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Former Yankee star Derek Jeter and frequent joke subject Jeb Bush are now business partners, and their business is baseball:
A group led by former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and former New York Yankees captain Derek Jeter has won the auction for the Miami Marlins baseball team with a $1.3 billion bid, according to a person with knowledge of the deal.
One of the groups the pair beat out included Tagg Romney (one of Mitt’s sons) and former star major league pitcher Tom Glavine. Earlier, reports suggested that Jared Kushner’s brother and brother-in-law were close to buying the team, only for that deal to fall apart when it was also reported that the Trump administration was considering nominating current Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria to be the U.S.’s ambassador to France. Which created the appearance of a quid pro quo, and admittedly a very appealing one: “We’ll pay you to live in Paris if you also let us pay you $1 billion for your mediocre baseball team” would have been a pretty solid deal for Loria.
Anyway, congratulations to Derek Jeter! Finally a lucky break for that guy.
