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AdvertisementBy New York Daily NewsJul 17, 2020 at 5:00 amBoth on the field and off, few franchises in the history of major league sports lay claim to as snake-bitten a history in recent memory as my beloved New York Mets. Over the last three decades, the team has struggled mightily with ownership disputes, the Bernie Madoff scandal, and multiple failed sale attempts. Plus, until my two boys are old enough to be annoyed by it.Through it all, though, I have always loved the Mets, from the heartbreaking World Series that slipped through our fingers in 2000 and 2015, to the , lifting the spirits of our wounded city and all of America with one clean swing. From Jesse Orosco to Mookie Wilson to Jacob deGrom, the Mets have always been an important part of my life and my family. They are an integral pillar of our Queens community, and an invaluable neighbor that embodies the spirit of not just our borough, but all of New York City.AdvertisementBut as the Wilpon family appears ready to part with the team, the rumored frontrunner to succeed their ownership, notorious hedge fund manager Steve Cohen, is a deeply problematic character who should have every New Yorker concerned about the future of the Mets, and every Major League Baseball owner worried about the league’s place in our society.A quick look at Mr. Cohen’s career raises red flag after red flag. In 2013, his firm, before agreeing to pay $1.8 billion in fines for their malpractice. In the wake of that investigation, the world also learned of SAC’s toxic work culture amid reports of . Even his latest venture, Point72 Asset Management, has been accused of .AdvertisementAnd this is all to say nothing of his brazen to get his children into a top university through an ethics law loophole so big, you could sink Citi Field into it.It seems that wherever Cohen goes and whatever he touches, controversy and corruption follow in short order.Which is why Cohen’s aggressive $2 billion bid to buy the Mets represents everything wrong not just with the business of sports today, but our society as a whole. If the MLB approves this purchase, they will have completely missed the point of what this cultural and historic moment demands.WeekdaysCatch up on the day’s top five stories every weekday afternoon. &gt; At the height of the Black Lives Matter movement and as the nation reckons with racial justice protests across the country — — are baseball’s owners truly going to side with yet another rich white man over In the midst of the #MeToo revolution, is the MLB really going to sell a sports franchise to a man whose firms have so consistently and egregiously enabled misogynistic, dangerous and discriminatory cultures?For a league rife with controversies calling to question the integrity of the sport, this is the perfect moment for baseball to move on from past mistakes and embrace a new era.Cohen’s lifelong record of disregard for ethics and morality in how he operates his businesses tells us everything we need to know about how he would run a sports franchise.The sport of baseball deserves a better steward and Mets fans deserve a better owner. But most importantly, our Queens community deserves a better neighbor.AdvertisementIf Major League Baseball and its owners are serious about beginning to change their legacy, they would step right up, right now, and say no to Cohen’s bid to buy the New York Mets.Ramos represents Corona, East Elmhurst and other neighborhoods in the state Senate. Advertisement

AdvertisementBy New York Daily NewsJul 17, 2020 at 5:00 amBoth on the field and off, few franchises in the history of major league sports lay claim to as snake-bitten a history in recent memory as my beloved New York Mets. Over the last three decades, the team has struggled mightily with ownership disputes, the Bernie Madoff scandal, and multiple failed sale attempts. Plus, until my two boys are old enough to be annoyed by it.Through it all, though, I have always loved the Mets, from the heartbreaking World Series that slipped through our fingers in 2000 and 2015, to the , lifting the...

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