OT: Mets fans, rejoice!

[Rico444]

Mets in Talks to Sell 80% of Team to Investor Steve Cohen

The owners of the New York Mets are in talks to sell up to 80% of the Major League Baseball team to billionaire Steve Cohen, who is already an investor in the club, according to person familiar with the matter.

www.bloomberg.com

We could actually have an owner that....spends money?

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

Now all you needs is Dolan to step down (too bad the Knicks franchise is still so profitable for him)

 

[sledog]

Steve is not going to $pend on BS.

 

[Psolo12]

Too bad they went after Marisnick instead of getting an actual center fielder for this season

 

[Chuck]

Better to have an owner that did the securities cheating than owners that got cheated.

 

[Caronimo]

Too bad they went after Marisnick instead of getting an actual center fielder for this season

They love their 4th/ 5th outfielders

 

[ZenConn]

I thought OP was referring to Zach Wheeler signing with their division rivals.

 

[navery12]

Steve is not going to $pend on BS.

Certainly not one to waste his money

 

[TheChamps990411]

You still have the Shillpons still running the baseball operations for the next 5 years sooooo yeah. Doesnt mean jack right now.

 

[Kajik]

They will be spending other people's money,which they were good at,for the next 5yrs

 

[Fan4ever]

The Wilpon's spent money when it was coming from Madoff:

- Bobby Bo !!!!
- Jason Bay
- Cespedes
- Jed Lowrie (ex-Madoff) but still didn't play
- Cano
- etc.

They just have the most piss poor judgement (lack of) talent (Cao, Diaz...come on!!!) in the league and absolutely no idea how to develop talent. So make an agent your GM...come on! They make a consecutive error of hiring a rookie manager in NYC...2x in a row...come on!!, they now deserve disaster. Especially if Beltran is subject to punishment for the Astros fiasco. That's what they deserve for lack of diligence and thoroughness.

All this and I still feel I am a mutz fan!

 

[imno1]

Let's hope we sign Gerrit Cole.

Oh wait this isn't the Yankees thread?

 

[8893]

Certainly not one to waste his money

The Pointing Man played as many games as Cespedes and Bonilla combined last season. And only nine fewer than Lowrie.

He’s a steal.

 

[J-dog]

You still have the Shillpons still running the baseball operations for the next 5 years sooooo yeah. Doesnt mean jack right now.

While Fred & Jeffy will retain their titles for 5 years, they will be powerless once the deal is approved... Cohen isn’t forking over $2.6B to watch those 2 clowns continue to stumble & bumble their way to mediocrity...

Ding, Dong the Wilpon’s are gone!!!

LGM!!!!!!!!!

 

[TheChamps990411]

While Fred & Jeffy will retain their titles for 5 years, they will be powerless once the deal is approved... Cohen isn’t forking over $2.6B to watch those 2 clowns continue to stumble & bumble their way to mediocrity...

Ding, Dong the Wilpon’s are gone!!!

LGM!!!!!!!!!

Don't give me hope brother Im in a fragile mental state when it comes to my Mets.

 

[J-dog]

Don't give me hope brother Im in a fragile mental state when it comes to my Mets.

I know that frustration all too well... The Mets, for the most part, have always been saddled with ownership who operated like a small market franchise while watching the cross-town Yankees do whatever it took...

The met ownership seem to always be hoping for that perfect storm, even when a couple of off-season moves can make the difference, they seemed to always come up short... Last year a good bullpen would have won them the division; so what are their plans this off-season to remedy that? Sign some unproven jag’s to minor league contracts & hope they catch lighting in a bottle, while we get to enjoy 4 more years of Robinson Cano (thx Brodie - money well spent)...

This will all change in short order with Steve Cohen at the helm - A guy who isn’t relying on the Mets as a primary revenue stream... A life-long Mets fan... A ga-billionaire...

Can’t happen soon enough...

LGM!!!

 

[Rico444]

The Pointing Man played as many games as Cespedes and Bonilla combined last season. And only nine fewer than Lowrie.

He’s a steal.

Hansel Robles actually played in 71 games last year.

 

[TheDoggPound]

The Wilpon's spent money when it was coming from Madoff:

- Bobby Bo !!!!
- Jason Bay
- Cespedes
- Jed Lowrie (ex-Madoff) but still didn't play
- Cano
- etc.

They just have the most piss poor judgement (lack of) talent (Cao, Diaz...come on!!!) in the league and absolutely no idea how to develop talent. So make an agent your GM...come on! They make a consecutive error of hiring a rookie manager in NYC...2x in a row...come on!!, they now deserve disaster. Especially if Beltran is subject to punishment for the Astros fiasco. That's what they deserve for lack of diligence and thoroughness.

All this and I still feel I am a mutz fan!

Jed Lowrie? Lol he was like 2/20m...

How about Carlos Beltran, Pedro Martinez...

 

[lavuuk153]

LFGM

 

[8893]

Fans Didn’t Like the Way Jeff Wilpon Ran the Mets. Neither Did Some of His Relatives. (Published 2019)

The Wilpons had limited successes after becoming majority owners of the Mets in 2002. But the team’s dysfunction was mirrored by the family discord that ultimately forced a sale.

www.nytimes.com

tl;dr: Jeff Wilpon ruined the Mets and his cousins forced the sale so he couldn’t further depreciate the family’s most valuable asset.