What Steve Cohen has discovered in Year 3 as Mets owner is that buying a baseball team is not unlike buying a new car: You will never be happier than the moment you drive your new wheels out of the…
and you are a Mets fan, how do you not immediately fast-forward in your mind to 2025 .
And Cohen has the proof of a billionaire’s fortune to point to and say: “This is what happens when you choose clear-headed, cold-blooded reason over the hyperventilation of emotion,” which is clearly what is defining his decisions in the days and hours before the trade deadline. It all makes sense, seen through that prism.
Because the fact is, Mets fans weren’t wowed by how Cohen made his fortune when he became the team’s owner. They were wowed by the fortune itself. They were immediately smitten by the idea of an owner — unlike the past owner — for whom money was no object. And Cohen jumped into that veneer with gusto, piling up the highest payroll in baseball history along the way.
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