{"id":3410,"date":"2011-05-13T12:39:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T16:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2011-05-15T12:45:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T16:45:32","slug":"the-dilemma-of-the-mets-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=3410","title":{"rendered":"The dilemma of the Mets fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brief and relatively inconsequential news of the month: two of my region&#39;s pro teams are shocking the sports world. Jaw drop, giant: after letting almost every high-profile player go to free agency and then starting the season with an eight-game losing streak, plus having their star player Evan Longoria on the disabled-list for a few weeks, the Rays are now atop the American League East. Jaw drop, minor: The Lightning are not only in the Eastern Conference finals, but they beat the Bruins 5-2 in Boston last night. The Bruins can still fulfill my prediction on another blog to crush the Lightning in 5, but they have to start working in earnest.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ve never been a Mets fan, but I understand the basic problem: what happens when your team actually wins?? And&nbsp;I understand the feeling of what Chicago fans strong suspect: the Cubs will be one out away from sweeping the Yankees in the World Series in fall 2012 when the world ends.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brief and relatively inconsequential news of the month: two of my region&#39;s pro teams are shocking the sports world. Jaw drop, giant: after letting almost every high-profile player go to free agency and then starting the season with an eight-game losing streak, plus having their star player Evan Longoria on the disabled-list for a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out-of-left-field-friday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-T0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3411,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}