{"id":2060,"date":"2012-05-14T16:26:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T20:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2012-05-14T16:26:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T20:26:50","slug":"junk-drawer-mets-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2012\/05\/14\/junk-drawer-mets-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Junk Drawer Mets Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Jaffe of The Hardball Times recounts some odd and interesting Mets games over the years in what he calls &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardballtimes.com\/main\/article\/50-years-from-the-mets-junk-drawer\/\" target=\"_blank\">50 years from the Mets junk drawer<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check them out, some random oddities in there that are entertaining. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a couple of random games I can think of. \u00a0 What have you got?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>6\/14\/2008 against the Texas Rangers. I don&#8217;t know if this counts since it ended up being a rain-out, not a game. \u00a0It did lead to the second-to-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2008\/06\/15\/last-true-doubleheader\/\" target=\"_blank\">last true Mets doubleheader<\/a> played at Shea Stadium though, on Father&#8217;s Day. Nathan&#8217;s did a hot dog eating contest before the game, and then the Texas Rangers used the Shea tarp as a slip-n-slide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another fun one was a game against the Orioles in which David Wright hit a Grand Slam into the Shea visitor&#8217;s bullpen off of Adam Loewen and the Orioles left-fielder mis-played a ball that ended up bouncing up his sleeve and getting caught in his jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Jaffe of The Hardball Times recounts some odd and interesting Mets games over the years in what he calls &#8220;50 years from the Mets junk drawer&#8221; &nbsp; Check them out, some random oddities in there that are entertaining. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a couple of random games I can think of. \u00a0 What have you got? &nbsp; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2012\/05\/14\/junk-drawer-mets-games\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Junk Drawer Mets Games&#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":[1248,3,85],"tags":[2964,2297,2626,2627,2625,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060"}],"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=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}