{"id":1204,"date":"2009-05-21T12:58:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T12:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2013-12-08T13:01:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T13:01:21","slug":"around-the-horn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1204","title":{"rendered":"Around the Horn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keith Olbermann<\/strong>\u00a0appears to have received our information on near-Met Wilbur Huckle. In\u00a0his latest post<\/a>, Keith quotes the article we posted and reveals that the roster obtained by his photographer friend includes Huckle’s name written in pencil and identified as wearing No. 24 — a jersey that would have been available in September of 1963. He also follows up with details of the New Breed’s push for Huckle’s presidential candidacy in 1964. A shout-out for MBTN and Jason? Nope.<\/p>\n

Reader Edward in the meantime reminds us that\u00a0Darryl Strawberry<\/a>\u00a0and a pitcher — he cannot recall who — were similarly invited to spend time with the\u00a01982 Mets<\/a>\u00a0at season’s end.<\/p>\n

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Keith’s blog has been added to the\u00a0“Good at Baseball”<\/strong>\u00a0links to the left. To the Mets links, I’ve added those of beat writers\u00a0Adam Rubin<\/a>\u00a0of the Daily News and\u00a0David Lennon<\/a>\u00a0of Newsday — two guys who work incredibly hard so that other bloggers have links to aggregate every day. The print press is getting killed and the Internet is a great thing but to me there’s nothing like getting my hands all inky with the Snooze every morning. At 50 cents a day it’s an ideal commute killer and a bargain too. Read the papers.<\/p>\n

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\"Helmet...The Mets appear to have shut down\u00a0their online survey<\/strong>\u00a0on their uniforms — hopefully not before you, like me, submitted a few dozen responses. Don’t think I’ve come across anyone who’s a big fan of the black anymore but I sense the hatred among the prototypes in the survey was strongest for the vest which, I’m just gonna say, I don’t think is so bad\u00a0provided you’re resigned to the inevitability of an alternate<\/em>, which I am.<\/p>\n

But you know what I really hate and they didn’t even ask about? Those two-tone helmets. My, they’re awful.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’d give a week’s pay to be the guy to summarize the survey findings for Jeff.<\/p>\n

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We weren’t even finished with the press events around the\u00a0Mets by the Numbers book<\/a>\u00a0last spring when my co-writer\u00a0Matt Silverman<\/a>\u00a0was at work on two new projects. One was\u00a0Cubs by the Numbers<\/a>\u00a0(I know, right?) done with the same editor at Skyhorse and with\u00a0Kasey Ignarski<\/a>who’d been tracking Cubs numbers for at least as long as I’d been doing Mets numbers here (also Al Yellon, at the\u00a0Bleed Cubbie Blue<\/a>\u00a0blog). If you happen to have a friend who’s a Cubs fan, consider buying them this as a gift.<\/p>\n

The other project was a daring diary style book with none other than\u00a0Keith Hernandez<\/a>\u00a0which Matthew was doing via phone interviews and transcribed notes all summer long, never knowing how the narrative would turn out. It became\u00a0Shea Goodbye<\/a>, recently published by Triumph.<\/p>\n

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I’ve added\u00a0Ramon Martinez<\/a>\u00a0to the list of Mets who’ve\u00a0worn three numbers<\/strong>\u00a0as published on theJeff McKnight<\/a>\u00a0page. Now can we get rid of the guy already?<\/p>\n

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Keith Olbermann\u00a0appears to have received our information on near-Met Wilbur Huckle. In\u00a0his latest post, Keith quotes the article we posted and reveals that the roster obtained by his photographer friend includes Huckle’s name written in pencil and identified as wearing No. 24 — a jersey that would have been available in September of 1963. He … Continue reading “Around the Horn”<\/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":[400],"tags":[110,392],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-uniform","tag-jeff-mcknight","tag-ramon-martinez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","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=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}