Geek Soap Box

For one of the richest and most powerful franchises in all of professional sports — awash in luxury stadium and cable channel revenues — its really amazin’ how awful the New York Mets are run.  Owners Fred and Jeff Wilpon, partner Saul Katz, even general manager Omar Minaya and manager Jerry Manuel all seem like [...]

Amidst the chaos and unrelenting waves of injuries and shoddy fundamentals that have plagued this 2009 New York Mets season, another character has emerged from the fray.  A galvanizing force that has united the legions of blue and orange fans in their unrelenting hatred for his callous style and enigmatic stranglehold over top team brass. [...]