{"id":670240,"date":"2026-04-08T12:52:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/670240\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:52:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:52:28","slug":"steve-cohen-calls-out-ny-mets-fans-who-didnt-show-up-after-getting-free-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/670240\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Cohen calls out NY Mets fans who didn&#8217;t show up after getting free tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5p\">The New York Mets bumped up the start time of Tuesday\u2019s game three hours to save fans from a brutal night in the wind and cold. Select fans were offered a chance to receive free tickets to ensure the Mets vs. the Arizona Diamondbacks opener didn\u2019t look like a game from 2020 minus the cardboard cutouts.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5s\">Mets owner Steve Cohen tweeted for the first time since January 31 after the walk-off win. It wasn\u2019t to praise Ronny Mauricio. It was to play a little game.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The free ticket giveaway was fully subscribed within hours yesterday . Guess the percentage of no shows from the ticket offer<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steven Cohen (@StevenACohen2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StevenACohen2\/status\/2041672906984362053?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5y\">The answer was revealed minutes later.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The answer is  58 percent .<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steven Cohen (@StevenACohen2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StevenACohen2\/status\/2041673928276402335?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 8, 2026<\/a>According to Steve Cohen, 58% of fans who had free tickets to Tuesday\u2019s Mets game didn\u2019t show up anyway<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"67\">Cohen has called out fans before for their lack of attendance. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/baseball\/comments\/1isn74f\/steve_cohen_really_bothered_by_mets_attendance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Disappointed by the 2024 numbers<\/a>, fans came out much earlier and often in 2025.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6a\">Unfortunately, the way things went in 2025 didn\u2019t have as many rushing to buy tickets this offseason. There was Juan Soto and the enjoyment of how 2024 went that had fans buying into the 2025 team. It\u2019s back to square one with the 2026 team. The offseason was good by baseball standards, but Freddy Peralta, Luis Robert Jr., and Bo Bichette don\u2019t sell out baseball games. Winning does. Nice weather helps, too.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6d\">Cohen\u2019s not wrong in expressing the lack of gratitude the Mets provided by the 58% of no-shows to the game. Certainly a nice gesture by the Mets, Cohen breaking his months-long social media silence to gripe about it doesn\u2019t seem to have him eager to give out anything for free again.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6g\">Shaming fans who didn\u2019t show up was a strange way to discuss Mets baseball, especially with a 7-4 record and plenty of positives to take from what we\u2019ve seen thus far. Surely, a few fans intended to attend and something came up. Others revealed their true colors and took away an opportunity from others to claim a free ticket and not show up anyway. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6j\">I wonder what percentage of fans would have satisfied Cohen. 100% is the sensible total when you\u2019re gifted anything. Just over half is more about the thrill of winning anything at all. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6m\">\u201cIf it\u2019s free, it\u2019s for me\u201d isn\u2019t in Cohen\u2019s dialect.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Mets bumped up the start time of Tuesday\u2019s game three hours to save fans from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203],"class_list":{"0":"post-670240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mets","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkmets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116369184933838843","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}