{"id":100921,"date":"2020-10-30T04:24:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T01:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bill-de-blasios-bid-to-quash-mets-sale-is-sleazy\/"},"modified":"2020-10-30T04:24:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T01:24:13","slug":"bill-de-blasios-bid-to-quash-mets-sale-is-sleazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bill-de-blasios-bid-to-quash-mets-sale-is-sleazy\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bill de Blasio’s bid to quash Mets sale is sleazy"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Bill de Blasio’s bid to quash Mets sale is sleazy<\/strong>”
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\n We are tired of Mayor de Blasio\u2019s sanctimonious self-indulgence long ago, but now he\u2019s topped himself \u2014 secretly working to kill the deal to sell the Mets to Steve Cohen.<\/p>\n

Major League Baseball is set to vote on the sale Friday, but the mayor is hoping to prevent it from going through by leveraging the fact that Citi Field sits on land the city partly owns. As The Post has reported, he\u2019s told MLB he\u2019ll do all he can to quash the sale.<\/p>\n

It\u2019d be bad enough if de Blasio was just still bitter about the 1986 World Series<\/a>, when the Mets defeated his beloved Red Sox. But he has even dumber motives: He doesn\u2019t like Cohen because he\u2019s a right-leaning hedge-fund billionaire.<\/p>\n

More, the mayor evidently aims to force a sale to the rival consortium led by Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez, whose political leanings are more to his liking.<\/p>\n

Utterly lost in his considerations: the people of New York City \u2014 specifically, long-suffering Mets fans who pine for an owner who\u2019ll invest the money (and managerial savvy) to produce a world championship or three.<\/p>\n

Yes, the mayor pretends he\u2019s upset that Cohen\u2019s hedge fund paid big fines for insider trading. (Does he think A-Rod is a paragon of virtue \u2014 or is steroid abuse OK in de Blasio\u2019s book?) But it was eight traders who actually pleaded to the crime, not Cohen himself.<\/p>\n

Also looking to sink the deal is state Sen. Jessica Ramos, a former de Blasio City Hall aide. She openly favors the Latino couple of A-Rod and J-Lo \u2014 but mainly wants the Mets to make big \u201ccommunity benefits\u201d payments to (politically connected) nonprofits.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t just outrageous; it reeks. Rather than focus on the multiple crises facing the city, de Blasio is wasting public resources on a (legal) blackmail scheme at his constituents\u2019 expense.<\/p>\n

And New York\u2019s stuck with this twit for 14 more months.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Bill de Blasio’s bid to quash Mets sale is sleazy” We are tired of Mayor de Blasio\u2019s sanctimonious self-indulgence long ago, but now he\u2019s topped himself \u2014 secretly working to kill the deal to sell the Mets to Steve Cohen. Major League Baseball is set to vote on the sale Friday, but the mayor is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/deBlasioCohen.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[77574,25871,5042,43,8326,37192,71541],"class_list":["post-100921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-10-29-20","tag-alex-rodriguez","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-editorial","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-steve-cohen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}