Dave Portnoy and NY Mets Owner Clash in Random X Spat

Dave Portnoy and NY Mets Owner Clash in Random X Spat

It’s fairly protected to say that nobody had an X spat between Barstool Sports 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 also often has nothing good to say about New York groups and is always prepared to take pictures at those franchises. However, this week, instead of going straight after a club from Gotham, he focused one in all their house owners.

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On Wednesday, Bloomberg launched particulars on the highest-earning hedge fund managers for 2025. And at the top of the checklist was NY Mets boss Steve Cohen, who made another $3.4 billion last yr. That news clearly bothered Portnoy, and he noticed match to supply some surprising commentary on the news.

“I think I have a solution for [New York City Mayor Zohran] Mandani. Tax Wall Street people like Steve Cohen, who built their fortunes just on Wall Street, 90%. That’s not real work to begin with,” Portnoy wrote in a submit on X.

Portnoy’s remark is expounded to Mamdani’s objective of slicing the metropolis’s deficit by growing taxes for some 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 love that idea, what a genius,” the NY Mets boss wrote.

Of course, 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 still stings NY Mets followers, and that is shedding homegrown star Pete Alonso in free company to the Baltimore Orioles in the offseason.

“I’ll tell you this, Stevie. 1. I would out-trade you if I had your capital to start, and #2 if I had your money, this guy would 100% still be in a Mets uniform,” Portnoy wrote.

The man reportedly price $23 billion has not yet responded to the follow-up from the Michigan fan and alum. Either approach, nobody anticipated a Portnoy and Cohen X beef to interrupt out this week.

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