There was an interesting Joel Sherman piece in the New York Post today about A-Rod and Jennifer Lopez still holding onto some hopes that they could get the Mets away from Steve Cohen. This comes a few days after another article in the Post quoted furious accusations from Rodriguez that the bidding had been rigged for Steve Cohen to win. Previous articles over the past month from the Post and other sources indicated that the Wilpons hated Cohen and wanted A-Rod's group to win if they came even close to Cohen's bid. Clearly not all of those things could have been true simultaneously, but yeah sure, whatever.
There were reports in a couple of places that the deal was essentially done, including a Joe Pantorno tweet that I embedded in yesterday's post. This one from SNY tweeted out earlier today is a bit less definitive about a deal being concluded:
As I mentioned yesterday, I'm very much at the place where I want it all to be over. I'm kind of feeling that way about the season, too, as the Mets put forth another dismal effort against the Orioles as they dropped back down to 5 games under .500. It's like those two wins in the middle of the Phillies series never happened, as the Mets seem committed to give the tail end of the Wilpon era the futility it deserves. The bit of chaos A-Rod is bringing to the closing chapter of the team's sale seems somehow fitting, also.
I have some honest sympathy for Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez in this whole deal, no matter what the truth is regarding why their bid came up short. Coming up short of what you wanted leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Any Mets fan who has spent the last decade plus watching the club he or she roots for come up short again and again and again can identify at the bitterness of watching your hopes die. There's no participation trophy for the fans of a large market club so poorly run by their penurious owners. There's none for coming up short in trying to purchase that ballclub, either. I understand the bitterness. The only participation trophy in this whole deal goes to the Wilpons: over $2 billion dollars as a consolation prize for being forced to unload the ballclub that their mismanagement turned into a punchline. It's hard to see the justice.
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