This is your new preferred partner. This picture was from his prior career as the scheming wiseacre on Parker Lewis Can’t Lose.
And then he became a poker player. A halfway decent one at that. He participated in the 2006 World Series of Poker, which was a big reason why he’s the guy the Wilpons picked. The Mets just missed the ’06 World Series but now at least they have an owner that didn’t miss it.
And he won money! He finished 18th and won over $650K, which he donated to charity. Putting a $200 million investment into the New York Mets shows that his philanthropy knows no bounds. But it’ll work out, because he’ll make all that money back and more just from the poker games on the team flights.
A poker player now owns a minority share of the New York Mets. Bobby Bonilla and Rickey Henderson find this development hysterical.
Einhorn once predicted a major currency collapse. Makes you wonder how much of that $200 million he won in September of ’07.
Who knows what parameters this deal has … whether Einhorn has say in how the team is managed, if he gets first dibs on full ownership when if the Wilpons have to sell, or whether he has the authority to run Jay Horwitz’s Scooby-Doo boxers up the stadium flagpole during afternoon games. I think at this point, he’ll settle for the use of the executive bathroom, the assertion that his money isn’t going to be used in another ponzi scheme, and the authority to lay down some money to get Pete Schourek out of retirement to make up for the fact that R.A. Dickey stepped on a virtual railroad spike.
Do you want a hint as to what’s going to happen now that Einhorn’s money has become the Mets’ intravenous drip? Here’s a totally out of context quote:
“No institution should be too big to fail. The real solution is to break up anything that fails that test”
First test? A 9-3 loss. The New York Mets? Not too big to fail.
Oh, crap. They’re all gone.
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