{"id":345,"date":"2003-06-29T18:48:35","date_gmt":"2003-06-29T18:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=345"},"modified":"2013-11-29T18:49:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T18:49:47","slug":"alomar-traded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"Alomar Traded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/alomar12.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"251\" \/>The Mets ended one of the most dysfunctional relationships in team history today by sending aloof second baseman\u00a0<strong>Smilin&#8217; Robbie Alomar 12<\/strong>\u00a0to the White Sox for three minor leaguers including promising AA reliever\u00a0<strong>Royce Ring,<\/strong>\u00a0about whom headline writers are already drooling. Alomar, whose attitude was never sterling even before he was acquired by Steve Phillips, was poorly prepared to deal with declining skills &#8212; as were Mets fans, not surprisingly &#8212; and no doubt welcomes the divorce. We wind up with custody of the two disappointing years and he the memory of New York writers when it comes time to fill out that Hall of Fame ballot. Sorry, Robbie: It wasn&#8217;t us, it was you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets ended one of the most dysfunctional relationships in team history today by sending aloof second baseman\u00a0Smilin&#8217; Robbie Alomar 12\u00a0to the White Sox for three minor leaguers including promising AA reliever\u00a0Royce Ring,\u00a0about whom headline writers are already drooling. Alomar, whose attitude was never sterling even before he was acquired by Steve Phillips, was poorly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=345\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alomar Traded&#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":[46,122],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-roberto-alomar","tag-royce-ring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","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=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}