MAD's Cause-of-Death Betting Odds: Alex Rodriguez
THE DYING GAME DEPT.
Red Sox Fire Their Manager: "The Bobby Valentine's Day Massacre"
GREEN MONSTER MOVIE DEPT.
How the Mets are Going to Raise $162 Million to Settle the Bernie Madoff Suit
SHEA IT AIN'T SO DEPT.
The Mets have struck a deal to pay $162 million to settle claims that they knew disgraced financier Bernie Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme. How the beleaguered team owner, Fred Wilpon, will come up with the money is now the big question. Here’s MAD with the big answers…
Barry Bonds Safe at Home — Again
Steroid King Barry Bonds has added yet another milestone to the several Major League Baseball records he acquired from swelling his muscles through doping. (His head, we think, has always been that big.) This time, it’s escaping actual years in the slammer from his Obstruction of Justice conviction, and instead having to suffer through a full 30 DAYS of house arrest in his palatial estate in Beverly Hills. (Hope he has cable!) Maybe they just didn’t have an orange jumpsuit in his abnormally large, juiced size.
From MAD #473, January 2007
Writer: Jacob Lambert
Artist: Mark Fredrickson
