Tiki Barber Saying The Wilpons Are About To Sell The Mets Has Put My Stupid Brain In Quite A Pickle

Congratulations Mets fans! In case praying to the Baseball Gods that our owners actually spend money on premium free agents this offseason despite knowing those Baseball Gods are vindictive pricks that hate our team wasn't enough to ruin your holiday spirit, now we can add having to believe a #TikiBomb dropped from the motherfucking clouds stating that the Wilpons are looking to sell the team. 

As a proud Giants/Mets fan gypsy, I have to admit that my relationship with Tiki Barber has been a confusing one. He was at one point the greatest offensive player I have ever seen on Big Blue as well as my favorite Giant. He also was kiiiiind of an asshole for speaking out against Michael Strahan's desire to get a new contract back in the day, clowned Eli after retiring (which ironically galvanized every Giants fan and player behind Eli before he became ELIte), and lets just say some decisions in his personal life were absolutely awful at best. This is how my brain processed Tiki being the guy with the scoop of something my heart has been begging for over the last decade.

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However all of this is perfectly Mets because beggars can't be choosers and we are all the beggars of baseball, from the owners that needed Major League Baseball to bail them out after getting swindled in a Ponzi scheme all the way down to use idiot fans who have become the crazy homeless people in Penn Station screaming anytime something good or bad happens. I am going to hang on every rumor that the Mets may be sold from the penny-pinching Wilpons just like I am going to hang on every rumor that Anthony Rendon could end up playing the hot corner in Flushing because our agent GM can sell water to a well. Ya Gotta Believe doesn't just apply to what happens on the field. It applies to the shit off the field as well. 

I know that the Wilpons view this team as the crown jewel of their family that Bernie Madoff somehow didn't rob from them and the comments about the Wilpons selling are coming from a fucking ex-football player that has put his foot in his mouth countless times in this town. But I just need something to believe in right now before being spoon fed quotes about how much better the Mets will be if the bullpen isn't an abject disaster, Jed Lowrie is brought back to life by Melisandre, Marcus Stroman becomes First Half Marcus Stroman for the Mets, Edwin Diaz is just half as good as he was in 2018, Robinson Cano doesn't get hit directly in the hand by a baseball every single time he enters the batter's box healthy, and everyone who was good last year is just as good. 

Which is why I am going to do what all us Mets fans do and believe in the impossible. You know why? Because I have to. Logically you would think the Wilpons would want to get out of the baseball business so they can stop being one of the Top 2 most hated families in New York (alternating at number 1 with the Dolans depending on what season it is). Tiki knows rich people, or at least more rich people than I do since the only rich person I know is my boss and he has probably just as much credibility as a random Stoolie popping in my DMs to break some news because their cousin's cousin's best friend's dentist heard something, which they ended up being right about. 

The bottom line is if Tiki is wrong, then we are stuck in the hell of rooting for a baseball team owned by a meddling fool that we've been in for years. No harm, no foul other than the typical psychological torture that comes with rooting for the Mets and a whole lot of Jets fans joining a whole lot of Giants fans in hating Tiki. But if Tiki is right and the smoke he blew last night becomes a fire after a beat writer reports it, I will overlook all the bullshit he pulled on my beloved G-Men since they won two championships after he left and as I've said before, the Mets getting a real owner is the only thing stopping them from becoming a perennial contender like all the other big market teams.

All I need is the ex-football player with no real ties to Major League Baseball that is hated by his former team's fanbase because of shit he said to be right about the biggest bombshell this town has seen in years.

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God I hate this fucking team.

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