{"id":1272,"date":"2009-08-20T17:04:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T17:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2013-12-08T17:06:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T17:06:28","slug":"hello-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1272","title":{"rendered":"Hello Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/wagner-billy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/13.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-95\" alt=\"13\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/13.gif\" width=\"42\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Billy Wagner<\/a>\u00a0is back again with the Mets but hopefully only long enough to make a deal to get him out of my sight for good. I&#8217;m especially hoping that Omar manages to swap him to the Yankees or Phillies, both of which need a lefty in the pen and deserve the kind of rotten fate a jerk like Wagner seems to bring along with his fiery fastball.<\/p>\n<p>Activating Wagner meant the Mets today released\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/hernandez-livan\">Livan Hernandez<\/a>, who certainly seemed to have lost a grip on things lately but still seems a curious choice for unemployment with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/redding-tim\">Tim Redding<\/a>\u00a0getting another astonishing stay of execution.<\/p>\n<p>Has any Met free agent pitcher in their history performed as badly as Redding this year and gotten so little credit for it? It&#8217;s taken season-ending injuries to three different starting pitchers to save him thus far, and he&#8217;s still not been reinserted to the rotation. (Turns out, he has: He&#8217;s going to take Livan&#8217;s start on Saturday).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, so long\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/61\">No. 61<\/a>. I thought you were OK. Hello, Billy. Don&#8217;t unpack too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Wagner\u00a0is back again with the Mets but hopefully only long enough to make a deal to get him out of my sight for good. I&#8217;m especially hoping that Omar manages to swap him to the Yankees or Phillies, both of which need a lefty in the pen and deserve the kind of rotten fate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1272\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hello Goodbye&#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":[212,416,412],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-billy-wagner","tag-livan-hernandez","tag-tim-redding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","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=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}