This has been a very, for lack of a better word, bipolar month for the New York Mets. On one hand, there is much optimism with the Mets simply because it is Spring, and hope Springs eternal. However, it also has been a confusing, angering, desperate month for the Mets as there have been increasing signs of involvement between the Wilpons and Madoff, and team debt. There have been a lot of different ways to look at this ugly situation, but one way that really shows it unfolding is to take a tour back through the NY Daily News back pages and watch as the story slowly became public.
We first travel back in time to January 29th, when we first learned about the debt problems that were facing the Mets. This was when the story was first starting to break that the Mets were looking to sell a minority claim in the team, but the details were first murky.
We then started to learn a little more about what was going on, and that we were now in a money scandal with the Madoff case….again. Of course depression started to kick in, and the NY Daily News couldn't help but also reuse a quasi famous image from the Mets end of the season collapse.
Questions then started to fly. How long did management know this was going to happen? Did Sandy know when he signed with the team?
Then of course rumors started to fly, like can Piazza help us out? Can our own hero make this all go away?
This was followed by the Wilpons snapping back at the entire case.
And we leave the most recent image, the Mets finally heading down to Florida in order to put this financial fiasco in the past and to actually play the game of baseball.
