{"id":1319,"date":"2009-12-31T19:43:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T19:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2013-12-08T19:51:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T19:51:36","slug":"good-riddance-to-2009-and-to-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1319","title":{"rendered":"Good Riddance to 2009 and to Stupidity"},"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>I&#8217;d be very surprised if at next week&#8217;s press conference the Mets don&#8217;t present Jason Bay with the No. 44 jersey most recently surrendered by Tim Redding. And it looks also like 45 will be distributed to Kelvim Escobar, the Ex-Jay and former Angel whom the Mets signed to a make-good deal after missing most of the last two years with injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Bay to me seems like a solid addition in an otherwise underwhelming field of available players but it&#8217;s entirely possible that his contract could be a burden over the longer term. He&#8217;s no Matt Holliday, but Matt Holliday isn&#8217;t that much better, I don&#8217;t think. I like the risk on Escobar, who before the arm troubles was a strikeout guy who could start or relieve and who desperately needs a new start.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also okay that these moves have been largely pooh-poohed by the mainstream media who seem to want to punish the Mets for failing to compete behind the moves and roster\u00a0<em>they<\/em>\u00a0advocated last year. I agree with MBTN reader\u00a0<strong>9th-string catcher\u00a0<\/strong>who in a below post commented that the theme for 2010 is &#8220;no stupid moves&#8221; as the Mets rebound from a hugely disappointing 2009 marked not only by a massive rash of injury, but by a smug overestimation of their own ability to compete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d be very surprised if at next week&#8217;s press conference the Mets don&#8217;t present Jason Bay with the No. 44 jersey most recently surrendered by Tim Redding. And it looks also like 45 will be distributed to Kelvim Escobar, the Ex-Jay and former Angel whom the Mets signed to a make-good deal after missing most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1319\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good Riddance to 2009 and to Stupidity&#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":[446,458],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jason-bay","tag-kelvim-escobar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","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=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}