{"id":1463,"date":"2010-07-31T13:08:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T13:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2015-04-20T21:30:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T03:30:19","slug":"the-dead-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1463","title":{"rendered":"The Dead Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/35.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-118\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/35.gif\" alt=\"35\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>They&#8217;re still capable of looking like they might make a run but losing 20 of their last 30 and everything to the godforsaken Diamondbacks smells a lot like the Mets are going to fall short this season. With only hours remaining until the trade deadline I&#8217;d be strongly tempted to see what\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/feliciano-pedro\">Pedro Feliciano<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/rodriguez-francisco\">Frankie Rodriguez<\/a>\u00a0would bring back on the trade market, not that I&#8217;d expect that kind of vision from Omar (or that another team could be convinced that the $29 million Rodriguez has coming to him is even a fraction of what he&#8217;s worth). It might be different were the Mets able to start that run I&#8217;ve been talking about for weeks now, but they just haven&#8217;t, and I&#8217;m afraid it&#8217;s over.<\/p>\n<p>The only new personnel so far is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/feliciano-jesus\">Jesus Feliciano<\/a>, returning to take the place of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/bay-jason\">Jason Bay<\/a>, who went to the disabled list with a concussion. The Mets also on Friday traded AAA first baseman\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/jacobs-mike\">Mike Jacobs<\/a>\u00a0to Toronto for a\u00a0<strong>Player To Be Named Later<\/strong>: It&#8217;s hard to believe Jacobs was the opening-day first baseman on this team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re still capable of looking like they might make a run but losing 20 of their last 30 and everything to the godforsaken Diamondbacks smells a lot like the Mets are going to fall short this season. With only hours remaining until the trade deadline I&#8217;d be strongly tempted to see what\u00a0Pedro Feliciano\u00a0and\u00a0Frankie Rodriguez\u00a0would bring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1463\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Dead Line&#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":[504,493,142,166,87],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fracisco-rodriguez","tag-jesus-feliciano","tag-mike-jacobs","tag-omar-minaya","tag-pedro-feliciano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","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=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/2314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}