{"id":1683,"date":"2011-05-04T16:11:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T16:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2015-04-20T20:34:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T02:34:56","slug":"put-it-in-this-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1683","title":{"rendered":"Put it in this Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mikeoconnor.org\/images\/book-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"352\" \/>Sorry about the infrequent updates. Became convinced my enthusiasm at the tail end of the winning streak killed it and was scared to further mess it up. Now it seems hardly to matter. Tuesday&#8217;s gutwrenching loss almost assured a humiliation on Wednesday and the loss to injury of\u00a0Pedro Beato\u00a0didn&#8217;t help. The Mets real trouble however is the offense, with too little coming from the end of the lineup and less than that from the bench so far. It sure hasn&#8217;t helped that\u00a0Jason Bay&#8217;s missed more time than we could afford to lose already (and it&#8217;s still early). His latest absence for paternity leave forced the recall of\u00a0Lucas Duda, in whom\u00a0Terry Collins\u00a0(and Lucas Duda for that matter) has no faith.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/50.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/50.gif\" alt=\"50\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Taking Beato&#8217;s place is lefty\u00a0Mike O&#8217;Connor. I tried to look up some information on him and came across the image accompanying this post which seemed only too appropriate for the mess this franchise has become. It&#8217;s not just the gut-punchy losses. It&#8217;s the lifeless, charmless, two-thirds empty park they play in and the sense of doom around the finances of the owners, who&#8217;d be in financial trouble even without the looming lawsuit. It&#8217;s a fragile team prone to hangovers &#8212; and until\u00a0Mike Pelfrey\u00a0and\u00a0RA Dickey\u00a0turn it around &#8212; unable to generate a lot of momentum of their own. Maybe things improve upon the return of Bay and\u00a0Angel Pagan\u00a0this weekend. Maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Connor: Taking over the\u00a0No. 50\u00a0most recently belonging to\u00a0Sean Green. His next appearance will be his first in the majors since 2008 with the Nationals, the team that drafted him out of George Washington U in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry about the infrequent updates. Became convinced my enthusiasm at the tail end of the winning streak killed it and was scared to further mess it up. Now it seems hardly to matter. Tuesday&#8217;s gutwrenching loss almost assured a humiliation on Wednesday and the loss to injury of\u00a0Pedro Beato\u00a0didn&#8217;t help. The Mets real trouble however &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1683\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Put it in this Book&#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":[506,541,542,511],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lucas-duda","tag-mike-oconnor","tag-pedro-beato","tag-terry-collins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","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=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2293,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/2293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}