{"id":2066,"date":"2012-05-16T12:15:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T16:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2012-05-16T12:15:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T16:15:12","slug":"why-the-all-star-game-at-citi-field-will-be-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2012\/05\/16\/why-the-all-star-game-at-citi-field-will-be-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Why The All-Star Game (at Citi Field) Will Be Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know it&#8217;s popular to knock the All-Star Game and it all represents, but the truth of it is that it&#8217;s basically a party to celebrate baseball, and who doesn&#8217;t love baseball? \u00a0And like most parties, it&#8217;s much much better in person.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was there for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/mid-summer-excitement\/\" target=\"_blank\">2006 All-Star Game<\/a> and had an absolute blast in Pittsburgh despite driving back after the game to New York and going to work Wednesday morning. \u00a0 Click the link to read my take on the experience, including the Home Run Derby. \u00a0It was really a lot of fun, and I&#8217;m truly looking forward to getting to experience it at home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So expect a lot of thoughts and reactions about the game, particularly as the more exciting details come out about All-Star Villages, first pitches, and potential celebrations. \u00a0 Now a note to the 2012 Mets: Get to the World Series so Terry Collins can manage and the proper (too many) amount of Mets get represented in the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it&#8217;s popular to knock the All-Star Game and it all represents, but the truth of it is that it&#8217;s basically a party to celebrate baseball, and who doesn&#8217;t love baseball? \u00a0And like most parties, it&#8217;s much much better in person. &nbsp; I was there for the 2006 All-Star Game and had an absolute &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2012\/05\/16\/why-the-all-star-game-at-citi-field-will-be-awesome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why The All-Star Game (at Citi Field) Will Be Awesome&#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":[2433,2434,19,3,71],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066"}],"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=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2067,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions\/2067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}