The Wilpon Appreciation Thread

[Centerfield]

Welcome to The Wilpon Appreciation Thread (TWAT)!

All of us card-carrying members of PAW would have roasted them if they hadn't ponied up the money for Cespedes. Now that they have, it's only right that we give thanks for living up to their end of the bargain. Sure, Sandy played the situation perfectly, but he wouldn't have been able to do dick without $110 million of Fred's money to back him up.

So thank you Fred. Thank you Jeff. I hope you enjoy this TWAT.

[Zvon]

Better call Saul appreciated as well.


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[Benjamin Grimm]

I know of a group of Buddhists at a community center in Maspeth, Queens who have long appreciated Jeff Wilpon:



(I wonder what Drew and Edith are doing in Tower B?)

[Lefty Specialist]

Oh, we're off to a roaring start.

[batmagadanleadoff]

The NY Post secretly followed Jeff Wilpon into the wee hours of the night:

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[Zvon]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Oh, we're off to a roaring start.

lol.
A smokin' start.

[Zvon]

Press conference fashion report:
Fred Wilpon is sporting an elegant brown sleeveless wool-like sweater, corduroy pants and dockers. Jeff wears his business like suit with a Mets orange creamcicle tie. Sandy Alderson looks quaint, throwing a jacket over his pajama top.

[Zvon]

Ces in a suit is a stunning sight. He partially disrobes to don his Mets jersey which looks very comfortable set upon the earthy tones of his shirt and tie.

[Zvon]

WOW!

"God willing, I want to finish out my career with this team."

!!!!

Sandy:"God willing and a no trade clause."

hahaha

Edited November 30, 2016 by Guest

[Gwreck]

There's a funny quote that I can't quite remember/find that is appropriate here. The gist of it is that it is important to praise with the same speed at which criticism is leveled. So, Jeff, when you're reading this later (because we know you do): good job!

[Zvon]

He said his priority from the start was returning to the Mets.
This really pumps me up.

[MFS62]

The next Mets stadium should have a Fred Wilpon Rotunda.

Later

[batmagadanleadoff]

WOW! "God willing, I want to finish out my career with this team." !!!! Sandy:"God willing and a no trade clause." hahaha

Why is that a good thing? I wouldn't want the last year or so of just about every major leaguer that ever played the game of baseball.

[TransMonk]

"Jeff Wilpon is a winner, and, believe me, I know winners. If the Mets don't win it all this year, I'll declare them the World Champs anyway."

[MFS62]

MFS62 wrote: The next Mets stadium should have a Fred Wilpon Rotunda. Later

I'm sorry.
That was a combination of euphoria and post-surgical meds.
It won't happen again.
Later

[Lefty Specialist]

[Frayed Knot]

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This one is ridiculously good.


The whole theme of this thread reminds me of the line from FIDDLER ON THE ROOF where the man asks the local Rabbi if there's a prayer for the Czar.
The Rabbi responds with: May God bless and keep the Czar ... far away from us

[MFS62]

The whole theme of this thread reminds me of the line from FIDDLER ON THE ROOF where the man asks the local Rabbi if there's a prayer for the Czar. The Rabbi responds with: May God bless and keep the Czar ... far away from us

Bravo!

Later

[RealityChuck]

Someone else needs to be thanked: The Mets medical staff.

They were the ones who supposedly quashed the Carlos Gomez trade. If we have Gomez, we have no Yo.

[Zvon]

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Ha.
Thanks for the nice comment. And it's funny, that one took no more than ten minutes to make. Just slapped Jeffs face up there and re-created the smoke effect.

This one took hours, days even. This is my favorite from that old JWiHistory thread (favorite that I created-I think some others that were posted were higher on my list). AND, maybe Jeff does linger, because he may have gotten this message. I don't recall seeing the orange billed caps last season. If they wore them the odds are I posted this somewhere on those days (& IIRC I posted it once during 2016).