarlo Stanton’s contract in his age 28 season again, can we wrap this up? I think I’m getting a new emotion chip this year for Christmas and I am working on pretending to be excited.

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S: Fine, but remember what we said here. I know I will. I never thought to say this, but I am in some small ways beginning to question the baseball wisdom of Fred Wilpon!

How much are season tickets over in the Bronx?”

And as Not-So-Tiny Dominic Smith might say this Christmas Eve, God Bless us, every Mets fan!