You can imagine?
The new owners of the Mets on the rocks, in terms of their relationship, before they even played a regular season game?
You just need to imagine, because it is not real. Steve Cohen, not Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez, is the owner of Mets. And it is not real because the people who make the decision can imagine the risks associated with a J-Rod offer.
See, Cohen prevailed in the Mets draw because he offered most of the money, $ 2.4 billion. However, that king’s rescue did not exist in a vacuum. It served as a centerpiece for the hedge fund titan’s sales pitch, something that could not be matched by A-Rod and J. Lo, even beyond the total dollars:
Stability.
While Cohen fully funded his offer, the J-Rod group, you may remember, was attended by a crowd of people, including Vincent Viola and Mike Repole. So much uncertainty hung over who the consortium’s controlling person would be that, after Cohen and the Mets agreed on a price, Lopez told Joel Sherman of The Post that she would assume the role of control person if the Mets returned to the market because of de Cohen did not get enough acceptance from the other 29 owners; the owners approved Cohen on October 30th.
And if the prospect of A-Rod and J. Lo breaking up did not reside well in the minds of baseball people – they could also contemplate A-Rod’s considerable transgressions involving illegal performance-enhancing drugs – she had to hide somewhere there right? None of the mega-celebrities have dominated the long-term relationship yet. The Dodgers, with the McCourts, and the Fathers, with John Moores, are two teams that have turned aside as a result of property divorces.
Even though A-Rod and J. Lo are not married – they were engaged, and it is unclear whether they are still – it is not surprising that Dana Kennedy of The Post quoted a source who proclaimed: “Everyone who works in the The business sector for the couple is mainly saying, ‘Thank God they didn’t buy the Mets.’ ”They were referring to the“ huge mess ”of solving things, but you can also imagine all the questions that would have been asked of Mets players about the personal affairs of their new owners.
The Cohen era was not perfect. The search for a baseball operations chief took longer than expected and did not reach the desired superstar executives, and the person hired as general manager, Jared Porter, took just over a month before being fired for cause after the ESPN reported his highly inappropriate conduct towards a journalist in 2016 (when Porter worked for the Cubs). Cohen, after showing his little-known sense of humor while involving fans on Twitter, felt compelled to leave the social media platform temporarily after a tweet dispute with Barstool founder Dave Portnoy about the increase in GameStop resulted in alleged threats to your family.
None of these problems infiltrated the headquarters of the Mets club or Zoom press conferences, however, Porter had already left by the time the spring training opened and the presence of team president Sandy Alderson, brought on board by Cohen even before he officially acquired the team, ensuring that things work smoothly.
Owning a J-Rod would have been an explosion, albeit an exhausting one, for us in the press room. Their most recent statement, “We are working on some things” would be dissected as the British royal family’s thoughts on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. We would be tracking them in their countless homes, in airports, in state-of-the-art gyms.
For Mets, however, this current chapter of J-Rod would have been as welcome as questions about Bernie Madoff.
A-Rod remains an important person in the baseball world, both in his broadcasting role and as a figure in the Major League Baseball without a doubt more famous (as well as his retired teammates Derek Jeter and David Ortiz) than any active player. Your past may well prevent you from having a team. To overcome these difficulties, he must compel decision makers, in some way, to imagine scenarios much more wonderful than ugly.