{"id":2512,"date":"2016-03-31T05:41:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T11:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2016-03-31T05:41:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T11:41:14","slug":"bladder-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=2512","title":{"rendered":"Bladder Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

It doesn’t mean anything, and a peek at the archives<\/a> would reveal I’ve been ready to go to war with less A LOT, but I should just come out and confess I’ve been a Mets fan for something like 40 years and can’t remember a better Spring Training.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\n\"16\"<\/a>That seems like a long time ago but that was me, only\u00a0a year ago<\/a>, buckling in for what looked like, and ultimately turned out to be, a very rewarding\u00a0season to be a Met fan.<\/p>\n

And while I maintain the part about its ultimate meaninglessness, it’s difficult\u00a0to interpret this\u00a0year’s spring as anything but a basket of sour grapefruit. They have failed to win any of their last 13 games. I’m not satisfied they’ve answered any lingering questions\u00a0about David Wright’s ability to go this year. The bullpen has been\u00a0terrible. Nobody’s hitting for power. deGrom’s velocity is down. We learned a lot about what’s inside Matt\u00a0Harvey’s bladder\u00a0and Yoenis Cespedes’s\u00a0garage, but we don’t know that they are going to be effective on the mound or in center field, respectively.<\/p>\n

Ruben Tejada appears to have departed at just the right moment.<\/p>\n

\"15\"<\/a>I suppose the good news is that Matt Reynolds is having a good spring and ought to adequately replace Tejada’s penciled-in role as a reserve infielder, and that amid the struggles of Familia, Reed, Blevins and \"51\"<\/a>Bastardo, some guy named Jim Henderson has looked like viable bullpen candidate. They’re basically the only guys on the bubble anyway, illustrating just how dull a spring its been on top of all the lackluster exhibitions.<\/p>\n

Two more games in Las Vegas, then opening night in Kansas City await. We’ll have the official O.D. roster updated then.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Uh, Let’s Go Mets?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It doesn’t mean anything, and a peek at the archives would reveal I’ve been ready to go to war with less A LOT, but I should just come out and confess I’ve been a Mets fan for something like 40 years and can’t remember a better Spring Training. That seems like a long time ago … Continue reading “Bladder Up”<\/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":[703],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-opening-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512","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=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions\/2513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}