There were several intriguing moments from the New York Mets' January 25 Amazin' Day fan fest event at Citi Field. However, the most compelling was surely what

In Steve Cohen's 'brutally honest" assessment, he expressed his displeasure with the way discussions have gone with Pete Alonso's camp.

The Mets held their first winter event for fans in five years at Citi Field, and Pete Alonso was a notable absence.

Many Mets fans attempted to send a message to the front office about Pete Alonso. The front office redirected the message to Scott Boras.

This was a recurring theme throughout SNY broadcaster Gary Cohen’s conversation with the Mets’ leadership. Later, after Stearns repeated how much the team loves Alonso, their homegrown, free agent first baseman, Stearns expressed that they “also feel really good about the young players that are coming through (the) system.”

On Saturday, Cohen described his negotiations with Alonso’s camp as “exhausting” and said the Mets must be prepared to move on if nothing changes. Alonso, like Soto, is represented by agent Scott Boras.

Steve Cohen can afford to pay Pete Alonso whatever he wants. The man ranked No. 162 on Bloomberg's Billionaires index has already committed to paying Juan Soto

Until the ink dries on a Pete Alonso contract elsewhere, there will always be a chance he returns to the Mets. Owner Steve Cohen acknowledged that much during a panel discussion at the team’s Amazin’ Day fanfest event at Citi Field,

As New York Mets fans chanted “We Want Pete,” team owner Steve Cohen addressed the negotiations with free agent Pete Alonso.

New York Mets owner Steve Cohen was transparent with the Mets' fan base chanting for Pete Alonso to be re-signed, saying contract talks have been worse than Juan Soto's.

To hear New York Mets owner Steve Cohen tell it, he is not close to re-signing free agent first baseman Pete Alonso for one reason. “And a lot of it is, I don’t like the structures that he presented to us. I think it’s highly asymmetric against us, and I feel strongly about this,” Cohen told fans (and reporters) at Amazin Day on Saturday.

Talks between the Mets and Pete Alonso's agents at the Boras Corporation seemingly hit an impasse last week, as reports