David Roth had an excellent piece this week for Deadspin about the New York Mets and their fortunes (or lackthereof, rather) under the Wilpons family. The basic thrust of the article is that the Mets as an organization are so terrible, so dysfunctional, that the only way things are going to get better is if Major League Baseball steps in and removes the Wilpons as owners.
One passage in particular stuck with me:
... because the Wilpons cannot and will not change, nothing else has changed, either. The team’s results have fluctuated according to chance—round ball, round bat, and all that—but never really that much and never really for any other reason.