{"id":1259,"date":"2009-07-31T16:10:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T16:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2013-12-08T16:13:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T16:13:02","slug":"its-the-magic-number-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1259","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Magic Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/29.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-112\" alt=\"29\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/29.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>In an attempt to add more offense the Mets on Thursday recalled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/cancel-robinson\">Robinson Cancel<\/a>, the chubby hero of a few of 2008&#8217;s most inspiring victories, and designated\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/dessens-elmer\">Elmer Dessens<\/a>\u00a0for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely, the Mets issued Cancel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/29\">No. 29<\/a>, even though the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/40\">No. 40\u00a0<\/a>he&#8217;d worn most recently was available (he&#8217;d worn 40 after first receiving\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/4\">4<\/a>, then seeing the Mets re-issue that number to<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/reyes-argenis\">Argenis Reyes<\/a>. Cancel however wore 4 again this spring only to see the Mets issue that number twice this year (to<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/valdez-wilson\">\u00a0Wilson Valdez<\/a>\u00a0and now\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/berroa-angel\">Angel Berroa<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, No. 29 grants Cancel entry into the exclusive\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/mcknight\">Three-Number Club<\/a>\u00a0whose membership is listed below. As for Dessens, he didn&#8217;t pitch so badly while not buried in the pen, and so barely had an impact other than having become the team&#8217;s first ever\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/64\">No. 64<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I had a short panic attack the other day worried that Omar Minaya would attempt to rehabilitate his mangled image by making a large and unnecessary trade at the deadline for Roy Halladay (<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/32\">32<\/a>\u00a0is available, you know) but that&#8217;s mostly subsided. How about an actual hitter though?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>The Three Number Club (updated!)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jeff McKnight 5, 7, 15, 17, 18<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Collins\u00a01, 10, 16, 19<\/p>\n<p>Ed Lynch\u00a034, 35, 36, 59<\/p>\n<p>Darrel Sutherland\u00a043, 45, 47<\/p>\n<p>Cleon Jones\u00a034, 12, 21<\/p>\n<p>John Stephenson\u00a012, 19, 49<\/p>\n<p>Jim Hickman\u00a06, 9, 27<\/p>\n<p>Mike Jorgensen\u00a010, 16, 22<\/p>\n<p>Hank Webb\u00a022, 29, 30<\/p>\n<p>Hubie Brooks\u00a062, 39, 7<\/p>\n<p>Clint Hurdle\u00a07, 13, 33<\/p>\n<p>Chuck Carr\u00a01, 7, 21<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Elster\u00a02, 15, 21<\/p>\n<p>Charlie O\u2019Brien\u00a05, 22, 33<\/p>\n<p>Ron Darling\u00a012, 15, 44<\/p>\n<p>Jason Phillips\u00a07, 23, 26<\/p>\n<p>David Cone\u00a016, 17, 44<\/p>\n<p>Jae Seo\u00a040, 38, 26<\/p>\n<p>Roger Craig\u00a013, 36, 38<\/p>\n<p>Lee Mazzilli\u00a012, 16, 13<\/p>\n<p>Pedro Feliciano\u00a055, 39, 25<\/p>\n<p>Mike DiFelice\u00a06, 33, 9<\/p>\n<p>Marlon Anderson 18, 23, 9<\/p>\n<p>Ramon Martinez 22, 26, 6<\/p>\n<p>Robinson Cancel 4, 40, 29<\/p>\n<p>Anderson Hernandez 1, 4, 11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to add more offense the Mets on Thursday recalled\u00a0Robinson Cancel, the chubby hero of a few of 2008&#8217;s most inspiring victories, and designated\u00a0Elmer Dessens\u00a0for assignment. Strangely, the Mets issued Cancel\u00a0No. 29, even though the\u00a0No. 40\u00a0he&#8217;d worn most recently was available (he&#8217;d worn 40 after first receiving\u00a04, then seeing the Mets re-issue that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1259\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s the Magic Number&#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":[110,367],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jeff-mcknight","tag-robinson-cancel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","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=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}