{"id":1417,"date":"2010-05-21T02:20:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T02:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2013-12-11T02:22:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T02:22:48","slug":"pride-power-pelfrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1417","title":{"rendered":"Pride&#8230; Power&#8230; Pelfrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/openlettersmonthly.com\/issue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/7train.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" \/>As happy I was to see the return of the Met offense last night, and as welcome as the return tonight of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/igarashi-ryota\">Ryota Igarashi<\/a>\u00a0should be, it was most encouraging to see the reintroduction last night of\u00a0<strong>Gangsta Jerry,<\/strong>\u00a0who I can only hope is as exasperated at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/maine-john\">John Maine<\/a>&#8216;s struggles as I&#8217;ve been. I like Maine enough but at some point these guys deserve a kick in the pants and props to Jerry for delivering one; I found it impossible not to draw parallels to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/reyes-jose\">Jose Reyes<\/a>\u00a0Incident on Manuel&#8217;s first night on the job, a little who&#8217;s-the-boss demonstration for all of us doubters to see.<\/p>\n<p>And so while I still think his strategies are counterproductive and wearing and destined not to succeed, I also feel the Mets needn&#8217;t upstage this weekend&#8217;s series with a firing. Nor should they, probably, at least until after it, or the Philly series to follow, depending on results. This is the time to be fans again. Let&#8217;s Go Mets!<\/p>\n<p>No official word yet if Igarashi returns tonight or who goes down for him, but I&#8217;d be surprised if he weren&#8217;t in action tonight.\u00a0Thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metsblog.com\/\">MetsBlog<\/a>\u00a0for the traffic yesterday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As happy I was to see the return of the Met offense last night, and as welcome as the return tonight of\u00a0Ryota Igarashi\u00a0should be, it was most encouraging to see the reintroduction last night of\u00a0Gangsta Jerry,\u00a0who I can only hope is as exasperated at\u00a0John Maine&#8216;s struggles as I&#8217;ve been. I like Maine enough but at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1417\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pride&#8230; Power&#8230; Pelfrey&#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":[221,241,451],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-john-maine","tag-mike-pelfrey","tag-ryota-igarashi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","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=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}