Fred Wilpon

Let this be a lesson for managers and coaches in New York: When your team is down, don't pick a fight with the media.

Willie Randolph, the Mets manager whose team is now under .500, has made two mistakes this week, at a time when his job is looking more and more unsafe.

Randolph told the Bergen Record that he was getting a lot of heat from the media because he's black, and that SNY--which the Mets organization owns--delighted in catching him at unflattering moments in the dugout.

He asked to speak with the Mets' owners, the Wilpons, to apologize, and his offer was rebuffed (instead, he spoke to the team's GM, Omar Minaya).  read more »

To: Fred Wilpon

Well, as you once hoped for, your Mets played plenty of “meaningful games” this past September. Even in the season’s final week, they were involved in seven vital contests at Shea Stadium.

Unfortunately, the Mets won just one of them.

Changes are undoubtedly needed. But it’s vital here that you resist calls from fans for a mass execution.  read more »

It’s a tabloid truism that baseball sells papers.  read more »

It’s a tabloid truism that baseball sells papers.  read more »

The young married couple—she's 24 and he's 27 and the son of Mets owner Fred Wilpon—are now living in London, and we've been looking forward to keeping up with their shenanigans in the pages of Tatler. But we've all been negligent, it seems, and therefore we missed this article from back in January about their house-hunting in Monaco:

The problem starts the moment Yuki arrives at the artist's house. She takes an instant dislike to Véronique Deguilhem, the French estate agent representing the house, because her coat has fur trim. Yuki walks into the house and spots a black crossbreed dog lying on the kitchen floor. She kneels down to pat it — and begins to sob. "She's so sick," she says. Bruce agrees. "She's got tumours," he says, pointing to painful-looking growths on the dog's legs. "We can't leave until we get a vet," sniffs Yuki.

Fred wears a tie; Nelson ties a jaunty sweater around his neck.  read more »

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It's a tabloid truism that baseball sells papers.  read more »