{"id":1689,"date":"2011-05-17T16:29:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T16:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2013-12-14T16:30:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T16:30:35","slug":"my-spine-is-the-baseline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1689","title":{"rendered":"My Spine is the Baseline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>Always a bummer when one of your key guys breaks his back, but what&#8217;s\u00a0Jason Bay&#8217;s excuse? His failure to put the ball in play last night loomed large in a revolting 2-1 extra inning home loss to the Marlins last night that was followed by the announcement that two additional culprits &#8212; noodle-batted reserve infielder\u00a0Chin-lung Hu, and hopeless relief hack Ryota Igarashi &#8212; would be headed to Class AAA Buffalo. I know it&#8217;s impossible and counterproductive, but I&#8217;d send Bay there with them just to punish him. In a bus.<\/p>\n<p>Recalled to take the places of Hu and Igarshi are\u00a0Ruben Tejada\u00a0and\u00a0Pedro Beato, respectively. Tejada was with the Mets last season assigned\u00a0No. 11; Beato will retake the\u00a0No. 27\u00a0he wore earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>As for\u00a0David Wright, he has a broken back requiring at least a few weeks of rest. Met officials say it&#8217;s likely he&#8217;ll hit the disabled list today and be replaced on the roster by\u00a0 perpetual tourist\u00a0Nick Evans\u00a0and his trusty\u00a0No. 6\u00a0jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus for the first commenter to recognize the obscure headline reference!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always a bummer when one of your key guys breaks his back, but what&#8217;s\u00a0Jason Bay&#8217;s excuse? His failure to put the ball in play last night loomed large in a revolting 2-1 extra inning home loss to the Marlins last night that was followed by the announcement that two additional culprits &#8212; noodle-batted reserve infielder\u00a0Chin-lung &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1689\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Spine is the Baseline&#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":[524,257,446,364,542],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chin-lung-hu","tag-david-wright","tag-jason-bay","tag-nick-evans","tag-pedro-beato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","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=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}