There is joy in Flushing where no one cares that Steve Cohen spent a record $765 million (so far) — and was prepared to go for more if the Yankees matched him — for one player in Juan Soto. And while Soto tried to tell us last Thursday it was not about the money but rather what teams wanted to do for the next 15 years,

Hours before the New York Mets and Juan Soto agreed to the largest contract in sports late Sunday night, owner Steve Cohen was not convinced he did enough to lure the slugger to Flushing, Queens. Cohen told ESPN's Jeff Passan and Buster Olney that when he was having dinner on Sunday night at Vitolo,

Cohen sold the Triple-A Syracuse Mets and High-A Brooklyn Cyclones to Diamond Baseball Holdings, which owns 38 other minor league teams, according to a news release. The Binghamton Rumble Ponies were sold to DBH in April.