{"id":2183,"date":"2015-03-26T14:20:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T20:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2015-04-20T19:17:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T01:17:35","slug":"breaking-steve-trachsel-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2183","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Steve Trachsel News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/29.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-112 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/29.gif\" alt=\"29\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>If you&#8217;re not careful you&#8217;ll learn something new every day.<\/p>\n<p>Today, for some reason, Steve Trachsel &#8220;took over&#8221; the @Mets twitter account, fielding questions from fans. And for some reason, I clicked over to read the exchanges, only to come across this interesting bit of Trac-trivia:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liamshea_\">@liamshea_<\/a> They wanted to give me number 28 but that was Bobby Jones&#8217; old no. &amp; we were rivals in college so I didn&#8217;t want it! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AskTrachsel?src=hash\">#AskTrachsel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New York Mets (@Mets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mets\/status\/581160089345765377\">March 26, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>How about that? I suppose with 29 also available and Bobby Jones having just departed the Mets could have been more sensible in re-issuing No. 28 so quickly. But I&#8217;m impressed Trachsel gave this thing any kind of thought. And it certainly hadn&#8217;t occurred to me that jocks would necessarily carry these rivalries from college; or than Cal State-Fresno and Cal State-Fullerton were big rivals, although that makes some sense if you think about it.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who lived through the Steve Trachsel Era, it&#8217;s worth pointing out here that despite a ghastly beginning and a truly terrible end, Trax had a pretty good five years as a Met, and remains the undisputed champion pitcher of Mets-who-wore-29, having twice as many wins (66) and more than twice as many losses than the next guy (Frank Viola).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re not careful you&#8217;ll learn something new every day. Today, for some reason, Steve Trachsel &#8220;took over&#8221; the @Mets twitter account, fielding questions from fans. And for some reason, I clicked over to read the exchanges, only to come across this interesting bit of Trac-trivia: .@liamshea_ They wanted to give me number 28 but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2183\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Breaking Steve Trachsel News&#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":[387,626],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uni-controversies","category-useless-milestones","tag-steve-trachsel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","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=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2219,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions\/2219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}