It seems Mets owner Steve Cohen has called it quits on Twitter.
The owner of Mets turned out delete his account Friday night – first spotted around 9:20 p.m. – after a very active and rocky week on the social media platform, with the hedge fund billionaire in the midst of GameStop stock chaos.
Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management and fellow hedge fund Citadel, run by billionaire Ken Griffin, had reportedly invested $ 2.75 billion in Melvin Capital Management together, which was crushed after an attempted short squeeze on GameStop stock. Melvin is run by Cohen’s former protégé Gabe Plotkin. Cohen’s net worth is an estimated $ 14.6 billion,
“Rough crowd on Twitter tonight,” Cohen tweeted Wednesday night. “Hey stock jockeys keep bringing it.”
On Thursday, Cohen took to Twitter with Dave Portnoy after the founder of Barstool Sports accused the owner of Mets of restrictions on trading apps like Robinhood harming the budding investors behind GameStop’s surging stock value.
“Hey Dave, what’s your problem with me,” Cohen tweeted back. “I’m just trying to make a living, just like you. I’m happy to take this offline.”
The two seemed to find mutual respect at the end, as Portnoy tweeted, “At least you speak and try to answer. That is appreciated. “
Portnoy seemed to enjoy it when Cohen deleted his account by responding to a tweet about the news with an emoji of a smiling face with sunglasses.
Cohen’s tweets about GameStop situation didn’t go down well with WFAN morning host Boomer Esiason. The former NFL quarterback was offloaded on Friday’s “Boomer and Gio Show” and said he would stop going to games “until I know exactly what’s going on here” with Cohen’s involvement.
“Hey, I don’t want to hear that from you, you know what I mean?” Esiason said. ‘You hedge fund billionaire. Just keep your mouth shut. The other thing is, he pulled one out too: “Hey stock jockeys, keep bringing it up.” So he discounts the Reddit WallStreetBets folks as ‘stock jockeys’ and shoots them like he knows what’s going on because he’s making all these decisions in this hedge fund king chair.
“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 know what exactly is going on here.’ really sick of my stomach. “
Cohen interacting with Mets fans on Twitter, taking suggestions and teasing a return of black jerseys had become part of the new owner’s charm. That seems to be on hold for the time being. Co-WFAN host and Mets fan Evan Roberts did find some humor about Cohen quitting his account.
“It wasn’t even a brutal 9th inning meltdown that would send Steve Cohen away from twitter!” Roberts tweeted.