In the wake of Monday?s explosive interview with the New Yorker?s Jeffrey Toobin, ostensibly designed to generate public empathy for Mets owner Fred Wilpon (the budget for Jay Horowitz? retirement part was just slashed in half), the franchise has found itself the subject of the sort of mockery not seen since, well, the last time Tony Bernazard tore his shirt off in a crowded room. While it is entirely possible Wilpon?s offensive remarks regarding Jose Reyes, David Wright and Carlos Beltran (otherwise known as Greedy, Mr. Nice Guy and Totally Washed Up) were just Brooklyn Fred shooting the **** in-between bites of a Shack Shake burger, the Bergen Record?s Bob Klapisch suggests it might also have been a calculated way to announce a fire sale (?Wilpon?s observations were akin to a clanging of the Chuck Wagon Triangle bell?), though hardly the most advisable means of doing so.
Jose Reyes never has asked for Carl Crawford money from the Mets. H...
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