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From the instant the news exploded into New York’s sporting consciousness, on Dec. 4, there was always one 10,000-ton neon pink elephant loitering in any room in which Steve Cohen’s $2.6 billion bid to eventually own 80 percent of the Mets was discussed.
The five-year waiting period until Cohen would assume full control.
On so many levels, that didn’t make sense. Cohen, for instance, didn’t become an old-school “Bonfire-of-the-Vanities”-level Master of the Universe by being anyone’s show pony. The idea that he would blissfully fill the Wilpons’ coffers for five years without having a say in the team’s direction was completely at odds with every profile of him.