{"id":2638,"date":"2016-08-12T12:45:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T18:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2016-08-12T14:59:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T20:59:01","slug":"mackey-sacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2638","title":{"rendered":"Mackey Sacked"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"54\"<\/a>Back from a short biz-trip to let you know I still don’t know what the Mets are doing with these uni issues, the latest being T.J. Rivera’s recall from Las Vegas and subsequent assignment of\u00a0No. 54.<\/p>\n

I was with everyone else in advocating the Mets issue the recently freed-up No. 2 to Rivera but hadn’t a particularly strong argument for it\u00a0until my friend Edward at the Crane Pool<\/a>\u00a0alerted me to this Daily Snooze profile<\/a> detailing\u00a0how Rivera got to the Mets in the first place:<\/p>\n

“I told Tommy, ‘I can’t believe nobody drafted T.J. You can’t go wrong with him,'” recalls [Mackey] Sasser, who was a Met from 1988-92 [and Rivera’s college coach at Wallace Community College in Alabama]. “He’s going to make someone a good player.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"2\"<\/a>Sasser of course was a notoriously famous No. 2, maybe the jersey’s\u00a0most memorable character behind manager Bobby Valentine and Marvelous Marv Throneberry, who we now know\u00a0personally championed an undrafted free agent who reached the majors on the strength of his hitting. That the Mets somehow overlooked this intersection of opportunity (the Dilson Herrera trade)\u00a0and appropriateness, while going completely off-script and making Rivera the first non-pitcher\/non-coach ever to wear 54 isn’t a great signal they’re doing this whole uni-number-issuing thing correctly.<\/p>\n

The Mets on the other hand aren’t doing\u00a0much of anything right lately, culminating in this week’s deserved sweeping at the hands of the awful Arizona Diamondbacks and their fugly uniforms. Terry Collins yesterday\u00a0made a show of\u00a0demanding a fresh start from his guys, a move that could prove to be too late to save them or him.<\/p>\n

\"images\"<\/a>Speaking of bad teams in fugly uniforms, my travels this week took me to the Twin Cities where I witnessed Target Field for the first time, encountering what for me was an odd site — the homestanding Twins in bright-red home jerseys. The stadium was quite nice, bonus points for locating it within moments of a train station, but the unis bothered me until I realized the none-too-subtle message I’m sure they were meant to deliver. Cheap chic indeed.<\/p>\n

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Back from a short biz-trip to let you know I still don’t know what the Mets are doing with these uni issues, the latest being T.J. Rivera’s recall from Las Vegas and subsequent assignment of\u00a0No. 54. I was with everyone else in advocating the Mets issue the recently freed-up No. 2 to Rivera but hadn’t … Continue reading “Mackey Sacked”<\/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":[626],"tags":[459,738,491,511,737],"class_list":["post-2638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-useless-milestones","tag-bobby-valentine","tag-mackey-sasser","tag-marv-throneberry","tag-terry-collins","tag-tj-rivera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638","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=2638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2640,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions\/2640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}