{"id":57,"date":"2001-07-28T15:30:14","date_gmt":"2001-07-28T15:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=57"},"modified":"2013-11-29T15:32:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T15:32:54","slug":"go-get-the-braves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Go Get the Braves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>The Mets tonight in a bold stroke traded the veteran relievers as responsible for the team&#8217;s success as any two Mets over the last three years. We&#8217;ll miss whacky\u00a0<strong>Turk<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Wendell<\/strong>, a MBTN original at\u00a0<strong>99<\/strong>; and the even nuttier\u00a0<strong>Dennis<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Cook 27<\/strong>. In return, the Mets receive potentially good lefty pitchers\u00a0<strong>Bruce Chen<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Adam Walker.<\/strong>\u00a0Chen takes\u00a0<strong>No. 32.<\/strong>\u00a0Walker goes to the Minors in the meantime and\u00a0<strong>Grant Roberts 36<\/strong>\u00a0takes his place.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>Turk and Cook join another struggling symbol of the good old days\u00a0<strong>Todd Pratt,\u00a0<\/strong>traded days earlier to Philadelphia for another backup backstop,\u00a0<strong>Gary Bennett.<\/strong>\u00a0The straight-up uni-swap dressed Bennett in Todd&#8217;s old\u00a0<strong>No. 7<\/strong>. We&#8217;ll miss Pratt. In addition to THE homer, it was Pratt&#8217;s goofy fate to have hit home runs in his first and last at-bat as a Met. All four of these guys had real character and brought us a lot of great memories.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets tonight in a bold stroke traded the veteran relievers as responsible for the team&#8217;s success as any two Mets over the last three years. We&#8217;ll miss whacky\u00a0Turk\u00a0Wendell, a MBTN original at\u00a099; and the even nuttier\u00a0Dennis\u00a0Cook 27. In return, the Mets receive potentially good lefty pitchers\u00a0Bruce Chen\u00a0and\u00a0Adam Walker.\u00a0Chen takes\u00a0No. 32.\u00a0Walker goes to the Minors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=57\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Go Get the Braves&#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":[32,31,33,34,30],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-chen","tag-dennis-cook","tag-gary-bennett","tag-todd-pratt","tag-turk-wendell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","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=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}