{"id":4758,"date":"2011-09-07T13:20:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T18:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=4758"},"modified":"2011-09-07T14:45:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T19:45:30","slug":"changeups-and-screwballs-a-southpaw%e2%80%99s-perspective-for-9711","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/4758","title":{"rendered":"Changeups and Screwballs: A Southpaw\u2019s Perspective for 9\/7\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/cj-wilson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4759\" title=\"cj-wilson\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/cj-wilson-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/cj-wilson-300x205.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/cj-wilson.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00a0As a former student of the <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.webshots.com\/photo\/2638418250064719288defcUX\">University of Nevada<\/a>, I saw my fair share of drugged out women of the night.\u00a0 Watching CJ Wilson last night <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/video\/play.jsp?content_id=18924079&amp;topic_id=&amp;c_id=mlb&amp;tcid=vpp_copy_18924079&amp;v=3\">brought back memories<\/a>.\u00a0 His cutter and curve were as nasty as the workers of Reno\u2019s 4<sup>th<\/sup> street corners.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00a0Speaking of the Rangers, who put firecrackers inside <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/murphda07.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">David  Murphy<\/a><\/strong>?\u00a0 Homeboy is blowing up right now; making the Rangers say \u201cNelson who?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00a0I really have to wonder <a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_V12fFWv2C-0\/S-B1XJvJapI\/AAAAAAAAAjI\/_76mxeNB9eU\/s1600\/jim-leyland.jpg\">what is in those cigs<\/a> that Jim Leyland smokes.\u00a0 Detroit has pulled away from the rest of the division by going 15-4 since August 19<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00a0<strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bedarer01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Erik  Bedard<\/a><\/strong> has been scratched from his next start\u2026well of course he has, he is Erik Bedard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00a0<strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/pachejo01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Jordan  Pacheco<\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J8weBic6w_Y\">made it onto Baseball Tonight<\/a> last night as part of the Rockies highlight.\u00a0 Big ups to the kid who is a fellow New Mexican.\u00a0 He was part of the La Cueva High School (Abq, NM) Bears baseball team that held the national record for consecutive wins.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00a0Did anybody else realize that since June 18<sup>th<\/sup>, the Vanimal, <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/worleva01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Vance  Worley<\/a><\/strong>, has made 14 starts, and the Phillies have won every single one of them?\u00a0 I hadn\u2019t realized that either.\u00a0 Impressive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00a0And I don\u2019t care who you are, watching <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/strasst01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Stephen  Strasburg<\/a><\/strong> pitch last night was fantastic.\u00a0 And to think it was a mere 12 months and 3 days since he was cut on.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/6938650\/strasburg-dazzles-return\">Mind-blowing to think about<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; \u00a0As a former student of the University of Nevada, I saw my fair share of drugged out women of the night.\u00a0 Watching CJ Wilson last night brought back memories.\u00a0 His cutter and curve were as nasty as the workers of Reno\u2019s 4th street corners. &#8211; \u00a0Speaking of the Rangers, who put firecrackers inside David [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2661,1300,17,6,9,11,13,10,14],"tags":[2691,1133,638,2692,1662,2304,2693,42,61,2694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758"}],"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=4758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4767,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758\/revisions\/4767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}