{"id":70100,"date":"2025-12-14T01:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T01:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/70100\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T01:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T01:13:09","slug":"mets-hope-the-david-stearns-plan-works-like-hated-frank-cashens-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/70100\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets hope the David Stearns plan works like hated Frank Cashen&#8217;s did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it\u2019s too soon to hear this story, but it feels important to tell anyway in this week when David Stearns has managed <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/11\/sports\/david-stearns-has-huge-mets-task-ahead\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to make himself the most unpopular person<\/a> presently working in New York City. This isn\u2019t to make him feel any better, mind you, but rather an effort to make you see if, as a Mets fan, you\u2019re lucky you can reach back for a dollop of precedent.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a confirmed part of Mets history and New York City lore that the most reviled front-office type ever was M. Donald Grant, who engineered Tom Seaver\u2019s exile in 1977, and was aided and abetted by a small cabal of the city\u2019s powerful newspaper voices \u2014 actually, a party of one, Dick Young. That was a trade that left real scars in its wake, scars still evident almost 49 years later.<\/p>\n<p>A close second?<\/p>\n<p>Frank Cashen in the middle portion of January 1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maybe it\u2019s too soon to hear this story, but it feels important to tell anyway in this week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19920,20,9,11,320,10,23626,319,431,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-70100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-david-stearns","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-open-mike","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-columnists","17":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}