{"id":12,"date":"2007-04-13T23:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=12"},"modified":"2007-04-13T23:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T04:19:00","slug":"back-in-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2007\/04\/13\/back-in-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Back In First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 14, 2007 12:19 AM<\/p>\n<p>Sure they&#8217;re technically tied for first, but it&#8217;s first nonetheless. I have a feeling this might be the closest any team gets for the rest of the season. The Mets are playing all division games for the next week, and I expect them to heat up with the weather. Expect to see some home runs when the Mets visit Philadelphia on Monday. I would not be surprised if the Mets hit seven in the two days, including two by David Wright.<\/p>\n<p>Enough predictions, I&#8217;ll be out at Shea for my third game tomorrow, seeing John Maine pitch again. He had a little bit of control problems on Monday, and with the slightly warmer weather tomorrow, 51degrees, I expect him to have a little better grip. I&#8217;m thinking 7-2 Mets. Oops, i thought I was done with predictions.<\/p>\n<p>David Wright swiped his third base of the season last night. He stole 20 last year, and right now is on pace for 48. I doubt he&#8217;ll reach that, but with Beltran looking to steal more this year too, you&#8217;ve got spots one, three and five in the batting order that look to be pesky and distract the pitchers. I&#8217;m sure this was one of the considerations Willie was thinking of when he thought about batting Wright second.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to see both Reyes and Wright one day be 30-30 players. How awesome would that be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 14, 2007 12:19 AM Sure they&#8217;re technically tied for first, but it&#8217;s first nonetheless. I have a feeling this might be the closest any team gets for the rest of the season. The Mets are playing all division games for the next week, and I expect them to heat up with the weather. Expect &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2007\/04\/13\/back-in-first\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back In First&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[50,4,49,48,5,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}