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Keeping Score: The Mets and the Ponzi scheme

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    How much did owners know about Bernie Madoff's activities?

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-- Brian -- this is keeping score before we talk about three sports stories that matter most to me and hopefully you watch fox different every -- six denies look at Super Tuesday.

It was -- different from nine to -- first thing's first a court case came down.

Which should matter a lot to -- fans into Major League Baseball it shows that the Mets who were indeed going to go to trial about how much they knew about the scam which is.

Bernie Madoff how much of their money they didn't -- at all.

And how much of that money cost other people that lifetime savings did they know they were being duped that they know that this was a Ponzi scheme.

There was such good friends they were so intertwined the families knew each other.

Logic tells you at least we have an investigation here that -- to yield results at the very least the Mets have to write an eighty million dollar check.

And they could -- as much to 300 million dollar check the also old baseball between thirty and fifty million dollars.

And they have cut their payroll 45 million dollars already -- best players go.

Would baseball owners have to know is they are custodians as rich as they are as powerful as they may be -- hold that franchise temporarily.

Until the next generation of their family of an X corporation comes by it buys it up.

It belongs to the fans the players -- even have that team because only there for ten years to fifteen years that's their window.

And they are gone in no players -- -- -- franchise almost none.

For their entire career so it really belongs to the fans those fans are staying away from stadium they partially paid board to the tune of 50%.

Not buying the high priced seats overall ticket -- -- -- 30% and last year were record lows.

The BC New York City it's not a baseball fans are brand new stadium easy to get to mass transportation and they still won't go -- Because the Wilpon -- to the illusion that they can hold onto the team.

Hey you're no longer mega rich we go -- to come to that reality sadly in this country because of what happened since 2008.

The well -- -- the last to know and we have met fans and supporters and baseball fans are forced to pay the price.

-- -- to Eli Manning.

The guts to stand up last night and say that Downey.

The -- put on offensive players that played against the saints Gregg Williams defense is from the Redskins to the bills to the saints.

Our art that is no place for that in football instead of -- -- like every other players deal -- -- it's no big deal stuff like that goes on.

He came out that there's no place to try to get some butt off on a stretch or knocked unconscious.

In the game of football it's already dangerous sport that's played by far too many for 42 shortest time.

And to try to take somebody out to get 101000 dollars -- something no sport needs a bad message and finally.

When he dykstra never grew up his faster reckless ways on the field for the Phillies and Mets have really cost him big time off the field is is reckless ways went from.

Let him from a car wash -- that was a mega successful.

28 the finance here who was actually duped himself.

-- millions upon millions of dollars and when it was time to cut bait.

He falsified records it seems and got credit when it didn't belong held on to cars that should have been taken away and house as he should live -- Now we finds himself in jail for at least three years the other story that is yet to be written.

I think he's got some for parkinson's -- seen -- he has looked the same.

-- -- hunched over has a little bit of a tremor.

I think physically is at the same person I don't know how that's affected mentally but I know one thing.

He's not an evil guy he's not a bad guy people that -- really like -- -- -- -- Sheen don't have the guts to step in.

And rain and if they did it certainly did work.

What do you think about what I say keeping score at foxnews.com.

Twitter dot counselors kill -- I'll see you next time we keep score together.

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