CHICAGO \u2014 When I sidled over to manager Carlos Mendoza in the Mets clubhouse after another stunning loss, number nine in a row, Friday and suggested to him that what\u2019s happening isn\u2019t his fault, he gave the exact response he should have.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m responsible,\u201d Mendoza said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a short retort but it\u2019s precisely the sort of accountability the Mets need now, at the very worst part of their season (we hope). He also endeavors daily to inject a nice dose of positivity into a situation that\u2019s turned unimaginably negative with their 10th\u00a0straight defeat Saturday, a 4-2 loss to the Cubs<\/a> here. (That\u2019s getting harder by the day.)\u00a0<\/p>\n And while Mendoza\u2019s answer is technically correct, it\u2019s only partially true. This isn\u2019t his fault, and thankfully, at least for today, there\u2019s no evidence his bosses believe it is. More importantly, they don\u2019t seem ready to blame him \u2014 at least not immediately.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 When I sidled over to manager Carlos Mendoza in the Mets clubhouse after another stunning loss,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[57951,47317,363,1189,99,362,358],"class_list":{"0":"post-593075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-carlos-mendoza","9":"tag-david-stearns","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york-mets","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-columnists","14":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}