WGB #38: Ding-Dong, The Deal Is Dead

Mets Podcast - We Gotta Believe

Barstool Sports

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Cuncel the acquisition and Cuncel the Cohen. According to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, the deal is dead. We went from our highest of highs to lowest of lows and it's all thanks to that slimy weasel, Jeff Wilpon. Sources say that at the last minute, Jeff asked to extend his 5-years of team control, wanted (basically) a life-time job in senior management, demanded a raise as COO and requested use of the team's private jet. You can't make this shit up.

What else can we say besides this is exactly what we have come to expect from the silver-spooned Wilpon. The guy has been handed everything his entire life and on the one-yard line- staring down a $2.6 BILLION deal, he just couldn't let go.

Well folks, Stevie Cohen don't play that. He told little Wilpon to kick rocks and has left our team and our hearts in shambles.

When news first broke of the sale we praised Tiki for dropping the bomb, but now it looks as if he jumped the gun. Jeff's ego just couldn't stand people thinking that he got raked over the coals. He couldn't stand Mets fans naming Cohen "the savior" of the franchise and he responded by doing what he does best, ruining our lives.

So we are back in the pit of misery, looking for any lifeline we can grab a hold of. We're out on ownership, but we aren't out on this team.

We'll still be doing Barstool at the Ballpark and we're WEAPONIZING Citi Field. We are looking for our Man of Mayhem. The guy or girl in the stands to lead the charge and chant in one unified voice, "Sell The Team!" If you think that's you, DM us on @GottaBelievePod on Twitter, @WeGottaBelieve on Instagram or go to BarstoolSports.com/askthemets and tell us why you deserve to be the one to bring down the Wilpons.

We're all in this together and we gotta believe that we can get this thing done!!

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0:00.0	Hey, we got to believe listeners. You can find us every Monday and Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad free on Amazon Music. Here we are because this is as catastrophic as it gets. I'll be honest, I was hoping to continue to ride the wave of being the insiders on this one.
0:23.1	I was hoping we could kind of work our source for some more behind the scenes info
0:27.6	and continue to relay it to the fans.
0:30.2	But alas, there is no more insider track because Rob Manfred has come out and said,
0:35.7	we don't believe there's going to be any sale of any sort.
0:38.5	And so the people who are holding out hope that this was just negotiating or posturing
0:42.9	and that there was some life to the deal,
0:46.5	you're an idiot for continuing to have hope.
0:48.4	It's dead as a door now.
0:50.4	Our original source, who, like we said, on the last podcast was pretty close to the situation
0:56.2	said that there has been no change uh as far as he knows there's been no sign of resuming
1:01.9	any work or talk and so now with the league speaking and the details that continue to leak out
1:08.7	it's consul to acquisition console console to leak out, it's console. Consul to acquisition.
1:12.7	Consul to Cohen.
1:14.2	Stevie's out.
1:15.1	And if you're judging by the details that we heard, I absolutely cannot fucking blame him.
1:21.4	There was a split second, Clem, where I was like, who knows?
1:24.6	Maybe Cohen was being ridiculous or asking for too much and maybe
1:28.9	he's as much to blame. And the things we're hearing, nope, it's exactly what you'd expect.
1:35.3	It's Jeff fucking Willpon being a weasel and an idiot and an unrealistic bitch boy and
1:42.6	botching this whole thing with ridiculous demands.
1:45.6	It's crazy too because like I know the daily news last I reported it and they're like, Fred
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