The Mets are back to being, well, the Mets

Even MLB’s richest owner, an analytic-guru president of baseball operations, and a $380 million payroll aren’t enough to outweigh that cosmic right. So Mets fans reeling from the team’s nightmarish 9-19 start can take at least some solace in this simple truism: ...

Meet the Mets ? You’ve known these Mets for more than 60 years. Pain and heartbreak are part of the very fabric of being a Mets fan.

Even MLB’s richest owner, an analytic-guru president of baseball operations, and a $380 million payroll aren’t enough to outweigh that cosmic right. So Mets fans reeling from the team’s nightmarish 9-19 start can take at least some solace in this simple truism: This is all part of the experience. Many expected those fortunes to change when Steve Cohen, now worth approximately $23 billion , bought the team in 2020 with an appetite to turn it into a winner.

The future appeared even brighter when David Stearns, the NYC-born wunderkind who grew up a Mets fan, became Cohen’s handpicked leader of the front office in 2023. Some even feared the Mets would lose the goofy, chaotic fun that had so long defined them when big-money signings like that of Juan Soto began to put a target on their backs. But rest assured, even after all of that, the Mets are back to being, well, the Mets.