{"id":1124,"date":"2009-02-24T04:44:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T04:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2013-12-06T04:46:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T04:46:55","slug":"he-knows-his-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1124","title":{"rendered":"He Knows His Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/85.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-171\" alt=\"85\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/85.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>An interesting note from our nation&#8217;s capital: When the Nationals signed\u00a0<strong>Adam Dunn<\/strong>, they gave him his customary uni\u00a0<strong>No. 44<\/strong>. To make room, selfless ex-Met\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/milledge-lastings\">Lastings Milledg<\/a>e<\/strong>\u00a0has volunteered to switch &#8230; to\u00a0<strong>No. 85<\/strong>. It&#8217;s his birth year. Elsewhere in X-Met land,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/heilman-aaron\">Aaron Heilman<\/a>\u00a0is wearing\u00a0<strong>No. 47<\/strong>\u00a0with the Cubs and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/smith-joe\">Joe Smith<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0\u00a0<strong>38\u00a0<\/strong>in Cleveland.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/chavez-endy\">Endy Chavez<\/a>\u00a0remains in\u00a0<strong>No. 10<\/strong>\u00a0in Seattle and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/schoeneweis-scott\">Scott Schoeneweis<\/a>\u00a0is still wearing\u00a0<strong>No. 60,<\/strong>\u00a0only in Arizona.I&#8217;d update you on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/easley-damian\">Damian Easley<\/a>\u00a0but the poor guy hasn&#8217;t found work yet. And<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/wise-matt\">Matt Wise<\/a>\u00a0has retired.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">* * *<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Elsewhere, reader Charlie let me in on the fact that the revamped database had neglected to include the small handful of Mets who appeared on the roster but not in a game (<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/moses-jerry\">Jerry Moses<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/suzuki-mac\">Mac Suzuki<\/a>, et al) but they&#8217;re baked in there now. He also threw out a name I hadn&#8217;t known was a Met before,\u00a0<strong>Steve Simpson<\/strong>\u00a0who according to Charlie appeared on the September active roster with the 1974 Mets but didn&#8217;t appear in a game. Can anyone out there confirm this or offer more info?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting note from our nation&#8217;s capital: When the Nationals signed\u00a0Adam Dunn, they gave him his customary uni\u00a0No. 44. To make room, selfless ex-Met\u00a0Lastings Milledge\u00a0has volunteered to switch &#8230; to\u00a0No. 85. It&#8217;s his birth year. Elsewhere in X-Met land,\u00a0Aaron Heilman\u00a0is wearing\u00a0No. 47\u00a0with the Cubs and\u00a0Joe Smith\u00a0is\u00a0\u00a038\u00a0in Cleveland.\u00a0Endy Chavez\u00a0remains in\u00a0No. 10\u00a0in Seattle and\u00a0Scott Schoeneweis\u00a0is still wearing\u00a0No. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1124\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;He Knows His Place&#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":[211,420],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lastings-milledge","tag-steve-simpson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","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=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}