204: Wall Street titan closes in on the Mets,whom he loves. Charles Gasparino, @CGasparino, @FoxBusiness
Image: Invitation to the "1st Annual Ball of the Magnolia Ball Club" of New York, c. 1843, depicting the Colonnade Hotel at the Elysian Fields and a group of men playing baseball: the earliest known image of grown men playing the game. Wall Street titan closes in on the Mets he loves. Charles Gasparino, @CGasparino, @FoxBusiness Charles Gasparino, Fox Business Network, in re: The New York Mets were for sale, then not, now are again. Alex Rodrigues, affianced to JLo, vs. Stve Cohen and vs. Sheldon Adelson, all bidding. Like M&A assets up for bid. Sheldon Adelson via David Paterson, who works for Shelly, looked into building a casino near there, [an unattractive locale]. Looking at 2023, when downstate NY may have casinos. Adelson says he’s not in the bidding for the Mets. . . . Money raised by J P Morgan; mysterious; “a lot of hat, not many cattle ARod had a falling-out with Jeff Wilpon. Look at how Wilpons bought out Nelson Doubleday; but their involvement with Madoff led to money being clawed back by financial groups. Cohen bid around $2 billion is in the lead. Harris and Blitzer have a strong hand, around $1.7 bil; ARod is number three. https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/cohen-bidding-2b-for-mets-franchise-and-2b-for-cable-network-gasparino