Steve Cohen Anxious To See Fans At Citi Field

According to sources, Steve Cohen is as anxious as you to see that day when fans will be allowed entry again at full capacity to ballparks in 2021. A source also said that Cohen is itching at the bit to assume full control of the Mets.

Basically, Cohen is expected to immediately get to work at Citi Field when the approval of assuming control of the Mets is official in a few weeks.

The goal is getting Mets employees and Citi Field personnel back to work and opening the gates for Opening Day in April. Cohen, of course, wants a full house or limited number of fans as does all of baseball.

In the end, though, the decision is in the hands of government and medical guidelines that go along with COVID. A direction of where the Coronavirus is headed is as difficult as understanding how analytics has changed the game of baseball.

All the money that Steve Cohen brings, in due time, hopefully and eventually will lead to a long awaited championship flag at Citi Field. 

And, as the sources say, Steve Cohen is willing to be patient. He is watching the World Series, like you and I. Cohen is looking at how the protocols are working for the 11,000 or so fans that have entered Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.

I will be the first to admit there was no chance the abbreviated 2020 MLB season would resume and get to the final culmination of crowning a new World Series champion. Here we are, in late October, and baseball has survived during a global pandemic.

It took a lot of work, effort, cooperation, and of course MLB had the manpower and money to assure we would get to this point. 

There were hesitations and some disruption with the schedule as teams secured the proper medical protocols that were in place. As the abbreviated season progressed, and with the impending sale, Steve Cohen was also watching.

Cohen is anxious about putting a winning team on the field. But he is also cautious and we are a long way off between now and April when it comes to decisions about opening the gates at Citi Field.

Remember, Steve Cohen is also about business. And this is the business of baseball and working with 29 other owners. It’s working with the office of the Commissioner of Baseball. 

Regardless if you were in favor or not of the expanded playoff format, 16 teams, MLB devised a way to make the game more interesting. Fans or not in the ballparks and that means more games. It adds to more revenue for teams with the significance of television revenue.  

Though, in my opinion, the format needs to revert to the division winners and two wild card teams in each league. Then again, my opinion and yours means nothing as those in power make the decisions. 

The main interest is retaining fans. The main goal is seeing that the Mets, under a new front office regime, are one of those teams playing baseball a year from now and with the proper medical protocols in place.