New York Mets owner Steve Cohen, top baseball operations executive David Stearns, and manager Carlos Mendoza held a forum during the team's fan fest event on Saturday. Predictably, the group was met with "We want Pete" chants from onlookers hoping to persuade the braintrust into entering a new agreement with longtime first baseman and current free agent Pete Alonso.

Steve Cohen, in an apparent message to Pete Alonso's agent Scott Boras, said that the Mets' negotiations with the free agent first baseman have been "exhausting."

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