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none of the extended family is exactly scraping for meal money. they can wait another 6 months/year if Jeff tells them it's going to be as good or better. (team value pretty much only going to go up) Cohen's playing nice because he does still own 8% of the team. It's not like we'll never hear from him again. (where'd he get the second 4%!) Allen & Company are buddies. And baseball people. They did the Naming rights, and the first sale I think, perhaps some other things. Seems like they're probably serious. There's a chance that "first shot at purchase" was part of the deal of minority ownership, and it's possible someone has talked to the Wilpons about wanting in that isn't Cohen. That kind of makes sense right? Otherwise they'd probably have been like, "hey Hank Greenberg's son, find us a buyer" right from the beginning. So many they took a home run swing on selling and keeping some modicum of control, knowing they'd get 'open auction' if they struck out. Notice how the Mets were mostly mum about the deal actually being dead until Cohen said it was done officially? "Oh, he declined his right to first chance to purchase, ONWARD!" Oh, and that Bradley is there doesn't really mean anything except that they're long standing friends. He's a grunt, not an executive. He'd been interning there while playing baseball at UPenn. Nepotism.

now it's officially dead, with a statement from Cohen.I still don't know where he got the second 4% from, but anyway. The price is only going to go up the longer it takes, though Heyman seems to think they'll "auction" it off now which seems.... i dunno, doesn't jibe with the reports about why this deal fell through. You're not going to get the 5 year/5 payment sunsetting thing that way?

I think my representatives are all drunk personally.

Edgy MD wrote: I thought it was a representative of his saying he thinks he can hit his number. And clearly, the production comes from his representatives. I hate my representatives. I don't even think they have an A/V department. he was speaking on behalf of Yoenis though. "He feels that with the way the ball is .. etc etc that he can hit his number"

I believe I said that's what Jeff was planning when this first cropped up. That he envisioned it as 5 years of sunsetting where they switch to a 'board' of leaders instead of just him, but with the 'wink wink' that he'd still get to be on that board/lead that board. I mean, no one bothered to vet this out, but he would still be a minority owner I think. MLB's leaking that this was not the case, not that you have any reason to believe them (I saw something about Cohen dropping the price), but then we don't really have any reason to believe the Post account either. They're just negotiating in public.

I've heard one or two people hint that MLB doesn't particularly like Cohen and that it's not even 100% that they'd approve him. I assume they would, were the sale to happen, but something to think about I guess.

it's mostly negative media quotes and then switches to him saying he thinks he can hit his number this year. (52)

=Centerfield post_id=31179 time=1581005704 user_id=65] Imagine that in the end, the Wilpons get screwed by an evil, ruthless, take-no-prisoners hedge fund guy. And we're all rooting for him. Life is crazy.

fair, I guess you've got clicks (there were a dozen posts that were literally just aggregating the Mets no comment) and views so you're not bad at your job, but .. it's not so much that it's shaky anonymous sources, it's not the sources fault, the sources are often doing that intentionally, because these guys will just signal boost your message everywhere with roughly zero critical analysis. You could get a pedophile elected with reporters like this. Like, I don't recall seeing that the payments would be in 5 installments, which makes a ton of sense when coupled with a 5 year sunsetting rumor. The purchase isn't complete yet, that's why the Wilpons would still get to run things. That answers that question! It was a legitimate lingering question based on the rumors and leaks from December and now it's answered and I don't think I've seen anyone point that out.

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It's a negotiation. It'd be nice if 'reporters' reported that instead of editorializing. Cohen is open to returning to the bargaining table under terms more favorable to him, the Daily News reported. If you're a reporter and you wrote that the deal fell through, you're just bad at your job. We initially got the Wilpon-heavy terms, two months ago. No one reported that it was 'close to done' Now we get the Cohen side. That's literally how negotiations work!

And while we're at it, It's also pretty funny to cite the Einhorn nonsense as the same as this in some hugely disfunctional way. For one, there's no way the Wilpons are MORE up against the wall here than they were then. They own the asset, they can sell it however they deem fit. That's the rules. I don't get to walk into Samsung and be all "well the way you worded that advertisement really means you have to sell me that Galaxy S20 for $XX now" What happened with Einhorn? They didn't like the deal, they said 'seeya' and turned around and made a different deal. Who was that with again? Some Cohen guy. any relation you think?

it's been two months, it's absurd to think this was a surprise to Cohen.

BIG good-faith concession? haha.

I feel like we're in a damn loop. We don't need to rehash every conversation when someone thinks aloud about Pete, or NO DH, or whatever. Pete's an asshole and a cheater and all sorts of other things. End of his story.

=Gwreck post_id=31090 time=1580887618 user_id=56] They have won the division seven straight years and now added Mookie Betts. We added no hitters, and have Rick Porcello/Michael Wacha to replace Zack Wheeler.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I don't understand the question. What they acknowledged so far is that negotiations were taking place and that they've agreed not to say more while they continue. They wouldn't update until or unless those negotiations were complete. the rumor is that those negotiations are complete. i would think they'd be able to comment about that.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Or that Greenlight Capital guy. Mets probably are bound by NDLs and cannot comment. That's how multimillion deals get done, so I wouldn't interpret a lack of updates as a signal one way or another. Are they NDL to deny that they ever talked though? I have to imagine that "We're not selling to that guy" isn't something protected by non-disclosure. Especially given that I think they officially said they were discussing it, so it's already been disclosed?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Well, if it is in fact dead, I wouldn't be surprised if it was over the notion that the Wilpons would retain control for another five years. which was just as much rumor as this! We have no details! We're just being used! It was also pretty obvious things weren't going well when like, there were zero updates.

all about Frozen 2.

'Character Clause' means that it's okay to leave Jeter off. Means it's an opinion. Means .. .. means that this is just baseball's version of the Academy Awards and is basically just a self-serving way for writer's to have something to talk about in the offseason.

Last Active is for admins only it seems.

I wonder what residual effect remains? Like, did he learn anything about laying off by knowing that pitch was coming? And he still would've had to identify 'low' out of the hand. Also is the BB% jump any different than if he's just made a concerted effort to swing at 10% fewer pitches?

Edgy MD wrote: But we also know that the trashy thing wasn't the only way of conveying the read, right? 'know'? no. strongly suspect with lots of allegations from other players? sure. But like, then they're probably still doing it. Nothing they did in 2019 got flagged, so why not just keep at it? At least two people have look at that data and concluded that basically anything they gained was more than erased by all the times they failed to bang not because it was a fastball but because they didn't know.

=Centerfield post_id=30737 time=1580330959 user_id=65] Thanks! I think I'll try Guardians of the Galaxy next. I think that blue robot girl is sexy.