{"id":1386,"date":"2011-06-30T08:50:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T12:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2011-06-30T08:50:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T12:50:46","slug":"nl-mvp-vs-al-cy-young-vote-reyes-depodesta-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/06\/30\/nl-mvp-vs-al-cy-young-vote-reyes-depodesta-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"NL MVP vs AL Cy Young, Vote Reyes, DePodesta Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/voteReyes.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Vote Reyes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/voteReyes.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a>Couple of noteworthy things to look at today.\u00a0 The first is the Mets are playing a day game today at 1:05.\u00a0 The potential National League MVP, Jose Reyes, will leadoff the game against the potential American League Cy Young, Justin Verlander.\u00a0 Should be a fun day.\u00a0 The Mets won the first game\u00a0on a blowout, the second on a slugfest, could the third be a pitcher&#8217;s duel?\u00a0 Is Mike Pelfrey up for it?<\/p>\n<p>Secondly today we need to get #votereyes trending on Twitter and also to vote for Reyes as many times as we can.\u00a0 It would be a travesty if Reyes was not the starting shortstop for the National League.\u00a0\u00a0 While you&#8217;re voting, throw in some votes for Carlos Beltran too.\u00a0 On the American League side Asdrubal Cabrera deserves your vote, especially as he&#8217;s currently being led by a player having a poor season that&#8217;s on the disabled list in Derek Jeter.\u00a0 Mike Francesa thinks the All-Star Game should be Jeter&#8217;s personal 3000 hit celebration, which is even more fodder.\u00a0 Also, Alex Avila deserves your vote for AL Catcher.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thirdly, last night a bunch of bloggers talked with Paul DePodesta and Michael Baron of Metsblog kindly put up a transcript.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure there are couple of other breakdowns out there too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couple of noteworthy things to look at today.\u00a0 The first is the Mets are playing a day game today at 1:05.\u00a0 The potential National League MVP, Jose Reyes, will leadoff the game against the potential American League Cy Young, Justin Verlander.\u00a0 Should be a fun day.\u00a0 The Mets won the first game\u00a0on a blowout, the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/06\/30\/nl-mvp-vs-al-cy-young-vote-reyes-depodesta-recap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NL MVP vs AL Cy Young, Vote Reyes, DePodesta Recap&#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":[1133,19,166,3],"tags":[2048,2068,2062,1218,42,167,2065,1663,2974,5,2069,1639,1127,319,2067,2060,2066,1207,2047],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386"}],"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=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}