{"id":877,"date":"2010-09-01T20:25:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T01:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=877"},"modified":"2010-09-01T20:25:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T01:25:08","slug":"adam-laroche-pranks-kelly-johnson-during-tuesdays-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/877","title":{"rendered":"Adam LaRoche pranks Kelly Johnson during Tuesday&#8217;s game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/laroche.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-878\" title=\"laroche\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/laroche-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/laroche-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/laroche.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As I browsed through some tweets last night, I came across a story that was too funny not to pass along.\u00a0 According to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dbackswriter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Gilbert<\/a>, the Arizona Diamondbacks beat writer for MLB.com, Adam LaRoche changed Kelly Johnson&#8217;s hitting music to prior to the start of Tuesday night&#8217;s game against the Padres.<\/p>\n<p>As Johnson stepped to the plate in the first inning, &#8220;It&#8217;s Raining Men&#8221; was blasted throughout the stadium, much to the delight of his teammates.\u00a0 The same thing happened as Johnson came to the plate for his second at-bat, which prompted Gilbert to predict that, &#8220;Payback certain to follow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more-->After talking with players in the clubhouse after the game, Gilbert was able to get the story behind Johnson&#8217;s new music; apparently Adam LaRoche was the brains behind the joke, which apparently was retaliation for something that Johnson had done to him earlier in the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It seems that we have plenty to look forward to over the rest of the season, as LaRoche added, &#8220;I&#8217;m not done yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I browsed through some tweets last night, I came across a story that was too funny not to pass along.\u00a0 According to Steve Gilbert, the Arizona Diamondbacks beat writer for MLB.com, Adam LaRoche changed Kelly Johnson&#8217;s hitting music to prior to the start of Tuesday night&#8217;s game against the Padres. As Johnson stepped to [&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":[393,509,280,748,747],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877"}],"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=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}