{"id":439575,"date":"2025-12-11T07:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/439575\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T07:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:18:19","slug":"the-mets-have-blown-it-all-up-and-for-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/439575\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mets have blown it all up \u2014 and for what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Pete Alonso <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/10\/sports\/pete-alonso-bolts-for-155-million-orioles-contract-in-mets-crusher\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is gone now<\/a>, and that hits even harder than the beloved Edwin \u201cSugar\u201d D\u00edaz leaving the day before, because Alonso was a lifetime Met.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know if this offseason could get any worse, but as Mets people keep reminding me, we\u2019re just getting started. This they say is a good thing. We shall see. Mets faithful aren\u2019t pleased (and fairly, no one is more faithful than they are.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI totally understand the fans\u2019 reaction,\u201d Mets owner Steve Cohen texted The Post. \u201cThere is lots of offseason left to put a playoff team on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s lots of time, sure, and there are plenty of free agents and trade possibilities still out there, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Pete Alonso is gone now, and that hits even harder than the beloved Edwin \u201cSugar\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":439576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,31972,1266,71333,405,403,1305,5226,5225,5228,5227,3687,62,2632,2225,88558,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-439575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-edwin-diaz","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-mlb-free-agency","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-mets","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-pete-alonso","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-sports-columnists","22":"tag-sports-plus","23":"tag-steve-cohen","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115699719208723035","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}