{"id":605,"date":"2010-03-30T09:01:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T14:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=605"},"modified":"2010-03-29T22:23:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T03:23:39","slug":"letters-to-the-nl-east-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2010\/03\/30\/letters-to-the-nl-east-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the NL East Part 1\/5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(To read past year\u2019s letters, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/tag\/letters-to-the-nl-east\/\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-607\" title=\"florida-marlins-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/florida-marlins-logo-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"florida-marlins-logo\" width=\"103\" height=\"99\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Letters to the NL East, Part 1 of 5.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Florida Marlins,<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations! You\u2019ve been caught stealing from the league! No one was surprised after you were told by the league to stop pocketing the revenue sharing money that you handed your star pitcher a big check.\u00a0 Why look at free agents or try to actually improve the team in any way?\u00a0 That\u2019d cost money!\u00a0 Maybe when you get that new stadium right?<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t to say you don\u2019t have any good players. The aforementioned Josh Johnson and the whiny guy at shortstop are stars.\u00a0 Some good prospects and young talent floating around down there, but who knows how reliable or talented they will end up being.\u00a0 Chances are you\u2019ll be the team that\u2019s semi-talented, capable of winning any ballgame but just not that often.\u00a0 Yes, you\u2019ll probably beat the Washington Nationals, but that\u2019s not exactly high praise.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll be in to Citi Field to open the season this year, and I suspect that\u2019s the closest you\u2019ll be to the Mets in the standings all year. \u00a0You\u2019ll play the Mets a series in Puerto Rico this year as well, and despite having last licks, I suspect there will still be more people in the stands rooting for the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Your disgusted rival from up north,<\/p>\n<p>Optimistic Mets Fan<\/p>\n<p>Hop over to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nleastchatter.com\/realdirtymets\/2010\/03\/30\/letters-to-the-nl-east-part-15\/\" target=\"_blank\"> The Real Dirty Mets Blog<\/a> for some lively discussion on the topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(To read past year\u2019s letters, click here) Letters to the NL East, Part 1 of 5. Dear Florida Marlins, Congratulations! You\u2019ve been caught stealing from the league! No one was surprised after you were told by the league to stop pocketing the revenue sharing money that you handed your star pitcher a big check.\u00a0 Why &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2010\/03\/30\/letters-to-the-nl-east-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Letters to the NL East Part 1\/5&#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":[809,19,15,3],"tags":[2968,2966,268,362,931,368,2964,14,331,642,930],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}