{"id":3415,"date":"2021-05-04T16:01:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T22:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2021-05-04T16:01:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T22:01:07","slug":"quattlebombed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3415","title":{"rendered":"Quattlebombed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s next for these guys?<\/p>\n<p>As you might have noted I&#8217;d been kinda leaving the Mets alone in hopes they&#8217;d reveal themselves as one thing or another but looks again that might be a while.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/48.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"58\" height=\"48\" \/>Waiting to hear the result of Jacob deGrom&#8217;s MRI as I write this and fresh off the midnight whacking of the club&#8217;s two hitting coaches, still waiting for any kind of consistency, injuries, frustration, dreadful slumps, sloppy play, moments of glory, innings of crap, hours of games: Mets Baseball 2021!<\/p>\n<p>I even got out to Citi Field for the first time in more than a year a week ago tonight and can report that it remains 20% colder and damper than anywhere in NYC. That evening Peterson struggled, the offense struggled even more and we lost to a Red Sox team that should have beaten us worse. I&#8217;m now fully vaccinated, licking doorknobs, and you&#8217;ll find me out there most every Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-101\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/18.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"42\" height=\"48\" \/>Catching up on roster moves we&#8217;ve seen the debut of Jose Peraza (18) finally after a couple non-appearances and had Daniel Zamora (73) up and back. Word is Jordan Yamamoto (45) is on the way and I thought only hours ago that could be for Stroman and not deGrom.<\/p>\n<p>That was a strange firing, a weird press conference and some curious dat-after reactions: I miss the beat writers in the clubhouse to sniff these things out. I found Zach Scott&#8217;s detachment and business-speaky remarks dissatisfying, as were the softball questions from the participating journos and the day-after narrative: Pete Alonso crying? After last season? The strong relationships Davis forged over zoom? Has anyone noticed Francisco Lindor has 3 RBI, is leading the team in plate appearances, and is hitting .160?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/54.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"58\" height=\"48\" \/>The roster doesn&#8217;t yet list the uni numbers of the new coaches, perhaps we&#8217;ll know when deGrom&#8217;s diagnosis comes in. By the way, coaches all wear sweatshirts over the unis anyway&#8211;and I&#8217;m certain Chili Davis didn&#8217;t suit on Zoom last year&#8211; so I&#8217;m barely aware that they Davis had been wearing No. 54 and Slater 56. You&#8217;d think Hugh Quattlebaum and Kevin Howard would take those respectively, then wear sweatshirts over them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s next for these guys? As you might have noted I&#8217;d been kinda leaving the Mets alone in hopes they&#8217;d reveal themselves as one thing or another but looks again that might be a while. Waiting to hear the result of Jacob deGrom&#8217;s MRI as I write this and fresh off the midnight whacking of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3415\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quattlebombed&#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":[807,866],"tags":[962,826,939,645,947,950,963,964],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-friggin-team","category-who-is-this-guy","tag-chili-davis","tag-daniel-zamora","tag-francisco-lindor","tag-jacob-degrom","tag-jordan-yamamoto","tag-jose-peraza","tag-tom-slater","tag-zach-scott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415","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=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3416,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions\/3416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}