DENVER, COLORADO – SEPTEMBER 17: Brandon Nimmo #9 of the New York Mets circles the bases after hitting a solo home run in the sixth inning against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field on September 17, 2019 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)
The New York Mets and Colorado Rockies are very similar in a few ways. Both teams have not necessarily been in the best graces with their fanbases as both teams owners and front offices have had their fair shares of public relations disasters in years.
The old owners of the Mets, the Wilpon family, were a walking trainwreck. The Wilpons were part owners of the Mets since the early 80s but they became majority owners in 2002.
Since then, they lost a ton of money in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme so, for the better part of a decade, they acted like a small market team. They came under controversy for their new stadium, Citi Field, for the lack of Mets history behind it, Wilpon frequently ripped players in the public sphere (the biggest instances happened in 2011), they went through a ton of managers, a lot of bad free agent signings (Jason Bay, Yoenis Céspedes, Oliver Pérez, Luis Castillo, Kaz Matsui, etc.), and a lot of bad trades too (Robinson Cano, Scott Kazmir, etc.).
You can read about the worst of the Wilpons from our colleagues over at Rising Apple from this article from last year.
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