{"id":848,"date":"2010-11-09T09:05:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T13:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=848"},"modified":"2010-11-08T23:49:25","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T03:49:25","slug":"jointheclub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2010\/11\/09\/jointheclub\/","title":{"rendered":"Join The Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"citiatnight\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_WiYnnqmj-NY\/TBGlHy_hE8I\/AAAAAAAAI9c\/Xnsq2S-lYLU\/s640\/IMG_1160.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"189\" \/>There are posts and comments all over the Metsosphere about being excited and optimistic for the future.\u00a0\u00a0All centered on the Mets \u201cBig 3\u201d in Alderson, Ricciardi, and DePodesta.\u00a0 (What\u2019s with Sandy hiring Pauls?\u00a0 Any of the managerial candidates named Paul?) To that I say, &#8220;Join the Club&#8221;.\u00a0 Maybe my optimism has been a little misguided over the years, but I believe this team has underperformed and still has the talent to have a shot at the post season in 2011.\u00a0 Once these three guys get going in the front office, I believe the Mets position will only be strengthened.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re ready to put aside all the negative Mets stereotypes, ready to stop expecting the worst, and ready to look at the reasons the Mets can succeed versus doubting that they will then welcome aboard.<\/p>\n<p>To compliment this post, and this blog, I&#8217;ve created <a href=\" http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/optimisticmetsfans\">an Optimistic Mets Fan Club<\/a> Google group.\u00a0 The group has no purpose, but that doesn\u2019t mean you shouldn\u2019t join.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve also created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Optimistic-Mets-Fan-Club\/174947542519729?v=wall\">Facebook<\/a> group.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t like it, the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">terrorists<\/span> Phillies win.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are posts and comments all over the Metsosphere about being excited and optimistic for the future.\u00a0\u00a0All centered on the Mets \u201cBig 3\u201d in Alderson, Ricciardi, and DePodesta.\u00a0 (What\u2019s with Sandy hiring Pauls?\u00a0 Any of the managerial candidates named Paul?) To that I say, &#8220;Join the Club&#8221;.\u00a0 Maybe my optimism has been a little misguided &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2010\/11\/09\/jointheclub\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Join The Club&#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":[1133,19,528,3],"tags":[2968,1209,1216,1212,1171,1208,1217,2964,1210,1213,1172,1215,14,435,1211,748,1214,1207,1184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848"}],"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=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}