{"id":1044,"date":"2008-08-22T21:35:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T21:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2013-12-06T00:37:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T00:37:32","slug":"who-do-you-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"Who Do You Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/church19.jpg\" width=\"179\" height=\"269\" \/>Welcome back,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/church-ryan\">Ryan Church.<\/a>\u00a0The brain-damaged Mets right fielder returned Friday after a lengthy absense while superfluous catcher\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/cancel-robinson\">Robinson Cancel<\/a>\u00a0was sent back down to AAA. A more difficult, Obama-picks-a-running-mate type question faces the Mets on Saturday, when unpopular second baseman\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/castillo-luis\">Luis Castillo<\/a>\u00a0is expected to return from an extended break during which he was barely missed.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest the solution ought to be clear if painful &#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/reyes-argenis\">Argenis Reyes<\/a>\u00a0for all his good press isn&#8217;t the kind of hitter you couldn&#8217;t do without for a few days and to my knowledge only plays second base, so Castillo is probably an upgrade. Castillo in fact makes fewer outs than either Reyes or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/easley-damion\">Damion Easley<\/a>, and if actually and finally healthy, then he&#8217;s the player they probably ought to have out there. A strong offensive showing out of the gate is essential though.<\/p>\n<p>If Reyes won&#8217;t go down you wonder how seriously they&#8217;re ready to consider\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/sanchez-duaner\">Duaner Sanchez<\/a>\u00a0who clearly isn&#8217;t the same as he once was, while\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/ayala-luis\">Luis Ayala<\/a>\u00a0is (what he was once but wasn&#8217;t recently).<\/p>\n<p>Met-Lovin&#8217; Big Shot\u00a0<strong>George Thorogood<\/strong>\u00a0is a guest on this week&#8217;s episode of Mets Weekly on SNY, airing at 12:30 p.m. Saturday. The SNY people pursued Lonesome George as a profile subject after seeing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/worlds-baddest-met-fan-george-thorogood-interview\">the interview published here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back,\u00a0Ryan Church.\u00a0The brain-damaged Mets right fielder returned Friday after a lengthy absense while superfluous catcher\u00a0Robinson Cancel\u00a0was sent back down to AAA. A more difficult, Obama-picks-a-running-mate type question faces the Mets on Saturday, when unpopular second baseman\u00a0Luis Castillo\u00a0is expected to return from an extended break during which he was barely missed. To be honest the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1044\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who Do You Love&#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":[389],"tags":[372,281,367,336],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-met-lovin-big-shots-2","tag-argenis-reyes","tag-damion-easley","tag-robinson-cancel","tag-ryan-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","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=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}