Famed Yankees frenemies Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter, division-rival ownership/front office leaders, and only just a few years after their respective retirements from the field of play? It seems as outlandish to suggest as it is tantalizing to imagine. (More of this, please.) Then again, it didn’t seem particularly likely not long ago that A-Rod would be in a booth and that Jeter would be running the Marlins.
We’re still a long way from that … let’s call it fascinating … possibility. But we’ve now seen the first indication that A-Rod has designs on the game’s most interesting opportunity — the availability of one of the game’s two New York-based teams. Putting the offbeat all-time great in a prominent position with the Mets is all but guaranteed to produce heretofore unseen reams of backpage headline material.
According to Thornton McEnery of the New York Post, Rodriguez is “kicking the tires” on trying to spearhead a Mets bid. While he and spouse-to-be Jennifer Lopez are quite wealthy, even they wouldn’t have pockets deep enough to pull this off alone.
As one A-Rod-linked source puts it: “[Rodriguez] genuinely loves the Mets. He and J-Lo have talked about him buying a team ever since Jeter got the Marlins.” It’s certainly hard to imagine a better opening coming together; owning a MLB organization isn’t the sort of opportunity that’s available on demand.
Needless to say, there are quite a few potential obstacles to be cleared before we’ll be treated to a Wilpon-A-Rod transition. The rare shot to land a NYC-based pro sports franchise is naturally going to attract wide interest. And it won’t come cheap. Per the report, the existing ownership group is eyeing a deal in the realm of $3B — not including its ownership interest in SNY but also not coming with the hangover team control situation that seems to have scuttled the recently nixed talks with minority Mets owner Steve Cohen.
stansfield123
Oh, please, please please please. J-Lo and A-Rod owning the Mets. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaassssseeeeeeee, God. I ask for this ONE thing. I’ll never ask for anything again.
adamontheshore
I had the exact same reaction!
puigpower
LOL
The Human Toilet
LOL! I am totally down for that circus.
Sorry Mets Fans!
frankjovine
What you have now works for you? Keep holding on to 1986 🙂
uncle mike
Personally—- I not only think the purchase of the Mets wouldn’t just be good for the Mets—- it would be good for Jennifer Lopez, Alex Rodriguez and New York City. Not to mention the Current and future Mets players.
ABCD
J-Rod not married yet.
ABCD
I have time to blow it up. Which one should I seduce with my ample beauty and prodigious talent?
agentx
Don’t take it personally if you’re not able to get A-Rod’s attention, Mrs. Schwarber.
titanic struggle
Hahahaaa!!
Jeff Todd
Oops, thanks.
sherlock_
Yes they are
24TheKid
No they are not
IronBallsMcGinty
Possibly worse than working for fox sports
bobtillman
Oh ya, that’s got Mets all over it…….
Really, you can’t make this stuff up……
Keithbw22
Jeter owns the marlins… A-Rod looking to buy the Mets… Meanwhile Nomar can’t even buy the Toledo Mud Hens.
Polish Hammer
And yet you can’t even buy a Happy Meal…
24TheKid
Wow you sure got him
Perksy
Nomar didn’t make 1/10th of what arod made
pt57
Nomar should’ve juiced more.
tucker1980
I would much rather he purchase the Astros….just think about it for a second….first…A-Rod owning a bunch of cheats…and second, he could slightly change the name of the team….The Houston Ast-Roids…how fitting would that be!
scottn59c
Mwahahaha!
Paulie0514
This is magnificent.
realgone2
Outstanding sir.
stretch123
Even tho I’m a Yankee fan… this hits the nail on the head.
frankjovine
What you have now works for you? Keep holding on to 1986 🙂
tucker1980
I’m a Jays fan….1993 is what im holding onto!
andremets
Frankjovine, such a tough guy. I bet you are bandwagon fan.
Eric Nelsen
Hahhahaha. Perfect!
jdgoat
I’m sure they’d be an upgrade over the Coupons. Hope it happens.
Bill M
Coupons!
Oh that’s precious
BobSacamano
Haha far out
bjupton100
Does anyone remember Jordan’s handling of the Kwame Brown pick? Tyson Chandler and Eddie Curry weren’t picked and I’m sure some others. He traded off Rip Hamilton. It’s not usually a Homer when former players take the helm.
JustCheckingIn
Owning and running can be two different things..
Rangers29
Breaking News: A-rod buys mets.
More Breaking News: The Mets and Yankees strike a deal sending Alonso, Degrom, and Diaz to the Yankees in exchange for Clint Frazier. Here are some words from Yankees gm Cashman: “We just didn’t have room for Frazier.”
lowtalker1
Or
Alonso degrom and Diaz to the marlins. We thought it was a good time to rebuild and they offered us the best package.
lowtalker1
Anyways, Diaz is trash.
Rangers29
Lol A-rod is doing this in a plan to make the Marlins a super team, the Yankees will beat the Mets in the Subway Series, and the Mets will suck just like A-rod wants lol.
jdgoat
The Marlins won the Stanton trade, change my mind.
luckyh
No question, and we will have many more years to put the exclamation point on that one. Let face it, they had to win something.
DarkSide830
soon every team will be owned by a former star and it’ll just become a big keeper fantasy league.
realgone2
Ohhhh ohohohh. This would be a circus
charles stevens
Mike Trout will buy MLB
Rangers29
That might finally get him recognition as the best player of the generation.
SalaryCapMyth
There’s a baseball fan that DOESN’T think Trout is the best player of his generation? It’s common knowledge my friend.
jr.white
Everyone knows he’s the best player of the generation. It’s the marketing, personality, and losing that’s the issue
Rangers29
What I’m saying is that there are people who watch baseball who don’t know that he is the best player of the generation because MLB does a terrible job marketing him. Unlike Lebron and the NBA.
YankeesBleacherCreature
Lebron relates to his fanbase while he’s very open to the press, active on social media, and follows fashion and music trends. Trout has a fascination for the weather and likes privacy. That’s about all I know about him off-the-field. Nothing wrong with either. Trout may have an infectious smile but what can that sell by itself?
Vizionaire
always showing off your 80. as in i.q.
User 4245925809
Best player since Willie Mays. Without a doubt my friend.
trout plays like he has for another 10y and he’ll go down as the best player ever. Without a doubt passing mays
Pops
Agree – if Trout keeps it up he’ll be the best baseball player of all time.
bobtillman
Nah, I can see him getting into the NFL Eagles, tho.
Mookie will buy the Pro Bowlers Association.
Reese McGuire will buy some “strip” shopping malls.
Rangers29
There are so many different dark jokes I could say about so many different players, but I won’t because I have self control.
ryeandi
Lame
jim stem
I wonder if players would get ped discounts? (Sigh). Can’t the Mets avoid controversy for just a few weeks?
lowtalker1
Roger dorn do it
jays_fan_mike
jays_fan_mike
Sorry forgot emojis don’t work here…
I got the joke. That’s good….
Logjammer D"Baggagecling
Ricky Vaughn Kenny Powers will be 1 and 2 in the Rotation. Serrano will return but theyll have to convince him to leave Allstate Insurance
thecrown24
When the Coupons finally sell and new ownership takes over maybe they will grant Jeffy’s wish of still having a role in the Organization and keep him as the Ball Boy.
Unclenolanrules
Hey! Speaking of cheaters that should be banned from baseball!
How many guys never got a chance because of this lying cheater? How many guys aren’t getting a chance at broadcasting now because this roider took that spot?
Oh he knows baseball. Yeah, welcome to the club. Plenty of guys (and women) know the game too, and they didn’t inject steroids in their overpaid ass.
frankjovine
Hater, you aren’t close to being objective. This means you are low IQ, it’s okay most thugs are 🙂
Les Chesterfield
Baseball priced themselves out of quality ownership. I’m all for free market but this is way further than that. A player averaging 17 mil a season rarely adds that much value to an organization and when cost is so ridiculously inflated- it keeps quality individuals away.
Arod has absolutely no credibility and is an actor playing a part (terribly). Just like jeter the broke joke- trade market hasn’t recovered from his fire sale ! Yet mlb is so desperate they’ll continue to entertain these low brow pranksters into ownership opportunities.
Same time the quality of baseball has never been deeper. There could be 40 Mlb teams or more if it was a fair playing field and small markets could compete.
Baseball is ran by same folks that teach us how to think no doubt
SupremeZeus
Let’s be a bit more accurate. A-Roid is contemplating becoming a member of a group that may attempt to make an offer to purchase the NY Mets. If successful he would be a minority shareholder.
the outlaw
At this point…. why the hell not!
A N YO N E’ S better than dumb & dumber
Mr.Ward14
What about the Angels? As much as I’d hate the idea of ARod ruining the Angels, I’d much rather entertain the idea than have Arte destroy this franchise for another 20yrs
HalosHeavenJJ
Nobody in their right mind will buy the team then let the Wilpons run it for 5 years. So A-rod might be a good fit here ha ha.
Seriously, Cohen can buy J-rod for breakfast and still be worth about $12 billion. This would be a tremendous drop off.
Halo11Fan
The game has a credibility issue so who in their right mind would allow one of the biggest cheaters in history to own a team?
luckyh
For some bizarre reason people love him now. It’s such a joke.
♪
I’m not saying A-Rod is a sociopath at all, but even known sociopaths can disarm some people with a charming facade, all the while knowing that the person is a diagnosed sociopath.
realgone2
One of the most well known traits of the sociopath is being superficially charming.
zoinksscoob
Even if he isn’t the majority shareholder in a group bid to buy the team, A-Rod will have a hard time getting approved for ownership because of his own steroid suspension and admissions. Manfred is trying to give the sport a “clean slate”, and having a known transgressor as an owner (and let’s not forget, one who used an attack dog lawyer to try to smear MLB in his defense) probably is not his favored outcome.
mike156
You have to root for this. And then, maybe 6-7 years from now, Jeter and A-Rod trading franchises….
its_happening
Does A-Rod have to do everything Jeter does? Rhetorical question, the answer is yes.
davidk1979
Please let this happen Arod loves the Mets and won’t do a fire sale like Jeter did with Miami
MarlinsFanBase
Uh, try again. A-Rod is a big Marlins fan. Has been begging to be a part of the franchise for years.
And another FYI…A-Rod has been about $$$ since birth.
MetsFan22
Arod was a Mets fan growing up. Try again tho.
MarlinsFanBase
Uh, no he wasn’t. Do you even know where he grew up? He’s been begging to be a part of the Marlins for years, even at times during his career.
dugmet
dang. u have no idea at all.
MarlinsFanBase
Apparently you all don’t know either. I guess he lives and lived and went to high school in a place called Miami, New York. I wonder what borough is that in?
I guess when he kept begging to be with the Marlins, he called the wrong number and said the name wrong many many many many times. After all, New York has 305 numbers too, so it was easy for him to mistake especially with Marlins Park and the previous Pro Player Stadium being so close to Shea and Citifield..
metsochist
No, he was right, and you don’t know.
Yes, A-Rod grew up in Miami, But he was a Mets fan, something he has stated on many occasions:
“Growing up in Miami in the ’80s, there were three main outlets for Rodriguez to watch baseball. There was WGN for the Cubs, WTBS for the Braves and WOR for the Mets.
He didn’t have much affection for anyone at Wrigley. He loved Dale Murphy during the years that preceded the Braves’ glorious run in the ’90s. But A-Rod’s favorite team was the Mets, cemented by the fact that they added Hernandez in 1983.
“Him and [Gary] Carter were the finishing two pieces of furniture to create the perfect house,” Rodriguez said. “And they got the championship in ’86.”
ESPN, 2012.
“Growing up in Miami, I was a huge Mets fan,” Rodriguez said. “Keith Hernandez was my favorite player. And I thought I would make great concessions to go play for the Mets. And I thought it was just a great story for baseball, it would’ve been a great story for me to play for the team I grew up watching. And I thought Mets-Yankees would have been a great story.”
Sports Illustrated , 2018.
MarlinsFanBase
Hmmmm…A*Roids is a big Marlins fan. Win-win for him. Mets win, he wins; Marlins win, he wins. It’ll be like all those NY transplants that live in South Florida that own both caps….switching based on the standings.
portopotti
I get your whole bias nonsense, but there are not NY transplants wearing Marlins caps….
MarlinsFanBase
Uh, yes there are in South Florida. They’re called bandwagoners.
portopotti
Usually your “takes” are out there, but this one is pretty absurd. The Miami and South florida fanbase as a whole are def bandwagoners. I love watching the dolphins fans become die hard patriots fans become steelers fans and now Chiefs fans.
Mets fans? Not so much. We wallow in our own misery.
MarlinsFanBase
Hmmm…this would be interesting to see. I can see A*Roids then trading deGrom and Alonso for Joe Dunand. Might even throw in Conforto and McNeil and offer to pay all the contracts. Then Rosario will be moved to 3B. Dunand will be the starting SS for the next 15 years.
Bill M
Any chance of you getting a life some time in the near future, young fella?
thecrown24
Have to give the guy props that he still supports the crap team that is the Marlins. Team traded away every single big time player Miggy, Stanton, Ozuna, Yelich, Realmuto and it’s all amounted to POOP. Boy ohhh boy must be rough and super hard but hey maybe one day again.
Bill M
Fair enough
coldbeer
Secret dark horse bidder for the Mets: the Tesla guy. He needs a footprint in the East and as a noted competitive junky, owing a pro sports team is right up his alley. Hit em hard Elon!
Greg M
Great to hear! Baseball really needs more upstanding and honest people in the game. Especially after this Astros black-eye. I can’t think of anyone more honest and upstanding then A-Rod. I just hope this wouldn’t take him out of the booth because his commentary is next level. It would be a major blow to broadcasting and they are still reeling from losing the great Jason Witten.
Logjammer D"Baggagecling
Like Mark Cuban with bidding on the Cubs. I5 wont be approved. Cuban reportedly offered over 200mil more than the Ricketts and he was turned down
Gwynning's Anal Lover
Only if J-Lo sings “Taco Flavored Kisses” as opposed to “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”
oldtimer
I don’t believe the biggest cheater in baseball history should be allowed any where near the game and that includes the Hall of Fame.
3Men&ABibee
He can be their PED supplier. Its not about ownership. It’s about cutting out the middle man.
Dorothy_Mantooth
Imagine being the poor sucker who A-Rod convinces to put up the capital to fund this deal and having A-Rod & J-Lo as the face of the franchise? And Cohen thought it was tough working with the Wilpons! I will have to admit that I’d love to see the owners box if this were to happen. Imagine the amenities that J-Lo would demand? MTV Cribs comes to mind…
Scrap1ron
Well, at least that would get A-Roid off the MLB sportscast.
layventsky
This. If nothing else, it would make the ESPN broadcasts watchable.
layventsky
And while we’re at it, can Joe Buck be in on this deal? It would certainly make the World Series worlds better.
Al Hirschen
A-Rod and J-Lo would be a good group to buy the Mets. Cohen is still in the bidding too.
wordonthestreet
Cohen is out of the bidding and has been for over a week.
A-Roid would also be a terrible thing for MLB
greenguy
They’d have to widen the seats to be able to fit J WIDE’s caboose in em
frankjovine
And you so perfect? What a lame response!
titanic struggle
Drop a dime and call me Alex…I’ll have a draft sent over for 49%…
Begamin
yes
yesss
YESSSSSS
frankjovine
1986. lmao! It will be a long time when the Metropolitains win the big one. DeGrom will be like 40 years old…
pasha2k
Anything to get him outta the press room cuz he nauseates me. Enuff A Rod n JLo who cares?
VonPurpleHayes
I’ll never ever understand why A-Rod, a guy who was caught lying and cheating not once, but twice, was fully welcomed back into the baseball fold. I just don’t get it at all.
realsox
At a time when the integrity of baseball is being severely tested, how in the world would anyone think that a former player with his reprehensible record would be good for any franchise?
30 Parks
Alex Rodriguez has no business being involved in MLB. Rodriguez cheated. The Astros cheated. Such players should be held accountable for blatantly disrespecting the game.
redsoxsuk1
Always was a Jeter “wanna-be”.
Rsox
That’s exactly what the Mets need…Aroid and Jho in the owners box.
If it keeps Jlo out of the sunday night baseball broadcast booth I’m all for it!.
nymetsking
This just in… Pettitte in talks to buy the Phillies and Mo seen in DC driving a Brinks truck.
MarinerMiner
Makes sense. If they can’t get a cheater as manager might as well sell the whole team to a cheater.
Mick1956
Imagine the Mets stealing signs and on steroids…. wow! DeGrom throwing 107mph for 8 innings, while McNeil hits .396 with 47 HRs –
brucenewton
Gotta one up Jeets.
txman22
My worse nightmare. Can’t even listen or watch Sun night baseball with him in booth. Turned off Sharktank when he was on. Wilpons are sounding better after hearing this. Only if JLo owned 100% & was face of the team.
30 Parks
Agreed on Sunday night game. I used to love the Sunday night game, now they have the worst booth in all of baseball broadcasting. Awful. ARod needs to go and take Jessica Mendoza with him.
Rsox
You get 50% of your wish. Mendoza is no longer part of the sunday baseball broadcast team.