Ladies and gentlemen, Flushing is burning.<\/p>\n
Reluctant to rest upon a history of historically stupid dealmaking, the Mets have reportedly coughed up\u00a0Lastings Milledge<\/a>\u00a044<\/strong>\u00a0in a trade for Washington Nationals players\u00a0Ryan Church and Brian Schnieder<\/strong>. Wow. Schneider, who wears\u00a0No. 23<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0with Washington, at one time was a pretty heads-up defensive player but has never been a good hitter and in fact is quite a bad one, appears to spell an early end to the Metly career of erstwhile backstop\u00a0Johnny Estrada<\/strong>. Church, a lefthanded hitting insect type who\u2019s actually better than I would have guessed though only about as good as Milledge is right now, was seen most recently wearing\u00a0No. 19.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Both guys could conceiveably retain their digits in 2008 but it would mean a third career uni number for\u00a0Marlon Anderson.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Now, I\u2019m not one of those guys vulnerable to misplacing my faith in every young kid who tears up the Florida State League; nor do I believe that Milledge\u2019s various acts of youthful idiocy ought not to be a cause for concern. What I worry about are the Mets seemingly never learning not to let their guys go so easily.<\/p>\n More harrowing news to follow at the Winter Meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ladies and gentlemen, Flushing is burning. Reluctant to rest upon a history of historically stupid dealmaking, the Mets have reportedly coughed up\u00a0Lastings Milledge\u00a044\u00a0in a trade for Washington Nationals players\u00a0Ryan Church and Brian Schnieder. Wow. Schneider, who wears\u00a0No. 23\u00a0with Washington, at one time was a pretty heads-up defensive player but has never been a good hitter … Continue reading “44 Caliber Killers”<\/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":[337,211,336],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brian-schneider","tag-lastings-milledge","tag-ryan-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","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=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}