{"id":739,"date":"2010-08-10T16:52:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T21:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=739"},"modified":"2010-08-10T16:52:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T21:52:50","slug":"joe-buck-yourself-did-bucks-giant-head-distract-alex-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/739","title":{"rendered":"Joe Buck Yourself: Did Buck&#8217;s Giant Head Distract Alex Rodriguez?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/joe_buck_stoneface_model_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-740\" title=\"joe_buck_stoneface_model_2\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/joe_buck_stoneface_model_2-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/joe_buck_stoneface_model_2-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/joe_buck_stoneface_model_2.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>After watching Alex Rodriguez roll on the ground for what seemed like an eternity, I would have expected him to have had a broken leg, or at least a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebritynews\/news\/ex-alex-rodriguez-had-portraits-of-himself-as-a-centaur-over-his-bed-20093010\" target=\"_blank\">fractured hoof<\/a>.\u00a0 However, A-Rod was able to postpone a trip to the glue factory for one more day, and was in the starting lineup on Sunday.\u00a0 Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.prorumors.com\/2010\/08\/rumors\/video-did-joe-buck-cause-alex-rodriguezs-batting-practice-injury\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+prorumors+%28PRO+Rumors%29\" target=\"_blank\">ProRumors<\/a> published the story that Joe Buck might have been the reason that A-Rod took the line drive to shin- apparently their exchange of greetings distracted A-Rod just before being struck with the batted ball.\u00a0 While he has denied that he was distracted by Buck, I don&#8217;t think that alone should exonerate him.\u00a0 Personally, I think we need to examine a different angle in this story- Joe Buck&#8217;s undeniably ginormous head obstructed A-Rod&#8217;s view of the ball.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><object style=\"height: 344px; width: 425px;\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wRDE1S_-ePk\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed style=\"height: 344px; width: 425px;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wRDE1S_-ePk\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After watching Alex Rodriguez roll on the ground for what seemed like an eternity, I would have expected him to have had a broken leg, or at least a fractured hoof.\u00a0 However, A-Rod was able to postpone a trip to the glue factory for one more day, and was in the starting lineup on Sunday.\u00a0 [&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],"tags":[150,672,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739"}],"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=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}