Happy Bobby Bonilla day to all Mets fans!
Bobby Bonilla pulled off a heist against the Wilpon’s and the Mets. As a bit of background, Bonilla signed a five-year, $29 million contract in 1991. In 1995 the Mets traded Bonilla to the Orioles, and the last two years of his contract were deferred. He then came back to the Mets in 1999, but he was still owed $5.9 million.
He was released in 2000, and the Mets, wanting to free up salary, negotiated a deal that deferred his payments. Not only that, the payments came with an 8% interest rate.
So, since 2011 Bobby B. has been sitting on a beach somewhere, laughing his ass off, and wondering how he swindled the Mets out of an extra $29 million dollars.
Congrats to Bobby Bonilla on stealing money from the second-worst sports ownership group in New York.