April 21: Rodriguez and Lopez approached Miami businessman Jorge Mas about joining their group, per MLB Network’s Jon Heyman (Twitter link), but the 57-year-old MasTec chairman declined the offer. Mas previously headed up his own group in hopes of purchasing the Marlins before the Derek Jeter/Bruce Sherman group won that bidding.
April 20: When the concept was first mentioned, it wasn’t clear whether Alex Rodriguez was seriously interested in headlining a bidding group for the Mets. But he and pop singer/fiancee Jenifer Lopez have recently taken at least one notable step towards a potential play for the franchise, Scott Soshnick of Variety reports.
Rodriguez, much like predecessor Barry Bonds, finished his playing days with one of the most impressive but deeply stained resumes in baseball history. Performance-enhancing drugs tarnished both players, though A-Rod has taken quite a different path since hanging up his spikes. With a series of major media roles, he has crafted a familiar post-PED profile.
Precisely what sort of bidding group might be compiled isn’t clear, but A-Rod and J.Lo have retained JPMorgan Chase to see about putting one together. There was never any doubt that the celebrity couple would need to participate with other, yet wealthier investors to take over the Mets. At last look, the current Wilpon family ownership group had yet to mark down its $2.6B sticker price for the organization.
It’ll certainly be interesting to see whether this story has legs — not just because of the obvious potential for gossip-rag fireworks. The Mets have had their issues over the years, but it’s awfully rare to see big-city teams hit the market. It seems all but inconceivable that the franchise value won’t take a hit in light of the coronavirus pandemic — whatever the long-term outlook, there’ll obviously be a major near-term operational shortfall — but whether and to what extent remains for the market to decide.
Fg-3
It will be even sweeter beating the Muts!
ronnyalton
Get ready for J-lo to hammer every “National Anthem” if A-lo buys the Mets.
commentinggenius
What happens when they break up? I hope J-lo gets them and A-rod will take the crystal skulls
davidk1979
Holy freaking crap I know people hate Arod but he grew up a Mets fan always wanted to play for them and still loves them and wants to own please let this happen
dynamite drop in monty
I could see Arod pulling a Roger Dorn
HubcapDiamondStarHalo
Old guy problems: I initially read that as “…Arod pulling a Roger Dean.”
The uniforms would be interesting…
dynamite drop in monty
Full disclosure, I had to look him up. Never knew that was the same artist for all those amazing covers. Thank you for allowing me to learn something tonight.
HubcapDiamondStarHalo
Most welcome! His work was pretty amazing… Among what you looked at, did you see any of his “flying elephant” covers for an African band called Osibisa?
dynamite drop in monty
I had not, but you’ll be happy to learn it is now my phones wallpaper after checking it out lol
DockEllisDee
Yes! the Way Back Machine is strong tonight!
Bosin Rag
I spent my 4/20 listening to Yes and staring at old Roger Dean album covers, then I run into this thread.
Is someone watching me??
retire21
Perhaps you are getting Close to the Edge.
cleonswoboda
briefly met Roger Dean some 40+years ago. the uniforms would be great but imagine him re-designing the logo. BTW, are you built like a car? are you dirty and sweet,oh yeah?
dirtydaddy
You are a moron!!
MarlinsFanBase
LOL. Funny about how people buy into “I’m a Mets fan” stuff from A*Roids.
Interesting how he plays to the crowd. In Miami, for years he talked about how he’s been a Marlins fan since Day 1. Even wanted to play for them. I guess this story doesn’t play well for the NY media that’s trying to hype this up.
The gullible are awesome to hear from!
MetsFan22
You’re the only guy on this site that doesn’t know Arod was a Mets fan. Even yankee fans admit it
MarlinsFanBase
I know he says that, but in Miami, where he lived/s, he has said he’s a Marlins fan too, and even wanted to play for them during his career a few times.
I guess your NY media forgets to mention that part.
Don’t you know about that?
MetsFan22
Arod literally wanted to play with the Mets before he signed with than Yankees. But the Yankees offered more. You really need to do research…
MarlinsFanBase
FYI…A*Roids literally wanted to to play with the Marlins at different points in his career, but they weren’t going to pay him that salary. During his free agency that eventually landed him in Texas, he spent a great deal of his time before agreeing to that deal, reaching out to the Marlins to see if they would sign him because he wanted to play at home in Miami. Over the years, he had a few moments when he openly stated that his dream would be to play at home in Miami. He even had a couple of instances when he stated he would love to buy in. He was even trying to get into Jeter’s group to purchase the Marlins. And to top it off, was his comments at being thrilled that his nephew Joe Nunand was drafted by the Marlins so the family can all see him playing at home.
As for research, I am part of the South Florida baseball community…ahem…the community that A*Roids came through. Actually have chatted with him a few times over the years when he’s done some of his charity appearances down here, and when he’s attended games for his high school Alma Mater, etc. So, who is it that needs to do research?
The guy plays to the crowd, but since E!SPN and FOX Sports find NY and Boston to be the only stories that mean anything to them, they never cover anything baseball related in Miami, so individuals like you who get their information from NY media driven materials, never know what happens outside of your little worlds until it explodes in your faces…which happens a lot with Mets fans.
He’s playing to you guys after Jeter turned him down from being part of the ownership team, and because Jeter will never bring him in because Jeter and Michael Jordan don’t care for him, and after he’s wanted to play here and wanted into Jeter’s ownership group. But I guess this is another case of NYers thinking that they are correct because what they don’t know about doesn’t exist in their minds. I guess that many like you that, when you hear about it, will just cover your ears and scream, “NA NA NA, I don’t hear you! NA NA NA!” All the while A*Roids tells your media, “I’ve always wanted to be a Met and was a fan,” while he hopes that none of them find the clips, stories, or people in Miami that have where he has said the same thing with the Marlins.
Hey, I want him with the Mets. All of us fans of division rivals want him to own the Mets. So, there is no arguing that. But when it comes to him just playing to the crowd, we in Miami…ahem…where he came through for his baseball career…know he plays to the crowd and has always had questionable character, ever since he was juicing with Westminster.
Okay, you can uncover your ears and stop screaming now.
MarlinsFanBase
BTW, MetsHomer22…
Go and Google “Alex Rodriguez Marlins” right now and see what are the first items that pop up.
I guess you don’t want to go with what Jon Heyman and others have reported?
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL @ you!
dynamite drop in monty
Arod wanting to buy into ownership of a team reeks of when 11 year old Michael Scott said he wanted 100 kids so he could have 100 friends.
Rangers29
Yeah, and it also reminds me of when Michael Scott told a whole class of 3rd graders that he would pay for their college, and when they got to their senior year of high school, ended up giving them an office supply and told them “A lot of kids are doing online college these days.”. I hope that is how A-rod will end up being an owner lol.
chicagofan1978
Scott’s tots
just here for the comments
The quality of your comments has deteriorated greatly.
dynamite drop in monty
Much obliged.
king beas
Arod and jlo net worth is over $700 million it’s not as if he doesn’t have money
SEATown11
$700 million if they put every penny they had in is a long ways from $2 billion+
MarlinsFanBase
Aloso, A*Roid’s ex-wife gets about 50% of his money.
mrperkins
A-rod should wait until the Astros are on the market. That sounds like a better fit.
RunDMC
Won’t happen. Junior needs a job.
sidewinder11
ARod and Jeter as owners in the same division would be pretty neat to watch.
dynamite drop in monty
Yeah if you dig TMZ
DarkSide830
ha!
MarlinsFanBase
I think we can all agree with this.
It will replace Tom Brady on E!SPN.
Dear goodness when the Mets and Marlins are competing for a playoff spot, E!SPN and FOX may put Yankees-Red Sox on the back-burner.
dynamite drop in monty
People still watch/follow ESPN? It’s been tabloid trash for 20 years.
alproof
Drop dead A-Roid & JLo. A-Roid is a stinking convicted cheater and should be banned from everything to do with MLB, starting with announcing, and certainly owning a team.
CursedRangers
Totally agree! He’s like a case of herpes. Just when someone thinks they get rid of them, they flare up again. One of the biggest disgraces to ever put on a uniform. Sickening that this could happen.
Gettin greedy
You sound bitter. Still have a bad case of them herpes do ya.
hammer_time24
Wow, I am by no means am A-Rod fan, but that was too far.
DarkSide830
as much as undermining Wilpon influence is great and all, those two…ugh
Rangers29
Please get the Wilpons away from the Mets as quick as possible!!! A-rod and J-lo!!! Come and save this trapped franchise!!!
gmarra36
Be careful what you wish for. Not sure this would be much better
Groggydogs
Let’s pass out the Steroids. Lying piece of crap. So disappointed that television networks would hire him but can’t imagine how disappointing it would be to see him as an owner. Hopefully MLB would block this crap.
traveling man
You obviously are ignorant to the fact A-Rod is a a Baseball nerd and is renowned for his Baseball acumen!
ABStract
His baseball acumen doesn’t make up for being a liar and a cheat…
Just like business acumen doesn’t make up for being a liar and a cheat…but for some reason 35% of people will still support both of them
oldtimer
Biggest cheater ever has baseball sunk so low as to let this mistake to allow him to own a team! That’s just plain disgusting!!
traveling man
Yeah,A-Rod was the only player to roid up and certainly most players didn’t partake in drugs!
1738hotlinebling
Take a bunch of steroids, Rob some teams for millions and then use your platform to marry someone worth billions ,and use the money to buy your rival ,
dynamite drop in monty
You’re making Arod sound awesome dude, quit it.
traveling man
Rival?
Alex has always had an interest in the Mets!
traveling man
A-Rod was robbing the Yankees in 2009?
brandons-3
Anyone has every right to hate A-Rod for his constant denial of using steroids until he had no choice but to come clean BUT…
To make millions of dollars, win a World Series, and then marry Jennifer Lopez?
Yeah, I’ll take that.
ABStract
Sure the results are an amazing life, but we should all be offended by the way he got those results and should not support any system that so overwhelmingly rewards cheaters
dynamite drop in monty
Who wants to tell him?
@DaOldDerbyBastard
Word up.
bobtillman
A-Rod is beginning to remind me of another New Yorker; romances on the front page of the Post, acquisitions with (likely) questionable financing……
Maybe he’ll walk out to Home Plate with Jay-Lo in hand and announce he’s running for president…..
dynamite drop in monty
Ricky Ledee?
DockEllisDee
Lloyd Braun
Aj5258
Lloyd Braun….Classic!!!!!
dynamite drop in monty
This is what the holidays is all about. A couple of guys sitting around chewing gum.
Vizionaire
he is now a miami creep!
ABStract
Is a-rod also trying to dismantle our democracy?
Dom2
The Yankees should disprove of any sale involving Arod along with all other teams
citizen
Amazes me why the US puts the spotlight on Rodriguez as a positive business owner even though he clearly cheated and was washed up in the last days of his playing career and useless, except for one series, in the playoffs. And they’d still pay bonila. Jlo on the other hand would be positive female owner for baseball.
traveling man
YOU’RE A MORON!
Whatever he did as a player has NOTHING to do with his business career!
traveling man
Wasn’t J-Lo involved with criminals and a shooting?
How is that positive yet you trash A-Rod?
Kidcub23
Don’t be shocked if Joseph Tsai offers to partner up. One of the richest owners in sports and has talked about owner a baseball team. Could be something there, maybe not.
traveling man
I’m a Nets fan and hate how tsai told fans they “have” to be patient.
DockEllisDee
A-Rod? pfffft, more like F-ROD!
brucenewton
Who’s giving Arod 2.5 billion?
skip 2
Chase squirt!
traveling man
A lot of people love Alex!
Cat Mando
traveling man…… “A lot of people love Alex!”
A lot of people throughout history have loved duplicitous narcissists like A-Rod.
A brief bit of history. In 2003 a young man with dreams of playing baseball took his own life while in deep depression and rage brought about habitual steroid use . His name was Taylor Hooton. He was 17.
Not long after his farther, Don, started the Taylor Hooton Foundation. It’s goal was and is to inform kids of the dangers of PED’s. After A-Rod’s lie filled mea culpa in 2009 Mr Hooton asked A-Rod is he would be interested in helping the foundation and he said “yes”.
From 2010-2013 A-rod would travel the country meeting kids. “Rodriguez would make appearances, speak from the heart and donate money, putting his outsized fame and fortune to the best possible use. Don’t take foolish risks with your body, Rodriguez would say. Don’t take shortcuts and risk disgrace to your name, or health consequences down the line, Rodriguez would warn.” He would sign “promise sheets” with the kids…..he would look them in the eyes and swear with them to never do PED’s and he was flat out lying the whole time. That is the kind of guy you and others love.
Geebs
So he can never redeem himself?
Cat Mando
abgb123………”So he can never redeem himself?”
He hasn’t yet. He did try old school redemption in 2014. What i mean is redeem comes from the French rédimer, which means “to deliver,” and which in turn comes from the Latin redimet for “buy back.”. After MLB suspended him for Biogenesis, the Taylor Hooton Foundation cut ties with him. He then went full “redimet” and sent a big check to them which Don Hooton sent back.
The day he fully and completely fesses up to everything he may get closer to redemption but that is not his M.O. He only confessed to the DEA because they threatened to prosecute but he has never really confessed to the public.
Kidcub23
Hence why people tell parents to be your kids hero. Smart people don’t let there kids worship superstar athletes. Can’t blame A-Rod for what that kid did, and unfortunately that’s exactly how your statement comes across..
Kidcub23
Athletes never owe the public an apology. See your one if those people who put there dreams and admiration on athletes. Then when they’re tarnished you act like they owe you. I’d stake my life you’ve got skeletons in your closet. Do you owe me an apology? Most certainly you do I guess.
bjupton100
They need some wealthier owners willing to do the city and team right. There was bad luck don’t get me wrong but I don’t know if they were ever going to be able to spend like they should be able to.
AssumeFactsNotInEvidence
Maybe if A-rod didn’t spend all that money on the Dr Bosch scandal he could afford the Mets!
jetup12
Not gonna happen although anything has to e better than Mutt and Jeff.
traveling man
This made me excited until I remembered that robots umpiring(not just a pandemic season) is a couple of seasons away leading to me not watching Baseball.
Joe Kerr
Why do you not want to see pitches called accurately?
ABStract
Seriously!
WTF?
What do people have against fairness nowadays?
dirtydaddy
I have been a loving fan of the NY Mets since 1973.
If baseball allows an ego driven, known cheater to buy a team…I will never watch another MLB game for the rest of my life. He and his slutty woman will ruin baseball worse than when he knowing cheated in the game I have loved for 47 years. It’s your call MLB.
depressedtribefan
I’m sure they’ll be sad to see you go
skip 2
Very sad! Lol
jimmertee
Arod would be nuts buying a franchise now. Give it a few years after the economy has worked through the pandemic. This team is way overpriced right now. The economy is going to dump even worse. It’s possible professional sports teams will go bankrupt. Wait Alex, wait.
FSogol
MLB shouldn’t allow drug cheats to buy teams. ESPN shouldn’t put drug cheats on the air.
dynamite drop in monty
Oh no, not “drug cheats”!
DockEllisDee
that will lead to hooligans who knock over dust bins!!
jakec77
And what happens when ARod and J Lo split up?
YankeesBleacherCreature
That’s what lawyers are for. They both had high net-worths before marriage.
YankeesBleacherCreature
Jennifer Lopez is buying the Mets to help promote her new upcoming album “On the 7”.
goldstar002
I mean, they’re gonna get divorced at some point right? Lol. Will the deal include pre-nup protection for all investors?
wkkortas
As part of the bid, the Wilpons get any future revenues from rentals of “Gigli”.
Iknowmorebaseball
Baseball doesn’t need this right now. Over the top circus!
MarlinsFanBase
It’s the Mets. when have they not been a circus filled with clowns.
Iknowmorebaseball
Didn’t the Mets have a shady employee who was upset that the Astros got investigated?
Sabermetric Acolyte
It was the concept the team was founded on.
MetsFan22
The marlins are literally the kings of being clowns.
acarneglia
ARod, JLo, Seinfeld?
okiguess
A-Rod and J-Lo need to approach Bill Gates. Mets could hold “Vaccine Day.”
newpony13
Whoa can you imagine Jorge “Gamebred” Mas(vidal) owning the Mets? They’d be the third toughest team behind whoever has Rougned Odor and Amir Garrett.
MarlinsFanBase
I think many fans of NL East rivals will want to see this definitely happen. So many benefits for rival teams.
1 – Mets continue to be the attention seeking laughing stock of the division.
2 – Mets will have even more classless ownership.
3 – One knows that there will be so much that gets mishandled by A*Roids because he can’t help himself.
4 – We can’t wait for the new hires and transactions: Angel Presinal as the new team trainer; both Anthony Bosch and Anthony Galea will be hired to run the medical department; Doug Mientkewics as new GM; Robinson Cano becomes player/manager; and then the first major trade…A*Roids sends Pete Alonso and Amed Rosario to the Marlins for Joe Dunand.
jdgoat
Or you might have a New York team spend like a New York team. And then you’re going to be looking up at them for years. But sure, act like somebody is worse for the Mets than the Wilpons
MarlinsFanBase
Yeah, A*Roids is just swimming in money to spend after his ex-wife takes 50% of his earnings every single month.
Okay, so every fan in the NL East can agree…Mets fans, Marlins fans, Phillies fans, Braves fans and Nats fans all want A*Roids to buy the Mets.
@DaOldDerbyBastard
You’re pathetic MarlinsFanBase. You get in on every Mets story because your team is garbage and not worth talking about. You clown shoe.
MarlinsFanBase
1986
SEATown11
A rod should be blackballed from baseball
fivetwos
Amazing how much money someone would spend to P-off Jeter.
MarlinsFanBase
I don’t think this would upset Jeter or the Marlins that much. Think about how much attention this would get Jeter and the Marlins from the national media if this happens. You think E!SPN and FOX would ignore the chance to play these teams games against each other? The Marlins are building a nice team. When/if both teams are contending in the same season, those two networks will be salivating at the story. And forget it if they both make the playoffs in the same season and meet in a WC game or series. It’ll be another opportunity for those networks to talk about both of them ad nausea like they did when they both played.
How would the Marlins lose with the added attention from this?
DarkSide830
it wouldnt upset Jeter probably, but i could see A-Rod thinking it would because he’s such a genius. i could also seeing him want to stick it to Jeter because that’s probably what he does to anyone who is respectable.
MarlinsFanBase
Obviously many of us can see many things wrong with A*Roids logic, but how about this for a miscalculated effort of his on this situation.
A*Roids lives in Miami. And a good portion of his family still does too. Say he buys the Mets to try to stick it to Jeter. If the Marlins win another championship before the Mets win another one, how would that feel for A*Roids seeing Jeter in a championship parade in A*Roids’ hometown!?
Iknowmorebaseball
Didn’t the Mets have a shady shyster employee who was upset that the Astros got investigated for illegally stealing signs? I think the employee was quoted saying cheating isvpart of the game.
SportsFan0000
Yeah right! Some billionaire is going to fork over cash and credit to take a back seat to A Rod and J low?! Not How it Works in business.
He/She who brings the cash, makes the decisions/calls…
If somehow in a longshot deal, they talk their way into a deal,
first thing they will do is have a fire sale, strip the team, and
start collecting cash from the TV revenues.
Mets will become the Marlins, Royals or A’s…
Good luck with that loll!
zauberman12
Seriously, can A-rod own a team? To my mind, this is seriously off base in the integrity department. But then again, there was Loria.
cecildawg
The deceit is available through his eyes. You would never buy a usted car from this shyster.
He smells of dishonesty and mirror cleaner.
Along with th entire Astors team A-rioid should be banned for life.
parkers
Do you seriously think anyone with a working brain outside of Miami cares about the Marlins? Even people with season tickets offer to give away the tickets when the Marlins come to town.
FattKemp
A-Rod would be a far better owner than Derek Jeter. His running the Marlins into the ground is why he should not have been and was not unanimous for the HOF. I’m voting for the one guy that didn’t vote for him for President.
wild bill tetley
Its possible A-Rod would inject some life in the Mets organization.
newpony13
How can Jeter be running the Marlins into the ground? The Marlins have been deeeeep in the ground for decades lol
MarlinsFanBase
Yeah, Marlins are deeeeep in the ground for decades. Apparently their 2003 and 1997 teams didn’t get that memo. How many teams have as many championships as them in that span? Are those teams deeeeep in the ground too?
If you’re a Mets fan, all I can say is…ahem…1986.
carlos15
It’s gonna be fun when they divorce in 2 years
of9376
The only positive of Arod is that he will do everything possible to win.