{"id":1360,"date":"2011-06-22T08:51:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T12:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2011-06-22T08:51:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T12:51:27","slug":"going-to-the-game-to-make-the-mets-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/06\/22\/going-to-the-game-to-make-the-mets-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Going to the Game to Make the Mets Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Headed out to the game tonight alone. \u00a0Which means I&#8217;ll be roaming around the park aimlessly watching the game from all over the place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-Lky0XCapwJI\/SsntdFBPHBI\/AAAAAAAAC0w\/hPDZgCg7NJQ\/s640\/IMG_8065.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Citi Field\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-Lky0XCapwJI\/SsntdFBPHBI\/AAAAAAAAC0w\/hPDZgCg7NJQ\/s640\/IMG_8065.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking of hanging around the outfield tonight.\u00a0 Checking out the pitchers warming up, watching the game from the Shea Bridge, and maybe climb up to the Pepsi Porch for an inning or two.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Mets really need to win tonight.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve had one bad week every month that keeps them from getting above .500.\u00a0\u00a0 In May they got to .500 and then lost six of seven.\u00a0 They got back to .500 again last week in Atlanta, lost a crushing game and have now lost four of their last five.\u00a0\u00a0 If they can minimize that damage and start the climb again now, they&#8217;ll hopefully be able to climb above .500 and keep going.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Maybe Bay\u00a0is going to start being Jason Bay again after a big game last night, and maybe Wright and Davis get good news this week and make their way back to the team.\u00a0\u00a0Otherwise this Mets season feels a lot like <a title=\"Mets Sisyphean Task\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/05\/06\/sisyphus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sisyphus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headed out to the game tonight alone. \u00a0Which means I&#8217;ll be roaming around the park aimlessly watching the game from all over the place. I&#8217;m thinking of hanging around the outfield tonight.\u00a0 Checking out the pitchers warming up, watching the game from the Shea Bridge, and maybe climb up to the Pepsi Porch for an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/06\/22\/going-to-the-game-to-make-the-mets-win\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Going to the Game to Make the Mets Win&#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":[1133,19,528,15,3],"tags":[1138,2968,2966,2964,1875,1566,1809,840,14,2031,959],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360"}],"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=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}