Due to the fallout from GameStop’s inventory debacle, Boomer Esiason has promised not to go to games anymore.
The WFAN host went after Mets owner Steve Cohen on Friday morning for his alleged involvement in and response to the GameStop stock chaos, saying he would no longer be going to Mets games “until I find out exactly what is going on here. “
Steve Cohen has also sent [a tweet] out (Thursday) I didn’t like, in regards to David Portnoy, who said, ‘I’m just trying to make a living, just like you,’ Esiason said. ‘Hey, I don’t want to hear that from you, you know what I mean? You hedge fund billionaire. Just keep your mouth shut.
The other thing is that he pulled one out too: ‘Hey stock jockeys, keep bringing. So he discounts the Reddit WallStreetBets folks as ‘stock jockeys’ and shoot them like he knows what’s going on, because in this hedge fund king chair, he’s making all these decisions. I hate that. That’s why I said to you this morning when I came in, I said, ‘You know what? I swear I’m not going to another Met game until I find out what exactly is going on here. ‘This really makes me sick to my stomach. “
Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management and fellow hedge fund Citadel had reportedly jointly invested $ 2.75 billion in Melvin Capital Management, which was crushed after a brief push on GameStop stock.
“Rough crowd on Twitter tonight,” Cohen, whose net worth is an estimated $ 14.6 billion, tweeted Wednesday night. “Hey stock jockeys keep bringing it.”
The saga took a different turn on Thursday, when the Robinhood app restricted stock trading like GameStop. That led to David Portnoy, David Portnoy of Barstool Sports, accusing Cohen of lending a hand to those restrictions, which Cohen “unequivocally” denied.
In the midst of going back and forth on Twitter, Cohen had replied to Portnoy, “I’m just trying to make a living, just like you.”
But Cohen’s tweets about the GameStop saga didn’t go down well with Esiason.
“I don’t need to hear that shit,” said the former Jets quarterback, noting that Mets fan. “This is why when you have a baseball team and you want to start tweeting like you’re the big fan that you are, you start putting yourself in these situations, it just doesn’t feel right.”