The Mets saved their season with two great wins this weekend after nearly burning it all away Friday.<\/p>\n
Quick note to point out Jesse Spector’s\u00a0Touching Base Column<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0Daily News<\/em>\u00a0Sunday, which did a nice job on the proliferation of Mets\u00a0No. 6s<\/a>. Also, a reminder that I will be at the Queens Library in Flushing tonight (Monday, July 7), around 6 p.m., to speak about the Mets, baseball and writing with Greg Spira, co-editor of Meet the Mets. 41-17 Main Street, (718) 661-1200.<\/p>\n Just in case the AL needs to win home-field advantage in the late innings,\u00a0Billy Wagner<\/a>\u00a0will be representing the Mets at the All-Star game. Has there been a more unlikeable Met than Wags? Or is it just me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Mets saved their season with two great wins this weekend after nearly burning it all away Friday. Quick note to point out Jesse Spector’s\u00a0Touching Base Column\u00a0in the\u00a0Daily News\u00a0Sunday, which did a nice job on the proliferation of Mets\u00a0No. 6s. Also, a reminder that I will be at the Queens Library in Flushing tonight (Monday, … Continue reading “Touching Base”<\/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":[704],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","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=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}