With the New Orleans Zephyrs swept out of the AAA playoffs over the weekend, representatives of the losers arrived in time to see \u2014 and participate \u2014 in the worst display of Met baseball since the Art Howe Era.<\/p>\n
Soft-tossing righty\u00a0Brian Lawrence 54<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>stepped in and registered what we can only hope would be the last outing of his Mets career, coughing up a 4-run lead to Washington.\u00a0Joe Smith 35<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is back, but the velocity he sidearmed with earlier this year apparently didn\u2019t come along with him.Ramon Castro 11<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0didn\u2019t have the health to stick through short-season games with Brooklyn but is back here anyway. Weak-hitting utilityman\u00a0David Newhan<\/strong><\/a>? Yes, he\u2019s back too, still torturing Keith Hernandez<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0No. 17.<\/strong><\/p>\n Perhaps the only interesting returnee from a unicentric standpoint is infielder\u00a0Anderson Hernandez,<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>who we last saw wearing\u00a0No. 1<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in July. Hernandez was recalled only to discover the Mets had issued No. 1 to\u00a0Luis Castillo<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0during Hernandez\u2019 stay in New Orleans.\u00a0No. 4\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>was hanging in his locker this time around. When he gets into a game, he\u2019ll become the Mets\u2019\u00a014th<\/span>\u00a015th player to wear No. 4, and the first since\u00a0Chris Woodward<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>a year ago<\/span>\u00a0Ben Johnson<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0earlier this year. (Props to Gene, below for the correction).<\/p>\n Only time will tell whether this latest stumble is just another stumble or the beginnings of an historic collapse, but you can bet we\u2019ll be here hating ourselves for watching every minute of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the New Orleans Zephyrs swept out of the AAA playoffs over the weekend, representatives of the losers arrived in time to see \u2014 and participate \u2014 in the worst display of Met baseball since the Art Howe Era. Soft-tossing righty\u00a0Brian Lawrence 54\u00a0stepped in and registered what we can only hope would be the last … Continue reading “They Are What They Is”<\/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":[176,321,292,304,329,320,174],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anderson-hernandez","tag-brian-lawrence","tag-david-newhan","tag-joe-smith","tag-keith-hernandez","tag-luis-castillo","tag-ramon-castro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","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=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}