{"id":2335,"date":"2012-10-08T09:12:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T13:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2012-10-07T20:18:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T00:18:16","slug":"im-rooting-for-carlos-beltran-and-the-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2012\/10\/08\/im-rooting-for-carlos-beltran-and-the-cardinals\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Rooting For Carlos Beltran and the Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-F4IaV11hf2Q\/S0vMNGPXPRI\/AAAAAAAAIOQ\/fzuFjh8uxb8\/s912\/IMG_8030.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Carlos Beltran swings\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-F4IaV11hf2Q\/S0vMNGPXPRI\/AAAAAAAAIOQ\/fzuFjh8uxb8\/s912\/IMG_8030.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a>Normally I wouldn&#8217;t be pro-Cardinals, especially after they eliminated the Mets in 2006, but as long as it&#8217;s not the Yankees It doesn&#8217;t really matter to me which team wins. \u00a0I don&#8217;t hate the Yankees because they win, I hate the attitude of many of the fans and the treatment they get in the media. \u00a0That&#8217;s what makes me root against them. \u00a0The Cardinals could be considered similar, but I have no contact with their fans and being in a different city keeps me separated from most of the Yankees writer counterparts that you can&#8217;t help but hear about when you live in the NYC area. \u00a0What does matter to me is Carlos Beltran.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Beltran may be a Hall of Famer alreadydepending on who you ask, but for those that don&#8217;t think he is, a World Series ring and further postseason domination would strengthen his case. \u00a0He&#8217;s played more games with the Mets than anyone else, the next closest being his Royals origins. \u00a0This suggests that if he were to get inducted down the road, he&#8217;d go in as a Met. \u00a0That means I&#8217;m invested in Beltran collecting the criteria required to strengthen his case, and if that means rooting for the Cardinals this postseason, so be it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Beltran was one of the best Mets ever, and it was a joy to watch him during his tenure here. \u00a0He&#8217;s still a great player, and I&#8217;m rooting for him to continue the postseason dominance he&#8217;s shown in his previous two trips there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally I wouldn&#8217;t be pro-Cardinals, especially after they eliminated the Mets in 2006, but as long as it&#8217;s not the Yankees It doesn&#8217;t really matter to me which team wins. \u00a0I don&#8217;t hate the Yankees because they win, I hate the attitude of many of the fans and the treatment they get in the media. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2012\/10\/08\/im-rooting-for-carlos-beltran-and-the-cardinals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;m Rooting For Carlos Beltran and the Cardinals&#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":[1248,19,3],"tags":[11,2964,2293,2794,215,241],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335"}],"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=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2337,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions\/2337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}