{"id":662,"date":"2007-03-25T16:34:39","date_gmt":"2007-03-25T16:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=662"},"modified":"2013-11-30T16:35:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T16:35:46","slug":"bazooka-joe-and-the-800th-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"Bazooka Joe and the 800th Met"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unless something really unexpected happens, it appears\u00a0<strong>Moises Alou 18<\/strong>\u00a0will become the 800th Met when the season begins a week from today.<\/p>\n<p>Other first-time Mets would appear to be\u00a0<strong>Damion Easley (No. 2), David Newhan (17), Aaron Sele (32), Scott Schoeneweis (60), Chan Ho Park (61) and \u201cBazooka\u201d Joe Smith,<\/strong>\u00a0who is, for all we know, still going around in the\u00a0<strong>No. 70<\/strong>\u00a0jersey they assign to longshot bullpen wannabees. I made up that \u201cBazooka\u201d nickname by the way, sort of. Remember Joe Smith, the basketball player? When he was a student at Maryland the school paper held a nickname contest to give him more pizzazz where \u2018Bazooka\u2019 was among the choices. I don\u2019t think it ever stuck with that Joe Smith. We can\u2019t let it go this time.<\/p>\n<p>So what number does Bazooka Joe Smith get?<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t even have to look it up to tell you this is the first season the Mets began a year with two guys wearing numbers in the 60s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless something really unexpected happens, it appears\u00a0Moises Alou 18\u00a0will become the 800th Met when the season begins a week from today. Other first-time Mets would appear to be\u00a0Damion Easley (No. 2), David Newhan (17), Aaron Sele (32), Scott Schoeneweis (60), Chan Ho Park (61) and \u201cBazooka\u201d Joe Smith,\u00a0who is, for all we know, still going &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=662\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bazooka Joe and the 800th Met&#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":[296,300,281,304,277,299],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aaron-sele","tag-chan-ho-park","tag-damion-easley","tag-joe-smith","tag-moises-alou","tag-scott-schoeneweis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","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=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}