{"id":1085,"date":"2008-12-09T01:21:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T01:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2013-12-06T01:23:38","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T01:23:38","slug":"let-the-debate-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1085","title":{"rendered":"Let the Debate Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/75.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-161\" alt=\"75\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/75.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Well, that was pretty swift and anticlimatic, if the reports coming in late this afternoon are true: The Mets have a new closer,\u00a0<strong>Francisco Rodriguez,<\/strong>\u00a0and their first Uni Controversy of the 2008-09 Offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez, as you probably all know, favors the same\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/57\">No. 57<\/a>\u00a0on the back of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/santana-johan\">Johan Santana<\/a>\u00a0(and, even more famously before him,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/roach-jason\">Jason Roach<\/a>). And if the purveyors of Met logo-gear hope to make a few sales in what&#8217;s turning out to be The Year Without a Christmas, a swift resolution is in order, so let the speculation begin.<\/p>\n<p>The guess here is that Rodriguez winds up in No. 75. His demonstrative body language tells me he&#8217;s the kind of guy who likes attention and who wouldn&#8217;t easily find comfort in the standard-issue relief gear of say,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/49\">No. 49<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/38\">No. 38<\/a>, to mention a few of the seemingly available digits (as if the Mets really need another guy to add to their reputation as borderline poor sports and the bane of the opposition). No, this is a guy who&#8217;ll demand more, and the Mets will be willing to give. I mean, they let\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/rincon-ricardo\">Ricardo Rincon<\/a>\u00a0have his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/73\">73<\/a>\u00a0last season. Seventy-five is a nice switch on the traditional for Rodriguez, but it will come down to him ultimately. If he wants 97, I think he&#8217;ll have that too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that was pretty swift and anticlimatic, if the reports coming in late this afternoon are true: The Mets have a new closer,\u00a0Francisco Rodriguez,\u00a0and their first Uni Controversy of the 2008-09 Offseason. Rodriguez, as you probably all know, favors the same\u00a0No. 57\u00a0on the back of\u00a0Johan Santana\u00a0(and, even more famously before him,\u00a0Jason Roach). And if the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1085\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Let the Debate Begin&#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":[403],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-francisco-rodriguez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","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=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}