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ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

41Forever Apr 20 2020 08:01 PM

[url] https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/alex-rodriguez-jennifer-lopez-mets-1234585417/ The comparisons to DFJ and the Marlins are not comforting.

Johnny Lunchbucket Apr 21 2020 05:21 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

You gotta admit, as a final fuckoff to the Wilpons, it'd be kinda funny. I guess Piazza would be the wealthiest ex-Met and he doesn't want to buy the Mets. MLB also turned down his dad when he tried to buy the Marlins

Edgy MD Apr 21 2020 09:10 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

It'd be funny ... for about a day.

Johnny Lunchbucket Apr 21 2020 09:18 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

As I've said in the past I admire Arod's almost childlike enthusiasm for baseball. He is a baseball fan not just a baseball player. Unfortunately he possesses no common sense either and is the kinda guy who screws up the very things he loves.

Fman99 Apr 21 2020 09:26 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

How could they possibly fuck it up as badly as the Wilpons?

Edgy MD Apr 21 2020 09:30 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

A Trumpian man-child who believes his own bullshit, with a desperate need for affection, and beyond that, redemption — plus his lifelong-Yankee-fan, maneating wife. Both are nouveau-riche, publicity hungry, and desperate to stay relevant past their sell-by dates. I can think of a thousand ways they could fuck things up worse.

Fman99 Apr 21 2020 09:34 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Yabbut, she has a big juicy hiney.

Edgy MD Apr 21 2020 09:44 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

I understand. And you're right in thinking that making billion dollar decisions based on such attributes almost always works out well. But somehow I still have my doubts. I can't quite put my finger on why.

Frayed Knot Apr 21 2020 12:56 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

And keep in mind that, like Jeter, they'd be just the names in this deal rather than the majority owners. Who else would be part of the group will be a YUGE factor yet still TBD. The real key for owners is to hire smart people to run the org and trust them to do a good job: owners own; managers manage; players play; lather, rinse, repeat. The downside to this duo is the impression that they'd be too publicity hungry not to want to meddle and steer the ship themselves: him on the field, her off of it. I have no doubt ARod will be enthusiastic about this ... whether he'll be any good at it is a whole 'nother question.

Frayed Knot Apr 21 2020 01:25 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

More on the J-Rod front -- Thorton McEnery, NY Post - J-Rod is assembling an ownership group of four-to five-people that could pay up front for the entire franchise. But insiders also point out that the Wilpon family, which has been trying to sell the team for months, might have to accept a low offer thanks to the financial impact of the pandemic. “He's got a group with some real names,” one source familiar with the J-Rod bid told The Post. “Alex is gonna get this because of COVID. It's gonna fall in his lap.” - Multiple sources say that the key money player in the arrangement being put together by investment bankers at JPMorgan would appear to be Miami billionaire Jorge Mas, who tried to buy the Miami Marlins in 2017 but lost out to a group fronted by Derek Jeter. Forbes has estimated Mas' net worth at just over $1 billion. “I can see Mas being A-Rod's money guy here,” said one source familiar with the Miami power player. “He and Alex went to the same high school and [both have a connection with the University of Miami]. They're birds of a feather.” - A motivated seller has a problem right now,” a source close to the Wilpons told The Post. “I think the Wilpons are motivated sellers.” With the season indefinitely postponed by the pandemic, the Mets are pulling in almost no revenue from tickets or in-stadium sales, and MLB has decreed that all franchises must meet their payroll obligations to players. The Wilpons have had cashflow problems for years, creating debts that would turn toxic if this season were even cut in half. - “The league wants to see someone with liquidity,” one source familiar with the league said. “They want someone with a lot of cash to run the Mets and avoid the second coming of the Wilpons. To be frank, they want Steve Cohen to come back to the table.” Sources close to Cohen declined to comment on his current interest in buying his childhood team, but sources close to the Wilpons made it clear that he is a longshot. “They'd rather sell to someone for less money than sell to Steve Cohen,” one Mets insider said. “There is so much bad blood there.”

G-Fafif Apr 21 2020 01:32 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

The halftime shows are gonna be lit.

Edgy MD Apr 21 2020 01:42 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Cohen played for the Mets as a child? I agree that a Cohen return is a more likely scenario that an Alex Rodriguez purchase — not that MLB wouldn't be intrigued by a pair of would-be Latino co-owners.

Ceetar Apr 21 2020 01:50 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Now is probably the valley for the Wilpons, and maybe peak time for it to "drop in A-Rod's lap" if that's a thing that can happen. It seems fairly unlikely that 2021 is going to be canceled, at worst it'd be empty stadium stuff (or really who knows, we all die, etc). Once the uncertainty is settled, franchises are probably back to increasing value faster than you can count it.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 21 2020 01:53 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Forbes has estimated Mas' net worth at just over $1 billion. Chump change! (Only in this particular context, of course.) I want someone with much deeper pockets than that. I read recently how Jeff Bezos' wife got $38 billion in her divorce settlement. My first thought was that if I came into that much, I'd make the Wilpons an offer they can't refuse and put aside enough money to keep the team well-funded for decades. And then I'd figure out what kinds of philanthropic things to do with the rest of the money. (Maybe we can reach out to Mrs. Bezos? Who wants to take the lead on this?)

metsmarathon Apr 21 2020 02:03 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

honestly, if arod puts his name on this thing, do you really think he'd be okay with floundering? image and perception seem to be important to the man. does that mean he'll be good at running a team? no. but it should mean that he wouldn't be content with middling results that only succeed in balancing the (pretend) budget. at least that's the hope. i feel like, even if they failed as owners, they'd at least be intersting about it, as opposed to boring and cheap and boringly cheaply incompetent.

Johnny Lunchbucket Apr 21 2020 02:19 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Heyman says Mas was approached by Arod but declined to get in on it.

Frayed Knot Apr 21 2020 03:24 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

=metsmarathon post_id=35595 time=1587499390 user_id=83] honestly, if arod puts his name on this thing, do you really think he'd be okay with floundering? image and perception seem to be important to the man.

Maybe, but deciding to do something and succeeding at it are two different things. And seeing poor results as a blow to your personal image could lead to chasing stupid

moves in a desperate attempt to make up for the last series of stupid moves.

Dallas's Jerry Jones has all the image & ego you'd want, plus he has THE glamour franchise in his league and reportedly the most valuable in all North American sports ...

yet that image & ego are too big for him to relinquish any sort of control over the team and thus the Cowboys haven't reached that sport's version of its final four in

26 years (and that's with nearly 40% of the teams making the playoffs each year plus pansy-ass four team divisions). To put that into perspective, in baseball only

the Pirates have a longer streak (two years longer) of not getting to a League/Conference final. Shit, THE KNICKS have been to THREE conference finals AND

two NBA finals in the time the 'Boys have been to that one semi (which they lost).









Y'know what Steve Cohen should do: Call Fred and say; 'Remember that $2.6 billion? ... well now it's $2 billion even and I'll sign the papers tomorrow.

But if you want to wait the offer next month becomes $1.9, and the month after it's $1.8. Or you can continue to hemorrhage money while waiting for

something better, but I think you can sense the pattern going on here.'

LWFS Apr 21 2020 03:36 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Isn't having an owner who's overly-concerned with public image (but, simultaneously, frightfully inept at the management thereof) kind of a familiar problem for us?

41Forever Apr 21 2020 03:44 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

I don't wanna see Mt. Met turned into a centaur. https://chumley.barstoolsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/09/Screen-Shot-2019-04-09-at-3.20.49-PM-1024x924.png>

Edgy MD Apr 21 2020 09:24 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

=metsmarathon post_id=35595 time=1587499390 user_id=83] honestly, if arod puts his name on this thing, do you really think he'd be okay with floundering? image and perception seem to be important to the man.

It's important for all these guys. I don't think any of them like to lose, but each win means a loss for somebody else.

metsmarathon Apr 21 2020 09:32 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

maybe it would just be a delicious burn t all to the ground type of thing. where's my make the mets great again hat?

Frayed Knot Apr 22 2020 05:15 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

The Post's Ken Davidoff gives a cautionary tale for the potential J-Rod ownership. In short pretty much what I said: Own, don't run. As evidence he cites Jeter, Derek as a case where excellence on the field hasn't (so far anyway) translated to the front office and also Johnson, Magic as a guy who, by his own admission, missed his celebrity life and various outside interests too much to spend the necessary time in the office and wound up walking out on running the team for which he was a legend within two years.

Centerfield Apr 22 2020 07:37 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

I'm still Team Cohen.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 22 2020 07:50 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Me too.

Vic Sage Apr 22 2020 08:17 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

i'm about the Wilpons as i am about Trump. I'd vote for a frog rather than the current moron-in-chief, and that's true for both the country and the Mets. And as Fman said... that hiney! And ARod will be able to get our hitters... um... beefed up! JROD for PREZ!

Lefty Specialist Apr 22 2020 09:35 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Celebrity aside, the deal that needs to be made here is for the Mets AND SNY, not just the Mets. That's how you really make money off this franchise once you buy it. J-Rod don't have those kinds of deep pockets. Cohen does. And from what I can tell he has a big hiney too, along with $13 billion or so.

Fman99 Apr 22 2020 09:49 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Edgy MD wrote: I understand. And you're right in thinking that making billion dollar decisions based on such attributes almost always works out well. But somehow I still have my doubts. I can't quite put my finger on why. So what you're saying is, you can't put your finger on the hiney. Sad for you.

Edgy MD Apr 22 2020 11:03 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Lefty Specialist wrote: Celebrity aside, the deal that needs to be made here is for the Mets AND SNY, not just the Mets. That's how you really make money off this franchise once you buy it. J-Rod don't have those kinds of deep pockets. Cohen does. And from what I can tell he has a big hiney too, along with $13 billion or so. Yes, but there's the backdoor way. Put together a team of famous dudes that the league would be happy to associate with. They tap into their personal wealth a bit, but largely use financing and hidden partners to pay for the bulk of the team. That was the Kranepool proposal and that was basically the Jeter strategy and why his group had to debut on an austerity budget.

Frayed Knot Apr 22 2020 11:14 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Yeah, Jeter put up almost nothing out of his own pocket and will get paid enough over the first few years to essentially make back the meager amount he did put in. Same as how GWB wasn't the money man w/the Rangers either - at least not on the way in. On the way out it was a different story. It's the old 'In Living Color' motto: How to make mo' money without using any of yo' money. Most celeb bids fail, either because they can't round up enough outside money or because some other group out-monies them to the punch. Jeter's win was Jeb Bush's loss. And sometimes the group that loses winds up glad they did and verse vica.

HahnSolo Apr 22 2020 12:10 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

I don't wanna see Mt. Met turned into a centaur. https://chumley.barstoolsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/09/Screen-Shot-2019-04-09-at-3.20.49-PM-1024x924.png> JRod will replace the 42 in the rotunda with this.

Frayed Knot Apr 22 2020 01:27 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

=HahnSolo post_id=35690 time=1587579037 user_id=63]JRod will replace the 42 in the rotunda with this.

Now that's funny!

Or maybe it's also true which would make it a bit less funny.

Frayed Knot May 07 2020 03:35 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

NYPost -- "According to multiple sources, Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez are no longer interested in buying the Mets. That decision was reached after negotiations with potential partners failed to materialize and it became clear that the Wilpons' reluctance to part with SNY makes it almost impossible for anyone without many billions of dollars to afford owning the team." https://nypost.com/2020/05/07/alex-rodriguez-jennifer-lopez-end-their-quest-to-buy-the-mets/

Benjamin Grimm May 07 2020 04:04 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Good. I only want someone with "many billions of dollars"

Frayed Knot May 29 2020 06:42 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

I'm not sure if we should consider this good news or not The fact that 'JRod' are apparently interested in getting back in isn't by itself a downer, but some of the 'plans' sound maybe like more glitz and glamour than bats and balls ... but of course most of that is still speculation and there's no specific reason that it couldn't be both. Various bits of tid from the piece by Thorton McEnery who has been covering this story all along: - Multiple sources close to the situation tell The Post that Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez are now working closely with very senior bankers at JPMorgan Chase on a new bid to buy the Mets after their initial approach failed to come together earlier this month. - A strong signal of [the Wilpons'] desperation [to sell] is the inclusion of SNY, the Mets' television network, in a new deal. As The Post has reported, the Mets operate at a major loss, relying on TV revenues to bridge the gap. That makes owning the team without the network prohibitive. People close to the deal now say that the Wilpons are willing to part with enough of SNY to make a deal work but are insistent on keeping at least a slice of the network for themselves ... “Someone has shown the Wilpons the light here,” one person close to the deal said. “Some heavy hitters are getting involved here and it seems Fred and Jeff are listening. - While no specific names have emerged regarding who will be staking J-Rod's latest Mets bid, Chase Private Banking boasts a deep roster of billionaires with whom the bank can play matchmaker. Three people close to the situation confirm that the bank has made real progress for its clients. “The money is there,” one said. “A bid is coming.”

Benjamin Grimm May 29 2020 07:16 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Has anyone explained why the Mets operate at "a major loss"? It's not still the Madoff thing. And it's not the Bobby Bonilla thing.

kcmets May 29 2020 07:27 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Has anyone explained why the Mets operate at "a major loss"? Not only why but 'how' after all these years? Besides the MLB bailout that was made public and I guess was repaid, how are all these years of supposed deficits off-set each yearif they're always 'broke.' They can't print money like congress can.

MFS62 May 29 2020 08:01 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

IRRC, according to the IRS ruling that forced the Wrigley family to sell the Cubs, if a sports team loses money for seven consecutive years, it is considered a "hobby" and losses cannot be taken to offset profits from another holding (e.g.- SNY or real estate holdings). I'm not sure when their last (accounting-wise) profitable Mets year was, but it seems they've been saying they've been losing money for a long time. Its time to answer for [CROSSOUT]Santino[/CROSSOUT] Madoff, [CROSSOUT]Paulie[/CROSSOUT] Freddy. Later

Frayed Knot May 29 2020 08:12 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Well one theory is that you intentionally skew the rights fees that the team gets for televising their games which shifts potential profit from the team to the station even as the owners of both are at least partially the same. Other factors include debt service for the building of a stadium and even going back to the buying out of Doubleday and old Cablevision contracts; the paying back of loans that were needed when the new stadium hit at the same time as a major recession so that the anticipated windfall wasn't nearly as high as expected; the Madoff disaster both when lots of on-paper wealth disappeared and again when they were caught by surprise at the aggressiveness of the 'spread the pain' actions to claw back past monies that they had previously realized. If one keeps borrowing against the value of the franchise to finance various things you can wind up digging yourself a hole so deep that it's tough to ever climb out since you're forever paying for last year's projects with next year's money. And paying for things with borrowed money is also an expensive way to run things.

Edgy MD May 29 2020 08:39 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Has anyone explained why the Mets operate at "a major loss"? It's not still the Madoff thing. And it's not the Bobby Bonilla thing. They carry a lot of debt that they continually have to service. And even apart from the Madoff disaster, it's still quite easy to bank on revenue that doesn't materialize. Like any revenue from 2020, for instance.

MFS62 May 29 2020 08:43 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Frayed Knot wrote: since you're forever paying for last year's projects with next year's money. So, in other words, a Ponzi scheme. The Wilpons know what those are, and they are now running one themselves, but the "pigeons" are their lenders and, maybe, the IRS. Lock them up! Lock them up! Later

Edgy MD May 29 2020 08:55 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

That's not really what a ponzi scheme is.

MFS62 May 29 2020 09:16 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets? Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 30 2020 04:42 AM

Edgy MD wrote: That's not really what a ponzi scheme is. Close enough: Substitute"Ticket buyers" for "investors" fraudulent investment operations that pay out returns to investors from money paid in by subsequent investors, rather than from any actual profit earned from the operation of a business. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ponzi_schemes Later

Ceetar May 29 2020 10:01 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Has anyone explained why the Mets operate at "a major loss"? It's not still the Madoff thing. And it's not the Bobby Bonilla thing. short answer: "it's a lie." longer answer: creative accounting, mostly. Counting loans against the stadium as deficit, while not counting name rights as revenue, that sort of thing. Only a direct 'tickets sold against payroll' type calculation. It's how you cry poor and beg players to take pay cuts.

Lefty Specialist May 30 2020 10:12 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

short answer: "it's a lie." longer answer: creative accounting, mostly. Counting loans against the stadium as deficit, while not counting name rights as revenue, that sort of thing. Only a direct 'tickets sold against payroll' type calculation. It's how you cry poor and beg players to take pay cuts. This. The Mets count the money they pay SNY against the team revenue. Even though it's going into the same pocket. It's also why they desperately want to hang on to SNY.

Frayed Knot May 30 2020 01:31 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Edgy MD wrote: That's not really what a ponzi scheme is. Close enough: Substitute"Ticket buyers" for "investors" No, it's not even close to being close to being a Ponzi scheme. fraudulent investment operations that pay out returns to investors from money paid in by subsequent investors, rather than from any actual profit earned from the operation of a business. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ponzi_schemes.

Thanks for the definition. Now tell us how this applies to how the Wilpons run the Mets.

Which investors have they defrauded? Have they sold shares which add up to more than 100% of the team? How are they able to do this while still maintain majority control?

And do their various partners really not know that there are other secret partners who own the same shares of the team that they do?

MFS62 May 30 2020 01:57 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Maybe not Ponzi per se, but still improper. Maybe just good old fashioned robbing Peter to pay Paul. I feel they defrauded past years' ticket purchasers because they did not want to make a profit, so they did not make sound baseball decisions to build a winner. Then they used those losses to offset profits from their other businesses in order to reduce their taxes. So they intentionally did not make moves the owner of a sole business would have made to produce a contending team to make each of those prior years profitable. Then they used revenue from next year ticket purchases to make just enough to keep the loss engine moving year to year. I'm neither an accountant nor a lawyer, but I feel it violates the spirit of the law if not the letter of the law. Later

Edgy MD May 30 2020 11:35 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

I'm not sure what pissed me off most about the Wilpons — when they bled me dry with a romance scam or when they sent me that e-mail from Nigeria telling me that somebody with the same last name as me died and they wanted to wire me the money he left behind.

MFS62 May 31 2020 06:30 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Edgy MD wrote: I'm not sure what pissed me off most about the Wilpons — when they bled me dry with a romance scam or when they sent me that e-mail from Nigeria telling me that somebody with the same last name as me died and they wanted to wire me the money he left behind. And I'm still wondering about Fred's whereabouts when JFK was shot. He looks like descriptions I've read about the gunman on the grassy knoll. Later

Edgy MD May 31 2020 06:41 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

This may not get anywhere.

kcmets May 31 2020 07:03 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Edgy MD wrote: This may not get anywhere. Gosh, I hope not. J-lo, she's the gal-celeb with the grand caboose but not a Kardashian right? I get confused sometimes. #lgm #ygb #ymdyf

dgwphotography May 31 2020 08:14 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Lefty Specialist wrote: short answer: "it's a lie." longer answer: creative accounting, mostly. Counting loans against the stadium as deficit, while not counting name rights as revenue, that sort of thing. Only a direct 'tickets sold against payroll' type calculation. It's how you cry poor and beg players to take pay cuts. This. The Mets count the money they pay SNY against the team revenue. Even though it's going into the same pocket. It's also why they desperately want to hang on to SNY. Actually, I think SNY pays the Mets for the rights to broadcast the games. IIRC, the rights fees SNY pays is far below market value, so the Mets can claim a loss. Why do they do this? MLB revenue is shared, and SNY revenue is not.

Edgy MD May 31 2020 09:14 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Yeah, why would the Mets pay SNY?

kcmets May 31 2020 09:28 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

All the big market teams do this though, no? The Sawx own part of NESN with either the Bruins or Celtics and of course we know what the Y stands for in YES.

MFS62 Aug 17 2020 03:29 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

This story says that Wilpon hates Cohen and it looks like the A-Rod has the inside track on the sale of the team: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2905101-report-jeff-wilpon-hates-steve-cohen-wants-alex-rodriguez-group-to-buy-mets Later

ashie62 Aug 17 2020 04:01 PM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Alex Rodriguez has developed an excellent business mind over the years. Cohen is basically a d-bag who by a court ruling cannot put his name on any financial firms in the industry, just sayin...

batmagadanleadoff Aug 18 2020 10:44 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

This story says that Wilpon hates Cohen and it looks like the A-Rod has the inside track on the sale of the team: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2905101-report-jeff-wilpon-hates-steve-cohen-wants-alex-rodriguez-group-to-buy-mets Later Cindy Adams, who's still alive, sez differently: [FIMG=77]https://pagesix.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2013/08/cindy-adams.png?w=76&h=69&crop=1[/FIMG] Bidding's down to billionaire Steve Cohen from Great Neck, LI (likely); the duo Josh Harris and David Blitzer, who own basketball's 76ers and hockey's Devils (less likely); and a group of investors fronted by A-Rod and J.Lo (not a chance). J.Lo should stick to her NBC reality show “World of Dance,” which just wrapped its fourth season. https://pagesix.com/2020/08/17/mets-owners-to-keep-a-piece-of-the-team/ Only in New York, kids. Only in New York.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 18 2020 10:46 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

I've read that final bids are due on August 31. Have we heard a timetable for when a decision might be made?

MFS62 Aug 18 2020 10:55 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I've read that final bids are due on August 31. Have we heard a timetable for when a decision might be made? As soon as it is sure that the check will clear? Probably as soon as the other owners vote their approval of the new owner(s). (If that hasn't already been done through the vetting process) Later

TransMonk Apr 15 2021 07:17 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

Man, I feel like we dodged a big bullet on this one. https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1382674054256193538

Ceetar Apr 15 2021 07:50 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

I think Alex likes baseball a lot more than Steve though. Maybe 'friend' owners is a lot better than lover owners.

Edgy MD Apr 15 2021 07:55 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

We don't have to be one or the other. But really, it's not like anyone should be surprised to learn that Rodriguez can be mercurial, perfidious, and addicted to attention.

Centerfield Apr 15 2021 08:37 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

I never understood the Alex Rodriguez redemption. I've had the misfortune of listening to him as a broadcaster and didn't like anything he had to say. I also don't understand the Jeter vs. A-Rod debate. A smart person should come to the conclusion that they both suck.

Ceetar Apr 15 2021 08:41 AM Re: ARod, J-Lo trying to buy the Mets?

I mean, I never understood A-Rod's fall from grace? He's one of the best the game's ever seen, he at least thinks about baseball (the sport, not the business) and likes it, which admittedly is a low bar. Cohen has been seemingly oblivious to things that have gone on here in the past few years and his whole schtick feels like a novelty play thing, where WE are the play things. I guess what I'm saying is..A-Rod for commissioner?