Steve Cohen stepped down from the high echelons of Point72 Asset Management in the final days of 2020 to take the owner’s box at Citi Field in an attempt to save Mets supporters from the dreary mediocrity of their beloved baseball team. The new owner, a hedge fund manager, arrived with an unbeatable amount of money and the unwavering ambition to lead a struggling Mets team to the World Series within three to five years.However, the Mets had only advanced to the Wild Card round following a season with 101 wins at the beginning of 2024.Steve Cohen stepped down from the high echelons of Point72 Asset Management in the last days of 2020 to take the owner’s box at Citi Field in an attempt to protect Mets supporters.
- In the waning days of 2020, Steve Cohen descended from the lofty perch of Point72 Asset Management and into the owner’s box at Citi Field looking to save Mets’ fans from the doldrum mediocrity of their favorite baseball team. As a hedge fund manager, the new owner came with an insurmountable sum of money and the ever-ambitious goal of taking a downtrodden Mets team to the World Series in 3-5 years. But as of the start of the 2024 season, the Mets had only made it to a Wild Card round after a 101-win season.
After the start of 2024, it looked like another losing season out of the Wilpon years. Then something remarkable happened. On June 12th, a loveable face donned a Mets cap, stepped out from his McDonald’s abode, and made his way onto the mound before the Mets game began. Not unlike the moon landing, that first step on the mound was something historic.
In a birthday appearance that unfortunately lacked purple milkshakes, the Grimace reared back and threw the first pitch. There was no immediate celebration, it was just an average first pitch like most others, but what followed was the greatest Mets’ underdog story since the Miracle Mets toppled the Orioles in the 1969 World Series.
