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With the MLB season entering the final weeks of the regular season, former Yankees manager Buck Showalter takes a swing at some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby. Q: How would you compare Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez as prospects? A: Derek had the ability to always dial up what the situation called for. If …
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Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez have not seen the dry ink on a deal that makes Steve Cohen the primary owner of the Mets. So, they refuse to surrender in their desire to purchase the club even at the eleventh hour. “It ain’t over until it is over,” Lopez told The Post. “We are New …
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Alex Rodriguez is fuming over losing the Mets to billionaire Steve Cohen and griping that the process was rigged, multiple sources tell The Post. Sources close to the former Yankees slugger say they lost the Queens team on Friday, Aug. 28 after the Mets’ banker — Steve Greenberg of Allen & Co. — reached out …
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Think of buying a sports team like purchasing art. It is an analogy offered to me by a few folks involved with Major League Baseball. The value is essentially a moving target, often fueled by rarity. If there are just two available Rembrandts, that is it, and it is not like he is going to …
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Cash won — for now. Steve Cohen once again has entered into exclusive negotiations to buy the Mets. He always had two advantages in this process: Motivation and money. He grew up a Mets fan and wanted this team. He already had it slip away once. The fact he won negotiating rights when the Wilpons …
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Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez wasted no time expressing their sadness in not getting to own the Mets. The group led by the engaged former Yankees star and the singer/actress announced they had pulled out of the bidding war to buy the franchise late Friday night, paving the way for hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen …
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For the second time in nine months, Steve Cohen is ready to buy the Mets. Multiple sources confirmed to The Post late Friday night that the hedge fund billionaire is in exclusive talks to buy the Mets in a deal that is rumored to be in the ballpark of $2.4 billion, a figure that would …
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Mets COO Jeff Wilpon is not involved in talks with suitors about selling the team after complicating a prior sale agreement with Steve Cohen, sources told The Post. “Jeff’s not been involved at all,” a source close to one of the bidding groups said. “Jeff has divorced himself from the sales process,” a second source …
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Steve Cohen is known for many things: Billionaire, hedge-fund trader and owner of a $1 billion art collection that features sculptures and paintings by the likes of Picasso and Jeff Koons. He may soon be something even more illustrious: Owner of the Mets. He’s up against the celebrity duo of J-Rod (Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer …
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Perhaps we expect better from ESPN because it’s a 24/7 sports network, the last place we’d think would wreck every sport it touches. Yet, here we are. Again, and still. To tune to ESPN to watch a live sports event is to be conditioned — air-conditioned — to anticipate a production that will challenge the …
With the MLB season entering the final weeks of the regular season, former Yankees manager Buck Showalter takes a swing at some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby. Q: How would you compare Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez as prospects? A: Derek had the ability to always dial up what the situation called for. If …
