General Mets Miscellaneous Questions 2014

[stevejrogers]

Yeah, I just saw that...maybe that was just an aged Ryan talking up a Met biased panel of hosts, because he did often speak of being unsure of wanting to stay in the big city and such. Hell, getting traded to California was the best thing that could have happened to his career, more ways than one.

It does seem to be revisionist history on his part to suggest that he realizes the business aspect of the game some 30 years after the trade happened.

[Zvon]

SteveJRogers wrote: Yeah, I just saw that...maybe that was just an aged Ryan talking up a Met biased panel of hosts, because he did often speak of being unsure of wanting to stay in the big city and such. Hell, getting traded to California was the best thing that could have happened to his career, more ways than one. It does seem to be revisionist history on his part to suggest that he realizes the business aspect of the game some 30 years after the trade happened.

I got the impression that he was speaking in general terms , or trying to, (and from that future perspective) and not intending to put out that he himself was betrayed. I don't think he even mentions the word betrayed, which is a pretty strong and specific word to turn what he did say into.

Maybe he was touching on the fact his feelings were hurt a little bit but he was framing that in a generalization, IMO.

Quite a leap.

It annoys me that someone would take his words from that interview and say what is said on Wikipedia.