family, jeff wilpon, and a real estate investor who was involved in the wilpon family especialli reale family fell on tough times because they were involved -- they invested money with bernie madoff and lost some and the team has been in financial straits because of that. now they have to sell. here's what we know about the sale. i thought it was cute the way you said final innings. whoever wrote that. be that as it may. they are in the final innings. what's going on now is [ inaudible ] so-called management meetings. in the old days, the bidders would go to the ballpark. you're not doing that now. the various bidders, essentially three bidding groups, i will get into that in a minute, are meeting with the wilpon family, saul katz and baseball executives. they don't meet with the manager, manager. the guy who will be on the field tonight. they may meet with the general manager. they will have zoom conferences, the luxury suite. they are getting an idea of what they are buying. after a couple weeks, people will be submitting a final, final bid. what's interesting about this process is

we understand that cohen is now in direct talks with the wilpons, the controlling wilpon family of theossible purchase. here's what's interesting about that. cohen is an 8% owner of the mets. earlier in the year, he was thought to be ready to buy the mets for 2.6 billion. they got very close, there was some implosion in the talks between he and the wilpons. there was a lot of bad blood from what i understand. but for some reason, that bad blood has dissipated. they are now in direct talks from what i understand about a purchase. i can't tell you he's going to go for it. i can't tell you the wilpons are going to give up control. but if you are looking at all the bidders, and from what we understand, the bidders i mentioned, the early indications for them was that they were pretty weak. what does weak mean? below $2 billion. i think wilpons have to sell for $2 billion given the debt that they hold. remember, they got messed up in that bernie madoff scheme where they actually had to pay back money they were giving to madoff over the years because madoff obviously made up his returns so th

because of that, he's been privately what i understand negotiating with the wilpons on a deal. it is not a done deal until it's a done deal. but they have been talking. what people close to cohen are telling people, the deal is his if the talks progress, that he's likely, if things go as they are going and again, it could blow up in the last minute, he's likely to be the owner of the new york mets. it's kind of interesting that cohen's people are also trashing the mets. they are also putting out there how much the mets lose a year, how indebted the team is. on the mets sports network has a lot of leverage, sny, cohen has expressed interest in buying that as well. if you put both of them together it would be $4 billion potential valuation of the mets plus sny. but it is interesting that he's trash-talking the mets, probably telling the other bidders, you know, look what you're going to get into. i have the money to run this thing, i have the cash, i have the access to capital and you are going to be buying an asset that's going to be hard to turn around. so that's what's going o

famous started 2004 and for those asking how does he even happen meso ship at the time helms i fred wilpon invested in a bernie madoff account that promised massive double digit returns that didn't work out and now the mets are penguin and more than current 1st baseman pete alonzo manila it's very strange to think bernie made off the new york mets and bobby vinny a but you know sometimes investment just don't pay off the face you're expecting them to i mean i feel bad for of the wilpon because they were one of made off victims made off is obviously in prison bobbie but nia made off like a leaf in the night he did at his age and of course to the public you know this is the best retirement job i ever had and it sets interesting because he's even making more per year than aaron judge on the yankees which is impressive in all stats i mean you're having a guy who hasn't played. in a well over 2 decades i know he still make it bank but i mean i just it's i can't believe the deal but his agent mastermind wow it is impressive he'll be making money it will be still making that 1000000 dollar market

the wilpons indicated they need to sell.n't get this number above two billion, i doubt they will and right now, at least the indications neil, is that the new york mets are selling for less than two billion. just for a little retrospective here, i believe jeter, derek jeter put together a group that bought the marlins, which is a smaller market, much smaller market, in miami, a couple years ago for $1.2 billion. i covered that a lot. think about that. the mets are not selling for much more than that. that may be a function of the fact they're losing money. they're the second team in new york where we have a shortened season because of covid. it tells you, gives you an indication how difficult it is to sell this franchise. neil, back to you. neil: charlie, thank you very much. charlie was mentioning derek jeter and of course the marlins. speak of florida, we're monitoring very closely the florida governor ron desantis, speaking on measures that have been taken in that state to control a serious spike in cases although it dipp

we know that it began and wilpon china, in fact the community is quite confident of that. as i said before, there is evidence that it came from a laboratory and we have seen other people who have said they came from other places. finally, we know this. the chinese communist party has prevented anyone from finding out the answer to that question. they denied access to the laboratory. in the world health organization pretty anyone who wanted to talk about it who was inside of that laboratory, a journalist or a doctor, and talking about that. they've been told they can't talk or worse, and the scientific community who desperately still need to figure out where patient zero came from. has been unable to get that information. this is a result of the chinese communist party fighting to data. you know that fall prey to countries that want to be global powers. they have a corresponding obligation comply to the promises they make credit china made it promise to the world health organization. we have an incident in a country that can turn into a pandemic you have an obligation to re

david: it's a wonderful story because the wilpon's can't stand financial guys like cohen but they mightcourse he just made $600 million if he gets a $2 billion deal because he offer ed 2.6 and that deal fell apart, came back now after covid and after the riots and everything, and it's clear that he should be very happy, he should be celebrating the fact that that deal fell apart but again, i think the wilpons would much rather have a-rod and steve cohen really wants to get his hands in the business and that makes the wilpons very nervous. ashley: david thank you i want to check sony very quickly they're making a big investment into epic games, susan. >> i love epic games the create or of fortnite which is the most popular game on the planet with over 350 million registered gam ers and it's a streaming player now too with its stream ing of the movie "tenant" with more than 12 million viewer s comparable to netflix and more so nearly $2 billion in sales last year, and just from fortnite alone and epic games has house party which is the millennial video conferencing service downloaded over

2004 but for those asking how does he even happen the message ownership at the time held by fred wilpon invested in a bernie madoff account that promised massive double digit returns but that did not work out and now the mets are paying good more than current 1st man pete alonzo if the wild when you read the details of that manila the fact that bernie madoff is tied to baseball and you have this guy who's 57 he's been out of the game for a while and he still just getting paychecks every single year i know i mean seriously if i would argue that that's is probably the best contract in m. and b. history because you don't have to go to practice you don't have to injure yourself at nothing you're just sitting there collecting millions exactly and you know especially if you're 57 you've already earned enough money when you played in the league after houses paid off. probably put kids through college if you have any so what do you do that maybe he's buying some yachts and private islands or right at our birth 300000000 from 30 yet or sit at home and elect to mill year that home i'll take that

and degree is on the call at the hong kong flu or maybe even the wilpon flu. and different names. they said that it was communists. there's a name for it in the way the people that names things . >> this is from natosha rated. >> my question is it's really interesting to hear from this papers and played pandemic back then. some curious, have to question. people generally trusting of the menu during this time. like newspapers and radio. as my first question on the other question is how the people get the public health information . speech of the first one. catharine: as i mentioned earlier in this talk. the newspapers one of his position that than if they sent too much about what was really happening, they were basically spiked. eventually couldn't print certain materials because i would set the moral during the war. not so much in the states pretty coming looked is one of the mysteries of his time. the fact was that people were getting their information to the press. they get more information in the u.s. from the press then we were over here. and many people were in europe did alo

president gave to the department yesterday to notify the doc about the removal of diplomatic status and wilpon. you'll be getting more briefings in a different setting. on these topics but despite the challenges that we take very seriously. as one the winner domestic law enforcement partners are working very hard to address. >> the trump ministration continues to raise the alarms with our allies and partners about the national security risk of huawei, to me it is a trojan horse. it is deep linked to the communist regime are possible to ignore . tempting to infiltrate networks around the world. that was is a serious risk i believe knowledge our national security but also the privacy of intellectual property and any human rights credit recently the united kingdom, recognize the serious security threat is taking action a man them from their five g networks. it sounds like jeremy's going to make a decision on with regard to what they decide were watching them. is it your impression where making some headway that our allies are understanding the dangers that are posed by having while weight and ult

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