{"id":755603,"date":"2026-04-27T01:38:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/755603\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T01:38:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:38:54","slug":"carlos-mendozas-seat-couldnt-be-hotter-with-mets-a-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/755603\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Mendoza&#8217;s seat couldn&#8217;t be hotter with Mets a mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was the wrong weekend, the wrong opponent and the wrong venue for the Mets to no-show this badly for Carlos Mendoza.<\/p>\n<p>At minimum, they pushed him a lot closer to \u201cwhen\u201d he will be fired rather than \u201cif.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because this was a weekend in which a more accomplished manager, Boston\u2019s Alex Cora, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/25\/sports\/red-sox-fire-alex-cora-four-members-of-coaching-staff\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">already was axed by an underachieving team<\/a> at 10-17, making it feel a little more realistic and permissible to act even this early in a season for a Mets team that is now 9-19.<\/p>\n<p>Because this was supposed to be a soft landing spot homestand that revived the 2026 Mets and<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/26\/sports\/mets-hit-rock-bottom-after-getting-swept-by-rockies-as-offense-kodai-senga-flop\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> instead they are 2-4 <\/a>on it after being swept in three games by a Rockies team which is better than last year, but in the way a D student is better than an F student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This was the wrong weekend, the wrong opponent and the wrong venue for the Mets to no-show this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":755604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,27639,1283,62486,1266,405,403,1305,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,2632,2225,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-755603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-carlos-mendoza","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-david-stearns","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116474122816613521","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755603","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=755603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}