{"id":1181,"date":"2009-04-19T13:51:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T13:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2013-12-07T13:52:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T13:52:51","slug":"the-mighty-casey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1181","title":{"rendered":"The Mighty Casey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/47.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-133\" alt=\"47\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/47.gif\" width=\"58\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>So, nice effort by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/figueroa-nelson\">Nelson Figueroa<\/a>\u00a0today but it didn&#8217;t amount to much as bad luck and bad timing doomed the Mets offense. And don&#8217;t let any nimrod tell you a failure to bunt\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/tatis-fernando\">Fernando Tatis<\/a>\u00a0had much of anything to do with it (I can&#8217;t believe those complaining watched even a minute of Met ball this year). I want Tatis smashing balls off the fence, that&#8217;s what he&#8217;s there for.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, Figueroa is headed back to the minors and in his place will be\u00a0<strong>Casey Fossum<\/strong>, a lefthander off to a good start in Buffalo, who will provide bullpen depth until\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/pelfrey-mike\">Mike Pelfrey<\/a>&#8216;s next turn or we learn the fate of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/oday-darren\">Darren O&#8217;Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fossom, should he maintain his digits from spring trianing will be the first Met to wear\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/47\">No. 47<\/a>\u00a0since<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/glavine-tom\">Tom Glavine<\/a>\u00a0walked off the mound having kicked the final grains dirt onto the 2007 Mets&#8217; grave. How not devastating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, nice effort by\u00a0Nelson Figueroa\u00a0today but it didn&#8217;t amount to much as bad luck and bad timing doomed the Mets offense. And don&#8217;t let any nimrod tell you a failure to bunt\u00a0Fernando Tatis\u00a0had much of anything to do with it (I can&#8217;t believe those complaining watched even a minute of Met ball this year). I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1181\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Mighty Casey&#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":[429,410,353,95],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-casey-fossum","tag-darren-oday","tag-nelson-figueroa","tag-tom-glavine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","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=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}