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It’s fairly protected to say that nobody had an X spat between Barstool Sports activities founder and New York Mets proprietor Steve Cohen on their Wednesday in sports activities bingo card.
Boston native Portnoy has made a profession from providing up daring opinions about any and all sports activities. He additionally typically has nothing good to say about New York groups and is at all times keen to take photographs at these franchises. Nonetheless, this week, as a substitute of going straight after a membership from Gotham, he focused one in every of their homeowners.
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On Wednesday, Bloomberg launched particulars on the highest-earning hedge fund managers for 2025. And on the high of the listing was NY Mets boss Steve Cohen, who made one other $3.4 billion final yr. That information clearly bothered Portnoy, and he noticed match to supply some sudden commentary on the information.
“I believe I’ve an answer for [New York City Mayor Zohran] Mandani. Tax Wall Road individuals like Steve Cohen, who constructed their fortunes simply on Wall Road, 90%. That’s not actual work to start with,” Portnoy wrote in a submit on X.
Portnoy’s remark is said to Mamdani’s aim of chopping the town’s deficit by rising taxes for a few of the wealthiest New Yorkers
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Surprisingly, Cohen — a frequent X consumer — occurred to see the submit and had a response. “I like that concept, what a genius,” the NY Mets boss wrote.
After all, the co-host of FS1’s Wake Up Barstool was not going to go away quietly and determined to take a shot at one thing that also stings NY Mets followers, and that’s dropping homegrown star Pete Alonso in free company to the Baltimore Orioles within the offseason.
“I’ll inform you this, Stevie. 1. I might out-trade you if I had your capital to begin, and #2 if I had your cash, this man would 100% nonetheless be in a Mets uniform,” Portnoy wrote.
The person reportedly price $23 billion has not but responded to the follow-up from the Michigan fan and alum. Both approach, nobody anticipated a Portnoy and Cohen X beef to interrupt out this week.
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