{"id":1024,"date":"2008-08-09T04:36:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T04:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2013-12-05T04:56:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:56:30","slug":"the-outfielders-lounge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"The Outfielders Lounge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as we suspected,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/stokes-brian\"><strong>Brian Stokes<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0appeared tonight, wearing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/43\"><strong>No. 43<\/strong><\/a>, and in place of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/lugo-ruddy\">Ruddy Lugo<\/a>, who returns to AAA without having made an appearance. And Stokes, though not charged with a decision and guilty of surrendering two 2-run home runs, evidently pitched well enough, by Met standards, to remain with the club even after\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/maine-john\">John Maine<\/a>\u00a0returns. Which probably means that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/muniz-carlos\">Carlos Muniz<\/a>\u00a0would return to AAA when Maine comes back, but let&#8217;s not get ahead of ourselves.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">* * *<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metsilverman.com\/MetsSilverman_small.jpg\" width=\"176\" height=\"38\" align=\"left\" \/>Quick note to let you in on a great opportunity to see the Mets from a unique perspective before they dismantle Big Shea. Matt Silverman, my co-author for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/book\"><strong><em>Mets by the Numbers<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0book and writer of a bunch of other great Mets-related books (Mets Essential, 100 Things, Total Mets, etc), has purchased a bunch of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metsilverman.com\/events.html#picnic\">Picnic Area seats for the Sept. 24 game<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; that&#8217;s a Wednesday night vs. the Cubs &#8212; and is selling a limited number at his website,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metsilverman.com\/\">MetSilverman.com<\/a>. Details including pricing etc. are there. I&#8217;m here to tell you I will be there, and that Matt&#8217;s a trustworthy guy who is likely to draw a crowd of knowledgeable and enthusiastic fans: If I were you, I&#8217;d be making plans to go. And do it quick &#8212; prices go up Sept. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as we suspected,\u00a0Brian Stokes\u00a0appeared tonight, wearing\u00a0No. 43, and in place of\u00a0Ruddy Lugo, who returns to AAA without having made an appearance. And Stokes, though not charged with a decision and guilty of surrendering two 2-run home runs, evidently pitched well enough, by Met standards, to remain with the club even after\u00a0John Maine\u00a0returns. Which probably &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1024\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Outfielders Lounge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[339,384,385],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brian-stokes","tag-ruddy-lugo","tag-shea-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}