{"id":441,"date":"2004-08-21T20:01:02","date_gmt":"2004-08-21T20:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=441"},"modified":"2013-11-29T20:02:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T20:02:30","slug":"4-years-and-10-minutes-in-mbtn-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"4 Years and 10 Minutes in MBTN History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets controversial trades last month are paying off in unpredictable ways. When\u00a0<strong>Victor Zambrano 38<\/strong>\u00a0left his start Tuesday with elbow trouble, the Mets recalled the player received with him, reliever\u00a0<strong>Bartolome Fortunato,<\/strong>\u00a0who made his Met debut Friday wearing\u00a0<strong>No. 43.\u00a0<\/strong>Meantime,<strong>\u00a0Joe McEwing 11<\/strong>\u00a0went down Thursday with a dirty-slide-induced broken leg and so the Mets recalled\u00a0<strong>Jeff Keppinger,<\/strong>\u00a0the throw-in infielder received in the\u00a0<strong>Kris Benson<\/strong>\u00a0deal.<\/p>\n<p>Keppinger was issued\u00a0<strong>No. 6 &#8212; for the fourth time this year and the 31st time in Met history.<\/strong>\u00a0Both are records that may never be broken! (The Mets quietly last week traded catcher\u00a0<strong>Tom Wilson,<\/strong>\u00a0the third wearer of the 6 jersey this year.\u00a0<strong>Ricky Gutierrez and Gerald Williams<\/strong>\u00a0were the other two victims so far).<\/p>\n<p>Expect plenty of wound-licking and hand-wringing this week if\/when\u00a0<strong>Scott Kazmir<\/strong>\u00a0makes his debut with the Devil Rays and\u00a0<strong>Jim Duquette<\/strong>\u00a0submits his resume on Monster.com. This has been a very weird month, even for the Mets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets controversial trades last month are paying off in unpredictable ways. When\u00a0Victor Zambrano 38\u00a0left his start Tuesday with elbow trouble, the Mets recalled the player received with him, reliever\u00a0Bartolome Fortunato,\u00a0who made his Met debut Friday wearing\u00a0No. 43.\u00a0Meantime,\u00a0Joe McEwing 11\u00a0went down Thursday with a dirty-slide-induced broken leg and so the Mets recalled\u00a0Jeff Keppinger,\u00a0the throw-in infielder &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=441\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;4 Years and 10 Minutes in MBTN History&#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":[157,156,44,155],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bartolome-fortunato","tag-jeff-keppinger","tag-joe-mcewing","tag-victor-zambrano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","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=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}