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<\/a><\/p>\nI hope everyone enjoyed his or her holiday weekend as much as I did.\u00a0 Lots of exciting things happening over Labor Day weekend, so let\u2019s jump right in.<\/p>\n
– I finally caved and joined Twitter.\u00a0 Follow me @sp_flips<\/a> to get up to date info and nonsense.<\/p>\n – So much for having a bunch of exciting finishes across multiple divisions this year.\u00a0 With the Giants, Indians, White Sox, and Cardinals failing to gain any ground whatsoever; it appears as if the only exciting race might be the AL West.\u00a0 Unless the Rays can somehow make a run for the wildcard in the AL East, that is.<\/p>\n – George who?\u00a0 Kottaras? What a special night it was for the back-up catcher.\u00a0 Hitting for the cycle is rare enough, but how rare is it to see a back up catcher do it?\u00a0 I am not completely sure, just sure enough to say that you probably won\u2019t see it happen again in your lifetime.<\/p>\n – Seeing old Charlie Manuel play a game under protest took me back to my youth summer league days.\u00a0 Did he have to put up a $100 cash like my coaches did?\u00a0 Or do you think the front office covered it for him?<\/p>\n – Congrats to Adrian Beltre<\/a><\/strong>– now the youngest 3B to ever amass 2,000 hits.\u00a0 Just imagine what could be if he knew how to stay healthy?\u00a0 Wow.<\/p>\n – Watching Josh Beckett<\/a><\/strong> go down was rough.\u00a0 Not only does he play on my fantasy squad, but he also proliferated the notion that pitchers are not athletes.\u00a0 Just watch this<\/a> and tell me where\/how he hurt himself. (FF to the 21-second mark.)<\/p>\n – How about Javier Vazquez<\/a><\/strong>?\u00a0 Dude has been looking like it\u2019s 2009 again.\u00a0 Make sure nobody steals his Delorean.<\/p>\n – I can only imagine the silence in the Jays front office boxes as Brett Lawrie<\/a><\/strong> did this<\/a>.<\/p>\n – Have a great day everybody, and remember\u2026there are only 4 days left in this workweek.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I hope everyone enjoyed his or her holiday weekend as much as I did.\u00a0 Lots of exciting things happening over Labor Day weekend, so let\u2019s jump right in. – I finally caved and joined Twitter.\u00a0 Follow me @sp_flips to get up to date info and nonsense. – So much for having a bunch of exciting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2661,1300,17,6,11,13,10,14],"tags":[577,1439,711,264,654,235,59,297,584,510,454],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4736"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4739,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions\/4739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}