Fan hilariously compares NY Mets owner Steve Cohen’s unique art piece to Pete Alonso

Giving Pete Alonso $155 million was something only Steve Cohen would approve, but the owner of the New York Mets seems a little more hands-off this winter. His passion before the Mets was collecting art, sometimes of the absurd variety.

As @AllMetsTweets hilariously pointed out (no pun intended), one of Cohen’s most iconic purchases called “Pointing Man” cost him $141.3 million. Adjusted for inflation from 10 years ago, it’s actually a lot more at $193.6 million. I wonder if someone else would pay that amount today.

Which was the better buy for Steve Cohen?

Cohen’s art collection is one of his unique passions with Pointing Man being one of his most absurd. He sold a gold toilet last month for around $10 million. Those savings would have paid for about 2 months of Alonso. Perhaps the proceeds go towards paying down someone to take Jeff McNeil or gets invested into multiple silver toilet paper holders. You can probably buy a dozen of those for $10 million.

Financially, we’re all wise enough to understand buying an aging first base slugger and a piece of art are different. There are financial benefits to purchasing art as it lowers your liability. No such reward comes from giving a player the highest AAV at his position in history. You buy Alonso for five years, you’re getting a larger mystery bag than Cohen received when he bought that piece back in 2015.

Fans joined in on the funny comparison, noting how the art piece could probably play first base for the Mets. Longlegged, he might not even have to scoop a short hop. He could catch some of them on the fly.

Laughing throw pain is a big part of being a Mets fan. The shock of seeing Alonso depart for the Baltimore Orioles is fresh and laughing it off is a coping mechanism fans have been doing since about 1987. The only thing that could have made this better is if the exact totals matched and the purchase took place while he was the Mets owner. In that case, those unable to accept Alonso’s departure might not think it was so funny.