{"id":2147,"date":"2012-06-19T08:51:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T12:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2012-06-18T23:14:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T03:14:40","slug":"the-king-in-the-north-of-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2012\/06\/19\/the-king-in-the-north-of-queens\/","title":{"rendered":"The King In The North Of Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confirmed: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/dicker.01.shtml?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_campaign=Linker\" target=\"_blank\">R.A.  Dickey<\/a><\/strong> does indeed come to bat to the theme song from the HBO series the Game of Thrones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What Dickey has been doing on the mound is so amazing it changes the narrative around the team and dominates the story line. \u00a0 Even the usually wordy R.A. has run out of things to stay to describe the results he&#8217;s getting, instead saying he&#8217;s going to leave it to us to describe and just continue going out there and doing his work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Mets had just gotten swept, again, coming into this series with the Orioles. \u00a0This was the farthest thing from your mind watching the game. \u00a0There was no downward spiral, no wheels coming off the train, just R.A.  Dickey dazzlingly darting knuckleballs around Oriole bats. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/betemwi01.shtml?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_campaign=Linker\" target=\"_blank\">Wilson  Betemit<\/a><\/strong> got a hit in the 5th and ceased our worry about the no-hitter, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/davisik02.shtml?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_campaign=Linker\" target=\"_blank\">Ike  Davis<\/a><\/strong> got a grand slam in the 6th that ceased our worry about losing the game. \u00a0From there on it was pure joy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Mets have a legitimate Cy Young candidate as the season nears it&#8217;s halfway point. \u00a0They probably have the All-Star Game&#8217;s starting pitcher. \u00a0They have an MVP candidate and a Rookie of the Year candidate. \u00a0 If they could find someone to compete for Rolaids Relief Man there would be nothing this team couldn&#8217;t do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confirmed: R.A. Dickey does indeed come to bat to the theme song from the HBO series the Game of Thrones. &nbsp; What Dickey has been doing on the mound is so amazing it changes the narrative around the team and dominates the story line. \u00a0 Even the usually wordy R.A. has run out of things &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2012\/06\/19\/the-king-in-the-north-of-queens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The King In The North Of Queens&#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":[1248,2434,19,3,261],"tags":[1400,1364,2704,2964,2702,1494,14,2703],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147"}],"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=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}