There may not be another team in professional sports that knows how to make headlines like the New York Mets. Even when the team is irrelevant in the standings, it somehow finds a way to dominate news cycles.
The myriad off-field issues and disastrous on-field performances were supposed to be a thing of the past now that the Wilpon family no longer owns the team. The first year of the Steve Cohen era was supposed to be a success. The team and its fans had World Series aspirations.
Instead, with just a little over a month left to play in the season, the Mets are 5.