{"id":1409,"date":"2010-05-11T02:02:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T02:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2013-12-11T02:04:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T02:04:06","slug":"aces-eights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1409","title":{"rendered":"Aces &#038; Eights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m out here in fabulous Las Vegas and missed most of the debacle last night that made my previous post about looking up at the Nationals in the standings prophetic. I did see however that the game included what possibly could be the last turn at bat in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/catalanotto-frank\">Frank Catalanotto<\/a>&#8216;s career. I&#8217;m glad for his sake that he got a chance, he even got his number,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/27\">27<\/a>, but he sure wasn&#8217;t helping the Mets win, and he was designated for assignment last night.<strong>Chris &#8220;The Animal&#8221; Carter,<\/strong>\u00a0whom they couldn&#8217;t stop in Spring Training and couldn&#8217;t stop at Buffalo, has been recalled to take his place and I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised that he a la\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/player\/davis-ike\">Ike Davis<\/a>provides the club with a little bounce. Let&#8217;s Go Mets!<\/p>\n<p>My friend Edward suggests this is a good opportunity for the Mets to break out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/8\">the No. 8<\/a>\u00a0jersey again (or you know, just use some old ones) but it would be most likely he alights in the same\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/number\/23\">No. 23<\/a>\u00a0he wore this spring. Also saw where\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/thole-josh\">Josh Thole<\/a>\u00a0replaced\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/player\/blanco-henry\">Henry Blanco<\/a>\u00a0while the latter goes to the bereavement list. Thole is back in his familiar\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/number\/30\">30<\/a>. More later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m out here in fabulous Las Vegas and missed most of the debacle last night that made my previous post about looking up at the Nationals in the standings prophetic. I did see however that the game included what possibly could be the last turn at bat in\u00a0Frank Catalanotto&#8216;s career. I&#8217;m glad for his sake &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1409\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Aces &#038; Eights&#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":[487,480,450,442],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chris-carter","tag-frank-catalanotto","tag-henry-blanco","tag-josh-thole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","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=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}