{"id":1268,"date":"2010-10-09T07:39:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T12:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2010-10-09T07:43:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T12:43:54","slug":"memories-of-kyle-farnsworth-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1268","title":{"rendered":"Memories of Kyle Farnsworth (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/a-kyle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1269 aligncenter\" title=\"a - kyle\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/a-kyle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As <strong>Kyle Farnsworth <\/strong>trotted towards the mound to replace an injured <strong>Billy Wagner<\/strong> in the bottom of the 10<sup>th<\/sup>, it appeared that the Braves were conceding the game, as well as the series.\u00a0 I\u2019ve followed the guy since his earliest days on the Cubs; I even waited in line for his autograph at the Cubs Convention when I was 12.\u00a0 I know what you\u2019re wondering, yes I still have it\u2026right next to my autographed Corey Patterson min-bat.\u00a0 No, really. I\u2019m serious.<\/p>\n<p>It was also at that same Cubs Convention that I witnessed Kyle Farnsworth at his finest, absolutely hammered, dancing on stage with some teammates &#8212; who didn\u2019t appear all that drunk &#8212; and being carried back to his hotel room by two security guards.\u00a0 Since then, I have been unable to take Farnsworth seriously, at all.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s be real, the glasses, tattoos and jewelry don&#8217;t really help his case either.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Some tweets from the baseball blogging community as Farnsworth took the mound:<\/p>\n<p>Joe Sheehan(<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/joe_sheehan\" target=\"_blank\">@Joe_Sheehan<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The problem with trading for Kyle Farnsworth is that you eventually might have to use Kyle Farnsworth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wezen-ball.com(<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wezen_ball\" target=\"_blank\">@wezen_ball<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well Farnsworth is in now&#8230; may have just increased those walkoff HR odds by a substantial amount&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>State Street Sports(<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/statestsports\" target=\"_blank\">@StateStSports<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;@AnswerDave\u00a0 Ah Farnsworth, about as effective as reading Stephen King novels to your children before bed&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Damon Bruce(<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/damonbruce\" target=\"_blank\">@DamonBruce<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Farnsworth is a former Cub, trust me Giants fans, this ends well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Keith Olbermann(<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/keitholbermann\" target=\"_blank\">@KeithOlbermann<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wow, just what I&#8217;d want to have to do: replace Billy Wagner with Kyle Farnsworth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Steven Goldman(<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/pb_steve\" target=\"_blank\">@Pb_Steve<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The greater the leverage, the worse the Farnsworth. About the last pitcher I&#8217;d want to see in postseason short of Eddie Cicotte.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mike Axisa(<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mikeaxisa\" target=\"_blank\">@MikeAxisa<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fucking Farnsworth. #tweetsfrom2006through2008 #preemptivetweet&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, for Kyle Farnsworth lacks in style he more than makes up for in formal tackling ability:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>[hdplay id=27 ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">*If the video does not work, try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegehumor.com\/video:1818684\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> instead.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Kyle Farnsworth trotted towards the mound to replace an injured Billy Wagner in the bottom of the 10th, it appeared that the Braves were conceding the game, as well as the series.\u00a0 I\u2019ve followed the guy since his earliest days on the Cubs; I even waited in line for his autograph at the Cubs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,16,11,13,14,775],"tags":[589,987,260,986,988,985,984,983,982,944,584],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268"}],"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=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}