Mets Owner Rips Reyes, Beltran, Calls Himself a Schmuck

Ben Mankiewicz and Rick Strom discuss the recent article in The New Yorker by Jeffrey Toobin regarding Mets owner Fred Wilpon ripping his 3 star players; Carlos Beltran, Jose Reyes & David Wright. Bernie Madoff came to Wilpon's defense.

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[masterkayaki]

I love espBEN

[uforeader]

TYT has had sound issues for years. Is anyone ever going to fix it?

[BigBluenym]

well why dont we just go out and get some players who are actual super stars...Oh wait we cant, because our owner lost all of our money.....he thinks he can criticize some of the games better players when he is one of the worst owners in sport history

[James221994]

i actually respect what wilpon said. He has said what we (at least me and my friends) as mets fans have been thinking all along. We know r team isnt good but at least he has the balls to say it so we know he isnt blinded into thinking the mets r good and that he should just keep on doing what he has been doing. At all i actually like him more now.

[typecastyourself]

Why bother uploading videos that are barely audible?

[Clackergille]

wow, glad im not a mets or dodgers fan

[bashleygal]

I love Ben ^_^ Mets are turrible

[SomeKindOfGuitarist]

Madoff and the 'Wilponzis' have been bbfs since high school. There are allegations that the Wilpons were getting 0% interest, no collateral, no anything 'loans' from the Madoff family outside of their 'investments.' That's what a lot of this suit against the Wilpons is about, to examine their records to see that they may have been benefiting massively from Madoff's crimes for 10+ years. The Mets have been run on this money for years and speaking as a Met's fan, it's a disgrace.

[BAiLeYy123]

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