{"id":1298,"date":"2009-11-06T18:03:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T18:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2013-12-08T18:05:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T18:05:13","slug":"150-days-but-whos-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1298","title":{"rendered":"150 Days, but Who&#8217;s Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball is a very humbling game. Just saying,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/baseball\/yankees\/2009\/11\/06\/2009-11-06_for_the_new_york_yankees_world_series_championship_no_28_may_not_be_as_easy_as_c.html\" target=\"_blank\">Joe<\/a>. And you don&#8217;t ask\u00a0<strong>Shelly Duncan<\/strong>\u00a0for his number, you take it while he&#8217;s drunk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/21.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-104\" alt=\"21\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/21.gif\" width=\"41\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>With the offseason officially underway and the countdown to April 5 already begun, two future ex-Mets already filed for free agency and as far as I&#8217;m concerned can beat it. See you later,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/delgado-carlos\">Carlos Delgado<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/schneider-brian\">Brian Schneider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Delgado is obviously a terrific talent and really made the difference in 2006 but like way too many Omarian acquisitions his best days were behind him and he spent entirely too much time nursing injuries and maybe a few grudges as a Met. He made pretty clear in 2005 he didn&#8217;t care to be here anyway. Schneider in the meantime might be one of the most overlooked busts the Mets have ever had. In any other year, his 2009 stinking-up-of-the-joint would make him the target of vicious fan abuse and a major concern in the offense. But amid all the other bad news and bad players, he just about got away with it. Schneider&#8217;s 2008 was pretty rotten as well.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/23.gif\" width=\"55\" height=\"48\" align=\"right\" \/>We&#8217;ll see what the Mets have in mind regarding the potential replacements for these guys, but I wouldn&#8217;t kill them for looking into what it might take to pry catcher\u00a0<strong>Chris Iannetta<\/strong>\u00a0from the Rockies. I tend to think the Mets might be best off holding their noses and getting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/murphy-dan\">Daniel Murphy<\/a>\u00a0a right-handed hitting platoonmate at first base while waiting to mix in promising prospect\u00a0<strong>Ike Davis<\/strong>\u00a0at first base.\u00a0<strong>Garrett Atkins?<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/nady-xavier\">Xavier Nady<\/a>? Let&#8217;s think on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball is a very humbling game. Just saying,\u00a0Joe. And you don&#8217;t ask\u00a0Shelly Duncan\u00a0for his number, you take it while he&#8217;s drunk. With the offseason officially underway and the countdown to April 5 already begun, two future ex-Mets already filed for free agency and as far as I&#8217;m concerned can beat it. See you later,\u00a0Carlos Delgado\u00a0and\u00a0Brian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1298\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;150 Days, but Who&#8217;s Counting&#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":[337,210,379,445],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brian-schneider","tag-carlos-delgado","tag-daniel-murphy","tag-ike-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","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=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}