The aftermath of the GameStop stock disaster made Boomer Esiason promise to stop going to the games.
The WFAN host on Friday morning went after Mets owner Steve Cohen for his alleged involvement and reaction to the chaos of GameStop’s actions and said he would no longer go to Mets games “until I found out exactly what it’s happening here ”.
“Steve Cohen also sent [a tweet] (Thursday) that I didn’t like, in relation to David Portnoy, saying ‘I’m just trying to make a living, just like you’, ”said Esiason. “Hey, I don’t want to hear that from you, do you understand what I mean? You are a billionaire in hedge funds. Just keep your mouth shut.
“The other thing is that he also launched another one: ‘Hey, bag jockeys, keep bringing it.’ So he’s dismissing the Reddit WallStreetBets folks as ‘bag jockeys’ and shooting them as if he knows what’s going on, because he’s sitting in this hedge fund chair making all those decisions. I hate that. That’s why I told you this morning, when I came in, I said, ‘You know what? I swear to God, I’m not going to another Met game until I find out exactly what’s going on here. It really makes me sick to my stomach. “
Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management and the other Citadel hedge fund reportedly invested $ 2.75 billion in Melvin Capital Management, which was crushed after an attempt to tighten GameStop’s stock.
“Rude crowd on Twitter tonight,” Cohen, whose net worth is estimated at $ 14.6 billion, tweeted on Wednesday night. “Hey, the jockeys keep bringing.
The saga took another turn on Thursday, when the Robinhood app restricted trading on shares like GameStop. This led David Portnoy of Barstool Sports to accuse Cohen of having a hand in these restrictions, which Cohen “unequivocally” denied.
In the midst of comings and goings on Twitter, Cohen replied to Portnoy, “I’m just trying to make a living like you.”
But Cohen’s tweets about the GameStop saga did not please Esiason.
“I don’t need to hear that crap,” said the former Jets defender and noted Mets fan. “That’s why, when you have a baseball team and want to start tweeting like you’re the big fan you are, you start putting yourself in those situations, it just doesn’t feel right.”