{"id":655,"date":"2010-04-12T10:20:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T15:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=655"},"modified":"2010-04-12T10:20:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T15:20:29","slug":"optimism-after-six-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2010\/04\/12\/optimism-after-six-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimism After Six Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets have played six games against the bottom of the division and lost the four games I didn&#8217;t attend.<\/p>\n<p>There are still some good things to take from the season so far though, and you can read about them in detail in my post for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nleastchatter.com\/realdirtymets\/2010\/04\/12\/ceetars-optimists-dossier\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Real Dirty Mets Blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fans at the park so far have been pretty pathetic, in terms of their booing Santana and failure to really get into any of the games and actually cheer like Mets fans used to.\u00a0 Greg over at Faith and Fear in Flushing recaps this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithandfearinflushing.com\/2010\/04\/10\/mets-fans-not-getting-it-done\/\" target=\"_blank\">issue <\/a>rather nicely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickfloodblog.com\/2010\/04\/fear-and-reyes.html\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Flood<\/a> wrote a nice piece that really drives home how much we&#8217;ve missed Reyes.\u00a0\u00a0 This piece represents another reason why I think it was despicable of Jerry Manuel to bunt Reyes over on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>It seems even the beat writers are stirring about it being time to fire Jerry Manuel, something I&#8217;ve long felt was necessary.\u00a0 For better or worse I don&#8217;t believe the Mets will do anything before May 3rd after the first series agains the Phillies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets have played six games against the bottom of the division and lost the four games I didn&#8217;t attend. There are still some good things to take from the season so far though, and you can read about them in detail in my post for The Real Dirty Mets Blog. The fans at the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2010\/04\/12\/optimism-after-six-games\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Optimism After Six Games&#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":[2968,963,148,563,736,683,488,2964,353,14,338,961,962],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655"}],"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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}