{"id":677,"date":"2007-03-31T16:47:54","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T16:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=677"},"modified":"2013-11-30T16:48:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T16:48:43","slug":"renumeration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=677","title":{"rendered":"Renumeration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to reader Glenn who below pointed out Ben Shpigel\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bats.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/03\/30\/mighty-joe-smith\/\">entertaining blog post<\/a>\u00a0detailing the news that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/smith-joe\"><strong>Bazooka Joe Smith<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0will dress in uni\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/35\"><strong>No. 35<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/sele-aaron\"><strong>Aaron Sele<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is also changing \u2014 to<strong>No.<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">\u00a030<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">36.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/30\"><strong>30<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>(I was right all along). The comments illustrate some of the politics of number selections: Rookie Smith is resigned to wear what is offered him; Sele can not only choose his jersey, but (jokingly) request re-numeration for that which he leaves behind.<\/p>\n<p>A poor spring sparked not by iffy pitching but by a continuation of the paltry offense the Mets showed last September and October frankly has me more worried than usual about the new year but opening night isn\u2019t a time to fret. Let\u2019s Go Mets!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to reader Glenn who below pointed out Ben Shpigel\u2019s\u00a0entertaining blog post\u00a0detailing the news that\u00a0Bazooka Joe Smith\u00a0will dress in uni\u00a0No. 35\u00a0and\u00a0Aaron Sele\u00a0is also changing \u2014 toNo.\u00a030\u00a036.\u00a0)\u00a030\u00a0(I was right all along). The comments illustrate some of the politics of number selections: Rookie Smith is resigned to wear what is offered him; Sele can not only choose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=677\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Renumeration&#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":[296,304],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aaron-sele","tag-joe-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","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=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}