{"id":219849,"date":"2021-04-06T04:16:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T01:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mets-steve-cohen-era-officially-gets-underway\/"},"modified":"2021-04-06T04:16:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T01:16:56","slug":"mets-steve-cohen-era-officially-gets-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mets-steve-cohen-era-officially-gets-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mets’ Steve Cohen era officially gets underway"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Mets’ Steve Cohen era officially gets underway<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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PHILADELPHIA \u2014 So if you are a Mets fan, there is a 99.934 percent chance that you belong to a text thread alongside a few of your other true-believer friends. There is actually a 98.4322257 percent chance (according to Elias Sports Bureau) that you belong to more than one of them, in fact.<\/p>\n

Here are a few thread headers that readers have shared with me through the years:<\/p>\n

\u201c698621.\u201d (Have to love optimistic fans!)<\/p>\n

\u201c41 Forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBleeding Blue and Orange (though confusing, because the other members are also Knicks and Islanders fans).\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, you\u2019ll be happ<\/a>y \u2014 though probably not surprised \u2014 to discover that there is at least one text chain of longtime diehard Mets fans which is about to get a significant alteration to it. Because that is how Steve Cohen, Mets fan since the Polo Grounds, intends to spend his first night as the owner of the Mets.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be texting some of my buddies along the way,\u201d Cohen said, laughing, maybe seven hours before he would finally see the Mets play a baseball game<\/a> that counts under his umbrella of stewardship. \u201cIt\u2019s certainly something to talk about that\u2019s different and everyone seems to be excited about the Mets this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is, of course, delicious to think about an owner being in the middle of a text thread, especially an owner like Cohen, one who is probably as big a fan of the team he owns as anyone else in the market except for John Mara of the Giants. Look, every owner wants <\/em>their team to win and some want it too much.<\/p>\n

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Steve Cohen is about to begin living out every Mets fan\u2019s dream.<\/figcaption>
Corey Sipkin<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But it\u2019s one thing to want. It\u2019s another thing to bleed<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Post was able to break into one of Mara\u2019s game-day text threads with fellow Giants diehards last autumn and it looked something like this:<\/p>\n

Bill O: \u201cLet\u2019s Go Big Blue!\u201d<\/p>\n

John M: \u201cArghggggggg-hhhhhhhhhhhhhggggghghhhhh!\u201d<\/p>\n

(Actually, I\u2019m now being told that wasn\u2019t really Mara\u2019s text thread. But it COULD have been.)<\/em><\/p>\n

So, yes, you can imagine what it was like Monday night, as Cohen gathered with his friends and family around his TV set at home (something tells me that\u2019s quite <\/em>a TV, too). You can imagine what it\u2019ll be like Thursday, when his ownership is officially unveiled at Citi Field, the home opener, the Marlins in the house.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to be in my suite, my downstairs suite, right in middle of the action, engaging with fans,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to finally get this going.\u201d<\/p>\n

If his team wound up sitting out the weekend in Washington due to a spread of COVID-19 among the Nationals, Cohen himself had already taken a mighty swing. Last Wednesday he came to terms with shortstop Francisco Lindor on a $341 million contract, his first real foray into the deep end of the pool. Monday, he was able to make that announcement official.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to predict a World Series<\/a> out of the gate,\u201d Cohen said, which you have to believe wasn\u2019t what he was going to lead with when the texts started flying later on. \u201cWhat I do think is we\u2019re going to be really competitive, and I do believe we\u2019re going to make the playoffs. And once you get into the playoffs anything can happen, right?<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m pretty optimistic. The team looks good to me and I think the fans are really going to enjoy this team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later, he added this, and this may well have been word-for-word the way he typed it out on his cell phone before watching the Phillies\u2019 Matt Moore throw the first pitch of the season to Kevin Pillar:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look at Francisco as a cornerstone of our present and future,\u201d Cohen said. \u201cI think he\u2019s going to lead us to division titles, pennants and World Series championships. He\u2019s all in. I told you I\u2019m all in, and this should leave no doubt. Let\u2019s go Mets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shortened, that\u2019s LGM. Maybe Pete Alonso can advise him how, and when, to properly deposit the bonus letter he favors. Though it\u2019s easy to suspect that Steve Cohen, Mets fan since the Polo Grounds, already knows.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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