As of right now, 56 percent of TedQuarters readers polled say “Meh” to the news that the Mets’ sale of part of the team to David Einhorn fell through. 43 percent say “Boo,” and 1 percent — possibly the troll lobby — say “Hurrah.” Of course, this site’s readership likely does not reflect an accurate cross-section of the Mets’ fanbase.

I suppose as an SNY employee I should feel more passionately about the news, but I voted for “Meh.”

By now, I’ve become so jaded to negative and/or confusing news about the team’s ownership situation that I find it difficult to muster up much emotion even upon the event of real, meaningful news. And based on what little I learned about the Wilpons’ legal and financial woes when they last came to the fore, I know better than to trust most media outlets to report on this stuff in any appropriately nuanced fashion.

But thinking about it more now, and seeing some of the fallout online, I probably should have voted “Boo.”

For one thing, Einhorn seems like a smart dude, the type I’d like having some say in the way my favorite baseball team is run. For another, the way I understood it when the team went up for partial sale in the first place, the Mets were looking for a partner to ensure they’d be able to continue operating like the huge-market team that they are. Whether they will without Einhorn remains to be seen, but fans now lack the confidence that would have come with a rich man unencumbered by lawsuits contributing cash to the club.

Mostly, though, I say “boo” because the news means more incessant, mostly uninformed discussion of broad business proceedings that fail to interest me.

I like baseball. Sorry if that sounds willfully ignorant, but it’s the case. I’d like to know that the baseball team I root for is operating optimally and unburdened by its owners’ murky financial situation, then fret over the players the team’s front office chooses to put on the field without worrying about the way the club’s liquidity affects those choices. And I know that it’s all part of the same big picture, and that all teams are in so many ways impacted by the realities of a rich-people world distinct from my own. I get that.

But when the– Hey, the Mets got two guys!