The New York mess

Despite a season that has improbably gone off the rails, the Mets have at least one thing even their harshest critics should envy

Max Scherzer (and several others) may be gone, but as long as Steve Cohen is in charge, you can be sure the Mets will reload. (Photo courtesy of Reuters)

Talking with people who work in Baseball and many who follow the game closely, I hear a lot of glee regarding the 2023 struggles of the New York Mets. 

With the largest Opening Day payroll in major league history, a figure that—including luxury tax—approached a half billion dollars, the expectation was that 3rd-year owner Steve Cohen’s club would steamroll into the postseason and have a legitimate shot at the World Series title that has eluded the franchise since Dwight Gooden, Darryl Strawberry, Gary Carter and Keith Hernandez were the kings of Queens in 1986. 

But a funny thing happened on the way to the ticker-tape parade through lower Manhattan’s Canyon of Heroes.