{"id":979,"date":"2008-07-01T05:15:30","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T05:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=979"},"modified":"2013-12-01T05:17:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T05:17:21","slug":"toe-knee-arm-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"Toe, Knee, Arm, Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/izzy44.jpg\" width=\"332\" height=\"249\" \/>After a solid half-season rehabbing his career in AAA, the Mets rewarded\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/armas-tony\">Tony Armas<\/a>\u00a0with his first big-league appearance of the year. Tonight&#8217;s start in St. Louis (off to a shaky start as I write) is designed to provide a bit of rest for a stretched-out rotation, after which it is expected Armas will stay with the club filling the long-relief role previously filled by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/vargas-claudio\">Claudio Vargas<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/figueroa-nelson\">Nelson Figueroa<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/sosa-jorge\">Jorge Sosa<\/a>. Armas appears tonight in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/44\">No. 44<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; the same jersey he wore this spring that was later issued to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/clark-brady\">Brady Clark<\/a>\u00a0when Clark when the trip north and Armas did not.<\/p>\n<p>Leave it Greg Prince of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/faithandfear.blogharbor.com\/blog\/_archives\/2008\/7\/1\/3771737.html\" target=\"_blank\">Faith &amp; Fear in Flushing<\/a>\u00a0to point out the last time No. 44 appeared on the back of a Mets pitcher it was the Mercury Mets and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/isringhausen-jason\">Jason Isringhausen<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; who made his last appearance for the Mets wearing that jersey in July of 1999. That and a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, MBTN reader\u00a0<strong>Paul C<\/strong>., aka King Of All Screen Capturers, delivers the above image of Isringhausen&#8217;s unique Mercury Mets look &#8212; condensed fonts don&#8217;t exist in the future, doncha know.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/book-small.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" align=\"right\" \/>To make room for Armas the Mets designated infielder\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/phillips-andy\">Andy Phillips<\/a>for assignment &#8212; easy come, easy go &#8212; and are gambling a short bench won&#8217;t bite them in the butt before\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/alou-moises\">Moises Alou<\/a>\u00a0makes a return. Yes, they&#8217;re counting on that again. Yes, the Met offense is collapsing under the anticipation of his return once again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Talkin&#8217; baseball:\u00a0<\/strong>Join me in Flushing this coming Monday, July 7, as I appear along with\u00a0<strong>Greg Spira<\/strong>, co-editor of\u00a0<strong><em>Meet the Mets<\/em><\/strong>, in a discussion about the Mets, baseball, books and anything else. We will have books for sale and\/or signature (including\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/metsilverman.com\/summaries.html\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Silverman&#8217;<\/a>s Mets Essential and 100 Things), and afterward, I&#8217;ll be happy to join you for a beer to watch the Mets-Phillies game.<\/p>\n<p>Details: 6 p.m., Monday July 7 at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/index\" target=\"_blank\">Queens Library &#8212; Flushing<\/a>\u00a0, 41-17 Main Street, (718) 661-1200.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a solid half-season rehabbing his career in AAA, the Mets rewarded\u00a0Tony Armas\u00a0with his first big-league appearance of the year. Tonight&#8217;s start in St. Louis (off to a shaky start as I write) is designed to provide a bit of rest for a stretched-out rotation, after which it is expected Armas will stay with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=979\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Toe, Knee, Arm, Ass&#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":[180,343],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jason-isringhausen","tag-tony-armas-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","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=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}