Mets Confirm That They've Hired CRG Partners
Corroborating Eno Sarris's report from a few hours ago.
Per Brian Costa:
"Mets Limited Partnership engaged CRG Partners to provide services in connection with financial reporting and budgeting processes."
We don't know that a sale or bankruptcy is in the offing, but we do know that the Rangers used this same firm to broker their sale in 2010. At all events, this is a good thing for Mets fans. Fiscal solvency would mean there'd be more resources to commit to on-field talent. Bankruptcy would likely portend a majority sale to an ownership group in a better financial situation than the current group. Win-win.
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Way to go, Eno!
breaking the big story before any of the beat writers! Amazin’ Avenue for President!
by BurleighGrimes on Jan 5, 2012 11:01 PM EST reply actions 10 recs
Seriously, kudos
One small step for Eno, one giant leap for AA!
"I reject your reality and substitute my own"
-Adam Savage
by blueandorange4life on Jan 5, 2012 11:16 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I lobby to change his name to "Scoop Sarris"
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"He who gets the best players usually wins" - Bobby Bowden
its catchy, and sounds like a baseball name from the early 1900s, i approve
Hey, wait! I'm having one of those things. You know? A headache with pictures?
by KeithsMoustache on Jan 6, 2012 11:43 AM EST up reply actions 4 recs
I approve of your approval
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"He who gets the best players usually wins" - Bobby Bowden
You'd think that coming to this realization
before letting Reyes walk with no offer to Miami would’ve made sense. But then again one could think the Wilponzis’ had this middle finger maneuver planned the whole time to salt and spite a fan base that openly reviles their ownership. All things considered, its potentially too much of a good thing watching these idiots walk out the door to focus on this in hindsight. But I just plain hate the Wilponzis.
"Intelligence is not a genetic predisposition. Think stupid!!"
by Wright of passage on Jan 5, 2012 11:17 PM EST reply actions
I have a hard time
believing us fans came in anything but dead last in their thought process concerning this, all things considered.
by MetsFan4Decades on Jan 5, 2012 11:30 PM EST via mobile up reply actions 7 recs
The length of the contract was the major difference between the two sides with Reyes, was it not?
I mean, he’s making $10 million dollars for 2012 and 2013, so it’s not like he wasn’t open to backloading the contract to some degree and taking less cash right off the bat- it would be the immediate cash that the Mets are having problems with.
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!" Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.
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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jan 5, 2012 11:50 PM EST up reply actions
Somewhere on the plains of Africa..
“MTC is joyfully prancing about the potentially great nooz”
"Intelligence is not a genetic predisposition. Think stupid!!"
by Wright of passage on Jan 5, 2012 11:21 PM EST reply actions
If the Wilpons sell
We’re going from the elephant graveyard
to pride rock:
What Would Matt Szczur Do?
Fact on Villanova Sports
by Hoyadestroya85 on Jan 5, 2012 11:29 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
We roota for Dickey
What a wonderful phrase
We roota for Dickey
It ain’t no passing craze
He’s our problem free
Pitcher of ace callibre (come on, it’s late, I’m tired)
We roota for Dickey
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!" Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.
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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jan 5, 2012 11:52 PM EST up reply actions
I initially read this in an overly stereotypical Italian accent in my mind.
Chamption of the R.A. Dickey Face contest and "Cromulent Photoshopper Extraordinaire" of Amazin' Avenue!
You might know me as mistermet.
by Steve Schreiber on Jan 5, 2012 11:58 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
The knuckle(ball) of life
What Would Matt Szczur Do?
Fact on Villanova Sports
by Hoyadestroya85 on Jan 6, 2012 1:59 AM EST up reply actions
Rumba and Radickey
What Would Matt Szczur Do?
Fact on Villanova Sports
by Hoyadestroya85 on Jan 6, 2012 2:39 AM EST up reply actions 9 recs
That...is...beautiful...
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!" Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.
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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jan 6, 2012 1:31 PM EST up reply actions
Fantastic news.
It's like saying you dislike Don Frye's mustache, which itself is the equivalent of spitting on the Constitution. - Anthony Pace
on one hand this is great news
on the other hand it’s a bit sad that we’re at the point that we’re getting excited about financial teams being hired/ possible foreshadows of bankruptcy.
one does not simply walk into mordor...unless winter is coming
by Gina on Jan 5, 2012 11:53 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Mets band are happy!
They are singing their new song “Wilpons…fuck, fuck,fuck, fuck, fuck….”
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Really good kid.A very good player.Not a superstar. #BlameWilponz. Never Forget
by ScottfromPeekskill on Jan 6, 2012 1:08 AM EST reply actions 6 recs
They emailed this clip from Zimbabwe.
Their winter tour of the southern hemisphere is going well.
There is concern Irving Picard may demand them as part of the Maddoff settlement however.
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Really good kid.A very good player.Not a superstar. #BlameWilponz. Never Forget
by ScottfromPeekskill on Jan 6, 2012 12:01 PM EST up reply actions
I'd pay close attention to the defnitiion of turnaround consultants
that’s in the second sentence of my piece. doesn’t sound like industry standard is to hire a turnaround consultant just to work on budget processes. either way I agree with Eric that this is good news.
I was the fancy old word for firing workers
now it’s the fancy new word for firing the owners!
If The Mets Go Bankrupt
Do the players (and ex-players) become unsecured creditors? I think so.
I wouldn’t count on signing any free agents for a while. But the Mets may be out from under the Bay and Santana contracts a year early.
As I’ve said, the bottom is 2013, not 2012. Wright will be gone, along with Bay and Santana, and probably Dickey, Pelfrey, anyone above the major league minimum who is not a one year free agent at the end of his career.
Recovery comes in 2015 and after, depending on how well Alderson plays it. But at least if the Mets are actually bankrupt, perhaps the Wfans will accept the need to build the hard way.
I think that MLB guarantees all contracts
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"He who gets the best players usually wins" - Bobby Bowden
This
MLB underwrites all contracts through their insurance.
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Really good kid.A very good player.Not a superstar. #BlameWilponz. Never Forget
by ScottfromPeekskill on Jan 6, 2012 12:03 PM EST up reply actions
If that's true
How is it that the Dodgers have been doing just that – signing FAs,and at least one for big $$/years?
Although I don’t doubt this is the beginning of some very lean years.
by MetsFan4Decades on Jan 6, 2012 8:37 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
It's up to the judge but since the team sale would probably match the total debt or more
than I doubt voiding player contracts is even considered. The big killer for the Wilpons is the interest payments.
This stance does not pan out
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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jan 6, 2012 1:33 PM EST up reply actions
please let this be so
"Fantasy, reality, science Fiction. Which is which? Who can tell?"
turnaround = death
I speak from experience from my last 2 jobs.
oh happy day, the Wontpons are done.
One day, this team is going to kill me.
Hear, hear!
"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. "
– Tug McGraw when asked about his preference for grass or astroturf
sorry for teh deley but i haz been teh busy
what with football and all, but yea it is nice to see teh light at teh end of teh shaft tunnel….these ownars are teh biggest piles of shit evar….they don’t know anything about teh game other than teh Dodgers were in Brooklyn once…..I herd that Jeff thinks teh reason they were in Brooklyn was that it was just a really long roadtrip, and since then it has been a really long homestand. This is the guy in charge, by teh way. So yeah, turnaround this you fucking asswipe….I hope you lose the team, I hope you all go completely belly up and wind up selling teh hotdogs at Yankee stadium, becuase teh Yankees are winnars™ and you deserve each other.
One day, this team is going to kill me.
by fxcarden on Jan 8, 2012 2:01 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
What are the chances of a win-win-win scenario?
WRITTEN IN THE STAAAAARS, A MILLION MILES AWAAAAAAY
I write about the Arsenal for The Short Fuse.
Were snakebitten, so slim-to-none
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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jan 6, 2012 1:49 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
As long as it's not a Kobiyashi Maru
"WHO WOULD LEAD?! THE CLOWN?!"
by I'mGivingYouARaise on Jan 6, 2012 5:08 PM EST up reply actions
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