Steve Cohen press conference shows Mets could be Dodgers East

Mets owner Steve Cohen might be building Dodgers East, based on his comments on Tuesday.

Mets fans are thrilled to be ushering in a new era of baseball in New York this week with the official arrival of owner Steve Cohen, but Dodgers fans couldn’t help but notice the new leader couldn’t keep their name out of his mouth.

In the latest example of rampant jealousy for the Dodgers model (who wouldn’t want to be us?!), Cohen couldn’t help but repeatedly divulge in his introductory press conference that he’s going to attempt to build the exact same thing in Queens.

It’s not that simple, but it is fair to be impressed by us. We’re kind of a big deal.

This last eight years of Dodgers baseball comprising our current era after we sorted out our, um, financial improprieties has finally been marked by a title. With that in mind, it should serve as a warning to the idealistic Cohen: you can build whatever you’d like in your vision, but even a perfect franchise fails more often than not.

Cohen is attempting to turn the Mets into a dueling player development and free agent spending machine, though most fans are excited simply to watch him flex his financial might. The bottom line is, though, that Cohen wouldn’t have been approved if the rest of the league’s owners thought he was about to be doling out ludicrous contracts that would make a mockery out of other MLB teams’ efforts.

Cohen won’t reset the market, but he will be more willing to dip his feet in the pool than his predecessors, which will create additional competition for the Dodgers.

Most of this was lip service — after all, who doesn’t want to be like the World Champs who also boast a robust farm system?

But there’s a lot of distance between speaking it, and speaking it into existence. We’re flattered, really, but there’s no reason for Dodgers fans to be worried yet about a second behemoth on the opposite coast.

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