{"id":1479,"date":"2011-08-15T15:57:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T19:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2011-08-15T15:57:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T19:57:33","slug":"the-dilemma-ofmeaningless-west-coast-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/08\/15\/the-dilemma-ofmeaningless-west-coast-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dilemma ofMeaningless West Coast Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets are on the west coast to play the San Diego Padres and tonight and tomorrow the game doesn&#8217;t start until after 10. \u00a0I&#8217;m not usually one to complain about this; normally I like the quiet nights when everything else has been done for the day and there is nothing left to do but sacrifice sleep to the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>But this Mets team is out of the playoffs. \u00a0The Padres are out of the playoffs. \u00a0These games have almost no meaning and the Mets are missing some of their most watchable stars to injuries. \u00a0Additionally it&#8217;s early enough that I don&#8217;t feel the panic of &#8220;Pretty soon there will be no more baseball games, so I better savor every one&#8221; that comes mid-September. \u00a0There are still over a month worth of games to watch and they&#8217;ll happen at much better hours of the day and the Mets aren&#8217;t even playing well right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So while baseball, particularly Mets baseball, is always worth watching, if there was a game or series to skip and get other things done, it&#8217;s this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets are on the west coast to play the San Diego Padres and tonight and tomorrow the game doesn&#8217;t start until after 10. \u00a0I&#8217;m not usually one to complain about this; normally I like the quiet nights when everything else has been done for the day and there is nothing left to do but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/08\/15\/the-dilemma-ofmeaningless-west-coast-baseball\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Dilemma ofMeaningless West Coast Baseball&#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":[1133,19,3],"tags":[1138,2968,2191,2192,2964,2188,2189,14,2190,1345],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479"}],"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=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}