{"id":1784,"date":"2012-02-16T04:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T04:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2015-04-20T20:13:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T02:13:50","slug":"gary-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"Gary Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/8.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-90\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/8.gif\" alt=\"8\" width=\"27\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>I was a freshman in college the night the Mets traded for Gary Carter. The news so excited me that I goaded one of my roommates to stay up all night and celebrate, which for us meant wandering aimlessly around campus all night until stealing a fresh morning newspaper from a bundle left outside a store on Main Street at first light just to read about it. There was never any doubt that his arrival would transform a promising team into an excellent one, and help<em>me\u00a0<\/em>realize a dream I&#8217;d harbored all my life until then. That was the power of Gary Carter.<\/p>\n<p>When I presented Gary Carter with a copy of the Mets by the Numbers book at an event in 2008 his thank-you and his handshake were so warm and sincere I could barely believe he meant them. What an impression he made.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20120120&amp;content_id=26407020&amp;vkey=news_mlb&amp;c_id=mlb\">Marty Noble writing on MLB.com today\u00a0<\/a>presents an obituary as forceful and oddly offputting as the Kid himself. What a character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a freshman in college the night the Mets traded for Gary Carter. The news so excited me that I goaded one of my roommates to stay up all night and celebrate, which for us meant wandering aimlessly around campus all night until stealing a fresh morning newspaper from a bundle left outside a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1784\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gary Carter&#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":[101],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gary-carter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","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=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/2275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}