Happy Bobby Bonilla Day!!

Contracts, AMIRITE?!

Now that the Wilpons are gone, though, and the coast is clear, it’s time to reveal the hilarious truth: The deal worked beautifully for the Mets. It was one of the franchise’s savviest and most successful transactions. It paid instant dividends, triggering moves that led to a World Series appearance in 2000 and a deep postseason run in 2006. And yet that same contract has become a shining symbol of the cloddish Mets, a blunder of such epic proportions that fans have memorialized it with a sarcastic holiday. Somehow the Mets managed to get it wrong even when they got it right. They blew it, even though they nailed it.

Bobby Bonilla and the True Story Behind Baseball’s Most Notorious Contract, by Devin Gordon via Bloomberg