MIAMI — Mets owner Steve Cohen came down from Greenwich or Boca or somewhere extremely nice to slum with his $340M baseball investment gone wrong. 

Like the rest of us, he can’t be impressed. 

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Technically, the 2025 Mets are still very much alive in one of the most sorry wild-card races on record, even after doing nothing especially well again while losing 6-2 to the Marlins in South Florida. 

With the biggest loss of the fading year, the Mets fell into an unhappy tie for the sixth wild-card spot. The Reds, who beat the Brewers 3-1, hold the tiebreaker over the Mets by virtue of their head-to-head record. So as of today, the Mets would be out.