Whether or not you agree with the Mets actions in this case, I think it's ridiculous to criticize the Wilpons' loyalty to the Mets. If their loyalty really remained with the Dodgers, they could have easily sold the Mets a few years ago and bought the Dodgers when Fox was practically begging for someone to take it, lived in sunny LA where the winters are warmer and the summers cooler, and have an easier-to-appease fan-base. Instead they continued to pour money into our Mets, which is why the Dodgers got stuck with cheap, not AS rich, Frank McCourt. They have financed a team with perennially one of the highest payrolls in the game, and annually lose money on the team.
That said, money can't buy taste, and the Mets have been left with something undeniably bland. Between a lack of Mets memorabilia, the world's most uninspiring inaugural season badge, and the plans to wash out Doc's signature at the club, we as fans are starving for ANYTHING that is uniquely Mets. While Shea was a __hole, Shea was OUR __hole. While Citifield is, by all accounts, a great place to catch a game, we as fans need more than refurbished apple to make it feel like ours (and with the tax money that went into it, I feel like taxpayers DO deserve some say). The thing is, while very cool, former players signing the wall of the club is not the kind of memories we need. No matter how much you want to deny it, it's an invitation for more graffiti. I suppose that with enough security, you could keep most of it away, but all it takes is one swipe of the Sharpie (perhaps a drunk Phillies fan) and a cool piece of Mets history is turned into nothing more than defacement of our homefield.
The Wilpons should not succumb to the will of the fans here, but should take note of the backlash caused by this action as a message that they have come up short in their efforts to celebrate the history of this great franchise and they should address it without delay.