{"id":291,"date":"2012-06-03T21:50:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T01:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=291"},"modified":"2012-06-03T21:50:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T01:50:33","slug":"comedian-bill-maher-buys-minority-stake-in-ownership-of-mets-calls-team-a-great-investment-nj-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/06\/03\/comedian-bill-maher-buys-minority-stake-in-ownership-of-mets-calls-team-a-great-investment-nj-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Bill Maher buys minority stake in ownership of Mets, calls team &#8216;a great investment&#8217; | NJ.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u00e2\u20ac\u201d No joke: Bill Maher has bought a minority ownership stake in the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>In a surprise announcement made by the comedian and political commentator before Sunday night&#8217;s game against the Cardinals, Maher said that he purchased one of the reported 12 minority stakes available to investors over the winter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First of all, I think it&#8217;s a great investment,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;People sometimes forget that there&#8217;s only one National League franchise in New York City and they&#8217;re not making anymore. I&#8217;m a Met fan my whole life and I think it would be a great place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Neither Maher nor Mets officials would comment on the percentage of his ownership piece or how much he paid for it.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/mets\/index.ssf\/2012\/06\/no_funn_comedian_bill_maher_bu.html\">Comedian Bill Maher buys minority stake in ownership of Mets, calls team &#8216;a great investment&#8217; | NJ.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u00e2\u20ac\u201d No joke: Bill Maher has bought a minority ownership stake in the Mets. In a surprise announcement made by the comedian and political commentator before Sunday night&#8217;s game against the Cardinals, Maher said that he purchased one of the reported 12 minority stakes available to investors over the winter. &#8220;First of all, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/06\/03\/comedian-bill-maher-buys-minority-stake-in-ownership-of-mets-calls-team-a-great-investment-nj-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comedian Bill Maher buys minority stake in ownership of Mets, calls team &#8216;a great investment&#8217; | NJ.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-4H","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}