It’s hard to determine who had a greater impact on the Met’s 2011 season: Sandy Alderson, the newly-hired general manager, or Irving H. Picard, the trustee appointed by a federal judge to recoup money lost by victims of Bernard Madoff’s financial fraud. That’s because overshadowing whatever Alderson accomplished or tried to accomplish with the Mets on the field – changing the culture, changing the players – was the Sword of Damocles lawsuit seeking $1 billion f
