{"id":672,"date":"2007-03-29T16:44:35","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T16:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=672"},"modified":"2013-11-30T16:45:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T16:45:18","slug":"voice-of-unreason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"Voice of Unreason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/generic\/show_print.php?id=76183&amp;page=&amp;issue=0713&amp;printcde=MzUyNTU1MTEzOQ==&amp;refpage=L2FkbWluL2VkaXQvZWRpdC5waHA\/aWQ9NzYxODMmaXNzdWU9MDcxMyZzZWN0aW9uPW5ld3M=\"><em>Village Voice<\/em><\/a>\u00a0this week featuring\u00a0<strong>Jose Reyes<\/strong>\u00a0on its cover and a provocative \u201cStealing Mickey\u2019s Mantle\u201d headline. Inside,\u00a0<strong>Allen Barra\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>article draws parallels between Reyes and Mantle, noting they shared a city, switch-hitting and stealing ability, a reputation as their era\u2019s most exciting players, and of course, a uniform number (7).<\/p>\n<p>If we going down that path though (and clearly Barra is) I\u2019d sooner associate a pair of 5s in\u00a0<strong>David Wright<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>and Joe DiMaggio.<\/strong>\u00a0And though he raises some interesting points, Barra ultimately bungles the story by getting the Met psyche all wrong:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Jos\u00e9 Reyes is being overrated, it may be in large part because\u00a0<em>Mets fans want to will him into being the first truly great everyday player in team history.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This notion, central to the piece \u2014 the subhed says as much \u2014 would come off more believable had Barra bothered to include any points of view from an actual Met fan as part of the piece. (Had he asked a year ago, he\u2019d have caught many of us hoping only that Reyes approach adequateness). But having built a case for Met fans being tortured and unrealistic, Barra then gets a guy who draws paychecks from the YES network (Goldman) to poke holes in his own trumped-up theory. (Oh, you poor delusional Met fans. Someone must show you tough love). Finally the entire thing is wrapped way too tightly in Yankee perspective: The Mantle comparison is one thing, but the nauseating Jeter showdown at the end is barely even honest (we get a \u201csimilar points in their career\u201d comparison strongly favoring Jeter when comparing like-ages would tell a very different story). Bring back Billy Altman!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen the\u00a0Village Voice\u00a0this week featuring\u00a0Jose Reyes\u00a0on its cover and a provocative \u201cStealing Mickey\u2019s Mantle\u201d headline. Inside,\u00a0Allen Barra\u2019s\u00a0article draws parallels between Reyes and Mantle, noting they shared a city, switch-hitting and stealing ability, a reputation as their era\u2019s most exciting players, and of course, a uniform number (7). If we going down that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=672\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Voice of Unreason&#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":[100],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jose-reyes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","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=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}