Meet the Mets: The Most Interesting Team in Baseball

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While baseball retrenches in the wake of the pandemic, the Mets are in an unfamiliar role: not a punchline, but an economic force primed to shake up an otherwise stagnant employment market

Sandy Alderson stepped in as general manager of the New York Mets at one of the bleakest points in the history of a franchise filled with disappointments: the revelation that Bernie Madoff’s fraud had ravaged the personal finances of the team’s owners, the Wilpon family.

The Wilpons don’t own the Mets anymore. Hedge-fund manager Steve Cohen does, and his net worth of more than $14 billion immediately transforms the Mets into the most fascinating team in the sport. While the rest of the industry retrenches in the wake of significant...

 

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It will be an interesting season . . . mid-summer might look much different. =

Laughin my ass off.

Why did I see this and my first thought was there’s hope for dylanobrien lol

Don't worry, the Mets will reclaim their place as a laughing stock.

anti-Marxismlist! On my opinion, the human society is running on these: 1 technology define theoretical economic aggregate 2 labour define gross economy 3 finance system define distribution of wealth from gross economy

Why is nobody reporting on how CIA and our Military got into a shootout with each other?

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