{"id":1419,"date":"2010-05-23T02:25:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T02:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2015-04-20T22:02:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T04:02:03","slug":"subway-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1419","title":{"rendered":"Subway Seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/64.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/64.gif\" alt=\"64\" width=\"58\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Rubber games haven&#8217;t been the Mets&#8217; strength this year, but if they&#8217;re going to have any chance of relevancy they better start learning to win them soon. No better time than tonight against the MFYs who don&#8217;t look all that tough after winning Friday on an error and pretty much beaten in all facets last night by\u00a0Mike Pelfrey\u00a0and the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>As you know by now, it wasn&#8217;t\u00a0 reliever\u00a0Ryota Igarashi\u00a0returning Friday but\u00a0Elmer Dessens, summoned when\u00a0John Maine\u00a0was involuntarily disabled. The Glue Gun, still the only Met ever to wear\u00a0No. 64, was rushed into action without great results, but it will be nice to have Igarashi back today;\u00a0Manny Acosta\u00a0was demoted to Buffalo to make room. As said below, I&#8217;m on a temporary break from my campaign to make\u00a0Jerry Manuel\u00a0pay for the Mets&#8217; struggles and instead concentrating on being a supporter now when the team needs me. It feels good! And what can I say, it was encouraging to see Jerry make an aggressive bullpen move that made sense last night and resist the urge to stifle the offense. Let&#8217;s Go Mets!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rubber games haven&#8217;t been the Mets&#8217; strength this year, but if they&#8217;re going to have any chance of relevancy they better start learning to win them soon. No better time than tonight against the MFYs who don&#8217;t look all that tough after winning Friday on an error and pretty much beaten in all facets last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1419\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Subway Seriously&#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":[427,221,484,241],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-elmer-dessens","tag-john-maine","tag-manny-acosta","tag-mike-pelfrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","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=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2330,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/2330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}