{"id":617,"date":"2010-03-31T09:01:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=617"},"modified":"2010-03-29T22:44:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T03:44:12","slug":"letters-to-the-nl-east-part-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2010\/03\/31\/letters-to-the-nl-east-part-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the NL East, Part 2\/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\" title=\"nationalslogo\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/nationalslogo.jpg\" alt=\"nationalslogo\" width=\"140\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Letters to the NL East, Part 2 of 5. (<a href=\"..\/2010\/03\/30\/letters-to-the-nl-east-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">part 1<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Dear Washington Nationals,<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve won the award for biggest roster turnover, and biggest hyped prospect, but this doesn\u2019t mean that you\u2019re going to be vastly improved.\u00a0 Kudos on working to make the future of baseball in Washington DC a little bit brighter.<\/p>\n<p>With Steven Strasburg looming in the minors it sounds like there will be more to look forward to this season beyond Barack Obama throwing out the Presidential first pitch.\u00a0 This tradition was actually first started by Taft 100 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve got some talented young pitchers on the team already, and a couple of guys that can actually swing the bat.\u00a0 However this isn\u2019t enough to field a complete team, and though you\u2019ll be improved, you\u2019ll still likely be the caboose of the National League East and end your season along with everyone else on October 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Look on the plus side though, if Strasburg is talented enough to make the majors this year he\u2019ll draw a lot of fans to come see him pitch!<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely yours,<\/p>\n<p>Optimistic Mets Fan<\/p>\n<p>Join the discussion at The Real Dirty Mets Blog!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(To read past year\u2019s letters, click here) Letters to the NL East, Part 2 of 5. (part 1) Dear Washington Nationals, You\u2019ve won the award for biggest roster turnover, and biggest hyped prospect, but this doesn\u2019t mean that you\u2019re going to be vastly improved.\u00a0 Kudos on working to make the future of baseball in Washington &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2010\/03\/31\/letters-to-the-nl-east-part-25\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Letters to the NL East, Part 2\/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":[809,19,3],"tags":[935,933,368,2964,14,190,936,934,932,937,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"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=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}