During the fourth quarter of 2008, it often felt as if the world (or at least the financial world), was ending.  Then in December, when it seemed that things couldn't get much worse, the news broke that money manager Bernie Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme. Among the names linked to Madoff as potential victims was the Wilpon family - owners of the New York Mets.

I remember the Wilpons' issuing a brief statement ensuring that the baseball team would not ...