{"id":1300,"date":"2009-11-13T18:06:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T18:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2013-12-08T18:08:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T18:08:14","slug":"your-move-creep-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1300","title":{"rendered":"Your Move, Creep"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I<\/em><em>\u00a0had a guaranteed military sale with ED-209. Renovation program! Spare parts for 25 years! Who cared if it worked or not?\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211;Dick Jones, Robocop<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was reminded of this remark while reading a recent article on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazinavenue.com\/2009\/11\/2\/1098558\/why-omar-minaya-failed-and-what-it\" target=\"_blank\">Amazin\u2019 Avenue<\/a>\u00a0that sought to determine where Omar Minaya\u2019s allegiances stood in the age-old debate between Scouts and Stats. It\u2019s a provocative piece and more evidence, as if you needed some, that the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/faithandfear.blogharbor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">best writing<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itsmetsforme.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Mets<\/a>\u00a0these days is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/loge13.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">being done<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/metsguyinmichigan.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">everyday<\/a>\u00a0by losers like you and me who simply\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/omniality.mlblogs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">devote<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/metswalkoffs.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/metstradamus.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">thought<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerfieldmaz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the team<\/a>\u00a0than the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/columnists\/harper\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">usual suspects<\/a>\u00a0with better access.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/22.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-105\" alt=\"22\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/22.gif\" width=\"55\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>But back to Dick Jones for a moment. I thought of him because it was clear that in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/putz-jj\">JJ Putz<\/a>\u00a0trade referenced in the above article, limiting the scope of Omar\u2019s motivations for making that deal to Scouting or Statistics, or even a combination of them, sort of misses the larger point of having made that move primarily to make a show of displeasure with the 2008 bullpen and a scapegoat of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/heilman-aaron\">Aaron Heilman<\/a>, scouts and stats be damned. As long as it created the illusion that the Mets had become bulletproof, who cared if it worked it not?<\/p>\n<p>Now that it\u2019s become clear that committing five players and $10 million to a fat closer with arm trouble while gambling on a lineup with too many holes and a rotation with too many questions left us with nothing more than a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/green-sean\">set-up reliever\u00a0<\/a>who more or less is the equivalent of Heilman, while providing an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.com\/seattlesports\/archives\/184226.asp?source=mypi\" target=\"_blank\">explosive bounty<\/a>\u00a0for the Mariners who just might wind up re-signing Putz, maybe Omar ought to listen less to the usual suspects and their demands for dramatic fixes to last year\u2019s problems, and care about what works or not.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s your million dollars, Putz. Now go away.<\/p>\n<p>Numeric content coming soon, I promise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I\u00a0had a guaranteed military sale with ED-209. Renovation program! Spare parts for 25 years! Who cared if it worked or not?\u201d &#8211;Dick Jones, Robocop I was reminded of this remark while reading a recent article on\u00a0Amazin\u2019 Avenue\u00a0that sought to determine where Omar Minaya\u2019s allegiances stood in the age-old debate between Scouts and Stats. It\u2019s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1300\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Your Move, Creep&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[108,379,407,166],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aaron-heilman","tag-daniel-murphy","tag-jj-putz","tag-omar-minaya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1301,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}