{"id":13480,"date":"2012-05-15T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=13480"},"modified":"2012-05-15T12:59:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T16:59:11","slug":"pickup-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/pickup-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickup Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13497\" title=\"pickupfootball\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/pickupfootball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/pickupfootball.jpg 408w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/pickupfootball-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/time-is-tight-bassist-duck-dunn-dead\/#comment-72821\" target=\"_blank\">my thoughts the other day<\/a> on how much I would have liked to have chosen <strong>Booker T &amp; the MGs<\/strong> as my teammates for a pickup game of hoops, I got to thinking about other pickup sporting events and which musicians I might like on my side. I&#8217;ll share my thoughts on the matter as they are fully developed. Meanwhile, which artists would <em>you<\/em> choose in a\u00a0<strong>pickup game<\/strong> for each of the following sports? Please choose <strong>full bands<\/strong> for any team sports (and as many as <strong>2\u20133\u00a0full bands<\/strong> for sports requiring more than a handful of players) and <strong>solo artists or duos<\/strong> for sports involving 2 or 3 players per team. No picking the best players from any given band and leaving the weak links off your roster! Remember, you need to play as well; you&#8217;re part of the count\u2014no subs. It is recommended that you choose musicians who will compliment your game.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rough touch football (7 v 7)<\/li>\n<li>Schoolyard basketball (5 v 5)<\/li>\n<li>Doubles tennis (2 v 2)<\/li>\n<li>Small-sided indoor or artificial turf court soccer (7 v 7)<\/li>\n<li>Beach volleyball (2 v 2)<\/li>\n<li>Softball (10 v 10)<\/li>\n<li>Street hockey (6 v 6)<\/li>\n<li>Professional tag-team wrestling (2 v 2)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Choose sides!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following my thoughts the other day on how much I would have liked to have chosen Booker T &amp; the MGs as my teammates for a pickup game of hoops, I got to thinking about other pickup sporting events and which musicians I might like on my side. I&#8217;ll share my thoughts on the matter <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/pickup-games\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}