The headline is a mix-up of "foot-in-mouth disease" and "hoof and mouth disease." That being the case, the article really should be about A-Rod.

The worst thing about this behavior is that it’s poisoning the market.

Just like he did in Montreal. Is anybody really surprised that he's doing it in Miami?

As one high-revenue club said, “We don’t like them (the Marlins) very much.”

Maybe the local firebrands of the Baseball Pink Factory should remind this club representative that Mr. Loria deserves as much free money as Bud deigns to give him and perhaps even more, as his reward for accepting an exclusive fiefdom in the small market of South Florida.

Double post? I mean, yeah, what he said!

There has to be some way that MLB can force Loria to sell. I mean as it stands now, he is basically raking in the cash, while not even pretending to give a good faith effort to compete any time soon. Nor is he pretending to do anything to develop his own revenue stream to help reduce the amount that the league gives him as part of the revenue sharing.

At some point, Loria Wilpon will no longer own the club Mets , and as was the case with Tom Hicks, and Frank McCourt, fans will rejoice

Fixed that for Mets fans ...

There has to be some way that MLB can force Loria to sell. I mean as it stands now, he is basically raking in the cash, while not even pretending to give a good faith effort to compete any time soon. Nor is he pretending to do anything to develop his own revenue stream to help reduce the amount that the league gives him as part of the revenue sharing.

Well surely nobody could have anticipated that unearned torrents of free money would have a negative effect on a franchise's efforts to expand their fanbase.

The worst thing about this behavior is that it’s poisoning the market.

No. That's not the worst thing.