{"id":922,"date":"2008-05-13T02:27:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T02:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=922"},"modified":"2013-12-01T02:28:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T02:28:53","slug":"born-to-be-a-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=922","title":{"rendered":"Born to be a Met"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks back, the celebration of\u00a0Ron Hodges Day<\/a>\u00a0brought me to the resplendent\u00a0Ultimate Mets Database<\/a>\u00a0and the profile of the reliable longtime Mets backup. And in the memories section were remarks from Ron’s sons Nat and Casey.<\/p>\n

A little more research revealed that both boys played college baseball, and that\u00a0Casey Hodges<\/strong>\u00a0— with a name like that how could he not be a Met? — is a\u00a0pitcher for Mount Olive College<\/a>, currently ranked No. 1 in Divison II. I passed this discovery along to Marty Noble, who in turn contacted Ron and penned\u00a0this article<\/a>\u00a0at Mets.com recently.<\/p>\n

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If you haven’t seen the YouTube guy\u00a0doing Mets batting stances<\/a>\u00a0from the past, stop wasting your time here. If the Mets knew what was good for him they’d bring him out to Shea for between-innings entertainment.<\/p>\n

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We’ll be on the lookout for what jersey will be issued to preseumptive minor-league call-up Adam Bostick, who appeared in\u00a0Spring Training<\/a>\u00a0the past seasons wearing No. 72, and is wearing 43 for the Zeffs. The Daily News also notes the possibility that\u00a0Willie Collazo<\/a>\u00a0may return instead. We’re also preparing plenty of outrage to accompany the pending demotion of\u00a0Joe Smith<\/a>\u00a0to make room for the new arrival (who is expecetd to be swapped out following Wednesday’s game so as to reactivate\u00a0Matt Wise<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Come back here Wednesday for another\u00a0Met-Lovin Big Shot<\/a>\u00a0interview. It will be our biggest shot yet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks back, the celebration of\u00a0Ron Hodges Day\u00a0brought me to the resplendent\u00a0Ultimate Mets Database\u00a0and the profile of the reliable longtime Mets backup. And in the memories section were remarks from Ron’s sons Nat and Casey. A little more research revealed that both boys played college baseball, and that\u00a0Casey Hodges\u00a0— with a name like that … Continue reading “Born to be a Met”<\/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":[134],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ron-hodges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","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=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}