[tomjakubowski]

The article doesn't mention that team owner Fred Wilpon thought deferring Bonilla's contract was a great idea because he could use the savings at the time to invest in Bernie Madoff's fund.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/sports/baseball/mets-saw-...

[moate]

They also used the savings to acquire Mike Hampton (who later provided them with the compensation pick they used to draft David Wright.

[duxup]

It really seems like a poor choice to dramatically alter the financing of another business because some other unrelated investment is doing well.

That seems like just doubling down in a bad way.