{"id":906,"date":"2008-04-02T02:06:04","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T02:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=906"},"modified":"2013-12-01T02:07:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T02:07:20","slug":"ha-ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=906","title":{"rendered":"Ha-Ha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as expected,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/martinez-pedro-0\">Pedro Martinez<\/a>&#8216;s strained hammy landed him on the disabled list today. He&#8217;s expected to return in 4-to-6 weeks, or months, or whatever, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/figueroa-nelson\">Nelson Figueroa<\/a>\u00a0was recalled from New Orleans to take his spot on the roster.<\/p>\n<p>What was unexpected was seeing Figueroa try out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/27\">No. 27<\/a>jersey so soon by throwing a pressure-free scoreless seventh inning in a 13-0 laugher over the hapless Marlins: A game providing much needed relief from the black mood I walked around in all day considering Tuesday&#8217;s debacle. The Mets emptied the bench of all but\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/casanova-raul\">Raul Casanova<\/a>, including the season debuts of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/easley-damian\">Damian Easley<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/clark-brady\">Brady Clark<\/a>, and pitchers\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/feliciano-pedro\">Pedro Feliciano<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/wagner-billy\">Billy Wagner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first shots of Figueroa in the bullpen also confirmed Mean Gene&#8217;s remark in the comments section the other day that catching instructor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/alomar-sandy-jr\">Sandy Alomar Jr.<\/a>\u00a0had switched from the 90 he wore in spring training to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/58\">58<\/a>. This was despite the opening ceremonies annoucing him in 90.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget the\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/book\">Mets by the Numbers\u00a0<\/a><\/em>book talk and signing at Barnes &amp; Noble in Bayside 3 p.m. Saturday and the launch party at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoutnyc.com\/\">STOUT NYC<\/a>\u00a0this Sunday at 1 p.m. Hope to meet you there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as expected,\u00a0Pedro Martinez&#8216;s strained hammy landed him on the disabled list today. He&#8217;s expected to return in 4-to-6 weeks, or months, or whatever, and\u00a0Nelson Figueroa\u00a0was recalled from New Orleans to take his spot on the roster. What was unexpected was seeing Figueroa try out the\u00a0No. 27jersey so soon by throwing a pressure-free scoreless seventh &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=906\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ha-Ha&#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":[89,326,353],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brady-clark","tag-damian-easley","tag-nelson-figueroa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","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=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}