Can Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez buy New York Mets with a net worth of just $700M?
Are singer Jennifer Lopez and retired Major League Baseball star Alex Rodriguez eyeing a bid to buy the New York Mets? If reports are to believed, the power couple seems fixated ton the idea and have retained JPMorgan to help raise capital for the deal.
The couple is working with managing director Eric Menell, JP Morgan's co-head of North American media investment banking, as per a Variety report. While sources, privy to the matter, have confirmed it, there is no official sign from Menell nor from representatives of JLo and A-Rod.
In an interview with 'Tonight Show' host Jimmy Fallon, Rodriguez opened up about his inclination towards launching a future bid for the Mets and also confessed how he grew up a Mets fan before winning a world series with the Yankees. "I will say this, if the opportunity came up [to buy the Mets], I would certainly look at it," he told Fallon. He also went on to say how the 1986 championship-clinching game was one the best nights of his life after the birth of his daughters.