{"id":1104,"date":"2009-01-12T03:19:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T03:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2013-12-06T03:22:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T03:22:26","slug":"the-everpopular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"The Everpopular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So\u00a0<strong>Tim Redding<\/strong>\u00a0showed up today at CitiField and received a pinstriped Mets jersey with his name and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/44\">No. 44<\/a>\u00a0on the back.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting in that it makes three Mets on the current 40-man roster who have a claim to that jersey, even though its not likely two of pretenders,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/kunz-eddie\">Eddie Kunz<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/knight-brandon\">Brandon Knight<\/a>, make it back right away. But a small part of us will be rooting for Knight, who is on the fast-track to McKnighthood having already burned though two numbers in just four appearances and is now poised for a third.<\/p>\n<p>Knight you may recall arrived from Class AAA in late July to take a start in place of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/martinez-pedro\">Pedro Martinez<\/a>\u00a0who was away on bereavement leave. (That game eventually turned into the stupid, 10-8, 14-inning loss remembered for Albert Pujols&#8217; home run off\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/heilman-aaron\">Aaron Heilman<\/a>). Knight was wearing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/28\">No. 28<\/a>\u00a0then. He shortly was back to New Orleans and then to the Olympics, and by the time he&#8217;d returned in September,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/murphy-dan\">Daniel Murphy<\/a>\u00a0was a sensation in the same No. 28 jersey and Kunz had made a brief appearance in No. 44, which was subsequently assigned to Knight. Mets rosters though today continue to list Knight as the possessor of 44, with Redding and Kunz listed as the everpopular\u00a0<strong>&#8212;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to astute reader\u00a0<strong>Rich\u00a0<\/strong>for pointing that out. And thanks to our friends at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonohitters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">No No-Hitters<\/a>\u00a0for the assist on the new uni-number graphics, which look a million times better than the old ones wouldn&#8217;t you say?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So\u00a0Tim Redding\u00a0showed up today at CitiField and received a pinstriped Mets jersey with his name and\u00a0No. 44\u00a0on the back. Interesting in that it makes three Mets on the current 40-man roster who have a claim to that jersey, even though its not likely two of pretenders,\u00a0Eddie Kunz\u00a0or\u00a0Brandon Knight, make it back right away. But a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1104\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Everpopular&#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":[375,381,169,412],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brandon-knight","tag-eddie-kunz","tag-pedro-martinez","tag-tim-redding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","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=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}