It’s hard to argue with the days the Mets won the 1969 and 1986 World Series as the best days in team history, but today was not such a bad day, either. It was the day we saw the last of the Wilpons.
Steve Cohen and his $14 billion were approved by MLB on Friday (and Mayor di Blasio did not muck things up like he apparently threatened to do) to buy the team from the Wilpons for $2.4 billion. Cohen immediately earned good will by restoring pre-pandemic wages to Mets employees who had their salaries cut, and donated $17.