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The speaker’s tone is candid and angry. There's a sense of betrayal—an expectation that with Cohen’s wealth and Sterns’ sentimentality, decisions of this magnitude would have been handled differently. Fans invested emotionally and financially in the team, and feeling ignored or dismissed fuels intense disappointment.
“I thought that when Steve Cohen bought this team, events like yesterday and today would not happen,” the speaker laments. Fans expected owner and management to take calculated risks to keep valuable players, especially when those players are critical to future success.