Every fan in Citi liked the Mets a lot…
But the Wilpons,who grew up Dodgers fans, Did NOT!
The Wilpons hated Mets fans! The whole baseball season!
Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be Jeff’s head wasn’t screwed on just right. It could be, perhaps, their finances were too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all,
May have been their plan for winning was for a market too small.
Whatever their reason, their heart or their wallet,
They stood there on Christmas Eve, hating the fans,
Staring down from their owner’s box with a sour, Wilpon frown,
At the fans hope for a World Series crown

….the Wilpons came up with an idea to steal their hearts, and takes all the pennants and fame from the park the Mets houses

…It was quarter past dawn… All the fans, still a-bed,
All the fans, still a-snooze when they planned their sked,
Packed it up with their pennants! The equipment! The fame!
The bags! And the baseballs! The helmets! No shame!
Four hundred feet up! Up the side of the apple,
They rode with their load to the tiptop to liquidate it!
“Pooh-pooh to the fans!” they were miserly humming.
“They’re finding out now that no World Series is coming!”
“They’re just waking up! We know just what they’ll do!”
“Their mouths will hang open a minute or two, Then the fans down in Citi will all cry Boo Hoo!”
“That’s a noise,” grinned the Wilpons, “That we simply MUST hear!”

So they paused. And the Wilpons put their hands to their ears.
And he did hear a sound rising over the show. It started in low. Then it started to grow.
But the sound wasn’t mad! Why, this sound sounded quite glad!
It couldn’t be so! But it WAS a standing ovation quite loud! VERY!
They stared down at Citi! The Wilpons popped their eyes!
Then they shook! What they saw was a shocking surprise!
Every fan down in Citi, the tall and the small, Was cheering! Without any pennants at all!

They HADN’T stopped the fans from coming! THEY CAME!

Somehow or other, they came just the same!
And the Wilpons, with their wallets empty as we all did know,
Stood puzzling and puzzling: “Where do we go?”
“Cohen made an offer! It came to save a bottom line that sags!”
“It came to buy love, free agents and pennant flags!”
And they puzzled for months, till their ability to keep control was no more.

Then the Wilpons thought of something they hadn’t before!” Maybe fans,” they thought, “don’t belong trampled on the floor,”
“Maybe fans…perhaps…deserve a little bit more!”
And what happened then? Well…in Citi they say, That the Mets small finances grew three sizes that day!
And the minute their wallets didn’t feel quite so tight, they whizzed with through free agency causing much fright,
And the team brought back the fun! And become favorites in the East!
And Cohen, HE HIMSELF! Steve Cohen got rid of the Wilpons who fans like the least!

(Adapted from Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch Who Stole Christmas).