{"id":266,"date":"2009-03-31T09:35:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T14:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=266"},"modified":"2009-03-31T09:35:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T14:35:33","slug":"letters-to-the-nl-east-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2009\/03\/31\/letters-to-the-nl-east-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the NL East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(If you weren&#8217;t paying attention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2008\/03\/letters-to-the-nl-east\/\" target=\"_blank\">last year<\/a>, so begins the second annual &#8216;letters to the NL East&#8217; week.  We start with the other team we want the Mets to do better than, before diving into the division)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Part 0 of the 5 part series, \u201cLetters to the NL East\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Letter to Brian Cashman and the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dear Yankees,<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You spent a ton of money after your first season out of the playoffs in years.  It certainly makes you wonder if you made a mistake firing Joe Torre.  There are still a ton of question marks with your team, even putting aside the A-Rod situations.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Will A.J. Burnett  be Carl Pavano part two?  Will Posada be able to reliably play catcher this year?  What&#8217;s up with the log jam at DH, or your too many outfielders?  How much does Pettitte have left for a full season?  Can Joba really help the team, even if he&#8217;s superb, considering the Joba rules and Innings Pitched limits?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those are just the obvious ones before the season has even started.  Who knows what other issues will pop up.  I&#8217;d stray away from assuming just because you again spent way too much money that you&#8217;re the team to beat in that division.  I still think you&#8217;re favored not to make the playoffs.  I don&#8217;t care what the so called experts say.  Don&#8217;t be surprised if by August, your &#8216;fans&#8217; are looking for a ticket into Citi Field.  That&#8217;s where the good baseball&#8217;s gonna happen this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t worry, the media will still be all over you.  The over\/under for new A-Rod controversies is at 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hatefully Yours,<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Optimistic Mets Fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letters to the NL East part 0 of 5: NYY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[575,19],"tags":[2984,2968,368,133],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"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=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}