{"id":728,"date":"2010-06-12T00:19:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T04:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=728"},"modified":"2010-06-12T00:19:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T04:19:59","slug":"visiting-camden-yards-to-help-the-mets-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2010\/06\/12\/visiting-camden-yards-to-help-the-mets-on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Camden Yards to Help the Mets on the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been to a lot of Major League Baseball parks.\u00a0 \u00a0Obviously I\u2019ve been to Citi Field and Shea Stadium as well as the two most recent Yankee Stadiums.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been to Fenway (Hideo Nomo one hit the Blue Jays, which I\u2019d forgotten when I was leaving the Niese game the other day trying to think of the other one-hitters I\u2019d seen), RFK Stadium (The final two games there ever, they were playing the Phillies in late 2007 so I even had a heavy rooting interest), Dolphin Stadium as it was known by that month, Wrigley Field, I was in St. Louis during the demolotion of the last Busch Stadium, Coors Field, Petco Park, Angel Stadium, Dodger Stadium, Oakland Colliseum and the Giant\u2019s Park, which I think was named SBC Park at the time, but I didn\u2019t see the Mets play at any of them.<\/p>\n

\"Reyes
Reyes Ready to Play<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The only time I\u2019ve seen the Mets play on the road (I\u2019m ignoring Yankee Stadium, because it doesn\u2019t really count as \u2018away\u2019) was a day-night doubleheader in early 2007 in Citizen\u2019s Bank Park.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a fun day and was before the rivalry.\u00a0 Phillies fans had no hope for the season and were reveling in 10000 losses and just hoping not to get destroyed by the defending NL East champs.\u00a0 This weekend I will add one more road Mets game to my credit, against the Orioles in Camden Yards on Sunday.\u00a0 It\u2019s supposed to be a great park, it\u2019s a Pelfrey start, and the Mets have won six of seven games I\u2019ve seen this year.<\/p>\n

\"Niese
Niese Dominates<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One thing that\u2019s always odd about watching the Mets on the road is the batting first thing.\u00a0 All of a sudden the game has started and there is Reyes ready to go.\u00a0 Usually we have three outs to get settled.\u00a0 The scoreboard never prompts us to cheer \u201cLets Go Mets\u201d, even though there will be a very good representation of Mets fans at these games.\u00a0 Mr. Met is nowhere to be found, and they never play Lazy Mary after Take Me Out To The Ballgame.<\/p>\n

\"I
I had the Goose Island Seasonal, even if the bartender didn't know what type it was<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nonetheless, I\u2019m excited.\u00a0 I have a good feeling that they\u2019ll finally have a winning road trip, and they\u2019ve gotten off to a good start winning the first game.\u00a0 I\u2019ll also be in attendance at Yankee Stadium to end the trip, hoping it\u2019ll be a nice capper on a road trip that finally erases the 2009 bad feelings and has the Mets in first place to start the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been to a lot of stadiums, but Sunday will be only my third Mets road game.<\/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":[1040,1037,2968,1042,1036,5,1041,2964,1035,1034,14,190,1038,1039,197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728"}],"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=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}