Looks like Mets owner Steve Cohen has left it on Twitter.
The owner of Mets appeared clear your account Friday night – I first noticed around 9:20 pm – after a very active and rocky week on the social media platform, with the multimillion-dollar hedge fund in the midst of GameStop stock market chaos.
Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management and its hedge fund Citadel, led by billionaire Ken Griffin, had reportedly invested $ 2.752 billion combined in Melvin Capital Management, which has been crushed after a brief attempt to compress GameStop shares . Melvin is led by Cohen’s former protégé Gabe Plotkin. Cohen’s net worth is estimated at $ 14.6 billion,
“There are a lot of people on Twitter tonight,” Cohen tweeted Wednesday night. “Hey, stock market jockeys keep wearing it.”
On Thursday, Cohen took to Twitter with Dave Portnoy after Barstool Sports founder attacked the Mets owner for restrictions on trading apps like Robinhood, which were hurting novice investors behind the balloon of the value of GameStop shares .
“Hey Dave, what’s your meat for nothing?” He replied on Twitter. “I’m trying to make a living like you. Happy to disconnect.”
The two seemed to find mutual respect in the end when Portnoy tweeted: “At least talk and try to respond. That is appreciated ”.
Portnoy seemed to have some pleasure in Cohen clearing his account in response to a tweet about the news with a one-faced emoji smiling with sunglasses.
Cohen’s tweets about the GameStop situation didn’t go down well with WFAN morning host Boomer Esiason. The former NFL quarterback unloaded Friday’s “Boomer and Gio Show,” saying he would stop going to games “until he finds out exactly what’s going on here” with Cohen’s involvement.
“Hey, I don’t want to know anything about you, you know what I mean?” Esiason said. “It is a billionaire hedge fund. Just keep your mouth shut. The other thing is that he also posted another one: “Hey, stock jockeys, keep wearing them.” So, you’ll discount the people at Reddit WallStreetBets as “stock jockeys” and take shots at them as if you know what’s going on because you’re sitting in that hedge fund king chair making all those decisions.
“I hate that. That’s why I told you this morning when I came in and I said, ‘You know what? I swear to God I’m not going to any other Met game until I know exactly what’s going on here. Actually, that it makes me feel bad to my stomach ”.
Cohen interacting with Mets fans on Twitter, taking suggestions and mocking the return of black T-shirts had become part of the new owner’s charm. Looks like he’s waiting now. Fellow WFAN host and Mets fan Evan Roberts found some humor when Cohen closed his account.
“It wasn’t even a brutal overthrow of the ninth post that would take Steve Cohen away from twitter!” Roberts tweeted.