New Mets owner Steve Cohen jokingly teases 'Bobby Bonilla Day' plan

The New York Mets have been infamously cutting a check to Bobby Bonilla every year long after he last played for the team and will continue to do so for some time. It appears Mets owner Steve Cohen has a sense of humor about the Bonilla-related mess he inherited.

Mocking and ridiculing the embarrassing fallout from the absurdly constructed contract buyout has become annual tradition in the MLB world when July 1 rolls around every summer. To no surprise, Cohen was compelled to address the annual Bonilla payday shortly after taking over the organization.

Bonilla of course receives a check in the amount of $1.19 million every year from the Mets as part of bizarre buyout arrangement between the parties agreed upon in 2000 that will continue until 2035.

Asked by a fan Thursday on social media whether he’d ever consider cutting a lump-sum check in the amount of $18 million to rid the Mets of having to confront the Bonilla conundrum every summer, Cohen delivered a brilliant response.