{"id":1461,"date":"2010-07-26T12:38:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T12:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2015-04-20T21:30:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T03:30:49","slug":"hessman-yes-maam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1461","title":{"rendered":"Hessman, Yes, Ma&#8217;am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/66.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/66.gif\" alt=\"66\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>The Mets are about to start playing again Tuesday and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/francoeur-jeff\">Jeff Francoeur<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/perez-oliver\">Ollie Perez<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/castillo-luis\">Luis Castillo<\/a>\u00a0are still a part of the team, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/johnson-howard\">Howard Johnson<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/warthen-dan\">Dan Warthen<\/a>\u00a0are still coaches. So much of that seemed unlikely after the Mets meekly limped off the field in Los Angeles Sunday, losers of 9 of 11 games on their post-All Star Break West Coast run (and deserving losers of 10 of them!).<\/p>\n<p>Supportive posts right here amid all the fan bloodlust took a lot out of me. When they finally won on Friday I&#8217;d convinced myself it was the start of the turnaround I&#8217;d been predicting all week. So when they threw up that awful dud on Saturday, I was just so unprepared. Unacceptable! And for the first time this year I felt myself moving to that realm of fandom where I want the Mets to get what they deserve and not what I want for them. It was a dark moment, for sure, and rewarded with another spiceless loss on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>So here we are back home again, and the Mets are apparently going out there by refusing to bow to fan bloodlust again: God bless &#8217;em, I don&#8217;t know how or why most times. And the only change appears to be Minor League Masher\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/hessman-mike\">Mike Hessman\u00a0<\/a>recalled for the injured\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/barajas-rod\">Rod Barajas<\/a>. Unclear just now what number they outfit Hessman in; though he wore\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/66\">66<\/a>\u00a0this spring and for whatever reason it strikes me as appropriate now. Nothing wrong with a freaky right-handed masher on the bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets are about to start playing again Tuesday and\u00a0Jeff Francoeur,\u00a0Ollie Perez\u00a0and\u00a0Luis Castillo\u00a0are still a part of the team, and\u00a0Howard Johnson\u00a0and\u00a0Dan Warthen\u00a0are still coaches. So much of that seemed unlikely after the Mets meekly limped off the field in Los Angeles Sunday, losers of 9 of 11 games on their post-All Star Break West Coast &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1461\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hessman, Yes, Ma&#8217;am&#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":[503],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mike-hessman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","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=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2315,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions\/2315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}