I have been even longer. But I'm from New York.
My dad was a NYC fireman. Many of the firemen and cops moonlighted as ushers. My brother and I would pay $3 for seats in the upper deck. Then in the eighth inning, we would meet him for emptied field level seats.
HOJO!
50 years for me as well, seen it all and most of the time. It wasn’t good! Having this owner is such a breath of fresh air, he’ll not only spend money smartly, like all the articles I have read about his philosophy state but I like his passion for building up the Mets minor league system. I also like that we can compete for the international players, that signing period just started, watch out for the Mets getting a very talented player added there soon as well.
I like Sandy Anderson, his hands were literally tied during the Wilpon fiasco his first time around, he can now do his job without restrictions, a huge positive.
The fresh smell of a Wilpon less ownership has really ignited the entire Mets fan base, Wilpon’s son was a major roadblock, he was the President of Baseball ops besides the CFO, the kid was handed the team by his wealthy daddy to play with, when I read the article about 1 year ago how the initial deal fell through had me boiling, for non Mets fans here’s a few cliff notes....
The original deal was, the Wilpons take $2.6Billion from Cohen but they run the team for 5 more years, wow, just wow! The daddy Wilpon then wanted a permanent position for his son after the 5 year window, with a raise and use of private jet, wow, just wow. Cohen then turned around and said, I’m out of the deal to the NY papers, they take my money and still run the team?? This made the Wilpon’s even more hated by the fan base. The Wilpon’s then tried their own media campaign saying Cohen was not fit to be an owners due to his past dealings trying to deflect the pure greed of themselves and their incompetent son, Jeff.
Finally, the minority owners of the Mets, Saul Katz I believe, stepped in at the start of the pandemic, saw the Mets were going to lose another ton of money this year and said...the Cohen deal is back on the table, as were two other interested parties and that Jeff Wilpon will no longer be part of the negotiation team.......big step there, all Mets fans rejoiced hoping Cohen would outbid Arod and his gal toy, which they did.
well, let’s see, love the start of his ownership plus he’s already given back all employees salaries, given a ton of money to the Queen’s NY area and stated....I’m a life long Mets fan, I have the money to make Mets fans happy and that’s my goal, I won’t make money matter fact i forecast losing $400Million the first two years of operation but we’ll right this ship and build a perennial winner, just like he Dodgers have done the last decade.
Hoping for Springer and then the return of Syndergaard in Late June, will be a lot of fun watching he Mets from now on.