If you are a Mets fan, an unpopular sentiment is about to follow: The Wilpons want to win.
They are like many owners of major sports teams who do not possess the self-awareness to see how their behavior and tactics impede winning. Really, it is not uncommon. Folks with money and/or power tend not to see themselves as others do and tend to think the accruing of the money and/or power gives them license to follow their instincts and belief systems, even in fields in which they lack expertise.
Consider George Steinbrenner’s arc. There was great initial success in the late 1970s, as the Mets had in the late 1980s with the Wilpons (albeit with Nelson Doubleday as a mitigating factor).