{"id":1484,"date":"2010-10-15T11:45:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T11:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2015-04-20T21:24:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T03:24:22","slug":"as-good-as-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1484","title":{"rendered":"As Good As Yours"},"content":{"rendered":"

Realized the other day that I can’t remember a period during which I’ve had any less idea about what happens next with the Mets as I do right at this moment. And it’s a strange feeling.<\/p>\n

\"53\"<\/a>We were all pretty certain that\u00a0Jerry Manuel<\/a>\u00a0wasn’t coming back, and fairly sure Omar would go too, but even back then you were assured by the press that\u00a0Wally Backman<\/a>\u00a0would be next in line, given the Mets’ financial situation, and that maybe for budgetary purposes and tradition they hand it over to John Ricco and a team of bickering advisors but that doesn’t seem all that likely anymore. For one, there’s the idea out there that Sandy Alderson can take the GM job if he wants it, and that would mean neither Backman (who might be fun) nor\u00a0Bobby Valentine<\/a>\u00a0(good and fun!) would be his choice to mange. Well who then? Joe Torre?<\/p>\n

And will it matter anyway, now that we’ve seen the accounts of Jon Daniels’\u00a0inability to hide interest in the gig<\/a>? Or will Rick Hahn’s\u00a0Wolverine<\/a>\u00a0background carry the day? If you asked me two weeks ago I’d have said Terry Ryan gets the GM chair. Maybe not now.<\/p>\n

Today (Friday the 15th, if anyone asks) my bizarre hunch is that Alderson gets the GM job and names Wally Backman the manager … of Class AA Binghamton.\u00a0Lee Mazzilli<\/a>\u00a0in an upset gets the Mets’ managing job and his\u00a0No. 13<\/a>\u00a0back. Sorry,\u00a0Mike Nickeas<\/a>, that’s just how I see it, today.<\/p>\n

What do you guys think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Realized the other day that I can’t remember a period during which I’ve had any less idea about what happens next with the Mets as I do right at this moment. And it’s a strange feeling. We were all pretty certain that\u00a0Jerry Manuel\u00a0wasn’t coming back, and fairly sure Omar would go too, but even back … Continue reading “As Good As Yours”<\/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":[459,166,509,264],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bobby-valentine","tag-omar-minaya","tag-sandy-alderson","tag-wally-backman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","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=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2309,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/2309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}