The cold, unappetizing truth for Steve Cohen is that he has only one person to blame for the backlash presently aimed at his baseball team, and it isn\u2019t David Stearns. Oh, Stearns makes for an easy target, a never-played-the-game Harvard man who is the perfect contrast to the rub-some-dirt-on-it tobacco chompers who ruled the game for a century.<\/p>\n
But Cohen didn\u2019t inherit Stearns. He hired Stearns. He didn\u2019t just hire Stearns, he waited for Stearns, waited for his contract with the Brewers to expire for a year after he stopped actually working for the Brewers. So Mets fans who are inclined to give Cohen a pass and aim all their venom at Stearns are like people who blame a child for misbehaving at a restaurant, rather than the parent who enables them.<\/p>\n
Except as this ice-cold hot stove season drags ever onward for the Mets, a lot of the fans have begun to realize that slandering the team president and his yet-to-be-revealed plans for the 2026 Mets is a misdirected use of their various furies.<\/p>\n
A lot of those fans remember the way Cohen came barging into the picture in his first hours on the job five years and one month ago, declaring: \u201cOne team wins the World Series every year, so that\u2019s a pretty high bar. But if I don\u2019t win a World Series in the next three to five years \u2013 I would like to make it sooner \u2013 then obviously I would consider that slightly disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cold, unappetizing truth for Steve Cohen is that he has only one person to blame for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19920,20,9,11,320,10,319,431,428,3929],"class_list":{"0":"post-79584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-david-stearns","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-columnists","16":"tag-sports-plus","17":"tag-steve-cohen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}