{"id":1116,"date":"2010-09-28T19:27:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T00:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2010-09-28T19:29:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T00:29:30","slug":"check-out-diamondhoggers-com-for-all-things-cincinnati-reds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1116","title":{"rendered":"Check out DiamondHoggers.com for all things Cincinnati Reds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DiamondHoggersbutton.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1117\" title=\"DiamondHoggersbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DiamondHoggersbutton.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a>With the <strong>Reds<\/strong> just a lone win away from clinching the <strong>National League Central<\/strong>, every pitch thrown in tonight&#8217;s game against the Astros has had a postseason feel to it.\u00a0 The 30,000+ in attendance at the <strong>Great American Ball Park<\/strong> are buzzing from the anticipation of the Reds returning to the postseason for the first time in 15 years.\u00a0 For passionate Reds&#8217; fans like the Somebrero&#8217;s good friend Clint&#8211;from <a href=\"http:\/\/diamondhoggers.com\" target=\"_blank\">DiamondHoggers.com<\/a>&#8211;tonight&#8217;s game carries an extra significance.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what he posted today on his blog:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been waiting 15 years too. Actually, longer because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/postseason\/1995_NLCS.shtml\">1995<\/a> ended in a sweep and was all about those mighty, muscular Cleveland Indians.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s so many things that will go unsaid, because you can&#8217;t put emotion into written words. How can you possibly bottle up 80% of your life following this game and pour it into a post? A simple post won&#8217;t do it justice&#8211;whenever this inevitable clinching does take place.<\/p>\n<p>Other sites are bigger, use more stats and numbers to back up their opinions, have glossier set-ups. They&#8217;re more politically correct. They&#8217;re more positive. But I can assure you one thing: no blogger on the planet could have possibly wanted this worse than we have. If there&#8217;s anyone else out there who&#8217;s lived this, suffered this, been tortured over the losing and has lived it, breathed it, and slept it (or lack there of) for as long as we have&#8211;we feel sorry for you.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Be sure to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/diamondhoggers.com\" target=\"_blank\">Diamond Hoggers<\/a> over the course of the night because they have promised loads of great content as the Reds edge closer to the postseason.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Reds just a lone win away from clinching the National League Central, every pitch thrown in tonight&#8217;s game against the Astros has had a postseason feel to it.\u00a0 The 30,000+ in attendance at the Great American Ball Park are buzzing from the anticipation of the Reds returning to the postseason for the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,16,11,776,14],"tags":[912,910,914,909,911,913],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}