{"id":1255,"date":"2009-07-25T15:58:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T15:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2013-12-08T16:02:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T16:02:28","slug":"keep-your-shirt-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1255","title":{"rendered":"Keep Your Shirt On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/49.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-135\" alt=\"49\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/49.gif\" width=\"58\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Those awful Mets play in Houston tonight with lefty\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/niese-jon\">Jon Niese<\/a>\u00a0on the mound. Niese in a stint I&#8217;d already forgotten ever happened this year wore\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/49\">No. 49<\/a>\u00a0and is still available for him. To make room on the roster the Mets got around to disabling\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/sheffield-gary\">Gary Sheffield<\/a>who naturally isn&#8217;t happy about it.<\/p>\n<p>Like the next guy I&#8217;m interested in seeing how the whole Tony Bernanzard drama plays out, not because I think he&#8217;s the devil, necessarily, but because how it unravels might reveal something of how this ridiculous organzation works. As I understand things, Bernazard at this time last year looked as if he might be the future king of the Mets, only to see Omar Minaya get the contract extension after the year. With some conflicting reports arriving as to Bernazard&#8217;s behavior I&#8217;m wondering who the sources are and what their motivation is. I also wonder if it wouldn&#8217;t have been even better had he taken his pants off.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who showed up Amazin&#8217; Tuesday this week at Two Boots. Newly linked blogger\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/omniality.mlblogs.com\/\">Section Five Twenty Eight<\/a>\u00a0has a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/omniality.mlblogs.com\/archives\/2009\/07\/amazin-tuesday-depends-on-your-perspective.html\" target=\"_blank\">terrific account of it.<\/a>\u00a0We&#8217;re doing it again on August 25 (I&#8217;ll miss that event but I&#8217;d urge you to attend anyway) and on Sept. 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those awful Mets play in Houston tonight with lefty\u00a0Jon Niese\u00a0on the mound. Niese in a stint I&#8217;d already forgotten ever happened this year wore\u00a0No. 49\u00a0and is still available for him. To make room on the roster the Mets got around to disabling\u00a0Gary Sheffieldwho naturally isn&#8217;t happy about it. Like the next guy I&#8217;m interested in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1255\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Keep Your Shirt On&#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":[380,166],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jonathon-niese","tag-omar-minaya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","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=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}