What a morning it has been for Mets fans and not in a good way. Rather than try to sum up the fallout from a controversial article on Mets owner Fred Wilpon that published in the New Yorker we're going to let the following direct quotes speak for themselves. Click here to read the full article.

Jose Reyes Credit: Flickr user slgckgc

Fred Wilpon in regards to Mets shortstop Jose Reyes:

“He’s a racehorse,” Wilpon said. When Reyes started with the Mets, in 2003, just before his twentieth birthday, he was pegged as a future star. Injuries have limited him to a more pedestrian career, though he’s off to a good start this season. “He thinks he’s going to get Carl Crawford money,” Wilpon said, referring to the Red Sox’ signing of the former Tampa Bay player to a seven-year, $142-million contract. “He’s had everything wrong with him,” Wilpon said of Reyes. “He won’t get it.”

- Jeffrey Toobin The New Yorker

David Wright Credit: Keith Allison / Flickr

Fred Wilpon on Mets third baseman David Wright:

David Wright came to the plate. Wright, the team’s marquee attraction, has started the season dreadfully at the plate. “He’s pressing,” Wilpon said. “A really good kid. A very good player. Not a superstar.”

- Jeffrey Toobin The New Yorker

David Wright comments on the story:

David Wright said in an email Monday morning that Mets owner Fred Wilpon “is a good man and is obviously going through some difficult times. There is nothing more productive that I can say at this point.”

- Andy Martino NY Daily News

Carlos Beltran Credit: Keith Allison

Fred Wilpon on Mets centerfielder Carlos Beltran:

When Carlos Beltran came up, I mentioned his prodigious post-season with the Astros in 2004, when he hit eight home runs, just before he went to the Mets as a free agent. Wilpon laughed, not happily. “We had some schmuck in New York who paid him based on that one series,” he said, referring to himself. In the course of playing out his seven-year, $119-million contract with the Mets, Beltran, too, has been hobbled by injuries. “He’s sixty-five to seventy per cent of what he was.” Beltran singled, loading the bases with one out.

- Jeffrey Toobin The New Yorker