{"id":2209,"date":"2015-04-19T15:59:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T21:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2015-04-20T19:11:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T01:11:36","slug":"the-magic-is-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2209","title":{"rendered":"The Magic is Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/7.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-89\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/7.gif\" alt=\"7\" width=\"27\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>The Mets are leading the world in costly victories. This is a weird thing to get used to, but that&#8217;s twice now this season &#8212; really thrice if you count Jenrry Mejia&#8217;s disappearing act on opening day &#8212; where the Mets came away with a big win at a\u00a0big\u00a0cost. Today it was Jerry Blevins and Travis d&#8217;Arnaud going down with broken bones within 15 minutes of one another.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/13.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-95 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/13.gif\" alt=\"13\" width=\"42\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m sure the Mets will miss both of them; I feel like personally sending d&#8217;Arnaud a get-well card; he was looking like a legitimate All-Star and certainly one of the chief reasons the loss of David Wright to injury hasn&#8217;t been the blow I feared it could be. Suddenly though, we&#8217;ve got a lineup without him <strong>and<\/strong> Wright, and before long using Eric Campbell as your cleanup hitter is going to show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/22.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-105 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/22.gif\" alt=\"22\" width=\"55\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m confident Kevin Plawecki is a nice hitter but as we saw with d&#8217;Arnaud, the ascension is rarely steady. Anyway, Plawecki will be a Met on Tuesday. They&#8217;re holding No. 22 for him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/67.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-153\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/67.gif\" alt=\"67\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Blevins was great too, but relief pitching is such a crapshoot. I\u00a0suppose the Mets now turn to Alex Torres to get out Freddy Freeman next week. Alex and his giant hat might inspire a giggle but the way he&#8217;s handled Christian Yelich this weekend was the kind of thing that can make a good impression on a guy like Terry). The guy they&#8217;ve recalled in the meantime, Hansel Robles, is a righthander and off to a very good start in Las Vegas (reportedly throws 98 MPH gas). He wore No. 67 in Spring Training: He&#8217;d be the first 67 in regular-season history if he retains it but with numbers as common as 30, 32 and 34 sitting around unissued I suppose its anyone&#8217;s guess.<\/p>\n<p>Eh, screw it. I say he becomes the first 67 ever.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of milestones I was reminded by Gordon in the comments section that we&#8217;re approaching the 1,000th Met ever, faster than we would have guessed even. Danny Muno., by our and Gordon&#8217;s count, was No. 990; Plawecki and Robles should take us to 992 and form there&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s your guess? And when?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets are leading the world in costly victories. This is a weird thing to get used to, but that&#8217;s twice now this season &#8212; really thrice if you count Jenrry Mejia&#8217;s disappearing act on opening day &#8212; where the Mets came away with a big win at a\u00a0big\u00a0cost. Today it was Jerry Blevins and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2209\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Magic is Bad&#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":[681,686,683,685,612],"class_list":["post-2209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alex-torres","tag-hansel-robles","tag-jerry-blevins","tag-kevin-plawecki","tag-travis-darnaud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209","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=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions\/2213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}