If the man who is in charge of all of Major League Baseball is to believed, then the deal for Steve Cohen to rescue the Mets is pretty much dead.
“There is not going to be a transaction. My belief is that’s accurate,” commissioner Rob Manfred said at the owners meeting in Orlando on Thursday.
Sounds believable. But then he added something that just does not pass the smell test:
“I can tell you — and it’s based on conversations with the buyer and the seller on an ongoing basis — the assertion that the transaction fell apart because of something that the Wilpons did is completely and utterly unfair.