{"id":156,"date":"2008-09-29T17:49:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T22:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/?p=156"},"modified":"2011-01-28T19:35:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T00:35:17","slug":"didnt-i-write-a-post-about-the-mets-just-like-this-one-a-year-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/2008\/09\/29\/didnt-i-write-a-post-about-the-mets-just-like-this-one-a-year-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"didn&#8217;t I write a post about the mets just like this one a year ago?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-61\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"Mr. Met Learns to Read the Playbook\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/mrmet2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"229\" \/>One year ago I sat at a sports bar in London as the Mets lost their final game of the season to the Florida Marlins which capped their historic collapse in which they blew their seven-game NL East lead with 17 games to go.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the final day of the regular season, the Mets found themselves in a similar situation.\u00a0 They needed to win the final game of the year to put them in the position of either forcing a one-game playoff or making the post-season outright.\u00a0 Well, long story short, the Mets lost to the Marlins, and are the first team to ever miss the playoffs two years in a row by losing their last game at home on the final day of the season.\u00a0 This proves that while the Mets are a pretty good team for 95% of the year, they do not have the ability to command the loyalty of sea creatures.<\/p>\n<p>Last year everyone on the official Mets e-mail list got an apology from the organization for the collapse.\u00a0 This year, not only do I expect an apology e-mail, but I also expect free tickets to the 2013 Home Run Derby in which the Mets are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/baseball\/mets\/2008\/03\/14\/2008-03-14_mets_likely_to_get_2013_allstar_game.html\" target=\"_blank\">rumored to be hosting<\/a> at their new stadium.\u00a0 Make it happen, Mets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year ago I sat at a sports bar in London as the Mets lost their final game of the season to the Florida Marlins which capped their historic collapse in which they blew their seven-game NL East lead with 17 games to go. Yesterday, the final day of the regular season, the Mets found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-mets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coreyhulse.com\/corey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}