{"id":1407,"date":"2010-05-09T01:59:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T01:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2013-12-11T02:01:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T02:01:14","slug":"i-cant-get-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1407","title":{"rendered":"I Can&#8217;t Get No"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an unsatisfying week of Mets baseball this turned out to be. It&#8217;d be nice to get a few walkoff victories without first blowing leads, because the alternative is what we wound up with today. The continued ineffectiveness of both\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/matthews-gary\">Gary Matthews Jr.\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/catalanotto-frank\">Frank Catalanotto<\/a>\u00a0has got to be pressuring the front office to do something by now, although Matthews looks like he&#8217;ll be hard to move if only because he plays center field and most potential replacements do not.\u00a0<strong>Chris Carter<\/strong>\u00a0ought to be in Catalanotto&#8217;s job by now but it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me to see the Mets give\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/murphy-dan\">Daniel Murphy<\/a>\u00a0the first shot, and allow his imminent return to light the fire.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/27.gif\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" \/>Believe me, the bench is hardly the only thing wrong with this group.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/manuel-jerry\">Jerry Manuel<\/a>\u00a0is still managing too passively and twisting himself in knots in pursuit of a &#8220;shutdown bullpen&#8221; that simply doesn&#8217;t exist, and the starting pitching still has issues, chief among them\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/perez-oliver\">Oliver Perez<\/a>. The Nationals visit this week and we&#8217;re not careful they could put us further behind them than we already are. Ack!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amazin&#8217; Tuesday Update:<\/strong>\u00a0Although we&#8217;re saddened by the unfortunate closing of Two Boots Tavern on the Lower East Side, we&#8217;re pleased to be back next week at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twoboots.com\/TW2008\/Gc08\/Gc08.html\">Two Boots Grand Central<\/a>. Join me, Greg Prince of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithandfearinflushing.com\/\">Faith &amp; Fear in Flushing<\/a>; Taryn Cooper of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysummerfamily.blogspot.com\/\">My Summer Family<\/a>\u00a0and Josh Wilker, author the outstanding\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cardboardgods.net\/\">CARDBOARD GODS<\/a>\u00a0website and book, as we talk Mets, eat good pizza and watch the Mets-Braves game from Atlanta. As always your first beer is free in exchange for a Mets baseball card. Two Boots is located in the lower dining concourse at Grand Central Station. Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n<p><em>Help me help my sister fight Lou Gehrig&#8217;s Disease: Join me the in the Walk to Defeat ALS May 15 or\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/web.alsa.org\/site\/TR\/Walks\/GreaterNewYorkWalk?px=2245031&amp;pg=personal&amp;fr_id=6418\"><em>sponsor my team<\/em><\/a><em>. Thanks!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an unsatisfying week of Mets baseball this turned out to be. It&#8217;d be nice to get a few walkoff victories without first blowing leads, because the alternative is what we wound up with today. The continued ineffectiveness of both\u00a0Gary Matthews Jr.\u00a0and\u00a0Frank Catalanotto\u00a0has got to be pressuring the front office to do something by now, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1407\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Get No&#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":[480,467,227,237],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-frank-catalanotto","tag-gary-matthews-jr","tag-jerry-manuel","tag-oliver-perez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","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=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1408,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}