NEW YORK _ Steve Cohen, with an estimated $13 billion fortune, won't be doing his offseason shopping in the "fruits and nuts" aisle, as super-agent Scott Boras once mockingly said of the Mets.
And it wasn't an isolated incident, either. More like a winter-meetings ritual. Every December, Boras positioned himself in some high-profile area of a lobby or courtyard for his annual media address and took great delight in ripping the Mets for their frugal ways.
Considered the unofficial opening day of Boras' efforts to separate billionaire owners from their cash, the agent's greatest hit-jobs included the Mets choosing to live outside "Playoff-Ville" (2017), stuck in the "freezer section" (2012) and a NASA comparison involving "the Wright stuff ... but few astronauts." (2013).
