{"id":1397,"date":"2006-08-09T09:45:24","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T17:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/08\/is_a_13_12_game_lead_enough_of_a_reason_to_start_talking_1986_again.html"},"modified":"2006-08-09T09:45:24","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T17:45:24","slug":"is_a_13_12_game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/is_a_13_12_game.html","title":{"rendered":"Is A 13 1\/2 Game Lead Enough Of A Reason To Start Talking &#8220;1986&#8221; Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first-place Mets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/boroughs\/story\/441810p-372138c.html\">seem to be getting a little cocky<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>If you&#8217;re wondering who to thank for the inexpensive meals that will be offered at Queens restaurants next month, place a call to Bill Buckner.<\/p>\n<p>Two decades after a ground ball trickled under the Red Sox first baseman&#8217;s glove, helping the Mets win the 1986 World Series, restaurants throughout the borough announced yesterday that they will be offering a special prix fixe menu of $19.86 to commemorate the team&#8217;s last championship.<\/p>\n<p>The discounts &#8212; being offered as part of Discover Queens Restaurant Week on Sept. 18-21 and again on Sept. 25-28 &#8212; are designed to keep Queens residents in the borough at mealtime, said Michelle Stoddart, director of marketing and tourism for the Queens Economic Development Corp.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are accustomed to going into Manhattan to eat and sometimes leaving their own neighborhoods that have great restaurants there,&#8221; Stoddart said. &#8220;So we want to highlight that all this can be found in Queens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>About 20 restaurants have already agreed to participate in the event, and organizers hope to get at least 80 more on board in the next few weeks, Stoddart said.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets will promote the eight-day event through in-game announcements on the Diamond Vision screen at Shea Stadium, and organizers plan to place ads in local newspapers to get the word out.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first-place Mets seem to be getting a little cocky: If you&#8217;re wondering who to thank for the inexpensive meals that will be offered at Queens restaurants next month, place a call to Bill Buckner. Two decades after a ground ball trickled under the Red Sox first baseman&#8217;s glove, helping the Mets win the 1986 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feed","category-queens","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}