{"id":2308,"date":"2012-09-10T09:04:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T13:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2012-09-10T09:04:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T13:04:30","slug":"hope-for-next-year-and-ticket-contest-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2012\/09\/10\/hope-for-next-year-and-ticket-contest-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope For Next Year and Ticket Contest Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to\u00a0Amanda for winning the final pair of Mets tickets this season. \u00a0Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seatcrew.com\" target=\"_blank\">Seatcrew<\/a>, the no-fee ticket marketplace, for providing them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s break down some of the optimistic submissions on what in 2012 we should be thankful for looking forward, starting with Amanda&#8217;s (and many others) response.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DAVID WRIGHT!!! :)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, he hasn&#8217;t had a great second half, but David Wright is worthy of at least one smilie face this year. He&#8217;s having one of his best season ever, is playing great defense, and is about to become the franchise leader in hits. \u00a0Don&#8217;t go anywhere David. \u00a0Ever.<\/p>\n<p>Todd writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s a toss up between Matt Harvey and Ike Davis. I really feel that Matt Harvey is going to be the future ace of the team, with a little more grooming he and Dickey can be on of the best 1-2s in the bigs<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I already mentioned Ike Davis. \u00a0Matt Harvey has definitely looked good though. \u00a0It&#8217;s a pretty limited sample size, but it&#8217;s hard not to dream on what this power pitcher can do for us next year. \u00a0A couple of people mentioned the rotation. \u00a0It&#8217;s definitely looking like a strength for the 2013 Mets right now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Those were the big responses. \u00a0As much as that highlights some optimism, it also accents the places the Mets need to improve: bullpen and outfield.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to\u00a0Amanda for winning the final pair of Mets tickets this season. \u00a0Thanks to Seatcrew, the no-fee ticket marketplace, for providing them. &nbsp; Let&#8217;s break down some of the optimistic submissions on what in 2012 we should be thankful for looking forward, starting with Amanda&#8217;s (and many others) response. DAVID WRIGHT!!! :) &nbsp; Yes, he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2012\/09\/10\/hope-for-next-year-and-ticket-contest-winner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hope For Next Year and Ticket Contest Winner&#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":[1248,2433,19,3],"tags":[2612,2175,1382,303],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308"}],"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=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions\/2310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}