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Good job lol.Mets principal owner Fred Wilpon took pointed shots at some of his players in an extensive article in The New Yorker.
The embattled owner, who became ensnared in Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme and is now being sued for more than $1 billion by the trustee trying to recover funds for victims.
Wilpon took verbal jabs at the following players:
-- Jose Reyes will not be getting a super-huge contract from the Mets. "He thinks he's going to get Carl Crawford money," Wilpon says, referring to Crawford's seven-year, $142 million contract with the Red Sox. "He's had everything wrong with him. He won't get it."
-- Carlos Beltran, Wilpon mentions Beltran's huge postseason with the Astros in 2004 and says, referring to himself: "We had some schmuck in New York who paid him based on that one series. He's 65 to 70 percent of what he was."
-- David Wright, Wilpon said: "Really good kid. A very good player. Not a superstar."