{"id":1503,"date":"2010-11-21T12:35:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T12:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2013-12-14T12:36:38","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T12:36:38","slug":"me-and-terry-became-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1503","title":{"rendered":"Me and Terry Became Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/pterry.jpg\" width=\"243\" height=\"183\" \/>As a friend said, Terry Collins may have been fifth on my list of the final four candidates to become the next Mets manager but now that he is, I guess we owe him a shot. He&#8217;s got some admirers among the bright minds of the Mets front office, he was a finalist the last time they held these interviews, and his teams in two previous stops have performed pretty well if not ended that way. We&#8217;ll wait for the press conference Tuesday to comfirm it, but I&#8217;d expect they have him appear in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/1\">No. 1\u00a0<\/a>jersey, even though it currently belongs to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/castillo-luis\">Luis Castillo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a friend said, Terry Collins may have been fifth on my list of the final four candidates to become the next Mets manager but now that he is, I guess we owe him a shot. He&#8217;s got some admirers among the bright minds of the Mets front office, he was a finalist the last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1503\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Me and Terry Became Friends&#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":[511],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-terry-collins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","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=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}