him. >> you're saying picard is overreaching. >> i think he is. >> because he's seeking a billion dollars back, what's that doing to the mets? >> well, the mets are in grave, grave trouble. first of all, they stink. i mean, the team is no good. i'm a mets fan. that's the thing. i'm also realistic about that. and so attendance is down. >> right. >> in addition, they've made a lot of bad investments in players who didn't turn out to be -- >> talks about that. >> that turned out to be a big story here in new york that fred made some perhaps incautious but certainly very accurate assessments of players like david wright, jose reyes, carlos beltran, but the point is the mets are losing a great deal of money. and he is now getting a minority owner to invest the team. >> right. if there's anybody who's willing to put money in at the numbers