Posted on 02/01/2011 6:35:26 AM PST by Liz
Mets owners are in a much tighter squeeze than they are letting on. Sterling Equities, which is controlled by Wilpon and son, Jeff, is supposedly worth some $750M and $1B. The Wilpons want to replace roughly $750M,...their losses with convicted Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff.....and are now in settlement talks with the Madoff estate trustee, who claims they withdrew $48M more than they invested. They are opposing a move to unseal legal papers, saying the papers are attempted "character assassination"..... painting [Mets owners] as persons who should have known that Madoff did no trading".........
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Other than that, I tend to agree. Selig has been a disaster as baseball commissioner.
Why would they even allow an owner to be given that position?
Actually, Mr Picower could have been saved.
But Mrs Picower had just had her hair and nails done.
So diving in to save Mr Picower was out of the question.
You got that right.
Word on the street is that it is a Hank Med client
Did Ted Williams, Maris or Mantle use steroids?
LOL! Well Shatner pulled the same thing with his wife.
I think Picower might have had some people visit him. Maybe some Russian, Israeli or Italian men. They may have come to his home to give him swimming lessons. He was one of the largest beneficiaries. I think the feds may have gotten the wife to cough up the money to insure those men did not visit her.
I am always suspicious when people drown in their pools.
Major League Baseball was on its last legs when two mediocre players, i.e. McGwire and Sosa, and one exceptional player, i.e. Bonds, started juicing up.
Without that home run race spectators would have abandoned the sport.
That's why the planned lockout of NFL players is so foolish.
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