Confidential To Bud Selig: Watch Your Mouth Or He'll Buy The Whole Fucking National League

Steven Cohen may yet own the Los Angeles Dodgers. But he still hasn't given up hope of buying a chunk of his favorite baseball team. The SAC Capital Advisors founder is expected to buy one of the 4% stakes in the New York Mets currently on offer. The Mets plan to sell 10 such stakes—although the team's current owners plan to buy at least two of the slices—to raise $200 million in an effort to pay down the team's huge debt, while simultaneously allowing Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz to maintain control of the team...Buying the Mets stake would not keep Cohen from buying the Dodgers—although if he wins the latter, he'd have to sell the Mets share. That could make him a very short-lived Mets owner, as Dodgers owner Frank McCourt is expected to pick his successor by April 1. [FINalternatives]