Now, I'm a Mets guy, but the Yankees being left with dead money around their necks isn't something that makes me cry, either.
They have more money than they can ever spend (whether they want to pay luxury tax etc. is another thing). Over here in Europe, you only ever see three teams' merch in the wild, in this order: Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox. I know of a German guy on Youtube sometimes wearing a Cards shirt or cap, so he's the Cards' German weirdo. (Yes, there is one per team) I know of one (1) person in Germany into the Padres. You get the proportions.
I saw a Mets item on a human body other than mine *once* over here. And that was a on a black guy, speaking English, in a KFC, two miles from a U.S. Army base.
That is a long-winded way of saying that all that merch they sell all over the world is gonna pay for a 37-year-old Stanton much more easier than the Mets are going to pay for a 40-year-old Cano. The soft cap is a different beast, but, eh...