{"id":2512,"date":"2013-04-09T12:22:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T16:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2013-04-09T12:22:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T16:22:14","slug":"r-a-dickeys-book-has-a-new-epilogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2013\/04\/09\/r-a-dickeys-book-has-a-new-epilogue\/","title":{"rendered":"R.A. Dickey&#8217;s book has a new epilogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the Mets last year it became increasingly evident that R.A. Dickey&#8217;s book was incomplete. The title, <em>Wherever I Wind Up,<\/em> ended up going unanswered, or at least understated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He ended up a successful, and well-paid, pitcher for the Mets happy to have his own parking spot, but that&#8217;s only the start of where he&#8217;s going. After the book was written, and despite saying he&#8217;d never lead the league in strikeouts, he did in fact lead the league in strikeouts and won the NL Cy Young award as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well Plume has published a new paperback version of <em>Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for truth, authenticity, and the perfect knuckleball <\/em>with a new epilogue where Dickey breaks down the 2012 season including Johan&#8217;s no-hitter, the All-Star Game, the reaction to his book, and the Cy Young Award. If you haven&#8217;t read it yet or want to see what else he has to say, check it out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Dickey has already continued on further, being traded to the Toronto Blue Jays and getting an extension. Maybe one day he&#8217;ll write another book, or a followup, because I suspect he still has a lot of story in him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the Mets last year it became increasingly evident that R.A. Dickey&#8217;s book was incomplete. The title, Wherever I Wind Up, ended up going unanswered, or at least understated. &nbsp; He ended up a successful, and well-paid, pitcher for the Mets happy to have his own parking spot, but that&#8217;s only the start of where &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2013\/04\/09\/r-a-dickeys-book-has-a-new-epilogue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;R.A. Dickey&#8217;s book has a new epilogue&#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":[1248,19,166,3],"tags":[276,2849,2850,1059],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512"}],"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=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions\/2513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}