{"id":42,"date":"2007-06-28T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=42"},"modified":"2007-06-28T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T20:18:00","slug":"off-we-go-to-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2007\/06\/28\/off-we-go-to-philadelphia\/","title":{"rendered":"Off We Go To Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m excited about my impending trip to Philadelphia tomorrow for both games of the doubleheader.  Maybe after watching the Mets&#8217; fireworks, I&#8217;ll watch the ones provided by Philadelphia after the game.  It will be my first time ever seeing the Mets on the road.  Mike Pelfrey hasn&#8217;t looked great in the majors, but maybe he figures it out tomorrow, and the Mets blast enough to win.  John Maine continues his consistency tomorrow, and I expect the Mets can win that game too.  I know their offense isn&#8217;t quite there, but they are near the top of the league in batting average, even after the last three days.  Obviously they need to get more big hits, and I think they will.   I also think some 370 foot fly outs might become 385 foot home runs in Citizens Bank Ballpark.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only had one cheesesteak in my life, and it was a generic one at Shea earlier this year.  I have yet to find that booth on the field level again after either.  I plan to have a nice delicious one down there in Philadelphia, while I enjoy the games.  I expect some heckling, but I&#8217;ll be ready.  I&#8217;m probably going to wear my Beltran shirt, because it&#8217;s one of the two shirts I have that easily proclaims Mets on both the front and back.  Which is surprising as I have roughly 10 different Mets shirts.  It&#8217;s probably going to be too hot to wear my jersey, so I&#8217;m leaving it at home.  Our seats for the first game are in the upper terrace section, behind home plate.  The nightcap seats are out in left field, in I believe the second area.  I expect to have a blast, and hopefully not have to punch anybody wearing a Rollins shirt.  <\/p>\n<p>A quick note on tonight&#8217;s game.  I think it&#8217;s a measure of redemption for Carlos Beltran to express that he can learn from past mistakes, and become a better player.  The Mets need to hit the ball hard, in preparation for the weekend.  I picked up Orlando Hernandez in my fantasy league, so I&#8217;m hoping it pays off.  Are last view of last year was a curveball from Wainwright, and I think it&#8217;s only fitting that the last thing Wainwright sees tonight is a Carlos Beltran home run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m excited about my impending trip to Philadelphia tomorrow for both games of the doubleheader. Maybe after watching the Mets&#8217; fireworks, I&#8217;ll watch the ones provided by Philadelphia after the game. It will be my first time ever seeing the Mets on the road. Mike Pelfrey hasn&#8217;t looked great in the majors, but maybe he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2007\/06\/28\/off-we-go-to-philadelphia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Off We Go To Philadelphia&#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":[3],"tags":[183,11,182,2964,185,184,125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"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=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}