{"id":558,"date":"2006-02-17T14:41:15","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T14:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=558"},"modified":"2013-11-30T14:42:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T14:42:16","slug":"maine-attraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"Maine Attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/33.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-116\" alt=\"33\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/33.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Of all the beat guys, nobody&#8217;s spring training dispatches get us in the mood quite like\u00a0<strong>Marty Noble,<\/strong>\u00a0who must know some readers, like us, are hopeless suckers for the insignificant detail. In\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.mets.mlb.com\/NASApp\/mlb\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20060217&amp;content_id=1313929&amp;vkey=spt2006news&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;c_id=nym\">today&#8217;s report at mlb.com,<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Noble informs us that newly arrived pitcher\u00a0<strong>John Maine<\/strong>\u00a0has a thing for\u00a0<strong>No. 33,<\/strong>\u00a0which he found dangling from a hanger in the clubhouse, rather than the 57 he wore at the Caravan a few weeks back. We like Maine, too, who says of his new digits: &#8220;It&#8217;s great. I guess it&#8217;s a good sign. And it&#8217;s a pitcher&#8217;s number; that&#8217;s the best part.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the beat guys, nobody&#8217;s spring training dispatches get us in the mood quite like\u00a0Marty Noble,\u00a0who must know some readers, like us, are hopeless suckers for the insignificant detail. In\u00a0today&#8217;s report at mlb.com,\u00a0Noble informs us that newly arrived pitcher\u00a0John Maine\u00a0has a thing for\u00a0No. 33,\u00a0which he found dangling from a hanger in the clubhouse, rather &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=558\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maine Attraction&#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":[221],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-john-maine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","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=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}