{"id":1046,"date":"2008-08-25T21:41:55","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T21:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2013-12-05T21:44:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T21:44:43","slug":"the-knights-who-say-niese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1046","title":{"rendered":"The Knights Who Say Niese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/knight.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"264\" \/>In a move practically shouting &#8220;see you next spring!&#8221; the Mets today disabled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/maine-john\">John Maine<\/a>\u00a0for the second time in a month. The club was noncommital as to who would be taking Maine&#8217;s starts from here on out but stands to reason the list of candidates would include\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/knight-brandon\">Brandon Knight<\/a>, who made a spot start in late July on the way to the Olympics;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/stokes-brian\">Brian Stokes<\/a>, now working in the Mets&#8217; bullpen; or\u00a0<strong>Jon Niese<\/strong>, the lefty prodigy whose high regard by the Met brass could be the thing that prevents his activation at this time. Should it wind up being Knight &#8212; who&#8217;s probably due for a September recall anyhow &#8212; he&#8217;ll have to find a new number: He wore\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/28\">28<\/a>\u00a0then, which since has gone to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/murphy-dan\">Dan Murphy<\/a>. May we suggest\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/22\">22<\/a>? Thanks to MBTN reader Ron, who in the comments section a few posts back reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I contacted the Mets and Juan Lopez is now wearing # 62<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/lopez-juan\">Lopez\u00a0<\/a>is the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">bullpen<\/span>\u00a0batting practice (thanks, commenter) pitcher whose\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/56\">56\u00a0<\/a>was usurped by<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/ayala-luis\">Luis Ayala<\/a>\u00a0but is still listed that as such on the Mets roster. Congrats to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/pelfrey-mike\">Mike Pelfrey<\/a>\u00a0on another solid game. Beat it,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/newhan-david\">David Newhan<\/a>. And welcome back to reluctant returnee\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/castillo-luis\">Luis Castillo<\/a>, who for now takes Maine&#8217;s roster slot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move practically shouting &#8220;see you next spring!&#8221; the Mets today disabled\u00a0John Maine\u00a0for the second time in a month. The club was noncommital as to who would be taking Maine&#8217;s starts from here on out but stands to reason the list of candidates would include\u00a0Brandon Knight, who made a spot start in late July &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1046\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Knights Who Say Niese&#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":[387],"tags":[375,339,221,380,390],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uni-controversies","tag-brandon-knight","tag-brian-stokes","tag-john-maine","tag-jonathon-niese","tag-ray-knight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","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=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}