{"id":860,"date":"2008-03-09T00:54:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T00:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=860"},"modified":"2013-12-01T00:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T00:56:00","slug":"i-love-the-80s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"I Love the 80s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we caught the Mets down in Ft. Lauderdale on Saturday, but despite having a great opportunity to chronicle strange and unusual uni numbers, I really didn&#8217;t. Sorry about that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/oberkfell.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"264\" \/>Part of it was that in addition to watching the Mets, I was watching my one-year-old climb the stadium steps and call out the row letters. Part of it was the realization that these weren&#8217;t even the Mets but parts of their A, AA and AAA rosters. Of the &#8220;regulars,&#8221; only\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/anderson-marlon\">Marlon Anderson\u00a0<\/a>(wearing No. 9);\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/castro-ramon\">Ramon Castro<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/sosa-jorge\">Jorge Sosa<\/a>played, and those guys were through after 6 innings.<\/p>\n<p>The names were as foreign as the numbers, which didn&#8217;t help me retain any of it. I mean, I can tell you I saw Nick Evans, Gregory Veloz, Ezequil Carerra, Mike Carp, Ruben Tejeda, Gustavo Molina, Nate Field and Joselo Diaz. I can also tell you I saw Nos. 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, and 97. Just tough to connect the two. Diaz was 74. Field was 66.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/plkayer\/collazo-willie\">Willie Collazo<\/a>\u00a0was 36, like last year. The thing that caught my attention was Ken Oberkfell, the AAA manager coaching 3rd base in this game, wearing No. 0. So we&#8217;ve got some speculative stuff to chew on in the event Willie gets fired.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and we won by the way, 4-1 over the Orioles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we caught the Mets down in Ft. Lauderdale on Saturday, but despite having a great opportunity to chronicle strange and unusual uni numbers, I really didn&#8217;t. Sorry about that. Part of it was that in addition to watching the Mets, I was watching my one-year-old climb the stadium steps and call out the row &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=860\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Love the 80s&#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":[347,328],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ken-oberkfell","tag-willie-collazo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","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=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}