{"id":693,"date":"2007-04-20T17:26:02","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T17:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=693"},"modified":"2013-11-30T17:27:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T17:27:45","slug":"jack-is-back-so-are-the-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"Jack is Back. So Are the Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While a monsoon ruined the scheduled Jackie Robinson Day at Shea last Sunday, the celebration has been rescheduled for tonight: Appropriately, considering\u00a0<strong>Willie Randolph\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/42\">No. 42<\/a>\u00a0jersey\u00a0<\/strong>would have been beneath a heavy coat or scuba gear Sunday while today, it finally looks like spring.<\/p>\n<p>It also feels pretty good, considering how the Mets ravaged the opposition in a rain-shortened roadtrip this week. Four runs in the first off Willis; six runs with 2 outs in the 3rd last night: These are the kind of achievements I\u2019ve been waiting to get from this team, and that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/faithandfear.blogharbor.com\/blog\/_archives\/2007\/4\/20\/2893273.html\"><strong>Greg at Faith and Fear<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has saved me from having to go into more detail about. It\u2019s early to say this, but\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/alou-moises\">Moises Alou<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is already eliciting feelings that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/hershiser-orel\"><strong>Orel Hershiser<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0took half a season to in 1999: That being, the a veteran enemy I\u2019d never had a lot of appreciation for, coming here late in their career to show me, at long last, what I\u2019d missed. Man can that guy hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While a monsoon ruined the scheduled Jackie Robinson Day at Shea last Sunday, the celebration has been rescheduled for tonight: Appropriately, considering\u00a0Willie Randolph\u2019s\u00a0No. 42\u00a0jersey\u00a0would have been beneath a heavy coat or scuba gear Sunday while today, it finally looks like spring. It also feels pretty good, considering how the Mets ravaged the opposition in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=693\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jack is Back. So Are the Mets&#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":[277,311,167],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-moises-alou","tag-orel-hershiser","tag-willie-randolph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","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=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}