So you want to buy the New York Mets ?

So you want to buy the New York Mets ?

So you always wanted to own a Major League Baseball team , but you cant raise the scratch ? On Wednesday, three friends started an Internet bid to acquire the New York Mets and the team’s nearly 70 percent stake in SNY. BuyTheMets.com is seeking fans of all kind to sign up to buy shares at $999 each , but for now no money is changing hands and fans can sign up only to express their interest.

“We have a serious plan that should be taken very seriously,” according to Bill Heyn a Mets fan since the early 1980′s , who devised the Web site plan with James Preissler and John Calce, two of his partners at Tritaurian Capital, an investment bank. “The whole goal is to do this for the people of the city “of New York.

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Yankees Fans give the Team the Bronx Cheer after data breach

Yankees Fans give the Team the Bronx Cheer after data breach

A Yankees employee inadvertently e-mailed sensitive, private information of about 17,000 season-ticket holders to hundreds of people, the team admitted last night. The stunning Wiki Leaks style security screw-up of released the names, home addresses, fax numbers, e-mail accounts and exact seat location of the fans, had many fan signaling the Bronx cheer.

An e-mail went out last night from Yankee Chief Operating Officer Lonn Trost to all those affected, assuring them that neither their Social Security numbers nor any personal financial information was compromised.

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Mets to sell 49% stake

Mets to sell 49% stake

In a very significant move the Mets team ownership has chosen a preferred bidder a group led by former commodities trader Ray Bartoszek and investor Anthony Lanza have been in advanced talks since last week on the proposed deal to sell up to a 49 percent stake in the down and out Mets for $200 million.

The talks have reached the iron out details stage, could be wrapped up and announced by month end. One of the sticking points, is whether the bidders will be allowed to purchase a small piece of SportsNet New York, the profitable regional sports network controlled by Sterling Equities, the investment firm run by Mets owners Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz. Sterling Equities is the current 100 percent of the Mets.

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Former Yankee fears “wife swap” movie

Former Yankee fears “wife swap” movie

Former Yankee Mike Kekich is looking to block Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s movie “The Trade,” based on the huge 1970′s wife swap scandal when he and fellow pitcher Fritz Peterson swapped wives. The Die-hard Red Sox fan Affleck and his brother, Casey, are rewriting a second version of the script and have hired veteran sportswriters to help reach out to Yankees from that era. But Kekich, who’s believed to have created a completely new life and family in New Mexico, is refusing to participate.

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“Every person in the stadium wanted to touch that ball,”

“Every person in the stadium wanted to touch that ball,”


The fan who caught Jeter’s 3,000th ball gave it back with no regrets. Yankee fan Christian Lopez gave back the historic 3,000th-hit ball to his idol Derek Jeter. Brandon Steiner CEO of Steiner Sports pegged the 3,000-hit ball at $100,000. but some claim this little memento could be worth about $250,000 Lopez 23 said yesterday he’d do it again “100 times”Lopez who works for Verizon, told the NY Post he owes about $100,000 in student loans but would rather pay it off the old-fashioned way than rob hi idol of his memento. . “I think I did the right thing.”


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