{"id":1575,"date":"2011-09-22T09:41:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T13:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2011-09-21T23:10:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T03:10:29","slug":"2011-new-york-mets-officially-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/09\/22\/2011-new-york-mets-officially-losers\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 New York Mets, Officially Losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-J-jvkGhRm0Q\/TmBUpiayAlI\/AAAAAAAADWY\/mTrVG4jxjwI\/s912\/IMG_7640.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Duda\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-J-jvkGhRm0Q\/TmBUpiayAlI\/AAAAAAAADWY\/mTrVG4jxjwI\/s912\/IMG_7640.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a>The Mets lost last night, ticking their losses total to 82 and cliched a third straight losing season. \u00a0Darn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Never mind about the spoilers. \u00a0Phillies and Yankees are already in, so I say let the other chips fall where they may.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I had high hopes for this team, and I thought a .500 finish was pretty close to the floor. \u00a0Of course injuries are the ultimate wild card, which the New York Giants are finding out as well this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/dudalu01.shtml?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_campaign=Linker\" target=\"_blank\">Lucas  Duda<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0I severely hope he doesn&#8217;t have a concussion. \u00a0Concussions are one of those things that doctors don&#8217;t fully understand, and that often have lingering effects months and years down the line that no one&#8217;s even sure about. \u00a0 Duda said after the game he was told he didn&#8217;t have a concussion, and hopefully that&#8217;s the case.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to my number one hope for the last seven games of the season; No More Injuries!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets lost last night, ticking their losses total to 82 and cliched a third straight losing season. \u00a0Darn. &nbsp; Never mind about the spoilers. \u00a0Phillies and Yankees are already in, so I say let the other chips fall where they may. &nbsp; I had high hopes for this team, and I thought a .500 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/09\/22\/2011-new-york-mets-officially-losers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2011 New York Mets, Officially Losers&#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":[1133,1248,19,3],"tags":[1138,2289,2287,1340,2964,2290,2288,2293,2292,14,2291],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575"}],"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=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}