{"id":1144,"date":"2009-03-11T21:55:29","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T21:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2013-12-06T21:59:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T21:59:04","slug":"we-are-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1144","title":{"rendered":"We are the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/50.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-136\" alt=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/50.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>So long,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/sanchez-duaner\">Duaner Sanchez<\/a>. May you forever remind Met fans to fasten their seat belts and not fall in love with relief pitchers. We&#8217;ll always have the first half of 2006.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got issues with the\u00a0<strong>World Baseball Classic<\/strong>\u00a0but they&#8217;re pretty much limited to the non-baseball aspects of it, particularly the addition of ugly sponsor logos to the uniforms, which we ought to know is a trial balloon for this sort of thing on a regular basis, considering Bud Selig is running the thing. However the competition has been great, once again, and fans who pooh-pooh it, no matter how well argued their cases, are missing out.<\/p>\n<p>If it makes Spring Training seem boring by comparison, I&#8217;ve got news for you: Spring Training is already boring.For the Mets they&#8217;ve so far brought us little more than Sanchez&#8217;s release (which could have come last September); some mildly interesting competition for a few bench and bullpen roles which experience tells us don&#8217;t tend to matter a whole lot anyway; and health-related terror alerts around three of our projected starting pitchers.<\/p>\n<p>This is not for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So long,\u00a0Duaner Sanchez. May you forever remind Met fans to fasten their seat belts and not fall in love with relief pitchers. We&#8217;ll always have the first half of 2006. I&#8217;ve got issues with the\u00a0World Baseball Classic\u00a0but they&#8217;re pretty much limited to the non-baseball aspects of it, particularly the addition of ugly sponsor logos to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1144\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We are the World&#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":[213],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-duaner-sanchez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","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=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}