The New York Mets are in the news. Major League Baseball is investigating whether or not the team violated the league’s collective bargaining agreement for comments front office sources gave to SNY about a potential chase of Aaron Judge during free agency.
Upon learning of the news, WFAN morning host Gregg Giannotti revealed how his relationship with Mets owner Steve Cohen was ruined by co-host Boomer Esiason and Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy.
“I could have DM’d Steve Cohen and asked him this question directly, but then you ended up blowing up the me and Steve Cohen relationship forever,” Giannotti said to Esiason. “Remember how you did that?”
“I don’t remember. Al doesn’t remember. Nobody remembers that,” Esiason countered. “I don’t remember yesterday, let alone blowing up your relationship with Steve Cohen.”
Giannotti then shared Cohen had followed him on Twitter since his Gio & Jones days on CBS Sports Radio, before Cohen was verified on Twitter. The two had sporadically traded direct messages on the app before Cohen bought the Mets.
“And then — if you remember — I did that hunger strike for the Mets to sign a free agent, and I didn’t eat for a day and half, and then they traded for Francisco Lindor. He knew I was doing this and he sends me a DM that says ‘Hey, would you stop your hunger strike for a big trade?’ so I wondered what he was talking about. Then all of the sudden — boom — Francisco Lindor trade. This is great. I’ve got a relationship with Steve Cohen.”
Giannotti continued, “So then this whole Game Stop stock thing happens, and Boomer gets activated by this. Smelling salts, BS meter. Dave Portnoy’s calling Steve Cohen a criminal. And you’re like ‘Let’s put on Portnoy!’ So we put on Portnoy, and he’s just raking Steve Cohen over the coals, trashing him all over the airways. ‘This guy is scum’ and all these other things. I’m just sitting here thinking ‘This is not good.’ I have not heard from him since. He has never responded back to me. And I also got a text message from someone in the Mets PR department that said ‘You’re not putting Dave Portnoy on again — by any chance — are you?’ So that was the end of that.”
