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Mets fans can’t rejoice until the Wilpons are thrown out of the ballpark

JOY IN METVILLE, the front-page headline of the New York Post read Thursday.

I could have come up with some other suggestions:

METVILLE WATERBOARDING CONTINUES

Or METVILLE DUMPSTER BLAZE TO BURN 5 MORE YEARS

When I woke up to read that billionaire hedge funder Steve A. Cohen was nearing a deal to buy the New York Mets from the Wilpon family, everyone was elated.

After a decade of post-Madoff penny-pinching and excuse-making by Fred and Jeff Wilpon, Mets fans were finally getting a deep-pocketed owner expected to spend whatever it takes to build a champion.