Wilpons misspell Mets GM’s name in two separate statements

Fred and Jeff Wilpon spelled Mets GM Brodie Van Wagenen’s name wrong while taking him to task over his Rob Manfred comments

Well, this is awkward. On Thursday night, Mets CEO and COO Fred and Jeff Wilpon released statements denouncing GM Brodie Van Wagenen’s hot mic comments roasting MLB commissioner Rob Manfred. The trouble is, they spelled his name wrong, twice.

“I am very stressed and disappointed to learn tonight that our General Manager, Brodie Van Wagenen, made disrespectful and inaccurate comments about our Commissioner, a long-time close friend of mine,” Fred Wilpon’s statement read. That first spelling was correct. The next?

“I hold Rob in the highest regard and in no way are Brody’s remarks reflective of my views or the organization’s,” Wilpon continues.

For the record, Van Wagenen’s first name is Brodie, not Brody. Oops.

The misspelling wouldn’t be so funny if it wasn’t repeated by COO Jeff Wilpon in his own statement.

“To clear up and misunderstandings, it was my suggestion to potentially look into playing the game later because of scheduling issues. Brody’s misunderstanding of a private conversation was and is inexcusable,” the statement began.

Inexcusable might be a word appropriately applied to the two heads of a sports organization misspelling the name of their general manager in two separate statements.

Mets GM Brodie Van Wagenen was criticized but ultimately in the right.

The most comical element of it all is the criticism of Van Wagenen, who was caught on tape criticizing Manfred’s handling of the Mets and Marlin’s decision not to play on Thursday night. After all, what he said rang true enough.

“He just doesn’t get it,” Van Wagenen said, which is a sentiment shared by a sizable portion of the MLB audience. At least it seems that way.

Van Wagenen clearly didn’t intend for those comments to be made public, so he’ll have to take his lumps on this one from management. At the same time, few things could have endeared him more to the broader public who have been shaking their heads at Manfred’s lack of leadership over more issues than just social justice.

Meanwhile, the Wilpons are over here making fools of themselves with spelling errors.