{"id":161,"date":"2008-06-24T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T03:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=161"},"modified":"2008-06-24T22:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T03:42:00","slug":"inconsistent-consistency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2008\/06\/24\/inconsistent-consistency\/","title":{"rendered":"Inconsistent Consistency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why was every one calling for change for change\u2019s sake? I mean this particularly in reference to the idea that we needed a manager change and a shake-up.  It seems that the biggest problem with this team this year is both the offense and the lack of consistency, both in-game and over an extended group of games. <\/p>\n<p>So why would a shake-up, which by its very nature creates a disturbance and breaks up any consistency.  On top of this, the move was made while the Mets were on a winning streak, which couldn\u2019t have been what they wanted to shake up.  Maybe what this team needs, or needed, was a steadier day-to-day regiment.  A few weeks with the same lineup, healthy left and right fielders, the same manager and coaches, confirmed by Omar to be there all year.  Surely giving Willie the okay for sure would\u2019ve deferred some of the distraction, and it\u2019s not like the statement would\u2019ve been binding if Omar then decided, in July as things possibly grew more dire, to fire Willie and others anyway.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s too late for that, but now that Manuel is supposedly here all year, and Church is coming back, maybe this team can find a little bit of that daily regiment of monotony to start grinding out some real good streaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why was every one calling for change for change\u2019s sake? I mean this particularly in reference to the idea that we needed a manager change and a shake-up. It seems that the biggest problem with this team this year is both the offense and the lack of consistency, both in-game and over an extended group &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2008\/06\/24\/inconsistent-consistency\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inconsistent Consistency&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[411,503,413,484,502],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}