{"id":472,"date":"2004-12-16T20:28:33","date_gmt":"2004-12-16T20:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=472"},"modified":"2013-11-29T20:29:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T20:29:32","slug":"petes-sake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"Pete&#8217;s Sake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets are expected today to introduce\u00a0<strong>Pedro Martinez<\/strong>\u00a0at a press grip-and-gin and present him with jersey\u00a0<strong>No. 45,<\/strong>\u00a0which he&#8217;ll try on over a suit as flashbulbs pop. Whether the Mets really ought to be fooling again with these kind of high-risk moves is debateable, but we have little doubt that Pedro will provide some excitement. His taking of No. 45 likely solidfies\u00a0<strong>John Franco&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0bid to be the first player in Met hstory to warm up a jersey number for two future Hall of Famers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets are expected today to introduce\u00a0Pedro Martinez\u00a0at a press grip-and-gin and present him with jersey\u00a0No. 45,\u00a0which he&#8217;ll try on over a suit as flashbulbs pop. Whether the Mets really ought to be fooling again with these kind of high-risk moves is debateable, but we have little doubt that Pedro will provide some excitement. His &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=472\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pete&#8217;s Sake&#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":[115,169],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-john-franco","tag-pedro-martinez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","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=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}