{"id":204,"date":"2008-10-25T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=204"},"modified":"2008-10-25T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T16:52:00","slug":"bounty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2008\/10\/25\/bounty\/","title":{"rendered":"Bounty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The stupid &#8220;The division hates the Mets&#8221; story got me thinking.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/metstradamus.blogspot.com\/\">Metstradamus<\/a> joked about the Mets putting bounties on other players.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">\u00a0 <\/span>Fine, do it.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">\u00a0 <\/span>Not real bounties, but something team building and fun.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">\u00a0 <\/span>Whoever has the best game against the Phillies in a series gets to set the radio\/tv for a week. <span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">\u00a0<\/span>A pitcher who gets Hanley out the most gets to pick where they eat dinner next.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This all probably stems from the general disconnect players and fans have.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">\u00a0 <\/span>While there is often a jealousy of <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> money and success and popularity, it\u2019s rarely the other way around.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">\u00a0 <\/span>What does Hanley Ramirez have for the Mets to hate?<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">\u00a0 <\/span>We\u2019re trying to get them to feel our hatred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">We seem to have criticized the Mets for acting like they deserved the division in \u201907.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">\u00a0 <\/span>Well, they did deserve the division, and I think they should continue to act like that.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">\u00a0 <\/span>The Mets should walk into opposing stadiums like they own the place.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">\u00a0 <\/span>Walk into \u201909 like they own the division.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This would be great:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Wright: \u201cThe division is ours this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Reporter: \u201cBut aren\u2019t the Phillies the defending division champs? Don\u2019t you have to go through them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Wright: \u201cEven bad teams get lucky sometimes.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">\u00a0 <\/span>The Phillies..who\u2019s on that team?<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">\u00a0 <\/span>Cole..somebody or another right?<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">\u00a0 <\/span>Bring it on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stupid &#8220;The division hates the Mets&#8221; story got me thinking.\u00a0 Metstradamus joked about the Mets putting bounties on other players.\u00a0 Fine, do it.\u00a0 Not real bounties, but something team building and fun.\u00a0 Whoever has the best game against the Phillies in a series gets to set the radio\/tv for a week. \u00a0A pitcher who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2008\/10\/25\/bounty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bounty&#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":[3],"tags":[584,191,2964,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"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=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}