{"id":88,"date":"2007-11-07T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=88"},"modified":"2007-11-07T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T19:05:00","slug":"rumor-mill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2007\/11\/07\/rumor-mill\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumor Mill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rumors abound!<\/p>\n<p>I like all the rumors, because it keeps baseball talk alive, and I can only take so much of the same football stories all week since nothing happens between Monday night and Sunday afternoon, but I do hate chasing around rumors.  There are so much unsubstantiated stuff, so many halfway-educated writers decided what the Mets just HAVE to do to be good next year, and so many little things to keep track of.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy with what the Mets have done so far. I don&#8217;t think we needed Easley, but I like Anderson and Alou.  Let&#8217;s see what happens for the rest, but I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ll have a good sense until April, after I&#8217;ve seen and heard about all the bullpen prospects the Mets have for the season.  Because I think the bullpen is the biggest issue, as much as I would like another starter.  I wouldn&#8217;t be panicing with Pedro, Maine, Perez and Humber, Pelfrey and El Duque.  Maybe pick up a marginal guy now or later or both and see what happens.  I want them to resign Lo Duca, and Castillo, and I think they will. <\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s see where this goes, I just can&#8217;t take real interest in the zillion of rumors and trades that are suggested every day.  Too many writers, not enough stuff to write about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumors abound! I like all the rumors, because it keeps baseball talk alive, and I can only take so much of the same football stories all week since nothing happens between Monday night and Sunday afternoon, but I do hate chasing around rumors. There are so much unsubstantiated stuff, so many halfway-educated writers decided what &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2007\/11\/07\/rumor-mill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rumor Mill&#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":[19,3,173],"tags":[290,256,2964,298,299],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"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=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}