{"id":2586,"date":"2013-06-28T08:07:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T12:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2013-06-27T22:24:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T02:24:12","slug":"john-franco-brandon-nimmo-doc-gooden-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2013\/06\/28\/john-franco-brandon-nimmo-doc-gooden-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"John Franco, Brandon Nimmo, Doc Gooden, etc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-A7ZQb1105WA\/UcxxxWWTrrI\/AAAAAAAAqxk\/EMeaqsNTAls\/w1038-h779-no\/20130627_121253_HDR.jpg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-cS7fe2ljRbQ\/UczzkeAi19I\/AAAAAAAAqx4\/TSDLo4rZoag\/w1038-h778-no\/photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"John Franco and Ice Cream\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-cS7fe2ljRbQ\/UczzkeAi19I\/AAAAAAAAqx4\/TSDLo4rZoag\/w1038-h778-no\/photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/a>Yesterday I had the opportunity to <a href=\"http:\/\/metspolice.com\/2013\/06\/27\/john-franco-likes-blue-uniforms-would-love-old-timers-game-gives-you-ice-cream\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview <\/a>John Franco, who was handing out free ice cream in Bryant Park. I got his take on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/harvema01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-www.ceetar.com\" target=\"_blank\">Matt  Harvey<\/a><\/strong>, Blue Jerseys, Old-Timers Day and even The Cyclone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You should already be voting for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wrighda03.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-www.ceetar.com\" target=\"_blank\">David  Wright<\/a><\/strong> for the All-Star Game, but you should also be <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/mlb\/events\/all_star\/y2013\/fut\/ballot.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">voting <\/a>for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/minors\/player.cgi?id=nimmo-000bra&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-www.ceetar.com\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon  Nimmo<\/a><\/strong> to get the last spot in the Futures Game on the Sunday before. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/minors\/player.cgi?id=synder001noa&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-www.ceetar.com\" target=\"_blank\">Noah  Syndergaard<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/minors\/player.cgi?id=monter000raf&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-www.ceetar.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael  Montero<\/a><\/strong> will already be there representing the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/goodedw01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-www.ceetar.com\" target=\"_blank\">Dwight  Gooden<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s doing an exclusive Q &amp; A and signing of his book in the Rotunda before tonight&#8217;s game. <a href=\" Mets.com\/Doc\" target=\"_blank\">Ticket&#8217;s <\/a>available.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tonight starts the last home stand before the All-Star Game. It&#8217;s also Harvey day. Follow me on Twitter for some pregame batting practice pictures and anything else I random take during the game. I&#8217;ll be on the hunt for anything that may have showed up for the All-Star Game early..like any of this delicious <a href=\"http:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/2013\/06\/mlb-all-star-game-2013-food\/\" target=\"_blank\">food<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had the opportunity to interview John Franco, who was handing out free ice cream in Bryant Park. I got his take on Matt Harvey, Blue Jerseys, Old-Timers Day and even The Cyclone. &nbsp; You should already be voting for David Wright for the All-Star Game, but you should also be voting for Brandon &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2013\/06\/28\/john-franco-brandon-nimmo-doc-gooden-etc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Franco, Brandon Nimmo, Doc Gooden, etc&#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":[2433,2434,19,166,528,3],"tags":[2436,42,2964],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586"}],"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=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2588,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions\/2588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}