{"id":300,"date":"2003-03-30T18:05:28","date_gmt":"2003-03-30T18:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=300"},"modified":"2017-04-03T05:41:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T11:41:17","slug":"play-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Play Ball!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since we last saw the Mets, trudging off the field as last-place embarrasments, it&#8217;s been consistently cold and nasty outside, the Jets fell out of the playoffs, the Knicks and Rangers sucked, the Yankees spent another $45 million; there&#8217;s armed guards in the Subways and a war is raging. Are we ready or what? On Monday, MBTN welcomes the following players to the\u00a0<strong>Mets All-Time Numerical Roster<\/strong>\u00a0(pending &#8220;official&#8221; game status):\u00a0<strong>Rey Sanchez 10; Graeme Lloyd 17; Cliff Floyd 30; Mike Stanton 32; Jay Bell 44\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0Tom Glavine 47.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And in new Uni Numbers:\u00a0<strong>Joe McEwing 11; Jason Phillips 23; Scott Strickland 28;\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Jae Wong Seo 40.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Joining the\u00a0<strong>All-Time Coaches and Managers List:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Gary Pettis 2; Denny Walling 15; Art Howe 18; Don Baylor 25; Rick Waits 52; Verne Ruhle 53; Juan Lopez 60<\/strong>; and in a new number,\u00a0<strong>Matt Galante 4.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we last saw the Mets, trudging off the field as last-place embarrasments, it&#8217;s been consistently cold and nasty outside, the Jets fell out of the playoffs, the Knicks and Rangers sucked, the Yankees spent another $45 million; there&#8217;s armed guards in the Subways and a war is raging. Are we ready or what? On &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=300\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Play Ball!&#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":[703],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opening-day","tag-opening-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","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=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2717,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/2717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}