{"id":162,"date":"2008-02-02T17:35:25","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T21:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2008-02-02T17:35:25","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T21:35:25","slug":"the-mailbag-of-malcontent-vol-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/02\/the-mailbag-of-malcontent-vol-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mailbag of Malcontent, Vol. 5."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This guy has become a bit of a regular, even though he can&#8217;t figure out how to reply to an email (he just sends responses to my ESPN mailbag instead). He first popped up when I ripped the Mets&#8217; side of the Milledge trade, being sort of obnoxious until I pointed out how specious his arguments were, then becoming, well, like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Frank D&#8217;Elia (REDACTED) 2008-02-02 10:43:00.0<br \/>\nHey genius, what do you think about the Schneider deal now? You think perhaps a seasoned backstop would be perfect for Johann and a guy like Pelfrey? You are clueless. Perhaps that&#8217;s why Toronto let you go. I hear their mailroom is much more efficient. Btw, no need to respond. I won&#8217;t read it anyway. You&#8217;re a pompous ass.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow, he sure told me. Nothing like the false claim that I was let go by Toronto &#8211; or that I had a menial job &#8211; to boost an argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guy has become a bit of a regular, even though he can&#8217;t figure out how to reply to an email (he just sends responses to my ESPN mailbag instead). He first popped up when I ripped the Mets&#8217; side of the Milledge trade, being sort of obnoxious until I pointed out how specious his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[198,19],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-mailbag","tag-reader-mail","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}