{"id":1796,"date":"2012-04-04T02:02:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T02:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2015-04-20T20:11:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T02:11:11","slug":"anything-can-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1796","title":{"rendered":"Anything Can Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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>The Mets begin their 50th anniversary season Thursday amid modest expectations befitting a squad with thin starting pitching, shaky defense and Jason Bay in the middle of the lineup, but if everything goes right, they might also be fun to watch too. I&#8217;m optimistic of a good start at any rate. It&#8217;s the Mets&#8217; 50th season and MBTN&#8217;s 13th.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;m sure you all know by now, the banged up foursome of Andres Torres, David Wright, Scott Hairston and Tim Byrdak all healed in time to answer the bell and comprise a squad of 25 we probably could have predicted back in December. It&#8217;s further encouraging to see Ike Davis and Johan Santana are among them.<\/p>\n<p>And so today we welcome the returnees back, and the new ones the best of luck. Officially joining the All-Time Numerical Roster for the first time are players Andres Torres 56, Ronny Cedeno 13, Frank Francisco 48, Ramon Ramirez 52 and Jon Rauch 60; and coaches Bob Geren 7, Ricky Bones 25, Tom Goodwin 26 and batting practice pitcher Eric Langill 78. Returning in new numbers are Mike Nickeas, now wearing 4; Tim Teufel, now coaching and wearing No. 18 and bullpen catcher Dave Racianello, in 79. I&#8217;ll be updating the rosters shortly please let me know if you come across any errors.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s Go Mets! Anything can happen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets begin their 50th anniversary season Thursday amid modest expectations befitting a squad with thin starting pitching, shaky defense and Jason Bay in the middle of the lineup, but if everything goes right, they might also be fun to watch too. I&#8217;m optimistic of a good start at any rate. It&#8217;s the Mets&#8217; 50th &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1796\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anything Can Happen&#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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opening-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","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=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions\/2271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}