{"id":4838,"date":"2011-09-13T13:22:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T18:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=4838"},"modified":"2011-09-13T13:57:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T18:57:33","slug":"changeups-and-screwballs-a-southpaw%e2%80%99s-perspective-for-91311","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/4838","title":{"rendered":"Changeups and Screwballs: A Southpaw\u2019s Perspective for 9\/13\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"

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– \u00a0How bout those Rays?\u00a0 Can they really pull the rabbit out of the hat and clench a playoff berth?\u00a0 I mentioned this earlier as a joke, but the Tampa Bay Rays are about to pull a Houdini.<\/p>\n

– \u00a0But which is more impressive- The Rays surge, or the Boston Red Sox collapse?<\/p>\n

– \u00a0Good old Manny being Manny again\u2026or is it Manny being Kirby now<\/a>?\u00a0 Either way, at least Manny Ramirez<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s legacy was already tarnished, right?\u00a0 Makes this episode just a bit less shocking.<\/p>\n

– \u00a0I am not sure what all the hullaballo was about MLB not allowing the Mets to wear hats<\/a> that did not meet the \u201cuniform\u201d requirements as written in the rulebook.\u00a0 It is a rule people.\u00a0 And it is not like there were not other ways that the Mets, and every other NFL and MLB team used to show support for all of 9\/11.\u00a0 Sure, they could have shown a little leeway, but then they might be setting a precedent that could cause problems somewhere down the unforeseen road.<\/p>\n

– \u00a0Someone asked me to describe teaching 6th<\/sup> graders in a single sentence the other day\u2026and this is what I came up with- \u201cTeaching 6th<\/sup> grade is the equivalent of herding cats.\u201d<\/p>\n

– \u00a0Watching a player begin his decline as a ball player is always difficult.\u00a0 It is even more difficult when said player has never given anyone a reason to hate.\u00a0 That said, it will be interesting to see how Ichiro Suzuki<\/a><\/strong>‘s 2012 campaign goes.\u00a0 Is him not reaching 200 hits that big a deal this year?\u00a0 Does it mark the start of his decline?\u00a0 Only time will tell.<\/p>\n

– \u00a0Good luck to Andrew McCutchen<\/a><\/strong> while negotiating what hopefully turns out to be a favorable deal with the Pirates.\u00a0 It\u2019s really exciting to see a team like Pittsburgh rising from their grave.\u00a0 It gives Astros fans hope.<\/p>\n

– \u00a0Speaking of the Houston Astros, we currently host 16 rookies on our roster, with 10 of them being pitchers.\u00a0 Yikes.\u00a0 Talk about rebuilding.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

– \u00a0How bout those Rays?\u00a0 Can they really pull the rabbit out of the hat and clench a playoff berth?\u00a0 I mentioned this earlier as a joke, but the Tampa Bay Rays are about to pull a Houdini. – \u00a0But which is more impressive- The Rays surge, or the Boston Red Sox collapse? – \u00a0Good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2661,1300,17,6,11,13,14],"tags":[2056,558,201,378,736,2731,580,2732,548,549],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838"}],"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=4838"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4843,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions\/4843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}