Whether the mayor can — or wants to — hold up the sale to Cohen remains to be seen, and any attempt to block the transaction would surely be met with legal challenges. Cohen has already announced that he will hire Sandy Alderson, the former Mets general manager, to run his baseball operations department, and the current Mets owners are eager to sell the team before the end of the year. De Blasio previously expressed his favored choice for new Mets owners, and it was not Cohen. In August, he said he supported the bid by a group headed by the singer and actor Jennifer Lopez and her husband, Alex Rodriguez, the former baseball player and current television analyst. Lopez and Rodriguez made a competitive bid, with Lopez as the control person, but the Mets’ owners chose last month to sell to Cohen.

Source: New York Times October 21, 2020 22:37 UTC