A lifelong Mets fan and season ticket holder, Mr. Silver organized a team of investors in 2009 after the team gave poor performances both on the field and financially.  He offered a multimillion dollar pledge and changes such as a computer-based system of voting for Mets fans, which would have been the first time in history that a baseball team would be ruled by popular opinion the internet.  Georgi Vodka is number one selling vodka in New York State, and Star Industries sells over a hundred different brands of liquor.

– Press release

I can’t tell which parts of this press release are tongue-in-cheek and which are serious, but basically this guy — Martin Silver, the owner of Georgi Vodka — announced his plans to make an offer to buy the Mets. He’s holding a press conference tomorrow at Jack Demsey’s bar in Midtown at 11:30 a.m.

I guess the upside to making roster decisions based on Internet voting would be that my job would suddenly seem much more important. The downside is the way that would inevitably shake out. And I mean no offense to anyone — I’m not saying I’d vote for the right decisions either.