{"id":858,"date":"2008-03-03T22:29:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T22:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=858"},"modified":"2013-12-01T00:53:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T00:53:27","slug":"now-on-sale-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=858","title":{"rendered":"Now on Sale, Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/mbtn-display2.JPG\" width=\"334\" height=\"339\" \/>The official release date for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/book\"><em>Mets by the Numbers<\/em>\u00a0book<\/a>\u00a0came Saturday. As clearly illustrated at left, it&#8217;s better and more important than<em>Freakonomics<\/em>. No really, that&#8217;s a short stack of signed copies you can find, while they last, at the Customer Service desk at the Forest Hills Barnes &amp; Noble, 70-00 Austin St. Thanks Pat! Regular, unscribbled-in copies should be in the sports section upstairs.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re at work planning a few events around the book release including a launch party and signing appearances in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan (so far) which we&#8217;ll inform you of as they&#8217;re scheduled. If you&#8217;d like to schedule an appearance in your hood, please\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/contact\">let me know<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Co-writer<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metsilverman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Matt Silverman<\/a>\u00a0is currently spreading the gospel down in Port St. Lucie; I&#8217;m heading to Fort Lauderdale first thing Tuesday where I&#8217;ll see the Mets play the O&#8217;s Saturday, but mainly just taking a short break. We&#8217;ll be back Sunday with more dynamite celebrity interviews. In the meantime, I&#8217;m happy to pass along this link from my friend Greg of Faith &amp; Fear in Flushing, who makes a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/faithandfear.blogharbor.com\/blog\/_archives\/2008\/3\/3\/3557505.html\" target=\"_blank\">pretty strong argument<\/a>\u00a0for why you should buy this book, and why you shouldn&#8217;t hire me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official release date for the\u00a0Mets by the Numbers\u00a0book\u00a0came Saturday. As clearly illustrated at left, it&#8217;s better and more important thanFreakonomics. No really, that&#8217;s a short stack of signed copies you can find, while they last, at the Customer Service desk at the Forest Hills Barnes &amp; Noble, 70-00 Austin St. Thanks Pat! Regular, unscribbled-in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=858\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Now on Sale, Vacation&#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":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","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=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}