{"id":2554,"date":"2021-11-03T13:20:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T13:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CAIiELGxB5r2_q_lb21QZKE_8XoqFggEKg0IACoGCAow7s8BMNBIMLXUiQY"},"modified":"2021-11-03T13:20:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T13:20:37","slug":"ex-mets-manager-bobby-valentine-is-sore-loser-of-mayoral-race-the-daily-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=2554","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Mets Manager Bobby Valentine Is Sore Loser of Mayoral Race &#8211; The Daily Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.thedailybeast.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_866,w_1539,x_0,y_283\/dpr_2.0\/c_limit,w_740\/fl_lossy,q_auto\/v1635945392\/2021-09-17T092845Z_276429114_MT1USATODAY16767130_RTRMADP_3_MLB-NEW-YORK-YANKEES-AT-NEW-YORK-METS_hb2pyq\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"Mobiledoc\">\n<p>Bobby Valentine, the former manager of the New York Mets and the Boston Red Sox, lost his bid to become mayor of Stamford, Connecticut\u2014and sniped about \u201clousy\u201d media coverage and people voting more than once. Valentine, famous for getting fired a lot and for once returning to the dugout in disguise after getting tossed out of a game, was defeated by Democrat Caroline Simmons. Before he conceded, he told supporters that he\u2019d been told about people who voted by absentee ballot and then went to the polls in person. When he finally threw in the towel, he was less than gracious, the New York <em>Daily News<\/em> reported. \u201cSomeone says maybe I\u2019m supposed to thank the media for all the lousy coverage that they gave us or maybe even compliment [Simmons\u2019 team] for the campaign they ran but I can\u2019t do that with an open heart and a clear mind, so I\u2019m just going to say the campaign is over,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"ReadItAtLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/ny-bobby-valentine-mayoral-race-stamford-20211103-qw6dwmpdgrehtez7lohvwkt6lq-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Read it at <\/span><span class=\"ReadItAtLink__name\">Daily News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobby Valentine, the former manager of the New York Mets and the Boston Red Sox, lost his bid to become mayor of Stamford, Connecticut\u2014and sniped about \u201clousy\u201d media coverage and people voting more than once. Valentine, famous for getting fired a lot and for once returning to the dugout in disguise after getting tossed out of a game, was defeated by Democrat Caroline Simmons. Before he conceded, he told supporters that he\u2019d been told about people who voted by absentee ballot and then went to the polls in person. When he finally threw in the towel, he was less than&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut-cbd-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}