{"id":800,"date":"2007-11-20T20:02:56","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T20:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=800"},"modified":"2013-11-30T20:05:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T20:05:50","slug":"lets-hurry-up-and-give-47-away-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=800","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Hurry Up And Give 47 Away Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/47.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-133\" alt=\"47\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/47.gif\" width=\"58\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>When the 2003 Mets crashed and burned for good, fired Steve Phillips, and hired doomed interim general manager Jim Duquette, one of Duke\u2019s first orders of business (along with the promotion of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/reyes-jose\"><strong>Jose Reyes<\/strong><\/a>) was to clear the team of its disappointing deadwood:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/alomar-roberto\">Roberto Alomar,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/benitez-armando\">Armando Benitez<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/benitez-armando\">\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/burnitz-jeromy\"><strong>Jeromy Burnitz<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0among them. And not only did the Mets bounce these guys, but they moved rather quickly to erase their memories by re-issuing all of their numbers, on guys who played the same positions, before the year was out. Before you knew it, Alomar\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/12\"><strong>12<\/strong><\/a>was on the back of second baseman\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/garcia-danny\"><strong>Danny Garcia.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0It was reliever\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/moreno-orber\">Orber Moreno<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(remember him?) in Benitez\u2019s old\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/49\"><strong>No. 49.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0And in the outfield,\u00a0<strong>Prentice Redman,<\/strong>\u00a0and not Burnitz, wore\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/20\"><strong>No. 20<\/strong><\/a>. How cruel. How brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, do you think\u00a0<strong>Johan Santana<\/strong>\u00a0might mind downshifting by 10 from his customary\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/57\"><strong>57<\/strong><\/a>? Because, provided he winds up with the good guys, that would be an appropriate tribute to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/47\"><strong>Tom Glavine,<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0the last of 2003\u2019s disappointing veterans and the newest member of the Atlanta Braves. Can you believe Reyes is now the senior Met?<\/p>\n<p>Hello again to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/castillo-luis\"><strong>Luis Castillo,<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0whose four-year contract represents about four times the commitment he probably deserves. Expect to see Castillo back in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/1\"><strong>No. 1<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>jersey next year, hopefully without the spare tire providing emphasis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the 2003 Mets crashed and burned for good, fired Steve Phillips, and hired doomed interim general manager Jim Duquette, one of Duke\u2019s first orders of business (along with the promotion of\u00a0Jose Reyes) was to clear the team of its disappointing deadwood:\u00a0Roberto Alomar,\u00a0Armando Benitez\u00a0and\u00a0Jeromy Burnitz\u00a0among them. And not only did the Mets bounce these guys, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=800\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Let&#8217;s Hurry Up And Give 47 Away Again&#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":[335,320,95],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-johan-santana","tag-luis-castillo","tag-tom-glavine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","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=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}