Yankees: Mets fans have reached peak delusion if they think Steve Cohen will steal Brian Cashman

Mets fans are once again meddling in Yankees fans’ business. Unbelievable.

If the delusion of New York Mets fans thinking their team is going to make the playoffs in 2020 wasn’t enough, get this — they think new owner Steve Cohen is going to buy them a World Series! It truly doesn’t get any better than that.

Oh wait, it actually does. It VERY much does. Now, as if thinking they can successfully execute a front-office philosophy they’ve been bashing the New York Yankees for possessing over the last 25 or so years, some actually think Cohen can possibly lure general manager Brian Cashman to Queens.

You won’t find anybody laughing harder than Yankees fans right now.

ESPN’s Buster Olney’s column isn’t the first to posit this, either. If you listen to New York sports talk radio and hear the Mets fans that call in, you would have known this is about a week in the making. On WFAN Sports Radio last weekend, a fan felt the need to suggest that Cohen could steal Cashman from the Yankees “with an offer he can’t refuse.”

What’s that offer? $1 billion and his own private island? Why would Cashman, who is one of the top-paid general managers in the game as a member of the most recognizable sports franchise in the world, decide to upend his career and decide to undertake the immense burden of turning around a snake-bitten Mets’ organization?

Truth be told, Cashman has experienced enough heartbreak as the Yankees’ GM. Though he’s won four World Series titles since taking over the post in 1998, the Bombers losing in the Fall Classic in 2001 and 2003 was gut-wrenching. Since that run from 1998-2000, the franchise has only captured one title in 2009.

Plus, the amount of work he’s put into this edition of the Yankees roster not to see it pan out in the form of a championship across a 162-game season would almost be a waste of about seven years (he drafted Aaron Judge back in 2013).

You think a job title upgrade will change his mind? I’m pretty sure that “General Manager of the New York Yankees” is still better than “Conqueror of the Universe and New York Mets President.”

The fact that we’re even addressing this possibility is a waste of time, but we have to do our due diligence and nip it in the bud before others get carried away. Let Mets fans think that buying players in free agency will turn their fortunes around. Let them think JT Realmuto is the answer to all their problems. It’s not at all the culture or decision-making top to bottom …

And, yeah, I guess let them think they’ll have any semblance of a chance to convince the game’s best GM with the greatest organization in the history of the sport to join them.

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