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Bill de Blasio is unlikely to block Steve Cohen from becoming an MLB owner, but Jerry Reinsdorf will keep trying

Jerry Reinsdorf’s long-standing objection to the idea of Steve Cohen as an MLB owner goes back nearly a decade.

The Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls owner voted against Cohen becoming control person of the Mets on Tuesday, as the News reported. Reinsdorf was the sole ‘no’ vote, in an overall 7-1 decision from MLB’s ownership committee in favor of Cohen taking over the Mets from Fred and Jeff Wilpon and Saul Katz.

“I would hazard a guess that it would be very difficult for [Cohen] to get a team,” former MLB commissioner Fay Vincent told Bloomberg in a Nov.