 For whatever reason, instead of paying him $5.9 million at the close of his contract, the Mets agreed to make annual payments of nearly $1.2 million for 25 years. I don't understand the math of it. I don't get it why you would do that. Except you're deferring that all to the team you're going to sell, which is what they did when Wilpon sold the team to Steve Cohen. It became his problem.