{"id":911,"date":"2011-01-26T10:05:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T15:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=911"},"modified":"2011-01-25T21:30:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T02:30:57","slug":"1989-baseball-cards-and-spring-training-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/01\/26\/1989-baseball-cards-and-spring-training-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"1989 Baseball Cards and Spring Training Tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_WiYnnqmj-NY\/TT-BFhaHeSI\/AAAAAAAAKQQ\/p40tLoTWJ6c\/s912\/2011-01-25%2013.41.46.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  \" title=\"cardpack\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_WiYnnqmj-NY\/TT-BFhaHeSI\/AAAAAAAAKQQ\/p40tLoTWJ6c\/s912\/2011-01-25%2013.41.46.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1989 Pack of Topps Baseball Cards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I saw some old baseball cards in a vending machine today and figured I&#8217;d buy a pack. \u00a0They were only 75 cents after all and I could win a trip to 1990 Spring Training! I was a little unnerved by the 22 year old bubble gum though.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"1989 bubble gum\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_WiYnnqmj-NY\/TT-AzAfyqEI\/AAAAAAAAKQM\/MDbNqBbPzGA\/s912\/2011-01-25%2013.42.31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"204\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Obviously I hoped to get a Mets player. \u00a0Or at least someone else cool. \u00a0Closest I got was probably Frank Viola as a Twin. \u00a0I got four Oakland Athletics: David Parker, Storm Davis, Terry Steinback and Dave Otto. \u00a0Terry Mulholland of the Giants was there, as was Orioles #1 draft pick out of Auburn, Gregg Olson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"1989players\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_WiYnnqmj-NY\/TT9_RDw_D3I\/AAAAAAAAKP8\/mMNksQrZtoA\/s912\/2011-01-25%2013.43.29.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Speaking of Spring Training&#8230;Although if I did make it to 1990 Spring Training I might try to warn the Mets off of Generation K or tell them to outbid the Yankees, who signed Mariano Rivera as an amateur free agent that Spring&#8230;My tickets to the Mets Spring Training games came in the mail today. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be there both Friday March 18th and Saturday March \u00a019th. \u00a0Can&#8217;t wait for it, it&#8217;s going to be a lot of fun. \u00a0Anyone else going down this year?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"tickets\" src=\"http:\/\/c0013624.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/x2_451c2b6\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw some old baseball cards in a vending machine today and figured I&#8217;d buy a pack. \u00a0They were only 75 cents after all and I could win a trip to 1990 Spring Training! I was a little unnerved by the 22 year old bubble gum though. Obviously I hoped to get a Mets player. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/01\/26\/1989-baseball-cards-and-spring-training-tickets\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;1989 Baseball Cards and Spring Training Tickets&#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":[1133,19,528,3,6,20],"tags":[1278,1279,1296,1286,1285,1282,1284,1293,1291,1289,1295,1277,159,1287,1288,637,2965,1297,1290,1294,1292,1280,1281,1283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911"}],"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=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}