SELECTIVE DYSLEXIA?

This past week, the Mets General Manager, Sandy Alderson predicted that the Mets should win 90 games this season - this is not a misprint on my part!  Now, I certainly know he couldn’t have accidently reversed the numbers from 09 (zero-nine) from his notes because even the Mets have never won that few during a season - although they still own the MLB record for least amount of wins (42) in a season.

Presuming he has some common sense, he must have a brain disorder I’m calling, “Selective Dyslexia” whereby he’s reading a 2014 notation with the standard two columns showing wins/losses.  That is logical because most folks with common sense know the 2014 Mets could win 72 games and lose 90.  I happen to like Sandy and am choosing to give him the benefit of the doubt that he couldn’t possibly be so gullible.

On the other hand, when the Mets owner, Fred Wilpon followed with, “We better win 90.” I had no doubt there wasn’t any form of Dyslexia from his statement - just pure brain stupidity and harshness towards blaming others.  After all, Fred was the owner who argued with (then) partnering owner Nelson Doubleday against acquiring Mike Piazza.  At that time he continuously blamed his partner for the Mets’ failures.  It’s a shame that the Mets’ ownership split up with wrong owner leaving the organization.

Years later, Fred was also the one who supposedly believed that Bernie Madoff was the only person in America who could produce investment returns of $300 million, with very little to invest and at a time in America when no one was profiting much at all from any investments.  Fred still enjoys enough profits to sit tight without much investment in his team.  He’s truly proved to be an arrogant owner who selfishly cares about himself well beyond caring about any of the dedicated Mets’ fans.  With that, how dare he throw such a threat to the media when he is the main culprit for blockading such a hope of winning 90 when they’d be lucky to even win 80!

So, for now, I am not choosing to hold Sandy accountable as some ailments are forgivingly unavoidable.  So, I’ll just claim he has Selective Dyslexia.  As for the Mets’ owner, I just hope Fred (or as Sandy calls him, “Derf”) speedily chooses to sell the team to possibly and finally soon offer a 90-win season the only way he can offer it, selfishly collecting money for himself through a sale, not an honest investment.