Oh look! Steve Cohen finally decided to take time away from bribing the elites of New York City with the goal of building a casino to check in on his baseball team. Yay!
Unfortunately for him, and me, the 2026 New York Mets are in an identical state of the chop shops the owner is trying to tear down in favor of said casino. Firing the manager now is like me gaining 50 pounds and blaming my personal trainer because I forgot to buy a gym membership.
The team is 34-47, not even close to a wild card spot, and has seen Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto, who’s contracts exceed a combined $1 Billion, play a total of nine games together. New York has played 81 as a team.
Steve Cohen’s Mets started the season 6-4. Cold weather prompted the Mets to move a Monday night game against the Diamondbacks a day later to Tuesday afternoon. Cohen generously opted to allow fans to purchase free vouchers for the early game. He then went on Twitter to complain when only 58% of those who claimed vouchers showed up noon on a workday.
His team immediately went on to lose 12 in a row. He has not tweeted since. I’d like to believe he has not watched since either.
if he had watch, he would have realized carlos mendoza should have been fired before the end of april. he should have realized his president of baseball operations is a pompous moron who would probably be better off acting as mark zuckerburg in the ‘social network’ sequel than running a baseball team.
cohen would have realized a team with the third highest payroll in baseball is trotting out austin slater in the five hole, jared young (who has actually been competent shoutout Jared Young) cleanup, and mj melendez four times a week.
he would have cut ties with david peterson well before the end of june, sent kodai senga over to los angeles for a dodger dog , and he would have fired the gen z social media manager that is convinced graphics consumed with names and words in all lowercase letters looks more like a teenage girls VSCO than a seriously run organization’s page.
At least he did something now though! When the season is over the kids are out of school and the Knicks no longer can distract the city!
This baseball team has been an unequivocal disaster for well over a year now. You can’t blame injuries when your plan to replace the all time home run leader was Mark Vientos and an injury-prone designated hitter. You can’t blame the players when your rotation failed you last year and the answer to fix that was bringing in ONE proven arm.
You can’t blame payroll when you handed out a four-year contract to Sean Manea, replaced a plus-war, 20+ home run player with a declining 35-year-old infielder. You can’t blame the fans for not showing up when the product is shit.
I’m so unbelievably happy fans are raining down chants of Pete Alonso every time Mark Vientos makes an error. Next time Baltimore or Texas comes to town I hope the whole ballpark unironically roots heavily for the road team.
Nothing is going to change until David Stearns is treated by the Mets the way Elmo was treated by Knicks fans at the Canyon of Heroes. Until the clown in orange and blue tower gets fired, Mets fans will be stuck in limbo while he sits at his computer and fiddles with his fucking formulas.
I’m not saying I have all the answers, but I’m willing to bet my life I could have done a better job than this. I’m sick of this team being Sluggishly reactionary.
Steve Cohen, wake the hell up.
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