When worlds collide

SPORTING GOODS

Fred Wilpon's association with dirtbag Bernie Madoff continues to plague him.

The Mets will travel more miles by bus this spring than any other team in baseball, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of each team's schedule. Based on estimated driving distances between ballparks, including split-squad games, the Mets will log roughly 2,752 miles as they schlep around the Sunshine State.

While the situation is caused by a number of factors, the billion dollars the Wilpons may be liable for must play into this cost-cutting measure.

Next Saturday marks the two-year anniversary of Madoff's confession in a Manhattan courtroom to creating a Ponzi scheme. We now know how Mets' players and coaches will be commemorating it.