{"id":277,"date":"2009-04-03T08:53:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T13:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=277"},"modified":"2009-04-02T22:53:25","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T03:53:25","slug":"letters-to-the-nl-east-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2009\/04\/03\/letters-to-the-nl-east-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the NL East 3\/5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Letters to the NL East, Part 3 of 5 (<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2009\/03\/letters-to-the-nl-east-2\/\">part 0<\/a><\/span><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2009\/04\/letters-to-the-nl-east-15\/\">part 1<\/a><\/span><\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2009\/04\/letters-to-the-nl-east-25\/\">part 2<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dear Atlanta Braves,<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Could it be that you&#8217;re relevant again?  Barring injuries, you just might have a shot at sticking around this year.  Last year it seemed like you had some good stretches, but injuries got the better of your team.  We&#8217;ll see how you stand this year.  Acquiring Derek Lowe certainly helps the pitching rotation, and there are some young arms there that look pretty good too.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Somehow my hatred for you has ebbed, and you&#8217;ve risen to my 28<sup>th<\/sup> favorite baseball team.  The challenge is on, can you get back down to 29<sup>th<\/sup> or 30<sup>th<\/sup>? Do you have the manpower in the lineup to compete for this division, or are you going to wallow away and fight with the Phillies for second place?  Currently I expect you to beat them, and for at least that first night of baseball before the Mets have a chance to play, I&#8217;ll be rooting for you.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Your longtime enemy,<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Optimistic Mets Fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letters to the NL East: ATL<\/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":[589,30,2968,648,368,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277"}],"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=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}