Carlos Beltran escorted his family to their seats and before taking the stage for his introductory press conference, he patted his youngest child on the butt and 4-year-old Evan Carlos began to cry.
Brodie Van Wagenen opened his introductory remarks by noting it was only 12 months earlier he was being introduced as GM, quipping, “Hard to believe it’s only been one year since I stood in this room. It seems like it’s been a dog year, seven years.”
It was meant for laughs and instead elicited the image of drudgery working for the Wilpons, intended or not.