{"id":322062,"date":"2026-06-27T21:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322062\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T21:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:18:07","slug":"post-readers-sound-off-on-the-sorry-state-of-the-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322062\/","title":{"rendered":"Post readers sound off on the sorry state of the Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you just have to turn the laptop over to the people. Mets fans responded in droves to my Friday column imploring <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/25\/sports\/do-something-steve-cohen-or-there-is-something-far-worse-coming-for-the-mets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Cohen to do something<\/a> (and that included Cohen, apparently, who approved the termination of Carlos Mendoza a few hours later).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He wasn\u2019t alone. Here\u2019s a sampling:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Phil MacDonald: \u201cBlame <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/26\/sports\/david-stearns-insists-he-still-has-steve-cohens-mets-support\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Stearns &amp; Steve Cohen<\/a>. I never understand why GMs bring in players with injury histories and the Mets brought in many. \u2026 Jorge Polanco, Luis Robert [Jr.], Marcus Semien and Bo Bichette all have had stints on the DL the last few years. And on top of that, they are asked to play new positions.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bill Quigley: \u201cWe should forget chanting Pete [Alonso] and start with, \u2018Let\u2019s fire Stearns.\u2019 Instead of our beloved \u2018Let\u2019s go, Mets!\u2019\u2009\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes you just have to turn the laptop over to the people. Mets fans responded in droves to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[76042,42160,3817,12193,133512,171,173,172,110,45912,45911,75452],"class_list":["post-322062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-carlos-mendoza","tag-david-stearns","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-open-mike","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-steve-cohen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}