{"id":544,"date":"2005-11-30T04:31:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=544"},"modified":"2013-11-30T04:35:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T04:35:41","slug":"wagner-meets-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"Wagner Meets the Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/13.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-95\" alt=\"13\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/13.gif\" width=\"42\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Hours after introducing new Met first baseman\u00a0<strong>Carlos Delgado\u00a0<\/strong>the Mets rolled out the podium to introduce new closer\u00a0<strong>Billy Wagner,\u00a0<\/strong>reeled in on a four-year contract by free-spending Met GM Omar Minaya.\u00a0Wagner will wear his customary\u00a0<strong>No. 13\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0jersey, most recently\u00a0worn by\u00a0<strong>Brian Daubach\u00a0<\/strong>and more famously by infielder\u00a0<strong>Edgardo\u00a0Alfonzo\u00a0<\/strong>and early-80s closer\u00a0<strong>Neil Allen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Delgado\u00a0suiting up in\u00a0<strong>21,<\/strong>\u00a0by the way, is actually a return to his original\u00a0Blue Jays uniform and proves he&#8217;s a bigger man than\u00a0<strong>Roger Clemens or\u00a0Paul O&#8217;Neill,<\/strong>\u00a0which granted, aren&#8217;t hard things to do. But as pointed\u00a0out by MBTN reader\u00a0<strong>Steve,<\/strong>\u00a0Delgado took 25 only after Clemens arrived\u00a0in Toronto in 1997. By contrast, O&#8217;Neill refused to surrender 21 when his\u00a0jerkoff teammate arrived at Yankee Stadium in &#8217;99. We sure like Delgado\u00a0so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours after introducing new Met first baseman\u00a0Carlos Delgado\u00a0the Mets rolled out the podium to introduce new closer\u00a0Billy Wagner,\u00a0reeled in on a four-year contract by free-spending Met GM Omar Minaya.\u00a0Wagner will wear his customary\u00a0No. 13\u00a0\u00a0jersey, most recently\u00a0worn by\u00a0Brian Daubach\u00a0and more famously by infielder\u00a0Edgardo\u00a0Alfonzo\u00a0and early-80s closer\u00a0Neil Allen. Delgado\u00a0suiting up in\u00a021,\u00a0by the way, is actually a return to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=544\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wagner Meets the Press&#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":[212,191,210],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-billy-wagner","tag-brian-daubach","tag-carlos-delgado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","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=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}