{"id":1315,"date":"2009-12-17T18:25:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T18:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2013-12-08T18:30:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T18:30:18","slug":"perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1315","title":{"rendered":"Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/44.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-130\" alt=\"44\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/44.gif\" width=\"60\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>As long as I was pointing out local media figures preying on what they considered to be a demanding and impatient fan base and poking the Mets with sticks to make a few headlines, I felt I should also point out that Mike Vaccaro of the Post has been providing a steady counterpoint more to my way of thinking.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t necessarily agree with everything in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/sports\/mets\/don_be_bonilla_heads_jUhpRemrHfkVlRjWubIDSL\" target=\"_blank\">this column<\/a>, but compared to what John Harper&#8217;s been shoveling this week in the News, it&#8217;s a welcome contrast and &#8212; would you believe?\u00a0 &#8212; perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Numerically related content: Jason Bay wore\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/38\">38<\/a>\u00a0with the Pirates and most recently,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/44\">44<\/a>\u00a0with the Red Sox.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/nieve-fernando\">Fernando Nieve<\/a>\u00a0(I liked him quite a bit in his brief stay last year) owns the former at the moment while the latter went back on the market last week when the Mets declined to offer salary arbitration to disappointing signee\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/redding-tim\">Tim Redding<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As long as I was pointing out local media figures preying on what they considered to be a demanding and impatient fan base and poking the Mets with sticks to make a few headlines, I felt I should also point out that Mike Vaccaro of the Post has been providing a steady counterpoint more to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1315\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Perspective&#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":[425,446,412],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fernando-nieve","tag-jason-bay","tag-tim-redding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","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=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}