Joseph Herrera

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[Joseph Herrera @JosephJHerrera]

@nevernotfapping Respectfully disagree. More like 1000 times better!

[Owen @Owennfa]

Toys R Us was profitable. Private equity bought it anyway, and 33,000 people lost their jobs with nothing.

In 2005, Bain Capital, KKR, and Vornado Realty Trust bought Toys R Us in a leveraged buyout for $6.6 billion.

Here's the part that gets skipped: the company itself was making money. It wasn't failing. It wasn't asking to be saved.

But in a leveraged buyout, the firms don't pay with their own money. They borrow against the company they're buying, and the debt becomes the company's problem, not theirs.

Toys R Us went from having almost no debt to carrying over $5 billion in loans it never asked for and never benefited from.

Every year after that, a huge share of the company's profit went straight to interest payments instead of stores, inventory, or staff. The stores got run down. Amazon and Walmart kept eating market share. Toys R Us couldn't invest its way out because there was nothing left after the debt.

In 2017 it filed for bankruptcy. In 2018 it liquidated completely.

33,000 employees lost their jobs. Store closures. No severance for most of them.

Giovanna De La Rosa worked there for years. She testified before Congress on November 19, 2019, describing what it meant to lose her income with nothing after decades of loyalty to a company that had been profitable the entire time she worked there.

The firms that bought it walked away having collected management fees for over a decade, regardless of outcome.

Here's the sentence that explains the entire model: the buyers cannot lose. The debt belongs to the company. The fees get collected either way.

They didn't buy a business to grow it.

They bought a business to extract from it, and left 33,000 people holding what was left.

[Joseph Herrera @JosephJHerrera]

@clare__4019 Toronto is a beautiful city but their ballpark is a dump.

[Joseph Herrera @JosephJHerrera]

@BallParkBuzz I think a good comp would be Xander Bogaerts from 2013. If this team is for real then you have to bring him up now.

[Only In Boston @OnlyInBOS]

Suffolk University students are pushing back against the school's new Applied AI co-major.

A new petition with over 500 signatures calls on Suffolk to scrap the program & redirect funding toward students, staff and arts and humanities after 65 staff positions were cut recently.

[Joseph Herrera @JosephJHerrera]

@RetroGameCorps Yeah totally insane I bought a comparable card in Aug 2024 for $40. This has to end before they break the bubble on so many fronts. Thank you for sharing this deal, as by today's standards it certainly is.

[Joseph Herrera @JosephJHerrera]

@tylermilliken_ @Sean_McAdam I think leadership qualities should be defined by how his teammates and those inside the locker room view him, and not by his qualities of interaction with the media. I understand the need for accountability, but I find it a bit suspect to make this point now.

[Joseph Herrera @JosephJHerrera]

@BallParkBuzz @HebHammer94 They need at least some reason to buy a ticket in Denver

[Joseph Herrera @JosephJHerrera]

@IanMBrowne Especially given Eaton hasn't played in how long?

[Joseph Herrera @JosephJHerrera]

@Jared_Carrabis @Sean_McAdam This organization is clueless and has been since 2019. They just keep stringing us poor bastards along for the ride. Once Dombrowski was canned that was the end of the gravy train for the Sox until they sell it seems

[Joseph Herrera @JosephJHerrera]

@JakeIggy The best example of this in relatively recent history is the Christian Vazquez trade. The question is whether we believe that this PBO and staff can find the next Wilyer Abreu and make the deal

[Joseph Herrera @JosephJHerrera]

@gabbymaljanian He’s been one of the worst hitters in baseball this season. I’d love to know what went wrong here

[Joseph Herrera @JosephJHerrera]

@sl343_

[Mike McAuliffe @BrightSideSox]

Happy Mother’s Day Weekend! 💗

I’m giving away this collection of cards to one lucky follower. 😄

To Enter:
LIKE
RETWEET
FOLLOW if you want to

Will randomly choose a winner tomorrow at first pitch. 🫡

[Joseph Herrera @JosephJHerrera]

@clare__4019 At least they didn't pull a Red Sox and wait until minutes before the first pitch to call the game. Sorry this happened to you regardless

[Joseph Herrera @JosephJHerrera]

@ChrisCotillo Yeah the Woosox seemed to figure it out hours ago. I don't blame the fans here.

[Joseph Herrera @JosephJHerrera]

@clare__4019 I hope I was just misinformed, and that you get the cooler on Sunday!

[Joseph Herrera @JosephJHerrera]

@clare__4019 They told me maybe this summer they'll restock other colors? Take that with a grain of salt of course

[Joseph Herrera @JosephJHerrera]

@clare__4019 I went tonight and can unfortunately confirm I was told the same thing