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By Charlie Hangley
Five years. The guy said five years. Five years to a World Series championship.
Well, we’re now in year three and the distance between where this team is and a World Series championship is about as far as between now and 1986. Steve Cohen is – purportedly: some opinions differ – a lifelong Mets fan. He is a successful businessman, you could say, having amassed a personal wealth basically equivalent to the GDP of about half of Europe. When the opportunity came for him to purchase the team he loves, he pounced on it, with characteristic opportunism and the brashness that comes from having a lot of money. We fans rejoiced, as a fella who was “one of us,” but with gobs of dollars at his disposal, arrived to rescue us from the egregious previous ownership. The ship came to take these New York baseball castaways back to civilization. And he promised it would happen quickly! As was written at the time, he immediately became “our George Steinbrenner,” the guy who would always have the fans’ back and would do whatever was necessary to bring home a winner – that moneyed brashness speaking again. But is he truly the savior we’d hoped for? Well, compared the old guys…
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