{"id":459,"date":"2004-10-12T20:17:53","date_gmt":"2004-10-12T20:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=459"},"modified":"2013-11-29T20:18:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T20:18:36","slug":"52-and-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"52 and Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We neglected to mention the last-inning, last-day appearance of catcher\u00a0<strong>Joe Hietpas,<\/strong>\u00a0who narrowly became the 52nd and final Met of 2004, its 747th overall, and the 17th\u00a0<strong>No. 10\u00a0<\/strong>in team history. Also, we owe goodbyes to\u00a0<strong>Todd Zeile 27, John Franco 45<\/strong>\u00a0(maybe?) and probably, lots of others who&#8217;ve played their last game in a Met uni. In the meantime, we&#8217;ll wish good luck to the\u00a0<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">RED SOX<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, who begin the ALCS against the Yanks tonight, and humbly suggest that as\u00a0<strong>Omar Minaya<\/strong>\u00a0retools the team for 2005 his first move involves re-hiring\u00a0<strong>Bobby Valentine,<\/strong>\u00a0whom (told ya so) just about everyone missed more than they realized the regrettable day they fired him. Hey Charlie &#8212; keep\u00a0<strong>no. 2<\/strong>\u00a0warm.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>Updates: Thanks to a note from MBTN reader Ken, we&#8217;re updating our records on\u00a0<strong>Dan Norman.<\/strong>\u00a0Norman wore\u00a0<strong>33<\/strong>\u00a0during September callups in 1977 and 1978, and didn&#8217;t switch to 8 until 1979. Thanks!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We neglected to mention the last-inning, last-day appearance of catcher\u00a0Joe Hietpas,\u00a0who narrowly became the 52nd and final Met of 2004, its 747th overall, and the 17th\u00a0No. 10\u00a0in team history. Also, we owe goodbyes to\u00a0Todd Zeile 27, John Franco 45\u00a0(maybe?) and probably, lots of others who&#8217;ve played their last game in a Met uni. In the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=459\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;52 and Out&#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":[165],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-joe-hietpas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","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=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}